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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 Handbook 2012-13

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:

FIL-10003   Popular British Cinema: from the 90's to the present day

FIL-10001   Reading Film

 

Programme Elective:

MDS-10010   Understanding Culture

MDS-10012   Introduction to European Cinema

Approved Electives:

FIL-10002     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-20024  Teenage Dreams

MDS-20005/20006  Study Abroad

Approved Electives:

MUS-20047   Unheard Melodies: music in the narrative film

ENG -20031   French Cinema

Programme Electives:

MDS-20017   Politics & the Cinema

MDS-20018   Thinking Photography

MDS-20029   DIY broadcasting: internet television and the YouTube generation

MDS-20007/20008  Study Abroad

MDS-20028   Seoul Summer School - Korea (Semester 3)

Approved Electives:

ENG-20036 Twentieth Century Novels into Films

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