The Department of Media and Communication Studies is based in the School of Arts. Although the MA will be based in the department, the modules on offer will be delivered by academics from across the Faculty, drawing on their research expertise and ensuring that all students will benefit from the engagement with a wide variety of scholars in the discipline, each of who will discuss their current research interests.

The MA in Screening Europe builds on the research expertise in European film and television across the Department of Media and Communication Studies and the School of Arts. The programme offers a wide-ranging and innovative approach to the subject. Instead of exploring European screens nation by nation – the more traditional approach – we adopt a thematic examination, allowing for a comparative analysis of European film and television by focusing instead on a variety of key topics such as: Celtic Screens, Screening Totalitarianism, The European Metropolis, Film Adaptation, The Gendered Screen and Cinematic Dialogues with the World. In addition, you will have the chance to take practical modules in Screenwriting, and Interviewing and Reviewing, which reflects our belief in the benefits of combining theory and practice. By virtue of its interdisciplinary emphasis, the MA should appeal to students from subject backgrounds such as Film and Media, Modern Languages and Creative Arts, from the UK and overseas....

Specialized Master in Medias, Art and Creation

The Media, arts and creation sector has long been managed by people with a creative background.

Today, there is a growing need for management professionals who are fully familiar with such disciplines as strategy, law, accounting/finance, marketing and human-resource management. These management professionals must of course have extensive knowledge of the sector as well as be highly receptive to technological evolution.

A film producer must, for example, be capable of developing a financing plan and assessing the qualities of a film as well as its chances of box-office success. A theatre or opera house administrator must establish and manage a budget, set up a marketing plan that is coherent with their artistic choices and integrate dematerialised communication and distribution methods. Museums need individuals with solid management skills to develop corporate art sponsorship agreements. Audiovisual groups developing multimedia strategies incorporating radio, television, the written press and the Internet (so-called «360°» convergence strategies) are in need of people who are familiar with all the various aspects of management. The art market also needs managers with solid marketing skills and able to manage a virtual gallery or a foundation. Today, music and videos are predominantly distributed over the Internet via classical sites or social networking sites. Old economic models are no longer adapted, and it is therefore necessary to create and invent new ones. Entrepreneurship opportunities in the cultural field are abundant, and they constitute the pillars of cultural diversity. As the raw materials are in essence immaterial (talent, creation) and there are fewer and fewer constraints related to commercialisation, there is ample room for innovations that do not require high levels of investment....

The MA in Hollywood and the World: Transnational Perspectives on American Film is a highly distinctive degree programme focussing on the important relationships that have developed between American film and a variety of national cinemas and traditions in the modern world. The interactions between the great Hollywood tradition and other film traditions provide an immensely fruitful route to achieving a greater understanding of contemporary American society and culture from a genuinely transnational perspective.

The MA offers advanced interdisciplinary research, providing students with a detailed understanding of America’s cultural and political involvement in the contemporary world.  The MA is available as a full-time degree programme (one year) and as a part-time degree programme (minimum of two years)....

The postgraduate coursework program in Journalism, Media and Communications provides students with core media skills - practical and analytical - and the opportunity to specialise within the field of journalism, media and communications. The program offers a selection of 'base' units, each of which is designed to allow students - in consultation with teaching staff - to focus on a specific area within the broader field, such as environmental and science communications, sports media, print, broadcast and convergent journalism, or public relations. As students progress through the program, they develop both the skills required by industry and to work independently, and a specialised knowledge....

Program Description

Many newspaper and magazine organisations now expect new journalists to have the traditional skills of newsgathering, shorthand, writing, reporting and feature writing, plus the ability to shoot and edit digital video, present audio and video podcasts, as well as update and manage news websites, featuring news tickers, RSS feeds, email alerts. Broadcasters require all this too and ask for shorthand as well.

