Posted: 21 January 2011
Updated: 18 November 2011
Country: UK
The Media Diversity Institute is launching a one year Masters’ course in Media & Diversity in collaboration with the University of Westminster, UK. The course will start in September 2011 and there are still a few places available for graduate students. Students interested in joining this course should enrol now.
This highly innovative new course will give students the opportunity to study and research the main ways in which social scientists analyse the role of the mass media in the social construction, representation and understanding of difference and social diversity and get a critical understanding of the social and media structures and journalistic practices that impact upon these processes.
The course combines a portfolio of theory modules aimed to develop a knowledge and critical understanding of the processes of managing and making sense of cultural diversity, key issues in intercultural communication and of various aspects of the sociology of news with a number of practice-oriented modules intended to give the student first hand experience in the practice of inclusive journalism.
Drawing upon this unique combination of rigorous theoretical engagement and specialist practical training, this course is designed to equip students with a comprehensive conceptual/theoretical grounding and the practical skills to engage in responsible media coverage of diversity, to practice culturally informed and inclusive journalism and to develop a career (whether practical, strategic, or research-based) involving understanding and responding to the challenges of social diversity.
If you would like more information or to apply for the course please contact Dr Roza Tsagarousianou:tsagarr@westminster.ac.uk
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