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westminster.ac.uk/mad CONTENTS 1 If you want to give your inquisitiveness and Westminster School of Media, Arts and WELCOME imagination, your design ambitions and Design fosters the development of agile entrepreneurial aspirations, new energy, professional skills sets including critical and focus and application, we can offer you a creative thinking, effective communication, The creative sector is one of the most significant vibrant, diverse and committed community of teamwork and leadership, social and cultural growth engines for the UK economy and students, researchers, creative practitioners competencies for working in diverse global worldwide. In the UK it accounts for five per and alumni from across the world to interact contexts, and entrepreneurship. It encourages cent of the economy and contributes 8.8 with and to learn from. We have grown cross-disciplinary project work in the School per cent to the country’s service export. The an extensive network of creative industries and the University, international exchanges, creative economy provides jobs for 2.6 million collaborations and international partnerships life projects with industry and businesses, people, i.e. it provides one in 12 jobs in the to offer opportunities for inspirational project placements and internships. The knowledge, UK. The number of highly skilled versatile and work, placements, research and knowledge skills and experiences acquired during their enterprising professionals has increased four exchange, and study abroad, for the benefit of programme of study prepare our graduates to times faster than the UK workforce as a whole. all our students and our staff. go directly into employment; to set up their own The creative economy continues to grow not business; or to embark on a research degree. least due to technological advances, media Our industry-standard production and ‘Change your life today. Don’t gamble on the convergences and the emergence of new postproduction facilities in purpose-built studios future, act now, without delay’ (Simone de business models, service offers and professional and workshops stimulate creative experiences Beauvoir). Invest in your future and join us career paths. It has its biggest UK hub in and that closely match what you can expect to for a future oriented and well grounded, around London. encounter in professional environments. practice-led and research oriented, critical The tailored learning support services on and creative education. Westminster School of Media, Arts and Design our Harrow Campus include a completely plays a significant role in educating the next refurbished, well-stocked and spacious library generations of media professionals, filmmakers that is accessible 24/7. and photographers, fashion designers, music Professor Kerstin Mey performers and producers, artists and multi- Our campus in Harrow has undergone an Pro Vice-Chancellor and media communicators and professionals extensive programme of refurbishment and Dean, Westminster School for the creative industries. We pursue an modernisation, including the creation of of Media, Arts and Design integrated focus on professional practice and the Forum, a generous and fluid space for world-leading research with societal impact. informal exchange and learning, interactive Covering the intersection of media, creative presentations and performance that also practices, technology and industry with a contains dedicated project spaces and a new broad and diverse portfolio of taught and state-of-the-art gallery. A high spec music research programmes, the Faculty has proven performance space and a state of the art to successfully prepare its graduates to lead recording studio have recently been completed and shape the creative industries. In 2015, the alongside new studios for creative practice. QS Worldwide University Rankings has placed More is planned over for the next period to the research and courses in Media, Journalism enhance the learning and teaching facilities of and Communications at the University of one of Europe’s centres of excellence for higher Westminster among the top 35 globally. education in media and the creative arts. Business of Fashion recognised our fashion courses as highest global ranking programmes for its internship programme and resources and studios and amongst the best overall as well as in terms of teaching and career support. Photographers, filmmakers and artists have their work shown in prestigious cultural venues and events internationally. Fashion designers and visual communicators join global players in the film industry.

2 WELCOME westminster.ac.uk/mad westminster.ac.uk/mad WELCOME 3 In the 2014 REF our School’s Arts research CREAM embraces the work of leading artists, Both CREAM and CAMRI are imbued with a RESEARCH AT was assessed as 45 per cent World Leading, theorists and historians of art, including, we critical approach to artistic practice and media WESTMINSTER SCHOOL and 46 per cent Internationally Excellent, are proud to say, a number of the same people institutions. And both have a very international ranking it number three in the UK, and top in doing both. Its strengths include photography, – and non-western focus – with particular OF MEDIA, ARTS Arts research that embraces both practice and digital art and curation, experimental, strengths in Chinese, South Asian, Arab and theory. Our Media research was assessed as documentary and Asian film, and ceramics. African media. AND DESIGN 52 per cent World Leading and 35 per cent Internationally Excellent, ranking it number four CAMRI has a long tradition of analysing the Our two world-leading research groups, with in the country. political economy of communication, media over 60 active researchers and over 100 PhD Our faculty hosts some of the UK’s most highly policy, media history, media and social students overall, sustain our faculty’s vigorous rated research in both Arts and Media. Our high research reputation is based on the change and the social impact of new media and wide-ranging research culture, and nourish work of our two leading research groups – technologies. In recent years it has developed the full range of taught postgraduate courses Twice a decade all research groups in CREAM (Centre for Research and Education particular strength in the analysis of the social, you will find in this brochure. British universities are subject to a rigorous in Arts and Media) in the Arts and CAMRI political and economic impacts of social media. government sponsored evaluation and grading (Communication and Media Research Institute) – the Research Excellence Framework or REF. in Media.

4 RESEARCH westminster.ac.uk/mad westminster.ac.uk/mad RESEARCH 5 COMMUNICATION AND MEDIA RESEARCH INSTITUTE (CAMRI) CAMRI has been a leading centre of Media and Communications research in the UK for almost 30 years, with 30 researchers and 65 Doctoral students. In the most recent Research Excellence Framework (REF 2014) – the official exercise in which all research at every UK university is assessed – 52 per cent of our research was judged to be “world-leading” (the top rating, four star), with 87 per cent of the total rated “internationally excellent” (three star). The assessment of our impact on society and business was exceptional (87 per cent four star).

CAMRI is the UK’s most internationally oriented The Centre’s portfolio of research expertise centre for Media research, with a long tradition CENTRE FOR RESEARCH AND includes photography, documentary, of studying global and transnational media. EDUCATION IN ARTS AND experimental and South and Southeast Asian It hosts the China Media Centre, Arab Media film, digital art, ceramics and music. It is highly Centre and jointly with our Art and Design MEDIA (CREAM) international in its approach and, together with research group CREAM, both the India and CREAM is the UK’s top ranked centre for our media research group CAMRI, hosts the Arab Media Centres. research across Visual and Media Art and Indian and Africa Media Centres. Design as assessed by the UK’s 2014 Research The Institute regularly gains grants from Excellence Framework (REF), with 91 per cent Research in CREAM covers critical, research councils and charities. Subjects of our research rated as either “world-leading” theoretical and historical work on the arts of currently held grants include political or “internationally excellent”. and arts practice-based research, an area in activism, media ownership, social media, and which it was a pioneer, with a large number international television. Our research was also judged on its impact of our PhD students doing practice-based outside academia, to account for its measurable projects. Researchers work closely with the The Institute has also been at the forefront effects on culture, civic society, policy and University’s two gallery spaces, Ambika P3 of studying the social and economic impact the economy. The 2014 REF gave CREAM and London Gallery West, and the historic of new media technologies and recently an impact rating of 100 per cent, with all cinema. established the Centre for Social Media submitted research being judged as either Research. CAMRI hosts several international “world-leading” or “internationally excellent”. The Centre has also hosted several large research conferences. Recently covered topics Similarly 100 per cent of our research projects for the Arts and Humanities Research include Journalism and Protest, Social Media, environment (or ability to support and sustain Council (AHRC). These include Genocide and Soft Power – Perspectives from China and an institutional platform for research) was and Genre, which produced The Act of India. Alongside these important events, CAMRI rated as either “world-leading” or Killing, the BAFTA award-winning and Oscar- organises a fortnightly research seminar for “internationally excellent”. nominated documentary on the 1965 killings staff and PhD students with presentations by in Indonesia, and its award-winning follow-up visiting speakers. CREAM boasts over 30 researchers and The Look of Silence. Three of our most recent 60 PhD students, including internationally AHRC-funded projects are Screenplays, on renowned artists, filmmakers, photographers, the history of theatre productions on British theorists, critics and musicians who have television; Ceramics in the Expanded Field, on exhibited or performed at national and ceramics interventions in museums; and Digital international venues including: Tate Modern, Realism, visualising the social through digital Tate Britain, Tate Liverpool, the Victoria and art practice. Albert Museum, the Venice Biennale, the Istanbul Biennale, Documenta, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, Chicago’s Museum Above of Photography, and many other places. Clare Twomey, Manifest: ‘10,000 Hours’. 2015

6 RESEARCH westminster.ac.uk/camri westminster.ac.uk/cream RESEARCH 7 Photography Research Group and leads the Christian Fuchs Graham Meikle PROFESSORIAL TEAM Photography Arts MA course. He teaches Professor of Social Media Professor of Communication and practice and theory mainly to postgraduate Christian Fuchs’ fields of Digital Media students and supervises doctoral student work. expertise are social media, Graham Meikle joined the Steven Barnett He is also co-editor of the journal Photographies internet and society, political University of Westminster in Professor of Communications (Routledge) and was a co-founder of Accident economy of media and 2013, having previously taught Professor Steven Barnett is an and Five Years Gallery in London. communication, information at the University of Stirling established writer, author and society theory, social theory and in Scotland and Macquarie broadcaster on media and Christie Brown critical theory. He is the author of numerous University in Sydney, Australia. Graham’s most communications issues. He Professor of Ceramics publications in these fields, including the books: recent book is Social Media: Communication, specialises in media policy, Christie Brown is an artist, Internet and Society. Social Theory in the Sharing and Visibility, published by Routledge regulation, journalism, press researcher and Professor of Information Age (Routledge 2008), Foundations in February 2016. His current research projects ethics and political communication. He has Ceramics, who administrates of Critical Media and Information Studies include writing a book about the internet of acted several times as specialist adviser the Ceramics Research Centre (Routledge 2011), Digital Labour and Karl Marx things, and editing The Routledge Companion to the House of Lords Select Committee on (CRC-UK) and supervises (Routledge 2014), Social Media: A Critical to Media and Activism. Graham’s other books Communications and was called twice to give research students Centre Introduction (Sage 2014), OccupyMedia! The include: Media Convergence: Networked oral evidence to the Leveson inquiry. Over for Research in Education, Art and Media Occupy Movement and Social Media in Crisis Digital Media in Everyday Life (2012), co- the last 30 years, he has advised ministers (CREAM). She joined the University in 1993 Capitalism (Zero Books 2014) and Culture and written with Sherman Young; Future Active: and shadow ministers, given evidence to and taught for nearly twenty years on the Economy in the Age of Social Media (Routledge Media Activism and the Internet (2002); and parliamentary committees and the European Ceramics BA Honours course. She was 2015). He co-founded the ICTs and Society Interpreting News (2009). He has a PhD Parliament, and has directed numerous awarded the title of Professor in 2001 for her Network (icts-and-society.net) and is editor of the in Media and Communication; a Masters research projects on the structure, funding, international contribution to the discipline. journal /tripleC: Communication, Capitalism & in Media, Technology and Law, (both from and regulation of communications in the UK Professor Brown has exhibited her ceramic Critique/ (triple-c.at), an academic open access Macquarie University); and an MA (Hons) and other countries. He was for many years sculpture widely in the UK and abroad and her online journal that focuses on the critical study of in English Literature from the University of an Observer columnist and is the author or work is in several private and public collections the media and the Internet. Edinburgh. Graham is Course Leader of the co-author of numerous books, book chapters including the Victoria and Albert Museum UK MA in Social Media, Culture and Society. and articles. His most recent books are and the Mint Museum USA. Her most recent David Gauntlett The Rise and Fall of Television Journalism, solo exhibition, DreamWork (2012-3) was Professor of Creativity and Design Sarah Niblock published by Bloomsbury in 2011, and Media shown at the Freud Museum in London as David Gauntlett writes and Professor of Journalism Power and Plurality (co-editor) published by part of an AHRC-funded project Ceramics in teaches about the ways in which Sarah Niblock is a journalist, Palgrave Macmillan in 2015. He is on the the Expanded Field. Other major exhibitions digital media gives people broadcaster and author whose editorial and management boards of British include Marking The Line at the Sir John new opportunities to create scholarly research includes Journalism Review. Soane’s Museum (2013) and Ambika’s Dream and connect, and the social journalism studies, media and at Ambika P3 (2014). implications of this ‘everyday cultural studies, visual culture David Bate creativity’. He has also led the development of and musicology. She is co- Professor of Photography Hugo de Burgh new approaches to the study of media (‘Media author of Prince: The Making of a Pop Icon David Bate is an international Professor of Journalism Studies 2.0’) and pioneered the use of creative (Ashgate) and numerous other books, chapters photo-artist and writer. He Hugo de Burgh is Professor of research methods in social research. He is the and articles. Sarah’s work embraces reflexivity was awarded his Doctorate Journalism and Director of the author of several books, including: Creative and closing the theory/practice gap. She in the Fine Art Department China Media Centre. A pioneer Explorations (2007), Media Studies 2.0, and is a public speaker on popular culture, with at the University of Leeds in of the study of the Chinese Other Battles around the Future of Media appearances at the ICA, South Bank Centre, 1999 after taking an MA in media in Europe, for 15 years Research (2011), Making is Connecting (2011), Latitude Festival and is a frequent contributor to Social History of Art, and a BA Honours in he worked in British TV and is and Making Media Studies (2015). He has broadcast and online journalism in the UK and Film and Photographic Arts. His many writings, an authority on investigative journalism. His made several popular websites and YouTube internationally. She enjoys strong links with the exhibitions and publications include the books books and articles on China and its media videos, and has worked with a number of the Dart Centre for Journalism and Trauma, having Zone (London: Artwords, 2012), Photography: have been published widely. He is Professor, world’s leading creative organisations, including reported on major stories such as Hillsborough. Key Concepts (Berg: 2009) and Photography PRC 985 Programme, Tsinghua University, the BBC, the British Library, and Tate. For a She has supervised Doctorates to completion and Surrealism (I.B Tauris, 2004). Forthcoming and SAFEA (National Administration for decade he has worked with LEGO on innovation and assisted on others in the UK, Australia and works include a new edition of Photography: International Expertise) Endowment Professor in creativity, play and learning. Scandinavia. Sarah is on the editorial board of Key Concepts (Bloomsbury Press, 2016) and for 2014-16. four international peer reviewed journals. a monograph of his photographic works and writings in 2016. He currently directs the