This course alone in Scotland can provide you with the introduction to all these skills to industry-standards based on our accreditation from both the NCTJ and BJTC (see below), our extensive teaching experience and cutting-edge facilities. You will also get the chance to explore an area of specialist journalism such as Arts, Sports, Fashion, or Business, in an option....

The Master programme in Audio Visual Media Arts offers an academic degree intended to hone the wider insight and practical training into various aspects of audiovisual media art, while rooted in motion picture production.  The programme  is geared towards the applicants who have already acquired a prior training in filmmaking on bachelors level, and professionals currently working in mass media, television, and film, as well as those undergraduates who wish to change their careers.

Many advanced level courses in film editing, production, and screenwriting are novel and unmatched to film students in the Baltic States such as theoretical and practical applications of Gilles Deleuze and Gerard Genette....

Media and Communication at Swansea University is a growing and ambitious department, developing high quality original research and committed to delivering teaching excellence. It encompasses diverse social scientific and humanistic approaches to media, film, journalism and communication studies combined with interdisciplinary graduate teaching to an international body of students through the delivery of a range of specialist programmes at both MA and PhD level. Department staff sustain active research links with departments across Swansea University and with academics internationally.

There are two main research groupings in the department.

1. European Film and IdentityEuropean Film and Identity brings together substantial expertise in the history, theory and reception of European cinema and is engaged in a variety of provocative analyses of films, film-makers, movements and film-watching communities and nations in relation to literature, new media, politics and socio-political and geo-political contexts. Researchers are closely associated with the European Cinema Research Forum and the Studies in European Cinema journal from Intellect. This group features specific research strengths in German, Polish, Eastern European, Basque, Hispanic and Welsh cinema....

The Department of Media and Communication Studies at Swansea University was established in June 2001 as part of the School of European Languages. It brings together the teaching of media and communication, which has been established at Swansea for several years in subject areas such as English, Welsh, European Languages, Applied Language Studies, Politics, History, Philosophy, Sociology, Anthropology, International Development and Computer Science.

The MA in Comparative Journalism provides an international and cross-cultural approach to journalism in the 21st century. It is aimed at practising, mid-career journalists as well as those interested in developing their knowledge and understanding of the role of journalism in society. The course combines the teaching of practical skills and techniques of journalistic production with the exploration of practice from a range of theoretical and analytical perspectives....

The Department of Media and Communication Studies at Swansea University was established in June 2001 as part of the School of European Languages. It brings together the teaching of media and communication, which has been established at Swansea for several years in subject areas such as English, Welsh, European Languages, Applied Language Studies, Politics, History, Philosophy, Sociology, Anthropology, International Development and Computer Science.

The MA Media Talk Programme addresses the role and significance of the transmission, articulation and, above all, the mediation of talk in our electronic and digital culture.  It is highly innovative being the first Masters of its kind in the UK to systematically explore the significance of talk in mediated contexts. In a media-saturated world in which ‘spin’ is seemingly more entrenched in our political and media spheres, the ability to systematically analyse and critique discourses of influence and power becomes more urgent than ever. Interdisciplinary in spirit, the programme is taught jointly by the Department and the Centre for Applied Language Studies, and draws upon the expertise of research-active staff in sociology, journalism, linguistics, history, politics, media, communication and cultural studies. ...

The Master ofCreative Media Technology is taught by the Human interface Technology Lab, Australia based in the School of Computing and Information Systems.

The Human Interface Technology Australia (HIT Lab AU) is a strategic initiative of the University of Tasmania (UTAS). The HIT Lab AU is a specialist teaching and research centre bringing foundation virtual and mixed reality technologies to the Launceston campuses.

Human Interface Technologies (HIT) refers to the ways in which humans interface with digital devices as well as with other people remotely over large distances using the full range of human senses and gestures. This area is becoming more and more important because of the increasing demand for intuitive interface tools to enable people to communicate and drive the growing capacity and complexity of digital computing devices. Examples of human interface technolgies include: Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality, Mixed Reality, Magic Book Technology and Virtual Retinal Display....

