Master of Arts (Media and Communication) Adv.Seminar & Shorter Thesis
Academic titleMaster of Arts (Media and Communication) (Advanced Seminar & Shorter Thesis)
Course description
The MA (Advanced Seminar & Shorter Thesis) provides students with an opportunity to undertake advanced study of media and communications by advanced seminars and a shorter thesis. Students will study an advanced course in media and communications theory and method before undertaking supervised research in an approved area of research.
Objectives:
Students who complete the masters will:
* demonstrate an informed awareness of the changing international and global contexts of media communication and how these are currently being researched and studied;
* demonstrate understanding of major positions of theory and debate informing the study of global media communication and be able to critically engage with these;
* deploy methods and selected methodology in sustained media and communication research;
* demonstrate specialist knowledge in the area of their research and present research findings and argument in a suitably structured and sequenced thesis that conforms to protocols of academic presentation and research practice;
* demonstrate an adequate understanding of, and commitment to, research ethics in their research practice.