8 PROFESSORIAL TEAM westminster.ac.uk/mad westminster.ac.uk/mad PROFESSORIAL TEAM 9 Kerstin Mey Naomi Sakr and the international television distributor HIT Mitra Tabrizian Pro Vice-Chancellor and Dean Professor of Media Policy Entertainment, she rejoined academia in 1993. Professor of Photography of Westminster School of Naomi Sakr is the author of Professor Steemers’ research interests include Mitra Tabrizian is a professor of photography, Media, Arts and Design; and Transformations in Egyptian the audiovisual sector, the global children’s teaches practice and theory mainly to Professor of Contemporary Art Journalism (2013), Arab audiovisual industry, international distribution, postgraduate students and supervises practice- and Theory Television Today (2007) and public service media and the impact of new based PhD. Subjects range from rereading Kerstin Mey has held academic Satellite Realms: Transnational technologies on the audiovisual sector. Her work hybridity in contemporary photographic practice positions in universities in Television, Globalization and has been funded by the Arts and Humanities to rethinking documentary photography. Germany and the UK before joining the University the Middle East (2001). She has edited two Research Council (AHRC), the Leverhulme Professor Tabrizian has published and exhibited of Westminster as Dean of Westminster School of collections, Women and Media in the Middle Trust and the British Academy. Selected book widely, in major international museums and Media, Arts and Design in 2013. She studied for East: Power through Self-Expression (2004) and publications include Selling Television: British galleries including her solo exhibition at Tate an MA in Art and German Language and Arab Media and Political Renewal: Community, Television in Global Marketplace (2004), Britain in 2008 and participating in Venice Literature, and a PhD in Art Theory/Aesthetics at Legitimacy and Public Life (2007), and co-edited Creating Preschool Television (2010), Regaining Biennial (Iranian Pavilion), 2015. Her most Humboldt University Berlin, Germany. Her a third, Arab Media Moguls (2015). Her research the Initiative for Public Service Media (2012), The recent photographic book Another Country text-based and curatorial inquiries are concerned interests are in in the areas of media policy, Media and the State (2015 – with T Flew and P. (Hatje Cantz 2012) with a forward by Homi with the situatedness of 20th century and human rights, journalism and cultural production in Iosifidis), and European Media in Crisis (2015 Bhabha (Harvard), is concerned with what we contemporary art practices, and the ‘making of the Arab world, including children’s screen media. with J. Trappel and B. Thomass). might call the ‘crisis of contemporary culture’ knowledge’ in relation to art research, Naomi has been commissioned to write reports for both in the West and East. Her photographic technological advances and embodied international bodies including UNESCO, the UN Jonathan Stockdale and film works are represented in major experience. She is a member of the Austrian Development Programme (UNDP), UNDP Regional Professor of Music public collections. She has received several Science Board; on the Executive of CHEAD Bureau of Arab States, Anna Lindh Foundation Jonathan is Professor of Music photographic and film awards, including AHRB (Council for Higher Education of Art and Design); and European Parliament. She is a former director and Associate Dean with (Arts and Humanities Research Board) Innovation a member of the Supervisory Board of the of the CAMRI Arab Media Centre. overarching responsibility for Awards for the film The Predator (28 minutes, 35 European Centre for Press and Media Freedom; postgraduate programmes mm print, 2004) and the Royal Academy Rose and is a fellow of the RSA and of the Leadership Jean Seaton within the School. He trained Award for photography, 2013. Foundation for Higher Education. Professor of Media History initially as a performer working Professor Jean Seaton has across jazz, popular and contemporary genres, Joram ten Brink Edmond Prakash written about the media and and then specialised in electro-acoustic and Professor of Film Professor in Computer Games Technology wars, politics, journalism and computer music composition leading to the Professor Joram ten Brink Professor Edmond Prakash is the Head of disasters, as well as children. award of a DPhil in 1988 from the University is Academic Director at Creative Technologies at Westminster School of Her classic Power Without of York, UK. He has led the development of the International Centre of Media, Arts and Design. Prior to that he was Responsibility (with James ground-breaking courses in jazz and popular Documentary and Experimental Professor in Computer Games Technology at Curran) was published in a seventh edition in music in the UK, and held various high level Film at the University of Bournemouth University, and 2009; Carnage and the Media: The Making positions in Universities and Colleges in the Westminster. He has worked Department of Computer Science and and Breaking of News about Violence was UK and Australia including Associate Dean at as a director, writer and producer of film and Technology at the University of Bedfordshire. He published by Penguin (2005). She is the the Victorian College of the Arts, University of TV in the UK, Holland, Israel, Austria and has also held positions at Manchester Director of the Orwell Prize for political writing Melbourne, and Principal of the Royal Northern other European countries. His films and videos Metropolitan University, United Kingdom; and journalism, and is writing the official College of Music. As well as extensive have been shown internationally on broadcast Nanyang Technological University, Singapore history of the BBC. She broadcasts frequently performance and compositional output, his television and at major film festivals, film venues and Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India. and launched the new BBC History website. recent research is mostly practice-led and and galleries, including MOMA, The German He has also held visiting positions at the She has recently written for , The concerned with improvisation, representation Cinematheque, The Dutch National Film Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Cali, Times and Prospect. and audience (AHRC/Cheltenham Festival Archive and Image Forum, Tokyo. Professor Colombia; State University of New York-Stony 2015), but also interdisciplinary, and critical ten Brink is the director of AHRC Arts on Film Brook, USA; University of Illinois at Urbana Jeanette Steemers in nature considering the representation of Archive. Joram edited Building Bridges – the Champaign, USA; and Beijing Normal Professor of Media objects and space through sound in film. cinema of Jean Rouch for Wallflower Press in University, China. Edmond has over 150 and Communications Jonathan has undertaken academic work and 2007. His most recent co-edited book, Killer publications in journals, conferences and Professor Jeanette Steemers consultancy in the UK, The Netherlands, Hong Images – Documentary Film, Memory and the monographs. He has also published five books. is a graduate in German and Kong, Singapore, Australia and New Zealand, Performance of Violence was published by His research interests are in Games Technology, Russian from the University of and held Director roles with Conservatoires UK, Wallflower Press (2012). He is a Producer and Games AI, Mobile Games, Mobile Apps, Facial Bath and completed her PhD on and the Associated Board of the Royal Schools Executive producer of the BAFTA winning film Animation, Visual Computing, Volume public service broadcasting in of Music. and Oscar-nominated film The Act of Killing. Visualisation, Cloud Computing and High West Germany in 1990. After working for the He is also an associate producer of Oscar Performance Computing. international research company CIT Research nominated film The Look of Silence (2014).

10 PROFESSORIAL TEAM westminster.ac.uk/mad westminster.ac.uk/mad PROFESSORIAL TEAM 11 Rosie Thomas in-Chief of the new Sage journal Global Media Professor of Film and China, published in collaboration with Rosie is the director of the Communication University of China. His latest Centre for Research and book (with Kaarle Nordenstreng) is a co-edited Education in Arts and Media collection of essays on the media in the BRICS and co-director of the India countries, Mapping BRICS Media, published by Media Centre. She is a Routledge in 2015. In 2014, he was honoured pioneer of the academic with a ‘Distinguished Scholar Award’ by the study of popular Indian cinema, establishing International Studies Association. an international reputation following the publication of her first ground-breaking article Gillian Youngs on Hindi cinema in Screen in 1985. Since Professor of Creative and then she has written widely on Indian cinema, Digital Economy contributing to numerous books and journals. Gillian Youngs has been Rosie has also worked as an independent researching diverse aspects television producer, making documentaries, of the internet’s impact on arts and current affairs programmes for society and economy for more Channel Four in the 1980s and 1990s. She than 15 years and has had a is co-founder and co-editor of the international portfolio career in journalism and independent Sage journal BioScopes: South Asian Screen communications consultancy. She is an applied Studies, a forum for new research on the theorist actively engaged with business and history and theory of South Asian film, screen- policy sectors, including through the Knowledge based arts and new media screen cultures. Transfer Network of the UK’s innovation agency Her monograph Bombay Before Bollywood: Innovate UK. Her work has been supported Film City Fantasies was published in 2013 by by funding from the ESRC, AHRC and British Orient Blackswan and republished in 2015 by Academy, and she is currently focused on SUNY Press. the role of creative arts and design as drivers of innovation in the next stages of the digital Daya Thussu economy, linked to internet of things and big Professor of International data. Alongside chapters and major journal Communication articles, her books include Global Political Daya Thussu is Professor of Economy in the Information Age: Power and International Communication Inequality (Routledge, 2007) and the edited and founder and Co-Director volume Digital World: Connectivity, Creativity of India Media Centre and and Rights (Routledge, 2013). She has given research advisor to the invited keynote and guest papers internationally China Media Centre. Author or editor of in the US, China, South Korea, Turkey, Hungary, 17 books, among his key publications are: Germany, Belgium, Holland, Spain, Austria, Communicating India’s Soft Power: Buddha Tanzania, and presented more than 100 to Bollywood (Palgrave, 2013, a South Asian conference and workshop papers at national edition published by Sage India, 2016); and international conferences. Her presentations Media and Terrorism: Global Perspectives feature on YouTube and other online platforms. (co-edited with Des Freedman, Sage, 2012); Internationalizing Media Studies (Routledge, 2009); News as Entertainment: The Rise of Global Infotainment (Sage, 2007); Media on the Move: Global Flow and Contra- Flow (Routledge, 2007); International Communication – Continuity and Change, third edition (Bloomsbury, forthcoming); and Electronic Empires – Global Media and Local Resistance (Arnold, 1998). He is the founder and Managing Editor of the Sage journal Global Media and Communication and Editor-

12 PROFESSORIAL TEAM westminster.ac.uk/mad westminster.ac.uk/mad PROFESSORIAL TEAM 13 POSTGRADUATECENTRE FOR COURSES CREATIVE IN POLITICS ANDINDUSTRIES INTERNATIONAL MANAGEMENT RELATIONS

Across the world, creative industries Based in London, one of the world’s are drivers of economic growth and main hubs for culture and creative are central to the cultural lives of practice, the Centre and its constituent both nations and the wider global courses work with leading professionals community. Westminster has led the and organisations from across industry way in the development of courses to cultivate new talent and foster devoted to training the next generation original, innovative thinking. It benefits of creative industry managers and from being able to draw upon the entrepreneurs, whilst simultaneously skills and expertise of colleagues and cultivating their critical understanding of students from across the School and the the fields in which they work. wider University and its links to London’s vibrant creative community. The new Centre for Creative Industries Management (CCIM) brings together our successful Masters courses in Media, Fashion and Music Business Management, delivering and contributing to programmes in the UK, Italy and China. Its purpose is to continue Westminster’s record of excellence, not only in teaching but also in research and knowledge transfer.

westminster.ac.uk/mad CENTRE FOR CREATIVE INDUSTRIES MANAGEMENT 15 COURSE CONTENT This module will acknowledge the challenge FASHION BUSINESS of managing creative individuals in the fashion MANAGEMENT MA This course equips you for a business business and managing diversity and conflict management career in the domestic or which may arise. Through case studies and in international fashion industry. Delivered by a class group work you will examine issues and teaching team with a wide range of experience challenges inherent in recruitment, placement both in industry and academia, the course Length of course and retention of creative teams and the offers an innovative and relevant fashion One year full-time growth and compensation via human business curriculum that focuses on preparing resource management. your entry into senior roles in business and Location management within the industry. Harrow and central London As organisations evolve globally, leaders face new opportunities, risks and demands that Course fees and funding challenge and stretch their abilities in the See westminster.ac.uk/fees SEMESTER ONE context of leading, managing and communicating CORE MODULES with people of different cultures and More course information management structures as well. Leadership See westminster.ac.uk/fashion Fashion Business and Supply in a diverse and multicultural environment Chain Management provides a culturally- centred perspective The fashion business dynamics and its fast- that allows organisational leaders the This course will equip you with the strategic shifting product sourcing require an adaptable opportunity to attend to the influence of culture. decision-making, leadership and problem- attitude to spot business opportunities This module will help you find examples of how solving skills you will need to become an emerging around the world. Building profitable multicultural awareness can make your entrepreneurial and visionary fashion business relationships with partners and suppliers and leadership task easier and promotes an leader of the future. It continues the University’s balancing costs and risks are key challenges. organisational culture that is more satisfying to fashion tradition of a commitment to excellence both individuals and their leaders by embracing in developing highly effective, talented and To transform an idea into a commercial product and celebrating differences. committed professional fashion graduates. involves a complex route: this module is designed to provide an overall understanding Strategic Fashion Business Management Working closely with fashion industry of how to manage a fashion business from The module covers the theories, models, professionals, role models and mentors, you concept to customer. It will explore a variety tools and methodologies used in the field of will receive a relevant, well-grounded, high- of perspectives on global product sourcing strategic management specifically within the quality education and skill base that will enable and global supply chain issues with the aim of fashion business. you to have a wider, clearer understanding preparing you for the challenges of developing of the business you are already involved in. and maximising a strategy whilst still It aims to enhance your ability to play an The course offers inside knowledge of industry responding efficiently and effectively to constant effective role in developing, implementing strategies and cultures on a global basis, changes in consumer demand. and monitoring strategy within a business in combined with key business skills and essential the fashion or fashion-related industries. The fashion industry management knowledge. Creative Team Building module especially aims to help you develop This course aims to provide you with a a critical awareness of the management of thorough grounding in the theory and practice creativity and design within a global context. of managing creative people in organisations, Fashion enterprises at every level inherently at both strategic and operational levels. It also enjoy advantages as well as face the aims to develop an awareness of the major vulnerabilities of the market conditions. This practical and theoretical dilemmas among unit opens windows into strategic and creative individuals, groups and organisations, and to thinking, analytical evaluation, and business place managerial practices into an historical strategy development as well as the decision- and international perspective, highlighting making process. The business environment is both traditional and emerging issues and constantly changing and this affects the market their importance to develop a sustainable condition, business structure, strategy and style. competitive advantage.

16 FASHION BUSINESS MANAGEMENT MA westminster.ac.uk/mad westminster.ac.uk/mad FASHION BUSINESS MANAGEMENT MA 17 SEMESTER TWO The module also aims to help you effectively develop and overcome challenges in the CORE MODULES marketing environment in order to successfully Finance and Entrepreneurship understand how to penetrate new markets The Finance and Entrepreneurship module and manage brands in order to balance a combines theory and practical knowledge of competitive advantage with profitability in the finance in the fashion industry. It also provides fashion business. a practical, real-world approach that presents the common financial problems (and solutions) This module will include: entrepreneurs often face especially in the • an understanding of the global fashion world. fashion market • the global marketing mix With the increasingly critical role played by • the consumer finance and financial management in the • how to make appropriate product success of global business, a solid grounding adaptations to meet consumer demands in the principles and techniques of finance • developing the strategies to protect is essential for a successful business venture. and ensure effective intellectual property The module is designed to develop your protection for a brand understanding of the core financial aspects of business as well as entrepreneurship through • ensuring and effectively developing and the preparation, interpretation, use and analysis overcoming the challenges to successfully of strategic financial information in the context understand how to penetrate the market in order to balance a competitive advantage of an understanding of the strategic need for This module looks at how a fashion business with profitability in the global fashion market. INDUSTRY LINKS the survival of global business. can successfully innovate and how the changes need to be managed to be successful. This The idea of a Fashion Business Management Managing Change and Innovation This module represents a mixture of financial module will be discovering and then analysing MA was formulated in discussion with industry One of the fundamental elements of the Fashion and management accounting, corporate the theory and practice of the management of leaders. Building on the success of our industry is that it is producing something new finance and risk management. The principles change and innovation. Fashion Merchandise Management course and concepts underlying each of these subject every season or is reinventing itself. This is and, in particular, the close collaboration with clearly evident in the constant change in the areas are examined with particular emphasis Major Fashion Business Management Project industry we spoke extensively to senior fashion products produced. Change in the processes and being placed upon their practical application The Fashion Business Management Project executives. Many felt that although doing an organisation of the industry are also constantly in the international fashion industry. builds on the skills and experience derived from MA in Fashion Business Management would occurring – they are less evident but are the previous modules. You will be provided with not ensure promotion, potential candidates equally important. Fashion Marketing and Brand Management the opportunity to apply all of the knowledge who learn how to apply the knowledge they With the competition in the fashion business gained during the programme into a major gain from the course can become leaders who Globalisation of the industry and significant at its fiercest, it is imperative that companies project to address fashion business issues can inspire others. Those candidates need technological advances has led to an increased understand and develop successful and and challenges while adding to the body of to understand the values and culture of the variety and velocity of change much greater effective marketing strategies for product professional practice and theoretical literature. industry and, most importantly, recognise the development and brands for the mass market than in the past. difference between information and knowledge as well as the luxury goods market. Supervised by a faculty member in collaboration and have clearly defined goals. Managers in the industry today need to be with yourself and a potential fashion industry alert to these changes and know how to This module will stimulate critical and intellectual representative, the Fashion Business Management This support from the industry is important manage them. These changes can be initiated skills and allow you to explore the challenges Project is recognised by graduates as one of both for you as a student and to the future by new product or process innovations or can of developing fashion marketing strategy, to the most rewarding and empowering development and relevance of the MA. be forced upon the industry by external factors. include an understanding of the fashion market, experiences of the entire programme. We will continue to foster and maintain these the marketing mix, the consumer, how to make The effective management of any type of important links with the fashion industry, and appropriate product adaptations to meet change is essential for a business to survive ensure that our Fashion Business Management consumer demands, developing strategy to and requires deep understanding of the impact MA stays at the forefront of education for the protect and ensure effective intellectual change can have on the people and processes future leaders in the fashion industry. We will property protection for a brand. within the business. also continue to invite many prestigious and eminent guest speakers from the industry to participate on all the modules, ensuring that the course remains relevant, informed and up- to-date with current industry practice.

