Master of Media and Communications

Overview

The Master of Media and Communications will give you a strong foundation in the practical skills required to succeed in this dynamic business sector. The program immerses you in a multi-disciplinary environment, promoting collaborative working and team leadership, as well as independent learning.

The direction in media and communications in the 21st century has been toward working alone as well as in teams on projects of all sizes. Today’s journalist often functions as a one-person operation responsible for writing, recording audio and video, editing, and producing material for various platforms. The same skills are required in public relations and higher level versions of these skills figure in feature films and documentaries.

This program will equip students to work in these ways and also to function effectively in teams, as team member or team leader, both of which roles are often required by clients in the industry today.

Course Learning Outcomes

Students graduating from the Master of Media and Communications will be able to: 

1. Demonstrate an understanding of and synthesise historical, theoretical, technological, legal and ethical aspects of media and communications.
2. Apply skills, methods, processes and technology with creativity to create media products in a real world context.
3. Understand and apply the techniques of collaborative practice, ethical practice and networking within professional and industry contexts to produce media products.
4. Creatively apply skills to produce content for new and emerging media platforms.
5. Independently plan and execute a substantial research based project or piece of scholarship that demonstrates advanced understanding and critical analysis of the area of study.

Course Structure

There are two entry levels to the Master of Media and Communications. If you have completed a three year undergraduate degree program, or a four year program without a research component, you will enter the MMC program at the foundation level. This will involve completing two extra subjects, decided in consultation with the Faculty.

Once you have completed the extra subjects, or if you have completed a four year degree that included a research component, you will enter on to the main program, The main program involves a total of 10 subjects, including five core subjects of six credit points each, three electives of six credit points each and a thesis which carries the weighting of 12 credit points.