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Media and Cultural Analysis – (M.A.)
Loughborough University
Social Sciences
| Application Deadline: | Applications can be made at any time | ||
| Annual Tuition Fee: | ≈ € 5,852 - ≈ € 14,629 (non-EEA) | ||
| Location: | Loughborough / United Kingdom / View location on map ▾ Hide location on map ▴ | ||
| Duration: | 12 months | Start Date: | October |
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| Languages: | English | ||
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The programme offers a comprehensive understanding of social sciences media and cultural analysis. Interdisciplinary in conception, it provides students with a critical introduction to key areas of media and cultural analysis, including the media and political economy, modernity and post-modernity, and cultural ‘difference’, prejudice and power.
The programme integrates theory and method in the investigation of media and culture, and deals with a wide range of topics which are international in their content and scope. It is designed for students from a variety of cultural and academic backgrounds. While there are several core modules, students undertake research directly related to their specialist interests in the dissertation. There are also a number of optional modules, covering such areas as globalisation, visual cultures, media and nationalisms, citizenship, digital media, popular music, cultural policy and consumption.
Contents
Compulsory Modules
Semester 1
* Media and Modernity
* The Politics of Representation
* Production and Reception Analysis
* Media and Cultural Industries
* Textual Analysis Research Techniques
* Dissertation
Optional Modules * Popular Music and Modern Times
* Citizenship and Communications
* Media, Nations and Nationalisms
* Global Communications
* Digital Futures: Explorations of New Media
* Media and Cultural Work
Assessment
Coursework plus a dissertation of 10,000 words on an agreed topic.
IELTS
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Take testRequirements
Good upper second class honours degree in the social sciences or humanities, but applicants with appropriate professional expertise will also be considered. The degree is designed to appeal to students from a variety of cultural and academic backgrounds.
Acceptable English language qualification
* GCSE English Language - Grade C or above
* IELTS band 7.0 with not less than 6.0 in Listening, Reading, Writing and Speaking
* TOEFL (including the Tests in Written and Spoken Practice) minimum score of 110 (Internet-based test) with specific requirements for sub tests
Additional Requirements
| Minimal degree required: | Bachelor's degree |
| Minimal amount of work experience | Not specified |
Language Proficiency
| IELTS Band: | 7.0 |
| Cambridge English: Advanced (CAE): | Grade B (Score: 75) |
| TOEFL Internet-based: | 110 |
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