18 FASHION BUSINESS MANAGEMENT MA westminster.ac.uk/mad westminster.ac.uk/mad FASHION BUSINESS MANAGEMENT MA 19 ASSOCIATED CAREERS Virginia Grose Course leader The course is designed to attract applicants Originally trained as a fashion with a recognised design, retail management or designer, Virginia has worked in distribution/manufacturing background. With the fashion industry for over 25 guidance from the academics and professionals years. Most of her experience is in this field it is anticipated that you will go on in the supply chain and product to enter senior management positions and move development sectors. up the career ladder. During her career, she has worked closely with Our alumni can be found working clothing, yarn and textile manufacturers all over in senior positions all over the world in many the world including China, Sri Lanka, North fashion roles and include such well-known Africa, Italy, the Philippines as well as in the brands such as Aldo, Dior, Dunhill, Harrods, UK. Virginia gained much of her professional Hermes, Louis Vuitton, Marks and Spencer, experience with Courtaulds Textiles PLC, who Nordstrom, Prada and many more. supplied several major UK and international retailers, and has worked with a wide range of Several of our alumni have also gone on to international clients such as Marks & Spencer study at PhD level and to further academic and Wal-Mart. Virginia managed many research. Others have set up their own business design teams in a variety of product areas and or successfully taken over a family run business. was part of the senior management team at Courtaulds. She has also provided consultancy services to several luxury international ENTRY REQUIREMENTS cashmere knitwear brands. Virginia has been a visiting lecturer at the American Intercontinental Entry to the course is based on a combination University, London College of Fashion and at of formal qualifications and significant industry University. She has also been an experience. You should have a First or Upper external adviser to the University of Liverpool and Second Class Honours in your first degree in ‘Domus Academy’, Milan on the collaborative any subject, as well as a minimum of two years’ Fashion Management Programme MA. working experience in the fashion business or marketing. If English is your second language In addition to her role as Course Leader at the you should have an IELTS score of 6.5 with 6.0 University of Westminster, Virginia continues in each element. her consultancy work with several premium knitwear brands, and remains a non-executive director for a Chinese knitwear manufacturer. Virginia gained her BA (Honours) degree in Fashion and Textiles from Manchester Metropolitan University. She studied for her MBA at Stirling University, Scotland, by distance learning, specialising in international retailing and marketing for major fashion retailers. Virginia is currently working on her MA in Higher Education and towards her PhD topic proposal, which has the working title - Made in the UK, this is via her research interests within the industry. Her first book, The Basics of Fashion Business Volume One – Concept to Customer (2011), is published by AVA Publishing. She is a member of the UKFT Rise committee which focuses on fashion start up and brands under ten years old.

20 FASHION BUSINESS MANAGEMENT MA westminster.ac.uk/mad westminster.ac.uk/mad FASHION BUSINESS MANAGEMENT MA 21 taught alongside a suite of Masters courses Media Work Experience INTERNATIONAL in Westminster’s highly successful Centre for As London is the media capital of Europe, MEDIA BUSINESS MA Creative Industries Management. there is a great opportunity for you to take work experience as a part of the course. This could be in long established companies or CORE MODULES start-ups. While the course team and work Length of course experience unit will advise you on placements, Media Business Dissertation One year full-time it is your responsibility to actively pursue work A taught module and group workshops in the placement opportunities. Our students have Location first semester guides you in conducting a major secured work placements at media companies piece of independent research which could be Harrow including: the BBC, Universal Music, Blue either practical or academic in focus. In the Rubicon PR, Kameleon Brand Engagement, Course fees and funding second semester you will receive individual and Paul Smith Fashion. tuition in how to develop your research questions, See westminster.ac.uk/fees collect and analyse data. The dissertation is a More course information 15,000-word piece of original research on a topic agreed with your supervisor and related OPTION MODULES See westminster.ac.uk/journalism to the business, economic, political or cultural You will take one option module in the first and factors shaping the performance and practices one in the second semester. The following of media businesses. The course is designed for recent graduates provides an overview of current option modules. seeking a career in traditional and new media At the time of publication all option modules Media Business Strategy organisations. It provides a combination of were under review, please refer to our website This module integrates Business Strategy and business and media skills designed to equip for up-to-date information. Planning. You will conduct case study analysis you to take up an entry-level position in today’s of a media company facing major environmental media organisations. changes, you will learn how to produce a SEMESTER ONE competitive analysis of a media organisation You will learn how media organisations are and present strategy recommendations to OPTION MODULES engaging with the challenges resulting from faculty. In teams, you will learn how to develop the emergence of digital media technologies Global Media a new media business idea, write a business and and platforms. The course introduces you to This module examines key developments in financial plan and present this to a panel the processes by which media organisations the media and communications industries of industry experts and media investors. develop their corporate strategies, business associated with the logic of globalisation. plans, marketing and production operations You will explore the complex nature of the Media Markets as they respond to radical change in the globalisation process, focusing on the emergence This module introduces the economics of the commercial environment. of both supra-national and sub-national media and content industries, including developments, and explore the relationship broadcasting, print, film, recorded music and The course is designed to enable you to find between new contexts of production and interactive media. You will learn how to research and take up work placements and internships questions of collective culture and identity. and produce a market report examining the at media organisations in London during the revenue and cost structures of these industries, course of your studies. Our students have Media Operations and the economics of key processes of successfully completed internships at TV (Recommended Option Semester One) production, distribution and consumption. You production companies like the BBC, technology This module addresses the operational will also learn to use tools enabling decision- companies like Google, as well as many other challenges involved in the management of making based on quantitative market data. multimedia, advertising and news organisations media companies. You will analyse the in London. Some have successfully started their structures and managerial practices of media Media Production Skills own businesses in the UK. organisations and the design and management This module enables you to develop your practical of digital supply chains. You will develop and critical understanding of how media content Whether you are planning a career in a media transferable skills in content development and is created and distributed. You will develop and organisation or seeking to create your own multiplatform media project planning. Other improve your newswriting techniques for different new business start up, the MA International topics covered include analysing audiences; media platforms; learn how to develop research Media Business aims to provide the analytical content creation and creativity; performance and write your own professional blog; design a insight, operational knowledge and planning management; digital media supply chains; website in teams using individual and team skills you will need to prosper. The course is planning digital media workflows. working skills; acquire a knowledge of ethical considerations faced by journalists.

22 INTERNATIONAL MEDIA BUSINESS MA westminster.ac.uk/mad westminster.ac.uk/mad INTERNATIONAL MEDIA BUSINESS MA 23 Political Analysis of Communications Policy from the Anglo-American, which has often been communications and foster relationship building. and technology and implications for market As international regimes and national touted as a model of universal applicability. However, public relations is only just beginning structures and business models, as appropriate. regulation become increasingly important in the to recognise the value of these platforms and creation and delivery of communications, it Corporate Communications incorporate them into communications strategies. Please note some modules are limited in number. becomes necessary to understand how the two How do organisations manage their reputation This course is intended to help you understand levels interact. This module will introduce you to even when in a crisis? These are some of the the new media toolkit and how it can be used those theories of policy making and questions which you will address in this module. for PR purposes. You will also look at the ASSOCIATED CAREERS international relations which provide tools for You will learn how to analyse stakeholders and potential of new media metrics for evaluating the analysis of communications policies, and prepare a communications strategy. campaigns and demonstrating value. The course Most graduates of the course find work in the their dynamic interaction at the national and is taught through a series of workshops and media industries soon after graduation. Some international level. Consumer PR practical exercise. start at an entry level while others have used This module is designed to equip students their knowledge and work experience to rise Study Skills with some of the necessary practice skills Marketing, Creativity and Innovation quickly to a more senior level. A smaller number This module can be taken in addition to the required to gain entry into the expanding This module focuses on creativity and of graduates have started their own media option module. It is designed for students whose employment market. The module content innovation in marketing and their impact businesses or worked in non-media businesses. first language is not English, or who have no explores the role and practices of PR within on increasing the competitive edge of experience of the UK education system. It is political, corporate and advertising context. organisations (across all sectors). The module intended to help you to produce written work in The aim is to enable students to critically explores the complexity of the creative process ENTRY REQUIREMENTS accordance with current UK academic standards analyse issues such as rise of the global brand, and innovation at the individual, group and and practices. You will be taken through the magnification of the media, the growing role organisational levels and helps students You should possess, or be expecting, a good first process of producing a piece of written work, of lifestyle and social marketing. develop the competencies of a creative/ degree (equivalent to at least an Upper Second from note taking to editing and referencing. innovative manager. Class Honours) or equivalent; or have relevant Fashion Marketing and Brand Management professional experience. If English is your Technology and Communications Policy This module will stimulate critical and Music Marketing Management second language you should have an IELTS This module will introduce you to a range intellectual skills and allow you to explore the Marketing and promotion is essential to score of 7.0 with 6.0 in each element. of broadcasting and telecommunications challenges of developing fashion marketing the music industry; it sells tickets, recorded technologies, enabling you to assess the strategy, to include an understanding of music services and products, and is a economic and political issues surrounding the fashion market, the marketing mix, the fundamental tool for developing talent. RELATED COURSES each technology. Topics covered include consumer, how to make appropriate product Through this module you will explore a variety • Communication MA capital investment in networks, how and why adaptations to meet consumer demands, of perspectives on marketing management technologies change, strategic interests and developing strategy to protect and ensure issues including the challenges of developing • Communications Policy MA communications, and substitutable technologies effective intellectual property protection for the artist and their music, identifying potential • Diversity and the Media MA and the creation of markets. a brand. consumers and fans, marketing and promoting • Global Media MA music-related services and products through • Media and Development MA The module also aims to help you effectively various media channels including social • Media Management MA SEMESTER TWO develop and overcome challenges in the media. You will focus on expanding an • Multimedia Journalism – Broadcast, or Print marketing environment in order to successfully understanding of how music marketing and and Online MA/Postgraduate Diploma OPTION MODULES understand how to penetrate new markets promotion fits into the contemporary music • Public Relations MA and manage brands in order to balance a industry through the study of best practice, Students choose from a range of options across • Social Media, Culture and Society MA the school including the following: competitive advantage with profitability in the concepts and theories that inform how industry fashion business. professionals operate. Chinese Media Paul Dwyer Fashion PR Policies for Digital Convergence This module is for you if you have little or Course Leader From luxury brands to the high street, the The module studies digital convergence and the no knowledge of the Chinese media, but Paul is Course Leader of the International world of fashion relies on promotion and role of policy and regulation in facilitating and nevertheless realise that for anyone interested Media Business MA and Director of Academic public relations. This module gives you an controlling that process. The focus is on internet- in the media in the world today, some Enterprise at Westminster School of Media, Arts opportunity to take a backstage tour of the related policy debates and concepts drawing understanding of the biggest national media and Design. His research publications cover fashion industry and design a campaign for mostly on developments in the USA, the system is a necessity. The objective is to media production, social media, creativity and a leading fashion brand. European Union and the UK, but with a critical introduce participants to the Chinese media, digitisation. Previously he was BBC Head of awareness of the issues facing developing, in the context of a world order changing on Development for Documentary and Specialist PR and New media transitional and small countries. account of the growth in wealth and power Factual Television and an award-winning Many commentators argue that digital and social of several countries, in particular China. The director and producer of drama-documentaries, media are the natural tools for public relations It critically assesses competing arguments Chinese media are seen as a factor in this, and current affairs and news. also as an example of a media system distinct practitioners because they facilitate two-way concerning the interplay between policy

24 INTERNATIONAL MEDIA BUSINESS MA westminster.ac.uk/mad westminster.ac.uk/mad INTERNATIONAL MEDIA BUSINESS MA 25 MEDIA MANAGEMENT MA

Length of course One year full-time or two years part-time

Location Harrow

Course fees and funding See westminster.ac.uk/fees

More course information See westminster.ac.uk/journalism

Media professionals and media firms are united in their need to acquire the commercial, strategic and managerial skills to prosper in an industry undergoing constant fundamental change. This course is designed to address these needs, developing entrepreneurial leaders equipped to deal with the complex and novel challenges presented by new technologies, consumer behaviour, and evolving business models.

The course will enable you to identify and analyse strategic and operational problems and opportunities, understand, quantify and access national and international media markets, and use foresight and planning techniques to understand and respond to change. As well as being able to manage complex media projects, you will also have the skills to engage in strategic direction setting, COURSE CONTENT CORE MODULES deploy business-planning skills and excel in leadership and implementation. The course provides a rounded suite of Dissertation managerial and commercial skills, rooted in The course culminates with a major research- The course is delivered by academic staff a critical understanding of today’s media and based project. You will take a research and with lengthy experience of advising and content industries, building on our role as a methods course designed to introduce you managing media organisations. Teaching leader in UK media research. Practice-based to the key tools for collecting and analysing methods are based around practical problems assignments, such as the integrating business- evidence. Group work in Semester One orients and include in-class exercises and individual planning project, play an essential role in you towards identifying and refining your and group projects and assessment. enabling you to apply ideas and learning in individual research topic, which must be Assignments will enable you to develop and a creative fashion. The course consists of eight specific to the Media Management MA. apply your skills in creative project development credit-bearing modules and an additional key Topics must be related to the strategic and and business planning. skills module which includes the use of commercial challenges faced by media quantitative methods and software tools. businesses. You will be encouraged to focus your research upon the challenges and opportunities confronting a specific media firm or group of media organisations.

26 MEDIA MANAGEMENT MA westminster.ac.uk/mad westminster.ac.uk/mad MEDIA MANAGEMENT MA 27 Media Management: Strategy, Context and Tools This module provides an overview of the course and the strategic and operational disciplines required for modern media executives. It also introduces you to a number of conceptual tools that you will use throughout the course. The module analyses key drivers for change within media industries and the context for managerial decision-making. You will also acquire important skills in report-writing and professional presentation technique.

Media Markets This module will introduce you to the economics of the media and content industries, including broadcasting, print, film, recorded music and interactive forms. You will examine the revenue and cost structures of these industries, and the economics of the key processes of production, Strategy Implementation in the Media Firm distribution and consumption. The module The module addresses the key challenges facing provides tools enabling decision-making based media organisations as they attempt to manage on market data. a period of unprecedented, radical change. ASSOCIATED CAREERS ENTRY REQUIREMENTS The course builds on the work done in Media Graduates of the course are working in You will typically have a good Honours degree Media Operations and Organisation Management and Strategy, and Media mid-level and senior positions in analysis and (Upper Second Class or equivalent) in a The module addresses the fundamental Operations and Organisation to address the consultancy, business development, content relevant discipline and significant relevant challenges involved in organising and practical questions of how to implement distribution and creative team leadership. professional experience. You will generally be managing the operation of media companies. changes to the way media organisations and They occupy managerial roles within media expected to have at least a year’s experience of It examines the degree to which it is possible to media professionals actually work. organisations, project management, regulation working in an editorial, creative or business apply conventional management techniques for and policy and strategy analysis. function. If English is your second language you achieving efficiency and quality in the creative The International Media Firm in Transition should have an IELTS score of 6.5 with 6.0 in and editorial processes of media organisations. How have media firms around the world dealt Graduates from the Media Management MA each element. In particular the module focuses on how with the task of synthesising commercial and have found roles in a wide variety of media digitisation and convergence are changing the strategic solutions to the challenges they face? organisations including: CCTV, Hunan Television, methods of managing those processes. This module examines the ways in which private State Administration of Radio Film and Television Charles Brown and public media organisations are changing. (China), the BBC, eBay, Screen Digest (UK) Course Leader Responding to a Changing Media Environment It will highlight key topical issues such as the Deutsche Telekom (Germany) NTV (Russia) Charles has a background in You will acquire the skills and knowledge to challenge of piracy and file sharing, the switch MBC (South Korea) NDTV, Hindustan Times journalism, media consulting transform the information and insight gained to on-demand, and the impact of globalisation. (India) Welhoo (Finland) and Globo TV (Brazil). and management of digital through analysis into strategic recommendations The module combines methods derived from development companies. He and proposals for commercial initiatives. The foresight studies with your own directed Success in their Masters has allowed many to has advised some of the world’s module introduces a range of theoretical and research to engage with concrete problems move into more senior roles within the leading media companies practical tools and techniques enabling you to facing international media organisations. businesses they have been working in, to and is the President of the European Media formulate solutions to problems and apply them transfer to new sectors of the media, or set up Management Education Association. in a practical and realistic fashion. The module their own businesses. explores structured innovation techniques, the Charles leads modules dealing with strategic marketing and branding of media products and analysis (Media Management: Strategy, services, as well as business planning. Context and Tools), strategic foresight (the International Media Firm in Transition) and strategy formation, innovation and business planning (Responding to a Changing Media Environment). He also teaches undergraduate students and is joint leader of the core first year module Story, Sound, Image, Text.

