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Gender, Media and Culture – (M.Sc.)
London School of Economics and Political Science
Gender Institute
| Application Deadline: | None – rolling admissions | ||
| Annual Tuition Fee: | ≈ € 11,620 - ≈ € 17,973 (non-EEA) | ||
| Location: | London / United Kingdom / View location on map ▾ Hide location on map ▴ | ||
| Duration: | 12 months | Start Date: | September |
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| Credits (ECTS): | 90 | ||
| Languages: | English | ||
Location of London School of Economics and Political Science
The programme is taught jointly by the Gender Institute and the Media and Communications Department. It is administered from the Gender Institute. The programme employs a gender perspective to critically examine such questions as how representations in the media may reinforce or subvert social roles and ideologies; how gendered forms of address and identification have been theorised across different visual and print cultures; the role of a variety of media forms in critiquing or contributing to wider social processes such as globalisation, conflict and migration. Students are encouraged to interrogate a variety of theoretical and methodological approaches to the gendered analysis of contemporary media and culture. In addition to the core units in gender theory, media and communication and gender and media representation students can choose from a range of options in the two departments. All students on this programme are housed within the Gender Institute.
The degree offers the following benefits:
* This is a unique and intellectually stimulating programme which draws on a broad intellectual agenda in the social sciences and the humanities.
* The Gender Institute offers an interdisciplinary approach to enable students to consider theories of gender from a range of disciplinary perspectives, develop a critical appreciation of different theories of gender relations to inform their appreciation of existing work in their own disciplines and in an interdisciplinary context, and use the analysis of gender relations as a basis of research.
* The Media and Communications Department offers interdisciplinary graduate teaching. It draws on the full range of social science expertise to provide in depth understanding of the role of media and communications for contemporary society and polity.
Contents
The programme involves the completion of four courses including a dissertation.
Compulsory courses
(* half unit)
* Gender Theories in the Modern World: An Interdisciplinary Approach
* Gender and Media Representation*
* Methods of Research in Media and Communications (including Qualitative and Quantitative Analysis)* or Gender, Knowledge and Research Practice* or Non-traditional Data: New Dimensions and Qualitative Research*
Dissertation of 10,000 words on a topic in gender and the media, which is approved by your tutors. This should reflect both learning from the media and gender components of the MSc.
Options
Theories and Concepts in Media and Communications I (Key concepts and interdisciplinary approaches)* and one other half unit course offered by the Gender Institute or the Department of Media and Communications
or Theories and Concepts in Media and Communications II (Processes of communication in modern life)* and one other half unit course offered by the Gender Institute or the Department of Media and Communications
Gender Institute options are likely to include:
* Cultural Constructions of the Body*
* Screening the Present: Contemporary Cinema and Cultural Critique*
* Globalising Sexualities*
* Gender and Militarisation*
* Global Media Industries*
Teaching and assessment
Theories and Concepts in Media and Communications (Media and Power) involves ten one hour lectures and one and a half hour seminars weekly. Gender Theories in the Modern World is taught through one and a half hour lectures and seminars, and the course in Gender and Media Representation is taught through a series of one hour lectures and seminars. A series of dissertation workshops are held during the Lent term and are compulsory.
You will be assessed by written examinations, a series of research assignments, essays related to the substantive courses and the dissertation, which must be submitted on 1 September (or the first working day after if it falls on a weekend).
You may take the course part-time by taking courses equivalent to two units in each year.
All students on the programme will have a personal tutor who will be allocated upon arrival. Dissertation supervision is allocated in the Lent term.
IELTS
You are normally required to take an English Proficiency Test.
Most European Universities recognise the IELTS test.
Take testRequirements
Minimum entry requirement: 2:1 in social science, or relevant humanities discipline
English requirement:
* TOEFL (Test of English as a Foreign Language) with a minimum score of 627 in the paper test or 107 in the internet based test
* IELTS (International English Language Testing System) with a minimum score of 7.0
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 A (Score: 80) |
| TOEFL Paper-based: | 627 |
| TOEFL Internet-based: | 107 |
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