Masters of Arts (Film & Media Studies)
MASTERS OF ARTS IN FILM AND MEDIA STUDIES
The main objectives of the MA Film and Media programme are:
- To create opportunity for further training in the field of film and media
- To encourage research in film and media studies
Applicants must have a Bachelors degree in Literature, Theatre or Film or the equivalent:- first class; second class (honours)
or Lower Second class with working experience in the relevantfield.
The Masters program shall normally take four semesters of sixteen weeks each (two academic years). Semester one and
two are devoted to coursework and research methodology, semester three to field and library research ,analysis of data
and drafting of the thesis, in semester four students complete coursework as they finish the final draft thesis. The dissertation
must be submitted to the department at least a month before the end of the program.
The minimum units of coursework shall be 42 distributed through coursework, research and thesis to be covered in four semesters.
First Semester
Code |
Title |
Units |
SAS 801 |
General Research Methods (Required) |
9 |
LIT 810 |
Principles and Practice of Criticism (Core) |
3 |
LIT 811 |
Research Methods in Literature and the Performing Arts (Core) |
2 |
FMS 810 |
Media, Culture and Ideology (core) |
3 |
FMS 811 |
Contemporary Film Theory (Elective) |
3 |
FMS 812 |
Television Audience and the Media (Elective) |
3 |
PHL 813 |
Epistemology (Elective) |
3 |
Second Semester
Code |
Title |
Units |
FMS 820 |
Media Research Methodology (core) |
3 |
FMS 821 |
Theories of Media (core) |
3 |
FMS 822 |
Research Proposal (core) |
2 |
FMS 823 |
Television Journalism (elective) |
3 |
FMS 824 |
Film Analysis and Criticism (elective) |
3 |
SOC 801 |
Advanced Sociological Theory (elective) |
3 |
ANT 814 |
Culture and Technology (elective) |
3 |
THE 820 |
Advanced theory of Drama (elective) |
3 |