28 MEDIA MANAGEMENT MA westminster.ac.uk/mad westminster.ac.uk/mad MEDIA MANAGEMENT MA 29 COURSE CONTENT We welcome applications from individuals MENSWEAR MA who have either a First or Upper Second Class The taught project-based curriculum will Honours degree in fashion, textiles or design- progressively develop students’ confidence related subject areas, or the professional in an interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary experience that demonstrates an equivalent Length of course context that encourages imaginative, practical knowledge and commitment to study for an Two years and theoretical knowledge to the highest level Honours degree. of strategic and tactical competence. Location Selection for interview will be made on the Harrow Year one: Formative. Self-directed and strength of a virtual portfolio that evidences industry related work aimed at establishing a individual motivation and how this is developed Course fees and funding diagnostic, reflexive and critical approach that through the process of designing. Applicants See westminster.ac.uk/fees establishes each student’s potential. invited for an interview will be set a project to complete and add to their portfolio as a new More course information Year two: Summative. Self-directed with body of work that identifies future direction. See westminster.ac.uk/fashion essential industry-related work aimed at As the technical process is integral to design developing the highest level of creative students will be asked to bring garments and thinking, specialised process and toiles to interview. In this time of creative ambiguity it is essential professionalism aligned to students’ that we develop and empower the individual. individual aspirations. Portfolios need to evidence a strong, unique Therefore, this entrepreneurial Menswear MA style in response to a range of creative recruits ambitious and envisioned designers experiences. The ability to develop and apply to work on their creative expression through personal research through accompanying personal research, process development and ASSOCIATED CAREERS sketchbooks and visual diaries is important. informed professionalism. The MA Course builds upon Westminster’s Critically engagement with a given brief and long history of producing menswear graduates thoughtful, perceptive and responsible work will The Course is delivered by the most inspiring capable of working at the highest levels of constitute an essential part of our evaluation. and informed menswear design professionals the international fashion industry. Within provide a learning environment that last four years Menswear graduates from You will be asked to identify in writing, through is supportive, challenging and defined by Westminster have secured design roles for the set project and the interview process a students’ application proposals. Through self- companies as diverse as , Burberry specific area of personal interest aimed at directed and set projects students will generate Prorsum, Alfred Dunhill, Topman, Alexander creating a positive contribution to the menswear original and contextualised ideas, technique McQueen, Harrods, GAP, Belstaff, J.W. industry that they envisage studying in depth and process that establishes them as influential Anderson, Bottega Veneta, H&M, Adidas, Pull while on the course. and informed menswear designers. & Bear, Aitor Throup, Timothy Everest, and James Long. Others have established their own The level required by the University for this In order to define a sustainable career path and companies including Aaron Tub, who set up course is IELTS 6.5 with a minimum of 5.5 in effect influence upon fashion, whose boundary Bazar14 and Liam Hodges who was recently each element. is subject to social, economic, cultural and awarded the NEWGEN award and shows at technological flux, it is important that our London Collection Men. students establish their aspirations within a global design context. COURSE STAFF TEAM ENTRY REQUIREMENTS Ike Rust – Course Director Ike is a design academic with experience of This two-year course is the destination for the developing international fashion brands and most creative, driven and original thinkers instigating the most influential curricula at who will shape the contemporary menswear the top universities of art and design. He is and design-based industries. Entry is based renowned for producing the most innovative on a combination of formal qualifications, and professional thinkers industry experience, portfolio, garments including James Long, Katie Eary, Aitor Throup, and demonstration of commitment through a Mason Jung, Astrid Andersen, Matthew Miller, considered study proposal. Hiroaki Kanai, Alex Mullins, Liam Hodges and Feng Chen Wang. Most of who are the ‘Bright Young Things’ of the now established London Collections Men.

30 MENSWEAR MA westminster.ac.uk/mad westminster.ac.uk/mad MENSWEAR MA 31 Rosie Armstrong – Specialist Menswear Tutor communicated through a strong graphic Rosie has over 13 years experience in the language communicated on oversized t-shirts fashion industry, which includes creating and knitwear. Liam has won the support of titles showpieces for Alexander McQueen and as including Another Man, Dazed & Confused, menswear designer for Tommy Hilfiger and i-D, Interview, VMAN, GQ Style, Dansk, Vogue Topman. With excellent technical knowledge Japan, WGSN, Wonderland, Rollacoaster, ranging from tailoring to knitwear construction Vogue Italy, Hypebeast, Complex, Showstudio, Rosie is responsible for ensuring students have 7th Man, STYLE.com, Sang Bleu and Fucking the technical knowhow and professionalism Young to name a few. necessary to realise their design ideas. Richard Gray – Menswear Illustration Tutor Simon Foxton – Menswear Tutor Richard Gray is a fashion illustrator who Simon Foxton is one of Britain’s leading first collaborated with Anna Piaggi in 1988 menswear stylists. Renowned for his unique – the year her famous Doppie Pagine for style and formative work with photographer Italian Vogue was invented. He has worked Nick Knight he has made multiple contributions with designers such as Agent Provocateur, to magazines including i-D, The Face, Arena, Alexander McQueen, Givenchy, Boudicca, Arena Homme Plus, Fantastic Man, Vogue Antonio Berardi, Miguel Adrover, and Benjamin Hommes International, Details, W, GQ Style Kirchhoff. His editorial work has included and Big Magazine. He is currently creative Vogue Italia, Vogue Gioiello, Vogue Pelle, V consultant to the Italian menswear brand Magazine, Io Donna, Entertainment Weekly, Stone Island. The Sunday Telegraph Magazine, Madame Figaro, and Flaunt Magazine. Matthew Miller – Design Tutor London-based Matthew Miller made his debut Joyce Thornton – Menswear Industry in 2011 and has become renowned for his Liaison Tutor unique aesthetic that combines classic tailoring As director of industry relationships for fashion and functional sportswear. Whilst rooted in the at Westminster, Joyce Thornton liaises with political and ideological his collections retain industry to ensure that students are able to have a sense of versatility with emphasis on cut and the very best start to their career. Her long fabric tactility. career spans design and management roles as well as ten years with pioneering fashion James Long – Design Tutor forecaster WGSN. She has secured internships British menswear designer James long for students in the last two years with a number established his brand in 2008 after graduating of companies including Louis Vuitton, Craig from the Royal College of Art and is currently Green, Loewe, Thom Browne, Aitor Throup, one of the inaugural designers to show his Alexander McQueen, Burberry, Calvin Klein eponymous independent brand at London and Givenchy. collection men. Having received sponsorship from MAN, the British Fashion Councils first Andrew Groves – Design Tutor ever New Gen Men award and Fashion As Course Director for the Fashion Design BA forward awards. The brand is considered at Westminster, Andrew Groves has taught a one of the highlights of the new wave of new generation of designers including Liam contemporary brands showing at LCM. James Hodges, Ashley Williams, Claire Barrow, Mary has recently been appointed Creative Director Benson and Roberta Einer. Other graduates of Menswear at the Italian brand Iceberg. under his tuition are now working at companies such as Louis Vuitton, Tom Ford, Burberry Liam Hodges – Design Tutor Prorsum, Alfred Dunhill, Topman, Alexander Liam Hodges, a Kent boy originally, McQueen, Harrods, Belstaff, J.W. Anderson, is interested in expressive polysyllabic Bottega Veneta, H&M, Adidas, Aitor Throup, masculinity and creating a luxury brand that Timothy Everest, and James Long. is for people who live for the week, not the weekend. His signature style is big garish shapes and hardwearing workwear detailing

32 MENSWEAR MA westminster.ac.uk/mad westminster.ac.uk/mad MENSWEAR MA 33 COURSE CONTENT Entrepreneurship and Finance for MUSIC BUSINESS Creative Industries Working with music industry leaders and This module is concerned with the critical MANAGEMENT MA organisations, the course has developed a evaluation of entrepreneurial business unique curriculum. You will be able to combine structures and finance in the creative industries. a strong underpinning of key business skills Entrepreneurial business and finance for (finance, leadership, organisational management, Length of course creative industries increasingly has a significant marketing and entrepreneurialism), with essential One year full-time or two years part-time effect on the development and promotion music industry management knowledge of new talent and is particularly relevant (strategic innovation and technology, intellectual Location to students from both a creative and property and copyright, and a focus on the live Central London (Cavendish) entrepreneurial background. This module industry and digital content exploitation). is designed to provide you with a solid

Course fees and funding introduction to media economics, financial Teaching is mainly through lectures. In each See westminster.ac.uk/fees management and entrepreneurship in the module there is a minimum of two assignments. creative industries. It will equip you with the The final project is a report of a minimum of More course information tools to analyse financial documents and 12,000 words. See westminster.ac.uk/music analyse business finances. It will provide insights into traditional accounting practices, as well as providing you with the knowledge This course is recognised highly in music business CORE MODULES to produce industry standard business and marketing plans based on industry financial management education and will prepare you to A&R Music Development practices. It will examine entrepreneurial issues become one of the next generation music industry This module will critically explore the primary facing creative industry firms and small businesses leaders and entrepreneurs. All teaching staff on relationship with the music industry of artist and and will provide an overview of the activities the course are currently working in the music repertoire development, commonly referred to as required in starting and managing a business. industry, and every week there are a number of A&R. The A&R department of any music high-level industry guests. You will need to be a company is where the process of music creativity Intellectual Property and self-motivated and open-minded student, as this and production start; it is the research and Copyright Management is an intense course, but one which can help development department. This module seeks to Intellectual Property (IP) and copyright are you to progress your career across a wide range critically evaluate the evolution of A&R within the central to the music industry, where successful of music business disciplines. music industry by examining contemporary artists management of a firm’s IP and copyrights can case studies within each session from both a local provide a powerful competitive advantage. domestic and international music industry IP and copyright can cover works as diverse perspective. You will be expected to contribute as songs, master recordings, videos, and practise your contemporary musical knowledge, ideas and more. You will gain a knowledge in each session and develop an A&R firm understanding of the various dimensions strategy for an act you have identified as having of IP and copyright, and the tools and strategies commercial or cultural significance. to identify, protect and manage them. You will also explore the international perspective of ownership issues, contracts, licensing and the commercialising of IP, including business and legal issues, domestic and international copyright law, and music industry agreements.

Live Music Management The module will critically examine the development of the internal live music market, which is now the largest source of revenue in the commercial music market. This module will critically evaluate the historical development of the live music sector from the perspective of the key stakeholders, from artist and bands to record companies and live agents.

34 MUSIC BUSINESS MANAGEMENT MA westminster.ac.uk/mad westminster.ac.uk/mad MUSIC BUSINESS MANAGEMENT MA 35 Music Marketing Management Sally Gross Marketing and promotion is essential to the music Course Leader industry; it sells tickets, recorded music services Sally Gross started her career and products and is a fundamental tool for in the music industry as a developing talent. Through this module you will manager in 1990. Over two explore a variety of perspectives on marketing decades, either as a manager management issues including the challenges of or a record company director, developing the artist and their music, identifying she has been involved with five potential consumers and fans and marketing and acts that have each sold over a million records, promoting music-related services and products Adamski, Rollo and Rob D (who are responsible through various media channels including social for Dido), Urban Cookie Collective, William media. You will focus on expanding an Orbit, Gotan Project and now One Direction understanding of how music marketing and with the song Little Things penned by her client promotion fits into the contemporary music Fiona Bevan. industry through the study of best practice, concepts and theories that inform how industry In 2000, Sally won the Helena Kennedy Award professionals operate. for outstanding legal criticism whilst studying Law at Birkbeck University, after which she spent a couple of years working in entertainment law. ASSOCIATED CAREERS Sally has been involved with all aspects of the Graduates have gone on to work in a wide music industry, from raves in the French Alps to variety of creative industries, from mobile sold out shows at the Sydney Opera House. marketing through to the Arts Council. Many of our graduates are working in the music industry, She continues to manage the internationally with companies such as Universal Music Group, successful Gotan Project. She has four children iTunes and Spotify. Our international students and lives in north London. Sally is particularly Music Business Management Project Music Industry Structure, Role and Development are working around the globe in music interested in copyright law and how its The Music Business Management Project is This module provides you with a historical companies, including EMI Holland, PIAS development impinges on the creative process. recognised by graduates as one of the most perspective on the development of the music European office and MTV Brazil. She has a passion for the arts in everything rewarding and empowering experiences of industry and aims to help contextualise the from literature to disco. the course. You will be supervised by a member current state of the industry and its place within of the University faculty, and possibly supported it. Teaching is delivered in a weekly lecture and by a music industry representative, to carry seminar session format. The first set of lectures ENTRY REQUIREMENTS out research in an area agreed between is dedicated to investigating the histories of You should have an Upper Second Class yourself and the module leaders and/or discrete areas of the music industry, such as Honours degree (or equivalent). We also industry professional. The subject must address copyright, piracy, music and media. The consider applicants with significant industry current music business issues and concerns and second half of the module provides a general experience. If English is your second should incorporate relevant music business history focused upon the development of the language you will need an IELTS score of 6.5, theories, academic research design and critical post-war British record industry from the 1940s with 6.5 in each element. analysis. The Project builds on the skills and to the present day. Along the way, the usefulness experience you have gained in previous of analytical such as Peterson’s ‘production of modules, and gives you the opportunity to culture approach’ are also considered. The RELATED COURSES apply programme knowledge to a major seminar section of the teaching sessions project, adding to the body of professional develop on the lecture content and involve • Audio Production MA practice and theoretical literature. discussion, small group work and other learning • Interactive Media Practice MA activities aiming to build upon knowledge and skills. You are also introduced to appropriate research and study techniques.

36 MUSIC BUSINESS MANAGEMENT MA westminster.ac.uk/mad westminster.ac.uk/mad MUSIC BUSINESS MANAGEMENT MA 37 POSTGRADUATECENTRE FOR COURSES PROFESSIONAL IN POLITICS ANDCOMMUNICATION INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS

The Centre for Professional The MAs are designed and taught Communication offers a range of by leading media professionals and courses designed for those planning accredited by the relevant professional a career in the fast growing media bodies. The courses have strong links industries of journalism, public with industry experts who bring real relations, advertising and digital world experience and best practice into content production. the classroom.

The Centre offers practical and applied Our graduates go on to work with knowledge underpinned by a rigorous a variety of leading international approach to research and critical media organisations including the analysis. Students come to us from BBC, Reuters, The Guardian, Al all over the world, some to enhance Jazeera, The FT, Edelman, Weber their existing skills in those industries, Shandwick as well as senior others who are just embarking on their communication roles in the corporate careers. Students are attracted by and the public sectors. our excellent resources and industry standard digital technology.

westminster.ac.uk/mad CENTRE FOR PROFESSIONAL COMMUNICATION 39 MEDICAL JOURNALISM GRADUATE DIPLOMA*

Length of course Eight months full-time

Location Harrow

Course fees and funding See westminster.ac.uk/fees

More course information See westminster.ac.uk/journalism

Building on the success of our unique one- year Medical Journalism BA Honours course for medical students, we are now offering a similar course aimed at a wider range of health professionals. If you are a nurse, pharmacist, psychologist, physiotherapist or trained in any other therapeutic occupation, you may have considered broadening your skills to include journalism. This specialism could be aimed at either a wider audience, particularly as health stories play an increasing part in the news agenda, or at a more specialised or ‘in-house’ COURSE CONTENT CORE MODULES audience. The course is also suitable for those There’s a strong emphasis on learning Digital News Production who can show a strong interest in medical through practice and on making you aware Together with students from our Multimedia and health issues, and wish to pursue a more of multi-platform journalism. Much of your Journalism course, you will be developing the specialised career in journalism. assessed course work will be real journalism best online techniques to run as a team a live, assignments. The course is broadly very similar multimedia news website (westminsterworld. This course is designed to equip you with the to that taken by our postgraduate Multimedia com), and contribute medical and health items to practical and intellectual skills necessary for a career or part-time employment in medical Journalism students, who will be your its pages. and health journalism. The course has a strong classmates, and your specially adapted practical focus and you will be expected to modules will largely be taken alongside them Magazine Project (Medical) develop story ideas and contacts, and gather to give you a broader journalism education. During this module you will develop advanced your own material for journalistic course work. You will also benefit from the specialist seminars skills in the content, design and layout of You will be given full training in using our delivered by the Medical Journalism tutor. You magazines, working as part of an editorial up-to-date media resources, newsrooms and will also be able to undertake a work placement team to write health-related stories and contribute studios, ensuring that you graduate as a at a medical publication, and contribute to the to the design and production of a magazine, multi-skilled journalist, able to work across University’s multimedia news site, Westminster both as a ‘glossy’ and in electronic form. different media platforms. News Online (wnol.info). There’s also the opportunity to broadcast on Smoke Radio Our teaching staff are highly experienced (smokeradio.co.uk), the University’s multi- journalism professionals, and you will award-winning internet radio station. have specialist tuition from a leading medical journalist. Many of our Medical Journalism BA graduates have successfully combined their medical careers with their work in journalism. *Subject to approval

40 MEDICAL JOURNALISM GRADUATE DIPLOMA westminster.ac.uk/mad westminster.ac.uk/mad MEDICAL JOURNALISM GRADUATE DIPLOMA 41 Media Law and Current Affairs (Medical) ASSOCIATED CAREERS A critical survey of some of the social, political and economic pressures on media across the Although designed to prepare students for a world, looking at the ethical considerations future in medical journalism, either full-time or which are of key concern to medical journalists. combined with a job in the health field, this This module will also help you gain an in-depth course could also lead to working in public working knowledge of media law, government relations, in charity sector communications or and public institutions and the National Health any other professional pathway which requires Service, and how they relate to journalists. effective specialised communication skills.

