Masters of Arts (Film & Media Studies)

MASTERS OF ARTS IN FILM AND MEDIA STUDIES

The MA Film and Media degree programme is a two year course designed to equip graduate students with advanced critical analytical skills in film making, various media programme designs and media theory. It focuses on aspects of visual imagination and communication, semiosis and media discourse. It also aims at interrogating film and media as industry, culture and ideology. The programme aims to provide advanced understanding of pre-production and postproduction processes in film and the media industry.

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

Admission requirements
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.

Duration
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.

Programme Structure
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

Third Semester

Code

Title

Units

FMS 837

Research

(core) 9

Fourth Semester

Title		Units
FMS 847	Research and Thesis II (core)	8
FMS 848	Media Ethics and Law (core)	3