Programme Description

Raw Talent, New Voices

Television is where the vast majority of practising screenwriters work and where there is an abundance of writing slots and creative opportunities. This award has been developed in close collaboration with the television Industry and wholly with its screenwriting needs in mind. Students will be taught by both academic staff and top TV scriptwriting practitioners. This programme forges an exciting new partnership between industry and education to produce the next generation of market-ready script writers for the 21st Century. Crucially, graduates will be capable of script development within the constraints and opportunities presented by a competitive global market for television drama....

Background to the MSc in Applied Digital Media (HETAC)

Digital content has emerged as a new economic sector with tremendous enterprise and creative potential for Ireland. It encompasses the creation, design, management and distribution of digital products and services and the technologies that underpin them. Creative digital media is at the forefront of the knowledge based economy, and has been accorded a ‘high priority’ status by the Irish government. There is a large and growing demand for high-level skills in digital media and eBusiness.

Our new Postgraduate Diploma/MSc in Applied Digital Media is designed to provide a direct progression route from an undergraduate Bachelors degree to Master Level in digital media technologies for recent graduates, as well as enabling those currently working in industry to continue their professional development. If you are thinking of a career in a multi media or professional media environment, or want to enhance your skills within such an environment then this is the programme for you. ...

Obiettivi e contenuti Il programma di studi prevede un’analisi dei processi di creazione, produzione e diffusione di contenuti editoriali di diverso tipo: dai giornali ai libri, dalla radio alla televisione, fino ai contenuti elettronici destinati alla distribuzione on line. In particolare il Master offre l'opportunità di conoscere gli aspetti fondamentali del funzionamento delle imprese dei media e di approfondire gli aspetti che riguardano l'attività gestionale di queste imprese (struttura economica e politiche di settore, ricerca, creazione e sviluppo di prodotti e servizi, gestione dei diritti, uso del web, ecc.). L'obiettivo è di formare professionisti che, sulla base di una conoscenza approfondita delle caratteristiche dei media, sappiano svolgere funzioni di progettazione, coordinamento e controllo dei processi produttivi e distributivi di imprese editoriali a stampa, audiovisive ed elettroniche, tenendo conto anche dei principali fattori di contesto sia culturale che politico-economico, con particolare attenzione agli aspetti di servizio pubblico (per es. nel caso della radio e della televisione) e di interesse generale. I corsi presentano tre componenti distinte e fra loro integrate. La prima concerne la strumentazione teorica e metodologica che permette di affrontare criticamente i temi studiati (le funzioni gestionali nei media). La seconda prepara, attraverso lo studio sistematico di una serie di casi, a comprendere situazioni, processi e tendenze che riguardano i vari settori dell'attività editoriale e giornalistica. Infine, una terza componente è rappresentata dall'intervento in aula di professionisti e manager che svolgono funzioni di rilievo in imprese editoriali, i quali testimoniano problemi ed opportunità riscontrate nella loro esperienza di lavoro. Stage A integrazione degli insegnamenti teorici e delle attività pratiche di progetti ed elaborati che si svolgono in relazione ai corsi seguiti (primo e secondo semestre), il Master prevede un periodo di stage in un’azienda editoriale (terzo semestre), dove lo studente entra in diretto contatto con un sistema produttivo e distributivo reale e impara a focalizzare l’attenzione e ad analizzare, sotto la guida costante di un tutor universitario, gli aspetti costitutivi a livello di struttura e organizzazione. Tesi Il Master si conclude con un semestre (quarto) dedicato all’elaborazione della tesi finale consistente in una ricerca scientifica nell’ambito delle discipline che compongono il piano di studi. Sbocchi professionali I diplomati del Master sono formati per occupare ruoli di gestione, coordinamento, ricerca e sviluppo nelle imprese editoriali che operano nel campo della produzione giornalistica e libraria, radiofonica e televisiva e dei nuovi media elettronici. Lingua d’insegnamento: italiano...