Medical News and Feature Writing In this module you will develop your skills in writing general, medical and health-related ENTRY REQUIREMENTS news stories and features for both print and the For the Diploma, you would need to have a web. You will gain an understanding of the good degree and/or the relevant professional concepts and pressures of news gathering, and experience. Unless your secondary and further the importance of developing contacts. You will education has been in English, you should also be able to add to your journalism portfolio have an IELTS score of 7.0, including 7.0 in some TV and radio experience, both as speaking and writing. You will need to be able interviewer and expert interviewee. to demonstrate a strong interest in the UK news media, and a knowledge of current affairs. Multimedia Journalism Skills (Medical) A module for all postgraduate journalism students which aims to give you a critical Deborah Vogel understanding of the concepts and techniques Cluster Leader of contemporary convergent journalism, The Multimedia Journalism MA including news values, story research, news was conceived and developed writing and multi-media reporting techniques, by Deborah Vogel, former including the use of audio and video material. Course Leader for the MA You will be expected to regularly keep a blog, and the Medical Journalism and publish your work on the multimedia news Graduate Diploma. She has site, Westminster News Online (wnol.info). been a radio broadcaster and journalist for many years, producing programmes for four Specialist Journalism – Medical and BBC radio networks: chiefly for BBC World Health Journalism Service, and also Radios 2, 4 and 5. She is This module examines in-depth the role of the committed to maintaining the high quality radio specialist medical and health correspondent, journalism in this country, and still teaches it on and provides a critical understanding of the the course. importance of sources, contacts and consideration of ethical issues and current debate in the field. You will also develop further your specialist reporting techniques to provide a number of ‘multi-platform’ pieces of journalism.

42 MEDICAL JOURNALISM GRADUATE DIPLOMA westminster.ac.uk/mad If you are planning to start a career in MULTIMEDIA journalism, or already work in the field, this JOURNALISM – course will equip you with the practical and intellectual skills necessary to succeed in BROADCAST OR today’s media world; whether in print, online media, multi-platform or broadcast journalism. PRINT AND ONLINE You will still be able to specialise in a particular MA/POSTGRADUATE medium on the course, but you will also develop a wider range of skills and be better DIPLOMA* familiarised with the way that journalists work across different platforms. This is vital for people starting out in the profession.

Length of course The course has a strong practical focus, and One year (MA), or eight months (Postgraduate you are expected to develop story ideas and Diploma) full-time. Part-time over two contacts, and gather your own material for academic years journalistic course work, finding stories which could be local, national or international. You Location will be given full training in using our up-to-date Harrow media resources, newsrooms and studios, ensuring that you graduate from the course as Course fees and funding a multi-skilled, multi-platform journalist. See westminster.ac.uk/fees Our teaching staff are highly experienced More course information journalism professionals. The broadcast See westminster.ac.uk/journalism pathway of the course is accredited by the Broadcast Journalism Training Council (BJTC). COURSE CONTENT We have twice been acknowledged with the We are offering a new version of our very There’s a strong emphasis on learning through BJTC award for excellence in teaching and hands-on practice, using our professional successful and popular MA in Journalism. The many of our students have won journalism title reflects better the changes that have been standard facilities, and preparing students for awards. Our graduates, both international and the new world of multi-platform journalism; sweeping across the media industry all over the UK based, have gone on to work with a variety world in the past few years. Although we have much of your assessed course work will be of leading media organisations including BBC ‘real’ journalism assignments. been continually updating the course to reflect News, BBC Radio, BBC World Service, BBC the fact that so many journalists these days Online, ITN, Sky News, Sky Sports, LBC Radio, We often invite other journalism professionals have to be proficient in more than one form Reuters, Condé Nast , The Economist, The of journalism, we feel we could do even more as guest speakers or to critique student work. Financial Times, The Guardian, to name a few. We help our students network with media to enable them to become truly ‘multi-platform’ Many graduates are now employed at well- journalists. These are the kind of journalists professionals, and find opportunities for known international organisations such as Al work placements. The course is taught over who are likely to be successful in years to Jazeera, BBC Arabic and Persian TV, BBC come, and we want to make sure that those two semesters, followed by the largely Russian and Chinese Online, CNN TV and self-directed final project for the MA students. from Westminster are in the vanguard. Online, Russia Today, Central China Television, Unlike most journalism MAs, you can undertake Indian news channels such as NDTV, UTV and a practical Final Project or choose to write a The course now titled Multimedia Journalism CNN-IBN, Phoenix TV, The Washington Post, (Broadcast, or Print and Online) MA, will offer a 15,000-word dissertation. China Daily, and many other good journalism Postgraduate Diploma in Multimedia Journalism, careers in countries around the world. (Broadcast, or Print and Online), which will run You will have the chance to air your work on over eight months. There will be an option to Smoke Radio, the University’s multi-award- take either the Masters or the Postgraduate winning internet radio station, and contribute to Diploma as a part-time course, which will run the University’s multi-media news site Westminster wnol.info over two successive academic years. News Online ( ). In recent years some MA students have been able to go as ‘embedded journalists’ on Royal Navy and NATO training exercises, sometimes on board ship. *Subject to approval

44 MULTIMEDIA JOURNALISM MA/PG DIPLOMA westminster.ac.uk/mad westminster.ac.uk/mad MULTIMEDIA JOURNALISM MA/PG DIPLOMA 45 MODULES News and Feature Writing Applicants should be prepared to show a This module is for students specialising in written commitment to a career in journalism and a These will include: journalism on the Print and Online pathway. good knowledge of current affairs and the It aims to help you develop the skills and media. Two short assignments should be Broadcast News techniques of writing news stories and features submitted as part of the application; the first This module on the Broadcast pathway aims across both print and web platforms, as well should explain in 250 words why you have to give you a grounding in the skills and as gaining an understanding of the concepts decided on a career in journalism, and the techniques of daily live radio and television and pressures of news gathering, and the second should be either a 300 word analysis news and current affairs. It is intended for those importance of developing contacts. of the print, online or broadcast media in your specialising in broadcast journalism, but can home country, or a 300 word analysis of how a also be taken by those wanting to develop Online Journalism recent news story was covered in different UK multimedia video and audio skills in more This provides an advanced understanding of media (more suitable for UK-based students). depth. You gain an in-depth understanding online journalism skills, combined with in-depth of the techniques of writing for radio and TV, tuition in creating a multimedia website, both in reporting, presentation and studio production, design and content. Small teams work together RELATED COURSES using the latest digital equipment. to produce topical web-magazines. During Semester Two, a number of visiting lecturers will • Documentary Photography and Documentary Skills be delivering classes in more specialist areas of Photojournalism MA This develops your TV and radio skills further, Issues in Journalism journalism, such as travel or sports journalism, allowing you to develop advanced production A critical survey of some of the social, political or arts and entertainment journalism, or and reporting techniques, enabling you to carry and economic pressures on media across the investigative reporting, including environmental Deborah Vogel out longer form pieces of broadcast journalism. world, looking at the ethical considerations and financial stories. There are also a number Cluster Leader which are of key concern to journalists, and of other optional modules available, some from The Multimedia Journalism MA Final Projects for MA Students the provisions designed to safeguard media our theory based MA courses. was conceived and developed The practical projects enable you to demonstrate freedom. On this module, there is a variant for by Deborah Vogel, former the skills and techniques learned during the UK students who will have the chance to gain an Web Production: Westminster News Online Course Leader for the MA course in greater depth. You will be working in-depth working knowledge of media law, and of A team or teams of students apply their editorial and the Medical Journalism under a limited amount of supervision and each government and public institutions in the UK, and and reporting skills to run the live, multimedia Graduate Diploma. She has project is accompanied by a written critical how they relate to journalists. This is in line with the news website.(wnol.info). been a radio broadcaster and journalist for analysis. Print and online students may choose syllabus requirements of the accrediting body, the many years, producing programmes for four between researching and producing to professional Broadcast Journalism Training Council. Students BBC radio networks: chiefly for BBC World standard a series of articles on a related theme from outside the UK can take a more international Service, and also Radios 2, 4 and 5. She is in a print format, or producing a professional perspective in their studies. ASSOCIATED CAREERS committed to maintaining the high quality radio standard journalistic website. Broadcast Although designed to prepare you for a career journalism in this country, and still teaches it on students will research, compile and present Magazine Project in journalism, this course could also lead to the course. their own authored TV or radio documentary, During this module you will develop advanced a career in public relations, communications, investigating a current topic in depth. skills in the content, design and layout of or any other profession requiring effective magazines, working in a team to originate, communication and practical skills. Alternatively, you may choose to research and write, design and produce a magazine, both write a 15,000-word academic dissertation, as a ‘glossy’ and in electronic form. Designed exploring an aspect of contemporary journalism. primarily for Print and Online students, it is also ENTRY REQUIREMENTS available as an option for Broadcast students. You should hold a good first degree / Multimedia Journalism Skills equivalent to a UK Upper Second Class A module for all postgraduate journalism students Honours. You should also have some journalism which aims to give you a critical understanding work experience, whether a brief student of the concepts and techniques of contemporary placement, or more extensive professional convergent journalism, including news values, experience. You will also need a good story research, newswriting and multi-media understanding of the media and current affairs. reporting techniques, including the use of If English is not your first language you are audio and video material. You will be expected expected to have at least IELTS 7.0 with 7.0 in to regularly keep a blog, and publish your writing and speaking. work on the journalism department’s website, Westminster News Online (wnol.info).

46 MULTIMEDIA JOURNALISM MA/PG DIPLOMA westminster.ac.uk/mad westminster.ac.uk/mad MULTIMEDIA JOURNALISM MA/PG DIPLOMA 47 PUBLIC RELATIONS MA*

Length of course One year full-time or two years part-time

Location Harrow and central London

Course fees and funding See westminster.ac.uk/fees

More course information See westminster.ac.uk/journalism

Public Relations is a fast moving and dynamic profession which needs adaptable, analytical and innovative graduates.

This course is designed to produce the future leaders of the public relations Industry. You will not only learn the practical skills required to embark on a career in PR, but you will also gain the theoretical and analytical knowledge to help you get ahead. You will create campaigns, pitch to clients, stage a press conference and create videos and blogs, as well as write COURSE CONTENT CORE MODULES research reports, essays and a dissertation. You The course combines practice skills with Contemporary Theory and Issues in PR will also explore issues affecting the industry, analytical tools and is highly participative. You This module explores a range of perspectives such as professional ethics and the impact of will take part in workshops, debates, seminars, on PR. We look at the social, cultural and social and digital media. presentations and group exercises including management approaches to PR, and examine making pitches and presenting creative the tension between these theoretical models The course has close links to the London-based campaign ideas. The course runs for one year and their practical application. PR industry, and is one of a select few chosen (full-time) or two years (part-time). by the professional body PRCA for its University Dissertation Research Skills partnership initiative. These connections with There are no formal examinations on this This module provides guidance on how to plan leading PR practitioners help you gain the course. You are assessed on course work and conduct a piece of independent research practical knowledge and understanding you including essays, presentations, blogs, group into the PR industry. You will learn how to apply need to work in PR. work and your participation in class exercises. the theories, research methods and scholarly practice learned in your other modules to This MA is currently under review and will produce an original 15,000 word dissertation. include exciting new modules in advertising and strategic communication. Please see the Planning and Managing a PR Campaign course page on our website westminster.ac.uk This module gives you an opportunity to for the latest available information. develop and enhance your campaign management skills. You will plan, design and present a creative public relations campaign and explore the relationship between PR agencies and your clients.

*Subject to approval

48 PUBLIC RELATIONS MA westminster.ac.uk/mad westminster.ac.uk/mad PUBLIC RELATIONS MA 49 Public Relations and the Media Campaigning for Social Change ASSOCIATED CAREERS The module equips you with the professional As trust in institutions declines how can NGOs practice skills to manage media relations maintain their influence and change their This course is particularly relevant if you want including writing press releases, conducting techniques to deliver successful campaigns? to start, or to progress, a career in public media interviews and preparing media events. What does the new political and campaigning relations. Most graduates of the course are It also looks at the increasing role of digital landscape look like? What are the current working in PR or related communications roles media including Twitter feeds, blogs and techniques? And how can you decide which is within a year of graduating. Of our several online newsrooms. the best technique to use for your campaign? hundred alumni, many now operate at the most senior level in their organisation. Understanding Public Relations Corporate Communications This module provides a critical evaluation of How do organisations manage their reputation Many work in global PR agencies including the public relations industry and the context in even when in a crisis? These are some of the Hill and Knowlton, Burson-Marsteller and which it operates. You will look at the role of questions which you will address in this module. Edelman, while others work in-house at the practitioner and explore whether perceptions You will learn how to analyse stakeholders and organisations as diverse as the Premier League of the industry are valid. You will also consider prepare a communications strategy. and the United Nations. the professional aspirations of PR, ethics and how the industry is changing in the context of Fashion PR digital media. From luxury brands to the high street, the ENTRY REQUIREMENTS world of fashion relies on promotion and You should normally have a good first degree public relations. This module gives you an qualification (Upper Second Class Honours) or opportunity to take a backstage tour of the OPTION MODULES equivalent, although professional qualifications fashion industry and design a campaign for or substantial appropriate work experience The option modules are taught by leading a leading fashion brand. practitioners and allow you to develop your may be acceptable instead. The course relies heavily on you being able to write and present interest in specialist sectors within the PR Online PR effectively in English, and if English is not industry. You choose two option modules. Digital and social media are changing both your first language, you need to have a the communications landscape and the role minimum IELTS score of 7.0, with 6.5 in Advertising planning and strategy of PR. This module looks at the different each element, plus sufficient academic or This module focuses on the need for strategic tools and explores how they can be used in professional background. planning to produce compelling advertising, PR campaigns as well as how they can be and evaluate its effectiveness. You will study a analysed and evaluated. range of planning processes including market Pam Williams research, insight identification, and trend Political Communications and Public Affairs Course Leader forecasting, with a key focus on media selection This module is designed to offer a Pam Williams was a key player in setting up and analytics. Throughout the module you comprehensive introduction to the theory, the highly successful MA in PR and has been would work with a client in order to structure a principles and practices of political course leader for the past ten years. She has business problem into a creative brief. communications and public affairs. The course over 20 years’ experience in a variety of involves looking at the roles and responsibilities senior roles in the public relations industry. Brand Management and Communications of the key actors involved – politicians, Her diverse career includes working in the This module highlights the role of brands journalists, campaigners and public affairs corporate, political and agency sectors. As in contemporary society, their use by practitioners – and the changing nature of the Director of Communications for the international organisations, and their significance for relationship between them. In particular, the brand strategy agency, Imagination, she contemporary advertising and PR professionals. course will focus on the role and impact of new advised major clients such as Ford and BT. You will study the meanings of ‘brand’ digital technologies, online and social media, Her corporate roles include that of Director of and ‘branding’, and investigate the and convergence. relationship between a brand, its products Corporate Communications for BAA, a leading and its promotional strategies. Brand FTSE 100 company, where she was responsible image and corporate identity are covered for communications strategy and management. with attention paid to the ideas of brand Pam began her career as a journalist before building, brand development, brand equity moving into Government communications and brand extension. where she worked on major public information campaigns in health and welfare and was a press secretary to Government ministers.

