You'll study the dominant media and communication theories, and their application across a number of international contexts and media platforms. You'll examine the trends and texts over a number of media contexts and genres, including popular cultural platforms and the coverage of politics, as well as dealing with the implications of international media on the mediation and public understanding of conflict and terrorism. 

You'll gain an understanding of the principles of research and academic writing in media and communication, developing of academic and professional research and proposal-writing skills in preparation for your dissertation.

Your dissertation will provide you with the opportunity to undertake a piece of independent research, which is of professional or academic relevance to you.

This will be assessed on the basis of a dissertation of approximately 15,000 words. The work enables and requires you to draw on the skills and insights acquired during the Masters programme.

You'll examine the development and influence of specific media forms, both in the associated conventions and forms and in the relationship between media and the social and political realms. You'll also gain an understanding of the rise of participatory and social media, and of the relationship between interpersonal media, mass media and social media.

This module with afford you an advanced insight into the principles, tactics and ethical responsibilities of strategic communication. Using appropriate case studies, the module will critically evaluate the necessary communication concepts, the position of stakeholders and strategic narratives, as well as the ethics of strategic communication in working with notions of corporate responsibility and social development.

This module introduces key feminist theories of knowledge and research methodologies. You examine how feminist knowledge is produced within and beyond the academy, and explore the principles, practices, and ethics shaping feminist research. The module includes a visit to Glasgow Women’s Library, offering hands-on engagement with feminist archives and community-based knowledge-making. It also prepares you for the Gender Studies Research Placement.

The aim of this module is to provide you with a critical understanding of the core contexts, critical arguments, theories and debates in penal policy and criminal justice practice. It's designed to provide you with relevant knowledge, understanding and skills to critically engage with theory, research and contemporary debates about penal responses to people who offend, and with critical debates in contemporary policies and practices, as well as introducing more radical approaches to penal change.

This module will introduce you to the literature on qualitative research design and provide you will an understanding of different qualitative research methods, and their limitations. It will support you to apply essential knowledge and skills in conducting independent qualitative research.

This module introduces students to the fundamental theories and principles of probability, statistical inference, hypothesis testing, and analysis techniques such as linear regression. Furthermore, it equips students with the practical skills and techniques required to conduct their own statistical analyses. After taking the module students will be able to critically evaluate academic studies as well as non-academic reports that use statistical methods and conduct their own research using various types of data.

This module enables students to undertake a substantial media and communications project with an external client, selected by the student in agreement with the University. Students submit their project for assessment, along with a reflective report.

The aim of this class is to provide fundamental data analytics skills to postgraduate students in the media and communication subject area. The class focuses on embracing new analytical capabilities provided by developments in the field of information communication and technology. The Media Analytics module will provide a much-needed set of analytical skills, enabling students to adapt to recent trends in the media and communication landscape.

This module introduces the core principles of news gathering, reporting, feature writing and communications, with a focus on their application in contemporary digital journalism.

You'll develop the practical techniques required to produce compelling digital content across multiple media platforms, and gain the skills needed to meet the professional expectations of converged, cross platform news environments.

This module is designed to give students an understanding of key ethical issues, practices and norms of the digital media environment.

Due to the rapid changes in the digital environment, journalism and wider information media systems have become key sites where normative questions arise about the ethics of these systems, processes and technologies. This includes the interrogation of the tensions between old and new values and traditions in a globally-networked system that has a bearing on individual and collective experience and identity.

This module is for students who wish to learn how to apply theoretical frameworks to complex topics in the digital media environment. 

This class will acquaint you with the field of strategic communication and the major theories of persuasion. It will explore the process of communicating purposefully from its different stages and thus help you form a well-rounded theoretical understanding of its many facets and complexities. The class will also combine theory and practice by asking you to apply the acquired theoretical perspectives onto professional scenarios.

This conceptual class explores many of the contradictions and consequences of how health is presented in the media.

The media’s role is to provide both information and entertainment, so we also examine entertainment media and its influence on health education, social norms, and stigmatisation.

After this class, students will understand better how illness and health are presented by the media, what contributes to such representations, and how that affects public attitudes and behaviours.

They will also begin to notice some of the health myths sold through the media and become a more discerning media consumers overall.

They will discover the disciplines of public health, health communication and risk communication and their many complexities.

Last, but not least, students will become better journalists or writers, not just about health, but about people.

This module will teach students the specific industry legal framework which applies in digital journalism. It will enable students to understand international media law and the application of international media law to digital journalism globally.