The module introduces advanced qualitative and quantitative data analysis techniques and prepares students for dissertation research.

The module examines key concepts and theories for understanding how media and communication contribute to the construction of identity, difference and exclusion.

The module examines advertising, public relations and related industries, critically assessing their economic, social, political and cultural power.

The module explores the relationship between psychology, politics and society, examining how political attitudes, behaviours and identities are shaped.

This module provides a critical understanding of psychological approaches to communication and core concepts in social psychology.

This module explores contemporary issues at the intersection of media, culture and crime, including crime reporting, moral panics and true crime genres.

What do you know? What are skills? Where are they going to take you? This module will help you to answer those questions by building on transferrable skills and encouraging you to reflect on your learning. In addition, you’ll learn about the UK job market, and how to negotiate a range of recruitment tasks including decoding job specifications, writing an application, interviews, psychometric tests and the use of AI. Combine these with your degree and graduate with confidence.

This module analyses sport media within contemporary culture, focusing on identity, inequality, power and global processes.

One 10-credit module from a list supplied by the Language Centre, levels dependent on candidates’ previous qualifications.  Languages offered are:  French, German, Mandarin Chinese, Spanish.

The module evaluates key theories in media and communication and analyses the relationship between media and socio-historical change.

This module introduces influential and acclaimed films from the 20th and 21st-century and explores how they earned their reputation by analysing their interface with, and impact on, wider social, political and historical developments in histories of media.

This module introduces students to the different theoretical perspectives underpinning the study of the media and global communication in the international environment.

This module introduces students to the study of social interaction in everyday and institutional settings including conversation analysis and discursive psychology.

One 10-credit module from a list supplied by the Language Centre, levels dependent on candidates’ previous qualifications.  Languages offered are:  French, German, Mandarin Chinese, Spanish.