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Programme Specifications

Programme Specification

MA Global Media and Cultural Industries (January 2021 intake)

Academic Year: 2020/21

This specification provides a concise summary of the main features of the programme and the learning outcomes that a typical student might reasonably be expected to achieve and demonstrate if full advantage is taken of the learning opportunities that are provided.

This specification applies to delivery of the programme in the Academic Year indicated above. Prospective students reviewing this information for a later year of study should be aware that these details are subject to change as outlined in our Terms and Conditions of Study.

This specification should be read in conjunction with:

Reg. XXI (Postgraduate Awards) (see University Regulations)
Module Specifications

Summary
Aims
Learning outcomes
Structure
Progression & weighting

Programme summary

Awarding body/institution	含羞草视频
Teaching institution (if different)	N/A
Owning school/department	School of Social Sciences and Humanities
Details of accreditation by a professional/statutory body	N/A
Final award	MA or PG Diploma or PG Certificate
Programme title	Global Media and Cultural Industries (CXPT46)
Programme code	CXPT46
Length of programme	One year
UCAS code	N/A
Admissions criteria	MA - http://www.lboro.ac.uk/SSPT46
Date at which the programme specification was published	Thu, 12 Nov 2020 16:16:16 GMT

1. Programme Aims

To enable students to gain a systematic and critical awareness of current issues and debates in communication media studies and related disciplines.
To develop students' skills and competencies in a comprehensive range of research methods and techniques relevant to the investigation of media communications and related disciplines.
To enable students to interpret evaluate and apply advanced knowledge in the discpline in an innovative way.
To prepare students for employment in diverse professional environment through a combination of independent work and industry exposure.
To foster students' ability to critically analyse current research and advanced scholarship about digitilisation of media and cultural industries.
To foster students' ability to critically analyse current research and advanced scholarship about the political economy of media and cultural industries.

2. Relevant subject benchmark statements and other external reference points used to inform programme outcomes:

The Benchmark Statement for Communication, Media, Film and Cultural Studies.

3. Programme Learning Outcomes

3.1 Knowledge and Understanding

On successful completion of the programme, students should be able to demonstrate and apply knowledge and understanding in the following areas:

K1. The major traditions, theories and frameworks of inquiry relevant to the analysis of media, communications and associated disciplines.

K2. The historical expansion of communications media, the institutionalisation of media systems, various audiences' uses of the media, and the implications of new media for cultural life.

K3. The range of relevant research methods employed in the analysis of media and culture.

K4. The major arguments and issues in contemporary debates about media and cultural industries.

K5. The development of the global character of media and cultural industries.

3.2 Skills and other attributes

a. Subject-specific cognitive skills:

On successful completion of the programme, students should be able, with reference to media communication and culture, to:

C1. Generate research data according to set procedures and methods.

C2. Independently organise, classify and critically evaluate information gathered in the course of their projects and assignments.

C3. Use advanced concepts and theories drawn from media, communications and associated disciplines to analyse relevant empirical evidence.

C4. Discuss their research and the issues it raises reflexively.

C5. Interpret industry data and policy documents.

b. Subject-specific practical skills:

On successful completion of the programme, students should be able to:

P1. Engage with major thinkers, debates and intellectual paradigms within the fields of media, communication and culture, productively employing the insights gained in their own work.

P2. Demonstrate their capacity to develop appropriate research strategies to address the issues they have selected for sustained investigation in self-chosen projects.

P3. Analyse new and emerging trends and interrogate both common sense understanding and received wisdom in relevant areas of inquiry.

P4. Discuss historical transformations in media, communication, and culture and wield this understanding in appraising current patterns of development, such as cultural globalisation and media convergence.

c. Key transferable skills:

On successful completion of the programme, students should be able to:

T1. Critically evaluate a range of academic and industry sources.

T2. Communicate effectively to specialist and non-specialist audiences.

T3. Deploy qualitative and quantitative research techniques.

T4. Plan, organise and manage, with appropriate supervision, a significant self-directed project.

T5. Work flexibly, creatively and independently, displayhing a high degree of self-direction and initiative.

T6. Demonstrate skills and abilities learned in relation to their own continuing professional development.

4. Programme structure

Semester 1, 2020/2021 (January / February 2021)

COMPULSORY MODULE (Total modular weight 15)

Code	Module title	Modular Weight	Semester
SSP503	Researching Communication 1: Media Users and Cultural Institutions	15	1

Semester 2, 2020/2021 (February to June 2021) and Semester 1, 2021/2022 (October 2021 to January 2022)

COMPULSORY MODULE (Total modular weight 10)

Code	Module title	Modular Weight	Semester
CXP350	Key Debates in Global Media and Cultural Industries	10	2 + 1

Semester 2, 2020/2021 (February to June 2021)

COMPULSORY MODULES (Total modular weight 30)

Code	Module title	Modular Weight	Semester
CXP316	Media and Cultural Work: Inequality and Discrimination in the Creative Industries	15	2
CXP317	Researching Communication 2: Texts and Digital Platforms	15	2

OPTIONAL MODULES (combined modular weight 30)

Two optional modules must come from the list below.

Code	Module title	Modular Weight	Semester
SSP303	The Politics of Representation	15	2
CXP307	Data, Power and Democracy	15	2
SSP319	Digital Cultures	15	2

Semester 3, 2020/2021 (June to September 2021)

COMPULSORY MODULE (Total modular weight 50)

Code	Module title	Modular Weight	Semester
CXP398	Dissertation in Global Media and Cultural Industries	50	30

Semester 1, 2021/2022 (October 2021 to January 2022)

COMPULSORY MODULES (Total modular weight 30)

Code	Module title	Modular Weight	Semester
CXP302	Media & Cultural Industries: Political Economy & Public Policy	15	1
CXP301	Understanding Modern Media	15	1

OPTIONAL MODULES (combined modular weight 15)

One optional module must come from the list below.

Code	Module title	Modular Weight	Semester
CXP304	Introduction to Strategic Communication	15	1
CXP306	Social Media and Political Communication	15	1
SSP318	Digital Economies	15	1
CXP323	Marketing Politics	15	1

5. Criteria for Progression and Degree Award

In order to be eligible for the award, candidates must not only satisfy the requirements of Regulation XXI but are also required to obtain the following:

(i) PGCert – 60 credits from modules other than CXP398.

(ii) PGDip – 100 credits from modules other than CXP398 and not less than 40% in remaining modules.

(iii) MSc – 150 credits and not less than 40% in the remaining modules.

With the exclusion of module CXP398(Dissertation), provision will be made for candidates who have the right of re-assessment to undergo re-assessment in the University's Special Assessment Period (SAP).

6. Relative Weighting of Parts of the Programme for the Purposes of Final Degree Classification

This section relates to undergraduate degrees only.