MA Critical Media and Cultural Studies

SOAS, University of London
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  • Type

    Master

  • Location

    City of london

  • Start date

    Different dates available

Start of programme: September intake only
Mode of Attendance: Full-time or Part-time
FROM 2017-18
Students must take 180 credits comprised of 120 taught credits (including core and option modules) and a 60 credit dissertation
Select the equivalent of FIVE Modules comprising full (1.0) and half (0.5) Modules including the dissertation
This is the unique Masters-level programme offered that specifically addresses Critical Media and Cultural Studies of the non-Western world. The degree introduces students to the key contemporary issues discussed in Asian and African media and provides them with the opportunity to engage directly in research on an aspect of these media. It has a strong theoretical element, equipping students with the intellectual tools to consider the production, distribution and reception of non-Western media in new ways and to challenge the English-language, Eurocentric approach of most media studies scholarship.
While media studies degrees usually concentrate on media production, distribution and reception in North America and Western Europe, this programme considers critical issues in media and cultural studies in their full global complexity, with a focus on the cultures and societies of Asia and Africa and their diasporas. The degree is distinctive in the depth of theoretical and cultural background to contemporary media processes that it provides. Optional courses offer a range of approaches to the critical study of Asian and African discourses, from cinema to music, comparative literature to language, gender, religion, art and archaeology..
The programme is designed for students with an interest in critical theory; media professionals seeking alternative ways of understanding the media and culture industries; and those in NGOs and government organizations interested in challenging the hegemony of media corporations

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Subjects

  • Comparative Literature
  • Music
  • Global
  • Cinema
  • Art
  • Archaeology
  • IT
  • Cultural Studies
  • Communication Skills
  • Media Studies
  • Media
  • Production
  • Language
  • Cultural
  • Transferable skills
  • Critical Media
  • Interpersonal Skills
  • Team Work

Course programme

Each student takes 5 units in total: the Compulsory Course (1 unit), the Dissertation (1 unit), two half units from list 3 and two units of options of their choice.

In choosing their courses, MA students are advised to pay careful attention to the balance of coursework across the two terms. In particular it is important to ensure that each term you have three taught courses. However much you might wish to take a mixture of courses that requires more coursework in one term than the other, it is most unwise to attempt to take four courses in one term and two in the other. Experience has shown that students simply cannot manage the load during the heavy term with the result that they either do very badly, fail or are unable to complete the courses in question. As a result Directors of Studies for the degrees and the Faculty staff will not approve a selection of courses which results in an imbalanced workload. An imbalance of courses between terms is only possible with the written permission of the convenor of the degree .

1. Compulsory modules
  • Theoretical and Contemporary Issues in Media and Cultural Studies
  • Qualitative Research Methods
2. Dissertation in Critical Media and Cultural Studies
  • Dissertation in Media Studies

(supervisor to be allocated according to the dissertation topic)

3. Courses in Media Studies

Students are required to take TWO half unit courses from List 3.

  • Theoretical Approaches to International Journalisms
  • Topics in Global Digital Cultures
  • Studies in Global Digital Cultures
  • Transnational Communities and Diasporic Media:Networking, Connectivity, Identity
  • Media Spectacle and Urban Space in East Asia
  • Mediated Culture in the Middle East: Politics and Communications
  • International Political Communication
  • Qualitative Research Methods
  • Theoretical and Contemporary Issues in Global Media and Post-National Communication
  • Studies in Media, Information Communication Technologies and Development
4. Optional Courses:

Students may take a course or courses to the value of one full unit from the following lists:

  • Digital traditional broadcasting communication
Courses in Cinemas of Asia and Africa
  • Japanese Transnational Cinema: From Kurosawa to Asia Extreme and Studio Ghibli
  • Japanese Post-War Film Genres and the Avant-Garde
  • Japanese Television since 1953
  • Media Spectacle and Urban Space in East Asia
  • Post-crisis Thai Cinema (1997-2007)
  • (Post) Colonialism and Otherness in South East Asia on Screen
  • Genders and Sexualities in South East Asian Film
  • Indian Cinema: Its History and Social Context
  • Indian Cinema: Key Issues
  • The Story of African Film: Narrative Screen Media in Africa
  • Aspects of African film and video 2
  • Modern Chinese Film and Theatre (MA)
  • Curating Africa: African Film and Video in the Age of Festivals
  • Modern Film from Taiwan and the Chinese Diaspora
  • Issues in Anthropology and Film
One option from among the following courses in Comparative Literature and Gender
  • Theory and techniques of Comparative Literature
  • Postcolonial Theory and Practice
  • Literatures in African languages
  • Modern Arabic Literature and the West
  • Literatures of South Asia
  • Popular and Fusion Music in South East Asia (PG)
One option from among the following courses in Music
  • Pop and Politics in East Asia (Masters)
One Option from courses in Art & Archaeology and Anthropology
  • Contemporary Art and the Global
  • Culture and Society of China
  • Culture and Society of East Africa
  • Culture and Society of Japan
  • Culture and Society of South Asia
  • Culture and Society of South East Asia
  • Culture and Society of West Africa
  • Culture and Society of Near and Middle East
  • Issues in Contemporary Southeast Asian Art
  • Photography and the Image in Africa
One Option from courses in the Study of Religions and Centre for Gender Studies
  • Jewishness on Screen
One option from courses in South AsiaA Language course (subject to availability)

One Language Acquisition course taught at SOAS (list available from the Faculty of Languages and Cultures)

This is the structure for 2018/19 applicants

If you are a current student you can find structure information on Moodle or through your Department.

Programme Specification
  • PROGRAMME SPEC FROM 2017-2018 (pdf; 62kb)
  • NEW Prog Spec (pdf; 141kb)
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