50 PUBLIC RELATIONS MA westminster.ac.uk/mad westminster.ac.uk/mad PUBLIC RELATIONS MA 51 POSTGRADUATECREATIVE PRACTICE COURSES IN AND POLITICS ANDART INTERNATIONAL THEORY RELATIONS

This group of Masters courses brings Our Harrow Campus boasts together dynamic and prestigious wide-ranging multimedia facilities programmes of postgraduate study built and equipped to the highest in visual and sound arts: audio standards. The University’s three public production, interactive media, visual exhibition spaces Ambika P3, London communication, photographic arts, Gallery West and Regent Street documentary photography, film and Cinema offer exciting and dynamic television. Taught by international year round programmes of cinema, practitioners, theorists, leading artists photography and multimedia art. and industry professionals, we foster students’ capacities for developing Our graduates go onto a wide range creative media practices, drawing of careers in the arts and media practice and theory together industries: artists, photographers, alongside media, industry and designers, teachers, academics, academic research. editors, curators, writers, advertising, publishing, film and television In the creative environment of distribution and production, film Westminster’s dedicated arts and festivals, new media production and media campus, our courses offer a marketing, app development, museums unique combination of professional and galleries and as entrepreneurs. practice, critical inquiry, skills enhancement, and contextual, specialist or interdisciplinary knowledge. Several of the MAs in this group are the first of their kind in the UK, and all lead the way in establishing new avenues of practice and disciplinary thought.

52 westminster.ac.uk/mad CREATIVE PRACTICE AND ART THEORY 53 AUDIO PRODUCTION MA

Length of course One year full-time or two years part-time

Location Harrow

Course fees and funding See westminster.ac.uk/fees

More course information See westminster.ac.uk/music

This well-established Masters is the world- leading course in audio production, highly regarded both nationally and internationally. It is accredited by the leading industry bodies, COURSE CONTENT Entrepreneurship and Project Management including APRS, and is the JAMES National for Creative Industries This innovative course develops your creative Regional Centre – London, an Apple-accredited This module facilitates learning of the key skills abilities in audio across music production, training centre and a Skillset Media Academy. in creative industries business, entrepreneurship sound design, radio, TV, film and multimedia, The course is designed to meet and exceed and project management. You are given the all supported by a robust understanding of professional standards, and will enable you to opportunity to develop their business ideas from the technologies involved. You will be able reach the highest level in the creative use of concept to completion through the production of to explore and expand as a creative artist audio, and explore how creative ideas and digital media outlets whilst using PRINCE2 (Projects while achieving control and experience of a new technologies can be combined, enhanced IN Controlled Environment) methodology. professional audio environment. and redefined. Major Project Applied Innovation and Interactive Design As the major media education site in Europe, The Audio Production Project is your opportunity This module will introduce you to associated the University’s Harrow Campus includes 14 to negotiate a large-scale, self-determined, programming packages for multimedia professional recording studios (three surround original and inventive project, based upon applications. You will explore the innovative studios), a new teaching recording studio, several areas explored in the taught stage of interface design techniques, and work on Music Lab and an array of TV, post-production, the course. developing sound design for interactive media, radio, film and multimedia facilities built and including small apps and computer games. equipped to the highest standards. Music Production and Musicology This module will develop your professional Audio Visual Production and Cultural Theory practice of the creative industries through Focusing on the creative applications in-depth understanding of both practical of technology, theories and professional and theoretical aspects of music recording production practices, this module will develop and production processes, including mixing, into a study brief incorporating the construction remixing and mastering in stereo and surround. of a radio drama, radio programme, film trailer assembly and surround mix. It will also include Synthesis and Sound Design for Animation a substantial piece of sound-to-picture work, You will examine in detail the digital including location recording, music and audio manipulation of audio data, location recording post for film and broadcast media. and Foley, the creation of sound libraries, and sound design for animation, enabling you to produce work to industry standards.

54 AUDIO PRODUCTION MA westminster.ac.uk/mad westminster.ac.uk/mad AUDIO PRODUCTION MA 55 ASSOCIATED CAREERS KEY STAFF Possible careers include music producer, Matej Dimlic audio and audio visual post-production Course Leader specialist, ADR, audio and audio visual Matej has extensive academic producer, composer, Foley artist, interactive and professional experience audio design teams, location sound specialist, in several media disciplines, programmer, radio production, sound and his credits include designer and sound engineer. Absolute Beginners Series (director, producer), Eastern Biological’s mixed media performance The Sound ENTRY REQUIREMENTS (composer, director, performer), The Captive (music and sound design). In addition to You will need to have a portfolio of audio leading Audio Visual Production, Sound Design and/or audio visual production works, for Animation and Audio Production Project which demonstrates your ability to work in on the Audio Production MA, Matej also leads audio at a high level. You should be able to Documentary Film and Contemporary World discuss how the course enables you to build Cinema modules on the Film and TV MA, towards a new area of creative activity and and lectures Narrative Forms on the employment. A good first degree is desirable, Screenwriting and Producing MA course. He although applicants with a strong portfolio participates at national and international and professional industry experience will be conferences and in his research investigates considered. If English is your second language the impact of sound and music on structure you should have an IELTS score of 6.5 overall, and the perception of the visual narrative. with 5.5 in each element. He is currently working on the development of a large-scale interactive audio installation project for various sites around London. RELATED COURSES • Interactive Media Practice MA • Music Business Management MA

56 AUDIO PRODUCTION MA westminster.ac.uk/mad westminster.ac.uk/mad FASHION 57 DESIGN FOR COMMUNICATION MA

Length of course One year full-time

Location Harrow

Course fees and funding See westminster.ac.uk/fees

More course information See westminster.ac.uk/art

This Masters reflects the multidisciplinary nature of contemporary communications, bringing together key subject disciplines in visual communication including graphic design, moving image, digital media and illustration. The course will help you to develop the analytical skills and generate conceptual thinking needed to prepare for high-level professional practice.

We are committed to having a broad scope of activities on the course, from traditional graphic COURSE CONTENT skills to future communication delivery methods. CORE MODULES The course offers strong links to new media The content of the course is industry-focused, Business for Design industries, and we work in collaboration with and encompasses issues central to contemporary In this module you will examine the professional them, and use their advice and expertise, in the design practice through a process of analysis, context for design business, management and ongoing development of the course content. experimentation and the practical testing and enterprise. Through a series of lectures and implementation of creative ideas. seminars the module will focus on practices This is an ambitious programme for students appropriate to freelance and small businesses. who want to realise their creative potential You will examine key elements of professional and self-reliance, working as a freelance practice, and gain insights into the design or small business operator in the challenging business through site visits and guest lectures and changing world of the creative from industry professionals. The module will communication industries. give practical advice for starting up in business, covering topics including forming and naming your business, choosing and setting up premises, creative thinking and project management, copyright and intellectual property rights, and marketing and managing your business.

58 DESIGN FOR COMMUNICATION MA westminster.ac.uk/mad westminster.ac.uk/mad DESIGN FOR COMMUNICATION MA 59 Critical Debates in Design Design Research Methods ENTRY REQUIREMENTS Peter Smith You will address and review current visual, This module enables you to develop your Course Leader social and technological debates in design, research skills and methods at a deeper level, You should normally have a good first degree Peter is a branding and and develop informed views on contemporary in preparation for further study at Doctorate or a professional qualification in an area of art, communications design topics in design. The module will explore the role level and for professional practice. It introduces design or visual media. Students with other first consultant at Openmind Design of the designer’s responsibilities in a social, the field of design research as an analytical degrees will be considered, but will be required Consultancy. His strengths are cultural and economic sense, the role of the and practical tool for designers, and establishes to show evidence that they possess some brand strategy development, designer in communicating to audiences, and the role of critical thinking as a support to the knowledge of, and a practice in, visual art or communications audits, brand the construction of meaning in verbal and visual development of an engaged design practice. design. Home applicants will be asked to attend and visual identity design, internal and external language. You will increase your awareness Theoretical models of design analysis covered an interview with the course team. Overseas communications design. of debates and issues in the design field and include semiotics, communication theory, students will be asked to submit a portfolio hone your incisive thinking skills alongside systematic approaches, semantics and discourse either by post or electronically. It is essential His experience covers working as a creative technical abilities. You will develop an engaged theory. The emphasis will be on why we do that you have a good command of spoken and director on major international and European reflective practice to make more effective use of what we do and how we can ensure it is written English language (an IELTS score of 6.5 brand identity programmes for Accenture, your perceptions and discoveries, and work effective, through research testing, feedback or equivalent overall, with 5.5 in each element). Aer Lingus, BAA, Barclays, Courtaulds, ECA, practically and creatively with reference to a and a rigorous approach to design. Heritage Lottery Fund, Hogg Robinson, KONE, wider cultural context. National Museum Wales, Odeon Cinemas, Major Project/Exhibition GUEST LECTURERS Sasol Chevron, Toyota, and VisitBritain. Design Project A: Visual Identity This module enables individual students and Throughout the course you will attend During this module you will focus on visual student teams to initiate, produce, manage and additional lectures that will bring relevance His previous experience with Luxon Carra, identity and how an entity declares itself present a comprehensive design project. The and outside knowledge to all aspects of Dialog and Lloyd Northover was as a within an environment. Visual identity is one major project is a summation of experience in your study. Past guest lecturers have included: director in creative and project management of the central tasks of design. Organisations which you focus your interests, skills and roles. He has been responsible for naming, • Sean Perkins, North Design previously described their identities as their aspirations as designers, and express them in a brand design, literature design, conventional ‘house style’, then their ‘corporate identity’; substantial project. The intended target audience, • Gordon Young and online design guidelines, online more recently the term ‘branding’ has design strategy, design exploration, research • Victoria Talbot, Human After All communications, corporate advertising and been preferred. The module encourages testing, concept development and the chosen • Riccie Janus, Accenture interior design projects for a wide range of the development of distinctive graphic and mode of presentation of the finished concepts, • Tony Kaye clients in a variety of business sectors. typographic visual language through visual are among the key issues you will cover and • Yoko Akama, Akama Design identity for specific target audiences. You will implement. This project will showcase your • Bernie Bowers, Appleby Bowers Peter qualified as a fellow and membership develop a range of graphic and image-based potential as a visual communication designer Creative Associates assessor for the Chartered Society of Designers solutions, through collaboration, group working and demonstrate your ability to work at a high and gained an MA from the Royal College of • Neville Brody, Research Studios and presentations of case studies, while level of professional practice. Art. He has won awards from the New York Art • building contacts with industry. Ivan Chermayeff, Chermayeff & Geismar Directors Club and the New York Type Directors • Harry Pearce, Pentagram Club. He is a recipient of the Minerva Award Design Project B: Design Authorship ASSOCIATED CAREERS • Paula Scher, Pentagram for corporate identity design. Building on the experience you gain in • Andy Vella, Vella Design Project A, in this module you will focus on As a graduate from this course you will be well He has lectured in graphic design at publishing and design authorship, acquiring placed to work across all sectors of the design De Montfort University, , skills in areas such as editorial, magazine, and visual communications industries. You University of Plymouth, Ravensbourne, Middlesex book design, e-book, interactive and website will have the knowledge and background to University, and the University of Westminster. design. You will examine the traditional role of consider setting up your own design company, the designer as facilitator, the use of design to or to work on a freelance basis within this communicate other peoples’ messages, and the lively and expanding sector, building on your notion of ‘designer as author’. You can work expertise and potential to be influential within on competitions, external projects, collaborative the visual communication industry. cross-course projects, and self-defined projects, as appropriate, and wherever possible we will run training sessions and workshops, to give you the chance to improve your existing visual communication skills and develop new ones.

60 DESIGN FOR COMMUNICATION MA westminster.ac.uk/mad westminster.ac.uk/mad DESIGN FOR COMMUNICATION MA 61 DOCUMENTARY PHOTOGRAPHY AND PHOTOJOURNALISM MA

Length of course One year full-time or two years part-time

Location Harrow

Course fees and funding See westminster.ac.uk/fees

More course information See westminster.ac.uk/photography

This course provides a unique combination of professional practice and critical understanding for those engaged or wishing to develop a practice in documentary, visual storytelling and photojournalism, in the field of editorial and contemporary media practice. The course builds on the international stature of the photographic and journalism reputation of the University. It is designed to equip you with a sound command of the working methods that will sustain a career grounded in photographic practice – whether as an editorial, commercial or art photographer, picture editor, curator or writer.

This course is especially useful for Photo by Pio De Rose photographers, media professionals and graduates who wish to broaden their skills and knowledge in the field of editorial and COURSE CONTENT SEMESTER ONE: documentary photography. The emphasis of the course is on you and the CORE MODULES development of your practice, as understood in Design and Concept – Documentary contemporary approaches to documentary, Photography. The Photo Book visual storytelling and editorial photography This module extended, to be taken in (including photo essays and single images for semester 1-2 on alternative weeks on Tuesday publication), picture editing, critical academic evenings. This module focuses on the photo- and journalistic writing, the production and book and the composite elements required design of a publication/magazine, and the for book production. The photo-book can be major project, as a substantial project, allowing documentary, or story based involving the student to develop their own research and • research based content and subject matter - practice. The primary course resources are normally based on people those in the Margaret Harker Photographic Centre and J block video facilities, which are • a collaborative approach equipped to the highest professional standards • creative photography for both analogue and digital production. • the symbiotic relationship of text and image Photo by Yannis Kontos

62 DOCUMENTARY PHOTOGRAPHY AND PHOTOJOURNALISM MA westminster.ac.uk/mad westminster.ac.uk/mad DOCUMENTARY PHOTOGRAPHY AND PHOTOJOURNALISM MA 63 • layout and design SEMESTER THREE: ENTRY REQUIREMENTS • innovative approaches to the photo-book Ideally you should possess a good first degree • a written critical evaluation. CORE MODULES You can elect to undertake the major project from a recognised university or institution or Dissertation. of higher education, or relevant working The project is set within the boundaries of the experience to an equivalent level that equips M25. Practice Based – The Major Project you for postgraduate study in photography. We welcome mature applicants with a Writing Photography The Major Project is the opportunity to produce background in the media or related areas. If This module will be on Wednesday evenings. a self-determined project that expresses key disciplines and practices you have engaged your first language is not English, you will need The development of writing skills that will an IELTS score of 7.0 overall with 6.5 in writing enable you to understand and put into in throughout the course for the creation and production of a documentary, which is informed and 6.0 in the other elements or equivalent plus practice the different models and conventions sufficient academic or professional background. of writing with photographs, including; by creative experimentation, investigation, feature writing, critical analysis, appraisal, research and development, and production. interviews, collaborative writing and captions. Studies of the novel and storytelling, including Your ‘major project’ can be produced as: RELATED COURSES the boundaries between fact and fiction. • a photo-book • Multimedia Journalism – Broadcast, Exploration of critical understandings of the • portfolio or folio of prints or Print and Online MA relationship between text and image. • film • Photography Arts MA • audio visual presentation • online presentation OPTION MODULE • other appropriate presentational forms in Ben Edwards The Portrait in Documentary Photography Photo by Emily Garthwaite discussion with tutors Course Leader Creative exploration of the photographic Ben’s career commenced portrait; gathering information through a variety SEMESTER TWO: Thus summarising and reflecting the anticipated as a painter/printmaker of interview techniques; production of a series potential of your practice. with a postgraduate degree of stand-alone portraits, with accompanying, CORE MODULES from the Royal Academy supporting and appropriate text, based on Design Photography and Text – The Publication Dissertation of Arts, London. Ben is a original research, interviews, and creativity, to To collaborate and collectively produce a The Dissertation module provides an extended photographer/film-maker, communicate: publication, that will: space for a self-initiated investigation, which with an extensive educational practice spanning many years. His current practice • a documentary work • explore innovative and innovative content builds on theoretical and critical debates studied earlier in the course. This module migrates between land-based personal • a sense of place, using the urban spaces outside of popular magazine culture requires substantial research and an advanced projects, commercial assignments and stock and buildings of London • be creative with content typography and level of understanding and analysis. Students photography/footage. He is one of • cultural demographics particular to an area design are encouraged to investigate a range the founder members of Blendimages LLC and of Greater London • have equal image and text contribution from of primary and secondary sources in the Director of ER Productions Ltd. His stills and • factual and fictional stories. all of the editorial team production of this intellectually challenging film work are represented by Getty Images. • explore and experiment with the possibilities conclusion of their theoretical studies. His work is in private and public collections in Producing a bound folio (staple or stich bound) of a photographic publication, in the the UK and abroad: The Victoria and Albert of the portraits with accompanying text of five broadest sense Museum, UK, The MOMA Houston, Texas, hundred words per portrait. • be able to collectively adapt a photographic USA. Work previously published in major ‘style’ with the entire editorial team ASSOCIATED CAREERS publications in the UK and abroad include: • produce a publication that can be conceived The course gives you a number of key and , The Guardian and Life. as a hard copy OR web publication. transferable skills that will make you highly employable in the photographic media and Critical Theory – History and Theory of the publishing industries; working photographer Published Page in; news agencies, picture agencies, book or The module aims to equip students with the magazine, curating, picture research or web- historical and critical contexts that inform based publication, personal practice or whatever contemporary editorial photographic practice. area you choose as your speciality. The course will enable you to create work reflecting your practice to a recognised industry standard to further your career path.

