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This programme offers you an exciting opportunity to combine theoretical and practical work in a degree designed to give you an excellent working knowledge of the field of new media. This MA locates new media within the theoretical contexts of media and cultural studies, while also giving you hands-on experience in designing and developing new media products using industry-standard equipment and authoring tools. Teaching is through lectures, seminars and hands-on workshops in small groups. Your longer summer project may be theoretical, practical or based on a work placement. This MA is designed to offer advanced study of new media, aimed at graduates who wish to advance their study, at professionals who wish to consider developments in the field of digital medianew media and, while it is not a vocational degree, it will also be of interest to those seeking to enter new media industries. Autumn term: you take the core courses Interactive Media Practice ? Interactive Media Theory ? Media Theory and Research I. Exceptionally, and with the approval of the programme convenor, students with an undergraduate degree in media theory may opt not to take Media Theory and Research I, choosing instead from options that may include Cinema: Histories, Institutions and Technologies ? Gender and Representation ? Inside Hollywood ? Promotional Culture. Spring term: you take the core course New Developments in Digital Media. In addition you choose one option from a list that may include Culture, Emotion and Representation ? Curating Film Culture ? Feminism and Film ? Media Audiences ? Media Histories and Political Change ? Media, Technology and Everyday Life ? Mobile and Locative Theory and Practice ? Musical Multimedia ? Queering Popular Culture ? Rethinking European Cinema ? Science, Technology and Culture ? Video Documentary in Contemporary History. Summer term: you undertake supervised work on a 18,000-word dissertation, or produce a practical project and accompanying 10,000-word critical report, or undertake a work placement and produce a report. Assessment Assessment is by term papers and project work and by an 18,000-word dissertation or multimedia project and report.

A first- or upper second-class undergraduate honours degree in an appropriate discipline. We also welcome applicants who do not have this academic qualification who are able to demonstrate in their application that they have relevant professional/creative overallItemalue+oSn++???A????#? ?+???????????????????????????????????+S?++??????