Teaching & modules
Modules
Courses are divided into modules. To fulfil the award of MA, you will normally take modules totalling 180 credits.
Required modules
- Global Media Industries: Perspectives and Approaches (30 credits)
- Media Industries: Collaborative Project (30 credits)
Research Approaches and Dissertation (60 credits) choosing from the following:
- Traditional Dissertation
- Collaborative Dissertation with Cultural Partner
- Creative Research Project
Optional Modules
In addition, you are required to take 60 credits from a range of optional modules, which may typically include:
- The Aesthetic Economy and Aesthetic Markets (15 credits)
- Art and Globalisation (15 credits)
- Collecting Cultures: Managing Collections in Museums and Collecting Organisations (15 credits)
- Children, Media Industries and Culture (15 credits)
- Culture: Conflict, Diplomacy, and International Relations (15 credits)
- Contextualising Creativity (15 credits)
- Work in the Creative Economy (15 credits)
- Culture and the City (15 credits)
- Cultural Markets (15 credits)
- Cultural Memory (15 credits)
- Cultural Policy (15 credits)
- Entertainment Industries (15 credits)
- The Entrepreneurial Opportunity - Arts and Culture (selective entry) (15 credits)
- Exhibitions, Identities and Politics: in Museums and other Exhibiting Organisations (15 credits)
- Festivals: Arts, Public Spaces and Community (15 credits)
- Future Memory: Creating Connected Worlds (15 credits)
- Gaming Industries and Cultures (15 credits)
- Gender and Sexualities in East Asian Media (15 credits)
- Gender, Media and Culture (15 credits)
- Immersive Media and Extended Realities (15 credits)
- International Heritage – Cultural Tourism (15 credits)
- Media Industries & the City (15 credits)
- Readings of the Music Business (15 credits)
You may choose a maximum of 30 credits of modules from other departments within the Faculty of Arts & Humanities, and the King’s Language Centre, or, exceptionally, from a range of modules offered by the Faculty of Social Science and Public Policy (notably the Department of Education and Professional Studies, and Department of Management), or the School of Law, subject to approvals.
If you are a part-time student, in year one you will take the two required modules, Global Media Industries: Perspectives and Approaches (30 credits), and Media Industries: Collaborative Project (30 credits), together with one or two optional modules (15 / 30 credits in total). In year two, you take the required module Research Approaches and Dissertation (60 credits), alongside two or three optional modules (30 / 45 credits in total). A total of four options (60 credits) are to be taken over the two years of study.
Teaching methods - what to expect
This is a one-year full-time course (two years part-time) comprising modules totalling 180 credits. Required modules provide the foundation for the programme. These are accompanied by a diverse range of optional modules, appealing to a wide range of interests and giving students the opportunity to discover new areas of study.
Each week in semesters one and two, alongside taught lectures, seminars and workshops, students are expected to undertake additional hours of independently managed self-study. In semester three, students devote approximately 600 hours of independent study to the final dissertation, collaborative, or creative research project, for which supervision guidance is provided.
Typically, one credit equates to 10 hours of work.
Assessment
- Industry reports
- Coursework
- Essays
- Presentations
- Group work
- Portfolio of evidence
- Dissertation
- Collaborative or creative research project
Students are assessed through coursework. Forms of assessment typically include essays, industry reports, presentations, group work, portfolio of evidence, and a dissertation, collaborative or creative research project. Coursework contributes 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, September to September, two years part-time
Application status:
Open
Start date:
September 2026