Media and Communications – (M.Sc.)

Contents

The programmes consist of four units, including required and optional courses and the dissertation. Courses typically involve a combination of lectures and seminars. The Methods of Research course is taught as a series of lectures and practical classes. You will be examined by written examinations, research assignments, essays related to courses and the dissertation, which must be submitted in September.

The programmes run for a full calendar year. Formal teaching is usually completed by the end of the Lent Term. Examinations for all courses are generally held during May and June. The remaining months are set aside for students to complete their Dissertations, and it is not normally essential for students to remain in London during these months.

Part-time students will take and be examined in courses to the value of two units in each year of study. In the first year, these two units would normally be made up of MC400 Theories and Concepts in Media and Communications, MC4M1 Methods of Research in Media and Communications 1, or MC4M5 Methods of Research in Media and Communications 2, or MC4M6 Methods of Research in Media and Communications 3, and one other half unit.

Please note that we do not provide a practical training in journalism, production, campaigning or media management.

Compulsory courses

(* half unit)

* Theories and Concepts in Media and Communications I (Key concepts and interdisciplinary approaches)* and Theories and Concepts in Media and Communications II (Processes of communication in modern life)*
* Methods of Research in Media and Communications (including Qualitative and Quantitative Analysis* (for students on the non-research track)
* Advanced Methods of Research in Media and Communication (including Qualitative and Quantitative Analysis) (for students on the research track)
* Dissertation

Options

Choose to the value of one and a half units † (one unit for students on the research track):

* Screening the Present: Contemporary Cinema and Cultural Critique*
* Interpretations of Information*
* Digital Convergence and Information Services*
* Media and Communications Regulations*
* Media Law: Regulating Publication*
* Media Law: Regulating Newsgathering*
* Critical Approaches to Media, Communication and Development*
* Media and Communication Governance*
* The Audience in Media and Communications*
* Mediated Resistance and Citizens*
* Political Communication*
* Media, Technology and Everyday Life*
* Contemporary Issues in Media and Communications Regulation*
* The Social Psychology of Economic Life*
* Gender and the Media Representation*
* Innovation and Information Systems: Concepts and Perspectives*
* Cultural Constructions of the Body*
* International Media and The Global South*
* Information, Communication and Knowledge Systems*
* Identity, Transnationalism and the Media*
* Critical Studies in Media and Journalism*
* Global Media Industries*
* Interpersonal Mediated Communication*
* The Social Psychology of Communication
* Science, Technology and Resistance*
* Psychoanalysis and Communication*
* Non-traditional Data: New Dimensions in Qualitative Research*
* Film Theory and World Cinema*
* Current Issues in Media and Communications*
* Representation in the Age of Globalisation*
* Any other half unit paper which is offered in the School at master's level, subject to the consent of the student's teachers

† Students must take option courses to the value of at least one half unit from the Media and Communications Department.

Please refer to the School's policy on course capping: lse.ac.uk/coursecapping

Please note that the availability of option courses is dependent upon a number of factors and thus neither the School nor the Department of Media and Communications can guarantee that all options will be available each year.