64 DOCUMENTARY PHOTOGRAPHY AND PHOTOJOURNALISM MA westminster.ac.uk/mad westminster.ac.uk/mad DOCUMENTARY PHOTOGRAPHY AND PHOTOJOURNALISM MA 65 FILM MFA

Length of course One-year full-time or two years part-time

Location Harrow

Course fees and funding See westminster.ac.uk/fees

More course information See westminster.ac.uk/film

The Film MFA is a new programme at the University of Westminster that builds on the University’s international reputation in film making courses, which began with the UK’s very first honours degree in Film and Photographic Arts in 1969.

Over the last 25 years, Westminster’s Film graduates have received 29 BAFTA COURSE CONTENT As the course grows, we will add further nominations, winning nine times, and since pathways in MFA Film (Visual Effects); MFA Film 2008, eight Academy Award nominations, This two year MFA programme aims to allow (Sound); MFA Film (Production Design). winning two Oscars and one Student Oscar. a full development period for the creation of substantial bodies of work at a professional A fundamental characteristic of the course is You will be joining a course that draws on the level. There will be one year of intensive its collaborative structure and emphasis on expertise of our existing Film and Television teaching and a further year of supervised but learning through doing. You will focus on Production programme, and our postgraduate self-directed ‘thesis project’ work. This final developing specialist skills for the duration of courses in Film and Television: Theory, Culture project will be developed once you have had the course, collaborating with students from and Industry; Digital Imaging and Audio the full benefit of an immersive experience each area in order to build your portfolios. in your specialist area of filmmaking. The Production. • Screenwriters will write animation and pathways of the course have been created to fiction well as a ‘calling card’ feature ensure they fully integrate and complement The course benefits from the state of the art length screenplay each other; collaborative work will enable each Regent Street Cinema, and from The Harrow • student to build an individual portfolio from a Editors will edit fiction, documentary Campus with its excellent facilities for Film, and animation Television, Sound, Music, Photography, Fashion combination of group and individual work. • Producers will experience a wide range of and Fine Art. production types as well as developing a real world feature film project You will be enabled and supported by film THE MFA PATHWAYS industry professionals, teachers, academics • Documentary filmmakers will work with and researchers, and will develop your own Students will apply to and be selected producers and editors to support their creative voice, demonstrated by a body of high for a specific MFA discipline, and we portfolio, and have the time to forge a deep level professional level work. anticipate limiting the number of students relationship with their subject to four in each pathway. Initially we expect • Cinematographers will have the to offer the following pathways: MFA Film opportunity to work in fiction, documentary (Producing); MFA Film (Directing); MFA Film and animation (Screenwriting); MFA Film (Editing); MFA Film • Animators will work with screenwriters, (Cinematography); MFA Film (Documentary); cinematographers and editors. MFA Film (Animation).

66 FILM MFA westminster.ac.uk/mad westminster.ac.uk/mad FILM MFA 67 Above: Asif Kapadia

• Directors will collaborate with screenwriters, DEPARTMENT ALUMNI producers, and editors to make a portfolio of short films for entry to festivals worldwide. Alumni from our film courses include: • Asif Kapadia, director of Amy (2015), The MFA offers high level specialist teaching, Senna (2010), The Return (2006); The as it is aimed mainly at those with significant Warrior (2001) prior experience. Students will be assigned • Neal Purvis, Scriptwriter of Spectre (2015), industry mentors who will offer guidance Skyfall (2012), Johnny English Reborn throughout the course. (2011), Casino Royale (2006), The World Is ENTRY REQUIREMENTS Peter Hort Not Enough (1999) Course Leader We expect you to have a good honours degree Peter Hort will lead an experienced course Fuller details of the course content for the • , director of The Face in a relevant subject, or equivalent professional team that includes BAFTA and OSCAR specific pathways can be found on our website. of An Angel (2014), The Killer Inside Me experience and/or qualifications. winning film makers and highly experienced (2010), 9 Songs (2004) film teachers. • Lucia Zuccetti, editor of The Queen (2006), You will need to demonstrate knowledge, ASSOCIATED CAREERS Testament of Youth (2014), Rat Catcher experience and potential in film production Peter spent 20 years in the film and television (1999), Game Change (2012) to a level that will allow the you to work at a The Film MFA will be a professional industries as producer and editor, working high level in a specific discipline. You should qualification that will enable graduates to • Seamus McGarvey cinematographer of initially for the BBC and then as in independent apply for a specific MFA pathway and will be progress to head of department roles in Godzilla (2014), (2012), producer of drama, documentaries and asked to submit a portfolio of relevant work the film and television industries and also a We Need To Talk About Kevin (2011), commercials, specialising in European and an application form. This will form the ‘terminal degree’ qualifying graduates to teach Atonement (2007) co-productions. basis of selection for an interview process that in American Universities. The University has • Tony Grisoni, screenwriter of Fear and may include practical tests if the specialisation strong links with employers, and these will be Loathing in Las Vegas (1998), Tideland He began his film teaching career at applied for is not demonstrated within the developed and extended. More than 80 per (2005), Red Riding (2009) Southampton Solent University, before moving applicant’s portfolio. cent of our Film and Television graduates go on • Andrew Dunn, cinematographer of The to Westminster to take over the leadership to work in film and television. History Boys (2006), Precious (2009), The of the undergraduate film programme. That Perks of Being a Wallflower (2012) Applicants whose first language is not English course is widely recognised as a world leader must be able to speak and write fluently in • Paul Trijbits, Producer of Saving Mr Banks for its practical and academic teaching, and English, with a minimum IELTS score of 6.5 (2013), Fish Tank (2009), Jane Eyre (2011). its graduates have had great success as film with 6.0 in each element. professionals and award winning film makers.

68 FILM MFA westminster.ac.uk/mad westminster.ac.uk/mad FILM MFA 69 FILM AND TELEVISION: THEORY, CULTURE AND INDUSTRY MA*

Length of course One year full-time or two years part-time

Location Harrow and central London (Regent)

Course fees and funding See westminster.ac.uk/fees

More course information See westminster.ac.uk/film

This is the longest-running postgraduate course in the country in the study of film and television, and it retains its strong reputation within the film sector. In addition to theoretical, cultural and critical dimensions, you will gain an overview of the international film industry – both historic COURSE CONTENT The course structure includes two suggested pathways for those wishing to specialise in a) and contemporary. You will also investigate The course is taught in two modes: full-time and production, distribution, exhibition and film programming and moving image curation; part-time. Full-time Postgraduate students study b) screenwriting. marketing, from mainstream commercial 180 credits per year. For the award of MA in productions to alternative, experimental and Film and Television: Theory, Culture and independent film, video and digital work. You will be able to choose among the Industry, you must complete two core taught following modules: modules, four optional modules and a 60-credit • Cinema Distribution and Exhibition (option) Past and present students from all over the final project module, for a total of 180 credits. • world are employed in the film and television Core modules provide you with a set of key Contemporary Issues in Moving Image and sectors, as small-scale producers and film and skills for the theoretical, critical and reflective Screen Studies (core) video makers, or working for larger understanding of moving images. Optional • Documentary Aesthetics, Sites and organisations and TV companies as script modules give you the freedom to choose areas Spectatorship (option) consultants, programmers, executives and film of specialisation. The course leaders can advise • Film Programming and Moving Image educators. Students have also taken the course on which modules best fit your interests. Curation (option) to develop and expand their teaching careers You have the choice to pursue specialised • Final Project (core) and several have progressed to doctoral studies interests through your choice of optional • Key Concepts in Film, Television and Moving in the UK and abroad. modules and coursework assignments. If you Image (core)

are not sure which optional modules to choose • Introduction to Scriptwriting (option) or fit your interests best, or which types of final • Longform Screenplay Preparation and Short project work to produce to best develop your Documents (option) area of specialisation, you should discuss this • Modern and Contemporary European question individually with the course leaders Cinema (option) and you should aim to do so early on in the academic year. • Researching Histories in Asian Cinema (option) • Television Art: Aesthetics and Quality (option). *Subject to approval

70 FILM AND TELEVISION: THEORY, CULTURE AND INDUSTRY MA westminster.ac.uk/mad westminster.ac.uk/mad FILM AND TELEVISION: THEORY, CULTURE AND INDUSTRY MA 71 ASSOCIATED CAREERS Dr May Adadol Ingawanij Course Leader Graduates have found employment in small and May Adadol Ingawanij is a large-scale film and television companies, as Reader and Director of producers, researchers, distributors, exhibitors Research at the International and in organising film festivals, on film-related Centre for Documentary and magazines and journals, in all levels of film and Experimental Film. She writes TV education, and as academic researchers and teaches on cinema and and doctoral students. history in Southeast Asia, independent and experimental moving image, and radical practices of moving image exhibition. Her ENTRY REQUIREMENTS recent publications include Glimpses of Freedom: Independent Cinema in Southeast You should possess, or be expecting, a good Asia (Cornell University Southeast Asian undergraduate degree or, exceptionally, Program Publications, 2012), and ‘Animism previous relevant experience. Your previous and the performative realist cinema of undergraduate degree does not need to be in Apichatpong Weerasethakul,’ in Screening film or media. You will need fluent written and Nature: Cinema Beyond the Human, Anat Pick spoken English to study at postgraduate level. and Guinevere Narraway, eds. (Berghahn If your first language is not English, you will Books, 2013). In 2012 May directed the Sixth need an IELTS score of 6.5 overall, with 6.0 Bangkok Experimental Film Festival: Raiding the in each element. Archives. BEFF6’s touring programmes have been shown in art, festival and academic venues around the world including Harvard University, the Australian National University, City Gallery Wellington, and the Arkipel International Documentary and Experimental Film Festival, Jakarta. In 2009 she co-curated a Lav Diaz retrospective in Bangkok.

72 FILM AND TELEVISION: THEORY, CULTURE AND INDUSTRY MA westminster.ac.uk/mad westminster.ac.uk/mad FASHION 73 Adobe Systems (UK) fully support the INTERACTIVE MEDIA programme with high recommendation, based PRACTICE MA on the development and key principles the course offers, which is rare and unique. We embrace excellent contacts within the interactive media and games industries, Length of course including regular visits and masterclasses from One year full-time or two years part-time industry professionals at the top of their game from Adobe to Sony. Location Harrow The course embraces a hackathon culture with specialist hack labs boasting newly designed Course fees and funding flexible learning spaces for students to work See westminster.ac.uk/fees more collaboratively on innovation protocols fostering cross-pollination of new ideas More course information creatively. Many students will be working on interactive technologies and digital culture as See westminster.ac.uk/art live industry briefs as well as their own projects well as exploring new emerging creative independently within and outside our course technologies, producing an industry professional clusters. This collaborative approach to learning who can produce as well as explore for future This exciting multidisciplinary Masters and research often leads to successful projects, creative technologies. programme is fully designed to reflect the needs which are commercially viable, and quickly of contemporary new media industries, gain industry recognition through our end of These include mobile apps, mainstream games, bringing together creative technologies, year show. interactive installation, social media and interactivity and design practices within digital eMarketing, with an emphasis on core creative culture. Through the creative application and As one of the major media education providers skills. The course also prepares and enhances effective integration of audio visual new media in Europe, the University of Westminster’s your ability in producing interactive media, formats and interactive multimedia, successful Harrow Campus currently boasts a series of methodologies and production workflows, graduates will be able to address and adapt to professional recording studios, a new teaching supported by a robust understanding of the the changing needs of this sector in order to recording studio, music labs and access to an technologies and theories involved. secure a leadership position in this vibrant array of TV, post-production, radio, film and industry sector. multimedia facilities built and equipped to the The Interactive Media Practice degree offers an highest standards. ideal foundation for those seeking employment in We are in the midst of a digital revolution the digital media industries, which increasingly where interactive media is an integral part of The new media industry has demonstrated require people who work with technology from a our digital culture adding distribution, providing constant growth, and is four times larger than creative perspective. This is the course that will entertainment, and enriching our lives within film, TV and music industries combined. Our create the next generation of interactive media several areas on a daily basis. The widespread course will prepare you for this sector, by talent who are both enterprising and creative. success and establishment of consumer trends leveraging and integrating the fine blend for interactive media devices such as games between creativity and technical capacities. consoles, mobile smart phones, tablet devices You will also benefit from having access to a MODULES and wearables ensure that demand for this type range of highly regarded industry practitioners Applied Innovation and Interactive Design of professionals grows rapidly. who will offer you exceptional insight and working knowledge within the field, both In this module you will explore and experiment with innovative interactive media applications According to the late CEO of Apple, Steve Jobs challenging and encouraging your technical in a range of areas and technologies. This – the media industry “is worth several billion and creative flair. On this Masters degree module explores the development of a new idea pounds annually and employs around 40,000 you will develop commercial-level interactive from concept to completion through applied people, representing approximately ten percent media skills. innovation and interactive design. The focus of the total audiovisual workforce. Sectors such is to exploit and experiment with creative as games and apps show an even wider technologies to produce work with assigned USP growth where providers such as Apple have COURSE CONTENT within the digital spectrum through user-centered paid a total of two billion dollars to app within design, creating a compelling and enriched the US alone.” This multidisciplinary course prepares you to work in a wide range of industries combining user experience. There is an option to gain an theory, practice, and bringing together technical, additional Adobe certification subject to module creative perspectives on new media systems, performance and passing relevant exams.

