Media and Communications

Major/Minor/Specialisation !MR-ARTSTHS-SPC+1029 (2015)

Note: This is an archived Handbook entry from 2015.

Year and Campus: 2015

Coordinator

Dr Robert Hassan

Email: hassanr@unimelb.edu.au

Contact

Enquiries
Phone: 13 MELB (13 6352)
Email: 13MELB@unimelb.edu.au

Overview:

The Master of Arts (Media and Communication) Thesis provides students with an opportunity to undertake a sustained piece of research supervised by a member of staff from the Media and Communications Program. Students will develop and deploy the skills necessary to originate, execute and bring to completion a sustained piece of research.

Learning Outcomes:

Students who complete the Master of Arts (Thesis only) in this area of specialisation should:

  • demonstrate an informed awareness of the changing international and global contexts of media communication and how these are currently being researched and studied;
  • demonstrate understanding of major positions of theory and debate informing the study of global media communication and be able to critically engage with these;
  • deploy methods and selected methodology in sustained media and communication research;
  • demonstrate specialist knowledge in the area of their research and present research findings and argument in a suitably structured and sequenced thesis that conforms to protocols of academic presentation and research practice; and
  • demonstrate an adequate understanding of, and commitment to, research ethics in their research practice.
Structure & Available Subjects:

Duration: 1.5 years full-time / 3 years part-time

The Master of Arts (Thesis only) in this area of specialisation requires:

  • thesis 30,000 words
Links to further information: http://culture-communication.unimelb.edu.au/
Related Course(s): Master of Arts (Thesis only)

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