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Media, Communications & Culture

For Current Undergraduates

The course outline and info on MCC modules can be found below. For further details regarding the MCC undergraduate programme including guidelines, regulations and procedures please check the Programme Handbook available for download here.

MCC Programme Handbook 2011-12  

Graduate Attributes

Level One Structure -15 credit modules
AUTUMN SEMESTER
SPRING SEMESTER

Programme Core Module:

MDS-10008  : Mediated World

Programme Core Module:

MDS-10011  : The Photographic message

Programme Elective:

MDS-10009  : Digital Video

Approved Electives:

MDS-10013  : Popular British Cinema: from the 90's to the present day

ENG-10024  : Reading Film

 

Programme Elective:

MDS-10010  : Understanding Culture

Approved Electives:

MDS-10012 : Introduction to European Cinema

ENG-10015  : Approches to Film

SOC-10013  : Modernity & it's Darkside

Level Two Structure -15 Credit Modules
AUTUMN SEMESTER
SPRING SEMESTER

Programme Core Module:

MDS-20023 : Creating Awareness Campaigns

Programme Core Module:

MDS-20019  : Analysing Culture

Programme Electives:

MDS-20020  :Making the News

MDS-20027  : From Nosferatu to Saw: Horror Cinema in Social Context

MDS-20005/20006 : Study Abroad

 

 

Approved Electives:

MDS-20025  : Gender & the Cinematic Gaze

MUS-20047  : Unheard Melodies: music in the narrative film

ENG-20036  : Twentieth Century Novels into Films

Programme Electives:

MDS-20017  : Politics & the Cinema

MDS-20018  : Thinking Photography

MDS-20016  : DIY broadcasting: internet television and the YouTube generation

MDS-20007/20008 : Study Abroad

Approved Electives:

MDS-20026  : Film Genre, Narrative & the Star

SOC-20034  : Crime, Morality and the Media

ENG-20031  : French Cinema

Level Three Structure
AUTUMN SEMESTER
SPRING SEMESTER

Optional Core (30 credit modules):

EITHER:

MDS-30011 Dissertation in Media, Communications & Culture (sem1&2)

OR:

MDS-30013  : Sustained Media Practice (sem1&2)

Optional Core (15 credit modules):

MDS-30006 : British society through the eyes of British cinema: 1960s to the present

MDS-30012 : Creative Magazine Production


Approved Electives (15 credit modules):

SOC-30025 : Streets, Skyscrapers and Slums: The City in Social, Cultural & Historical Context

SOC-30026 : Risk & Society

Optional Core (15 credit modules):

MDS-30014 :Representing the Self, Family & Society in Contemporary British & American Television

ENG-30053 : Postmodern Fiction, Theory and Film