This programme offers you an opportunity to study political communication in a comparative perspective. In particular, it enables you to analyse central theories about how political parties, the media, the public and journalists interact in various countries. It also examines how journalists react to particular challenges, such as the oppression in authoritarian regimes, war and acts of terrorism.
Content
Firstly, you take three compulsory courses
* Political institutions, crisis and communication
* Media and democracy
* Qualitative research methods or Social Science statistics 1.
You then choose three specialist courses from a range normally including
* Media in war and conflict resolution
* Internet and civil society
* The politics of international immigration
* The foreign policy of the United States
* Political data analysis
* International cooperation
* Theories of distributive justice
* Political legitimacy and post-modern governance.
You may also choose from approved courses in the Department of Sociology, Anthropology & Applied Social Sciences, the Centre for Development Studies, the Department of Theatre, Film & Television Studies and the School of Law.
The final component in the MSc programme is the completion of a dissertation of 12,000-15,000 words.