The Digital Media and Culture MA is aimed at students from a range of disciplinary backgrounds who want to learn more about the emerging field of digital culture and media. Although no specific background is required, your application must demonstrate an ability to work creatively and independently as well as an interest in contemporary developments in digital media and culture.

This degree equips you to follow a professional career in knowledge-based workplaces, whether businesses or charities/non-profits, museums or marketing agencies, new media production companies, editing and copywriting companies, or public relations firms and think-tanks. It also provides you with an excellent academic background to pursue issues in digital media at the doctoral level.

Recent MA in Digital Media and Culture graduates have gone on to pursue the following careers:

• Research Assistant, Leverhulme Centre for the Future of IntelligenceLink opens in a new window.
• Assistant Account Executive, EdelmanLink opens in a new window.
• Public Relations Intern, Nara CommunicationsLink opens in a new window.
• Lecturer, CU CoventryLink opens in a new window.
• Digital Product Manager, Cambridge University Press and AssessmentLink opens in a new window.
• Media Public Relations Specialist, BYDLink opens in a new window.
• User Experience Designer, FlexiSpotLink opens in a new window.

The MA in Digital Media and Culture includes two core modules and a dissertation project, and two or three option modules.

• Approaches to the Digital (IM902)Link opens in a new window
• Digital Objects, Digital Methods (IM904)Link opens in a new window
• Dissertation (IM906)Link opens in a new window

Please note that not all modules listed here will be available each year due to staff availability and student number uptake. Modules will also be updated annually. For further information, contact the Director of Taught Postgraduate Degrees, Michael Dieter: M.J.Dieter@warwick.ac.uk

• Media Activism (IM933)Link opens in a new window
• Visualisation Foundations (IM942)Link opens in a new window
• Fundamentals in Quantitative Research Methods (PO91Q)Link opens in a new window
• Ecological Futures: Transdiciplinary Approaches(IM934)Link opens in a new window
• Data Science Across Disciplines: Principles, Practice and Critique (IM939)Link opens in a new window
• Big data Research: Hype or Revolution?(IM952)Link opens in a new window
• User Interface Cultures: Design, Method and Critique (IM923)Link opens in a new window
• Urban Data (IM919)Link opens in a new window
• Scaling Data and Societies (IM950)Link opens in a new window
• Advanced Visualisation Design Labs* (IM946)Link opens in a new window
• Data Visualisation in Science, Culture and Public Policy (IM949)Link opens in a new window
• Interdisciplinary Approaches to Machine Learning (IM931)Link opens in a new window

All our modules offer European Credit Transfer System (ECTS) credits. Please see individual module pages for equivalence.

Optional modules from other departments may be considered as part of your degree programme. Should you wish to undertake an outside option, you will need to discuss this with your Masters Convenor.

DURATION

Full-time: 1 year

Part-time: 2 years

ENTRY REQUIREMENTS

2:i undergraduate degree (or equivalent).

ENGLISH LANGUAGE REQUIREMENTS

Band B

There may be the option to attend the Pre-Sessional English Programme prior to commencement of study. See the Pre-Sessional English Programme websiteLink opens in a new window for information, but note that CIM has the additional requirement of a minimum 6.0 in the IELTS writing component for acceptance through this programme.

2023/24 COURSE FEES

We consider all eligible applicants for bursaries and scholarship while funds are available, so do apply for the course as early as possible if you'd like to be considered.

PhD Funding is possible through a number of sources at Warwick.

Information on all funding sources available to CIM postgraduate candidates (Masters and Doctoral) is available hereLink opens in a new window.