Teaching & modules
Modules
Courses are divided into modules. You will normally take modules totalling 180 credits.
Required modules
- Introduction to Digital Culture & Society (30 credits)
- Contemporary Digital Practice (30 credits)
- Dissertation (60 credits)
Optional modules
In addition, you are required to take 60 credits from a range of optional modules, which may typically include:
- Artificial Intelligence & Society (15 credits)
- Bodies, Identities and Digital Media (15 credits)
- Critical Digital Arts (15 credits)
- Curating & Preserving Digital Culture (15 credits)
- Data Journalism (15 credits)
- Digital Asset & Media Management in the Broadcast Media (15 credits)
- Digital Entrepreneurship (15 credits)
- Digital Health (15 credits)
- Digital Innovation (15 credits)
- Digital Media, Digital Marketing (15 credits)
- Digital Methods for Internet Studies: Concepts, Devices and Data (15 credits)
- Digital Publishing (15 credits)
- Digital Asset & Media Management Technologies in Practice (15 credits)
- Gendering Technology (15 credits)
- Global Digital Audiences (15 credits)
- iData: Understanding Personal Data Ecosystems (15 credits)
- Management for Digital Content Industries (15 credits)
- Maps, Apps & the GeoWeb: Introduction to the Spatial Humanities (15 credits)
- Social Media, Marketing and Platforms (15 credits)
- The Sharing Economy and Its Discontents (15 credits)
- Virtual Realities (15 credits)
- Web Technologies (15 credits)
Up to 30 credits from other master’s modules that the Faculty of Arts & Humanities offers, subject to approval.
If you are a part-time student, Introduction to Digital Culture & Society and Contemporary Digital Practice in your first year, and your dissertation in your second. In addition, part-time students will take 30 credits of optional modules in their first year and a further 30 credits of optional modules in their second year.
Teaching methods - what to expect
We will provide 120 to 180 hours of teaching through lectures and seminars, and we will expect you to undertake 1,674 hours of independent study. Typically, one credit equates to 10 hours of work.
Assessment
- Coursework
- Written/practical examinations
- Essays
- Reports
- Projects
Your performance will be assessed through a combination of coursework and written/practical examinations. Forms of assessment may typically include essays, reports and projects. Coursework contributes approximately 100% to your final mark.
Application closing date guidance
Key Information
Course type:
Master's
Delivery mode:
In person
Study mode:
Full time / Part time
Duration:
One year full-time, two years part-time, September to September
Application status:
Open
Start date:
September 2026