74 INTERACTIVE MEDIA PRACTICE MA westminster.ac.uk/mad westminster.ac.uk/mad INTERACTIVE MEDIA PRACTICE MA 75 Entrepreneurship and Project Management for and practice-based research on the ways Major Project Savraj Matharu Creative Industries creative media technologies are embedded in The Major Project is your opportunity to Course Leader The module is designed to address reflective the technical, cultural, aesthetic, structures of negotiate a large-scale, self-determined, Senior Lecturer and practice, entrepreneurship and developing your society and how we interact with them on a original and inventive project, based upon Module Leader creative skills through enterprising activity. You daily bases for a deeper understanding through several areas explored in the taught stage of Savraj Matharu – educator will develop your ability to assemble creative a UCD approach. the course. At this stage you will be developing and technologist is a leader in projects and bring them to the market using a project within your specialist area and may interactive media and creative PRINCE2 (Projects IN Controlled Environments) Social Media and eMarketing seek to work with a commercial entity or technology for well over the methodologies for a commercially viable The module examines the role of social media professional body in the development of your past decade, with a track record of success. outcome. You will learn project management within the realm of eMarketing and developing learner contract. He has a wealth of experience with significant theories and mind mapping, explore powerful marketing campaigns and knowledge industry expertise in developing, solving project management practices, as well as within digital media. This module will equip you problems and creating ideas from concept critically evaluate workflows and develop the with advanced knowledge of managing digital ASSOCIATED CAREERS to completion through creative technology competencies and skills of a future project marketing campaigns, using social media and across a variety of platforms. Ranging from manger in industry. This will move towards the web-based technologies. Also developing a There are many highly desirable careers that developing and creating powerful apps, development of utilising your current and new cultural understanding, critical and speculative students from this course can go into such as: creating compelling user interfaces to online skills to formulate and construct an SME or theoretical and practice-based research in order interactive media, app development, new branding. His expertise relies on combining creative micro business for creative industries to predicted future trends. You will also gain media production, educational media, ICT, technical (sciences) with media and design, from concept to completion, which is consumer wider knowledge marketing competencies of media design, online branding, interactive with a prestigious portfolio of educational faced and commercially viable. email marketing, Google analytics, PPC, SEO design, UX designer, UCD, interactive game apps. Widely recognised for his entrepreneurial protocols, as well as trending tools for future design, web production, games designer, skills with the ability to commercialise and Hack Lab and Creative Technologies forecasting insights, and associated powerful media advertising, information design, digital monetize creative ideas through technology, By definition hackathons provide a venue eMarketing and web based tools in order media communication, eMarketing, digital Savraj’s work relies on building on innovation for self-expression and creativity through to enhance, build and manage a campaign production, strategic development, online protocols with consumer-faced outcomes for technology. Individuals with technical successfully using a variety of technologies advertising, UX architect, digital SAM, mobile creative industries. backgrounds come together, form teams around creatively on time and on budget inline with UX, front end development, web development, a problem or idea, and collaboratively code industry demands. email marketing executive, user researcher, He works closely with a variety of commercial a unique solution from concept to completion. PPC digital marketing executive, ecommerce enterprises, to develop USPs through the use These generally take shape in the form of UX Design and Development digital marketing manager, .net developer, UX of technology, interactive media, eMarketing websites, apps, and info graphics more recently Users are fundamental to the consumption of designer academic publisher, UX researcher, and social media through cross collaboration to wearables and VR otherwise described as technology and interfaces, which increasingly social media executive, digital designer, digital initiatives. Savraj is an active contributor to a creative technologies. This module is designed appear within many media platforms. advertising, SEO consultant, content marketing series of monthly publications, a beta tester for to equip students with advanced knowledge This module prepares students to build, develop specialist, interaction designer, digital project Adobe, and certified Apple IOS developer and of managing and assembling ideas, using and design for emerging technologies for manager, optimisation manager. PRINCE2 certified. a wide variety of creative technologies and an enhanced user experience for websites, lateral thinking, in a real world context. Also interactive media, games, and the Internet Inside the University Savraj is best noted for developing innovation protocols, theoretical of things - through a series of challenging ENTRY REQUIREMENTS his passion in teaching practice, industry and practice-based research in order to solve briefs. Students are expected to engage with engagement and cross-pollination activities, real world problems through experiential, PBL innovative practices in designing polished You will need an Upper Second Class Honours such as Coca-Cola hackathon. He teaches and experimental learning methods. user interfaces, which enrich and enhance the degree (or equivalent) or significant work within Media, Arts and Design as well as the users experience and adopting user centred experience. If English is your second language Faculty of Science and Technology and has Mobile Apps and Wearable Devices design principles in developing compelling you will need an IELTS score of 6.5 overall, been awarded teaching fellowship status. This module focuses on producing and designing GUI’s. Students demonstrate and implement this with 5.5 in each element. He is passionate for driving teaching powerful mobile applications, professional through a range of practical coursework using learning using technology as an enabler, practice and the skills required for targeting best industry practices based upon theoretical technology enhanced learning through mobile devices including wearables from research and assigned readings. blending learning pedagogies. concept to completion in alignment with current industry practices for maximising commercial viability, for potentially developing a consumer- faced outcome. You will explore the requirements and various challenges designing for mobile and wearable devices and hack together ideas, which solve real work problems within our hack lab. You will also develop critical, theoretical

76 INTERACTIVE MEDIA PRACTICE MA westminster.ac.uk/mad westminster.ac.uk/mad INTERACTIVE MEDIA PRACTICE MA 77 experimental, installation, fictional realism, and PHOTOGRAPHY ARTS other performative modes of photographic MA* practice. The course encourages open experimentation in the development of new ideas and work. You will advance your practical work choosing new or traditional techniques, Length of course digital or analogue forms, or a mixture of One year full-time or two years part-time approaches. The course champions a long and proud tradition of new and challenging Location photography at the University. Harrow This is the right course if you are highly Course fees and funding motivated, excited to develop and expand your See westminster.ac.uk/fees independent practice alongside critical research. Working with our highly experienced staff you More course information can find new approaches and forms of thinking See westminster.ac.uk/photography about photography. Alumni from the course (under the former title Photographic Studies MA) now work all over the world in a range of The Photography Arts MA is a new revalidated careers as photographers, artists, picture editors, course, which replaces the former Photographic researchers and careers in the creative industries. Studies MA (1996-2016). The programme helps Do you want to join them? you develop your own distinct photographic COURSE MODULES practice and visual research, and is designed to Aesthetics and Photography enable you to advance and focus your COURSE CONTENT The module explores the question of photography photographic practice in making new work, The course aims to develop your practice, in relation to aesthetic issues. Questions of affect, supported by a positive educational environment informed by research. The course sets out to the real, and modes of production of where you can accumulate new knowledge and stimulate thinking through practice as a way to photographic meaning are explored in develop new critical thinking. Students are fully generate new innovative work. Students make contemporary culture and the histories of supported by our internationally renowned and actively present their visual work in photography. Critically informed by lectures and photography staff. exhibition, book and/or screen modes of seminars, the module enables a broader presentation to explore ideas and experiments in knowledge and experience of the theory and In an open-minded educational environment you new methods of practice and representation. practice of questioning cultural and aesthetic will be able to explore the dynamic range of your Critical research modules help inform and functions of the photographic image and process. photographic practice, engage in innovative elaborate the contemporary situation of thinking and cultivate new independent creative photography as cultural practice, whether Contemporary Debates strategies for your practice. Situated in the considered in the arts and/or media The course invites a range of international guest dynamic Westminster School of Media, Arts and environment. Excellent facilities and technical speakers (e.g artists, photographers, critics, Design, you will draw on extensive photographic workshops support the research and practice. philosophers), to give dedicated talks about facilities and a wealth of inter-disciplinary Students write three short research essays during contemporary culture and image debates. The expertise in this world-famous centre for the the course, each aimed at broadening issues, visual work and themes explored in talks practice and critical research of photography. knowledge of photography and its related and the critical discussions afterwards are a histories and criticism. There is no dissertation on means to inspire questions and debate. Students The course has an open definition of this course except as an option. are then encouraged to develop their own photography as a medium and practice, paths of research and explore new topics of recognising plural tendencies in its definition and The course enables students to become visual research. identity. Different modes of practice may be independent practitioners, generating new and developed and pursued on the course, which informed work. You will be empowered with new encompasses a wide range of methods and visual, practical and critical skills that culminate techniques: conceptualism, expanded in the Masters Project, which you will show at the documentary, video, archival, fine art, end of the course in the degree show. The final degree show is in our fabulous Ambika P3 exhibition venue in Marylebone, London. *Subject to approval

78 PHOTOGRAPHY ARTS MA westminster.ac.uk/mad westminster.ac.uk/mad PHOTOGRAPHY ARTS MA 79 ASSOCIATED CAREERS RELATED COURSES This Masters course is an excellent preparation • Documentary Photography and for graduates wishing to pursue a career in Photojournalism MA photography. Graduates go on successfully as international photographers, artists and also in related careers within the visual arts, including David Bate higher research degrees, arts organisations, Course Leader education, media and the creative industries. David Bate is Course Leader of Graduate opportunities increase enormously the Photography Arts MA with a degree from this well-established course. course. An international The MA has a high reputation amongst potential photo-artist, writer and teacher, employers and other agencies within the sector his many works are well known and graduates have a high success rate in in the UK and abroad. His developing their research work at Doctoral level. writings are widely translated and his Photography: Key Concepts book is a standard reading across many photography courses ENTRY REQUIREMENTS around the world. Successful applicants usually will have a good He completed a PhD in the Fine Art BA or BFA degree in photography or fine Department of the University of Leeds, also art, art history, cultural and media studies. studying MA Social History of Art and BA Applicants with a good professional experience (Honours) Film and Photographic Arts. An of photography or related practices in influential teacher, he was one of the core staff television, film and the wider visual arts are Masters Project Research Methods of the Photography programme at Surrey also welcome. Applicants without these may Institute of Art (Farnham) until moving to the The Masters Project is the major body of work In creative and critical play, students develop a be accepted in exceptional circumstances, developed on the course and forms the key work research process to inform their Master’s project. University of Westminster to lead photography provided the applicant can demonstrate their research and the Photography Arts MA in your photography portfolio. You be able to Research Methods explores new methods, ability to meet the demands of the course. direct your personal goals and advance them photographic techniques and visual strategies programme. He also supervises doctoral An interview is normally held and a portfolio students working on photography, art and through your practice. The Masters Project is and provides the basis for research and of practical work, which demonstrates the usually exhibited in the final degree show at development of this major project, its subject culture. He is co-editor of the theory journal applicant’s skills, passion and ambition for Photographies (Routledge) since 2008 and was Ambika P3, our fabulous exhibition venue near matter and contextual knowledge. Students developing their own photographic work is Baker Street in Marylebone, London. Students acquire new critical tools and research paths a co-founder member of the London galleries essential. Evidence of written skills and research Accident and Five Years. Recent publications are supported with individual tutorials, group alongside practical techniques and new knowledge may also be requested. If English is reviews of work, exhibition presentation and intellectual ideas. ‘Doing and thinking’ is a key include the photographic monograph Zone your second language you will need IELTS 6.5 (London: Artwords, 2012), Photography and professional career support. The framework of part of the development process for new work. with 6.0 in each element. the course and its research modules all help to Surrealism (London: IB Tauris, 2004). inform this Masters project, which provides the Theories of the Image Forthcoming works include exhibitions of his future orientated career path of its producer. Photography theory, first developed at this work in the UK and Australia, and two new University, helps to develop a critical books on photography. Photographic Practice understanding of photography as a plural The Photography Practice module enables you to practice, and to introduce current theoretical expand, develop and test photographic ideas debates on photography. The various uses of and explore them in a longer photography photography in art and media environments offer project, lasting up to one year. Your a challenge in constructing a view of what photographic project work will help to develop a photography is and does. Theory and practice visual form of project work through exploring are brought together in this module to show their different methods and modes of working process. mutual relations. The module offers a supportive environment, providing an important context for advancing the photographic work. Photography staff help to stimulate new directions for the work, with individual tutorials, group discussions and practical workshops providing a clear curriculum.

80 PHOTOGRAPHY ARTS MA westminster.ac.uk/mad westminster.ac.uk/mad PHOTOGRAPHY ARTS MA 81 POSTGRADUATEMEDIA AND COURSES SOCIETY IN POLITICS AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS

This is a period of unprecedented We have an interdisciplinary approach change in communication. The courses to issues ranging from communications in the Media and Society cluster enable policy to global media, from students to explore and understand development to diversity, from social media and communication in the media to social change. context of the individual, organisations, society and globalisation during this The teaching team includes both time of rapid change. practitioners and leading researchers in their fields, ensuring that you The course teams help our students learn from those at the cutting edge to develop both critical thinking and of the subject. The teaching is research skills, and also the practical connected to research conducted in professional and communication skills the University’s Communication and that give you a competitive edge. Our Media Research Institute (CAMRI), one graduates find work as journalists, of the world’s leading research centres media practitioners and campaign for media and communication studies, communicators in a range of public with 52 per cent of its research being and private organisations and within assessed as “world-leading” and 87 non-governmental organisations. per cent as “internationally excellent” in the latest UK-wide research evaluation (REF 2014).

westminster.ac.uk/mad MEDIA AND SOCIETY 83 SEMESTER ONE Political Analysis of Communications Policy COMMUNICATION MA As international regimes and national

CORE MODULES regulation become increasingly important in

Dissertation Module the creation and delivery of communications, A taught module and group workshops in the it becomes necessary to understand how the Length of course first semester will guide you in conducting a two levels interact. This module will introduce One year full-time major piece of independent research. This you to those theories of policy making and module will be supplemented by individual international relations which provide tools for Location supervisions beginning from the second the analysis of communications policies, and Harrow and central London semester. The aim is to give you a guided their dynamic interaction at the national and framework within which you can demonstrate international level. Course fees and funding your ability to carry out advanced independent See westminster.ac.uk/fees study and write it up in the form of a dissertation. Political Economy of Communication The dissertation is a 15,000-word piece of This module will introduce you to the More course information original research on a topic agreed with political economy approach to analysing See westminster.ac.uk/journalism your supervisor and related to the political, the production, distribution and consumption economic, cultural and/or sociological factors of media content in text and audiovisual which shape the practices and outcomes of form, whether online or offline, as well as the This highly regarded course offers a rigorous mass media, including media texts and the workings of telecoms networks behind online analysis of the political, economic, cultural and audience reception of them. media. It identifies distinctive economic features sociological factors which shape the practices of media and relates these to trends in the and outcomes of mass media. It will give you Theories of Communication organisation of specific media industries, taking the opportunity to study and research the main The module is intentionally eclectic. account of ways in which the economics of ways in which social scientists have analysed You will cover (in a loosely historical way) the media have been affected by the spread of the role of the mass media and communication, arguments, advantages and problems of the digital technologies. and how to develop, evaluate and apply main sociological, cultural and psychological research to evaluate those theories. theories about the media, from classical Study Skills (no credits) modernisation concepts to contemporary If your first language is not English, or you have The MA ensures that you will receive a relevant, concerns with network society. It aims to no experience of the UK education system, you well-grounded, high-quality education and skill provide a comprehensive introduction to the will benefit from this module. You will be taken base, as well as a clear and comprehensive most important ways of approaching the through the process of producing a piece of understanding of communication and the mass fundamental issues posed by the relationships written work, from note taking to editing, so as media. It is designed both for those who already between the media of communication and to enable you to produce written work in work in, or want to work in, the media, and for social and economic life. It will also enable you accordance with current UK academic those who want to go on to pursue further to understand the problems posed by different standards and practices. academic research in media and communication. intellectual traditions, and to place those

theories in their proper contexts. Technology and Communications Policy Based on continuous assessment, the course This module will offer a comprehensive is taught in lectures and seminars by the team introduction to a range of broadcasting from Westminster’s top-rated Communication and telecommunications technologies and the and Media Research Institute (CAMRI). OPTION MODULES internet, enabling you to assess the economic You will be part of a bustling, multicultural Global Media and political issues surrounding each academic department which boasts a strong This module provides an overview of technology. Topics covered include capital research culture. contemporary developments in global media investment in networks, how and why

and communication industries and their technologies change, strategic interests You will be able to attend the regular talks impact on cultures worldwide. It focuses on and communications, and substitutable by outside speakers (academics and transformations in existing media, with a technologies and the creation of markets. practitioners) on a variety of communication particular emphasis on broadcasting and the and mass media issues. audio visual media and looks at innovations of new information and communications technologies, especially the internet.

84 COMMUNICATION MA westminster.ac.uk/mad westminster.ac.uk/mad COMMUNICATION MA 85 SEMESTER TWO Media, Activism and Censorship Sociology of News RELATED COURSES This module offers a critical assessment of the You will examine, both theoretically and CORE MODULE role of media in political mobilisation, social empirically, different aspects of the news • Communications Policy MA Approaches to Media and movements, dissent, wars, conflicts, elections, creation, dissemination and reception • Diversity and the Media MA Communication Research and political and social crises. The module processes. The module will look at the relevance • Global Media MA This module will introduce you to the main considers the impact of different forms of of different traditions in mass media research • International Media Business MA methods of communication research. We shall censorship and regulation on social, political to the study of news and will be based on a • Media and Development MA and cultural expression in the media. It also number of case studies. The module will focus look at how to undertake selective quantitative • Media Management MA and qualitative methods, understanding and looks at the impact of the internet and new mainly on contemporary practices, in both print • Multimedia Journalism - Broadcast, or Print exploring the different stages of the social means of transparency and communications and electronic media, but attention to historical and Online MA/Postgraduate Diploma science research process, from a definition of on journalism and activism in a range of and conceptual perspectives will also be given. a research hypothesis, to data collection and circumstances from secure democracies through • Public Relations MA analysis. We shall also look at the theoretical different kinds of political systems. ASSOCIATED CAREERS • Social Media, Culture and Society MA reasoning behind different methodological approaches to media and society, in particular Media Audiences Graduates have found jobs in middle and upper the politics of social research. This module begins with an overview of media management in the media industries, as well Jacob Johanssen audiences, and goes on to analyse audiences as in the broader private sector (eg. consulting Acting Course Leader – Communication MA, and media institutions, passive/active and advertising firms), the public sector (eg. Communications Policy MA and Global audiences, media influence and effects, and government ministries, regulatory authorities), Media MA OPTION MODULES ethnography and media audiences. The second international organisations and NGOs. Jacob Johanssen joined CAMRI in 2016 as Chinese Media part of the module is devoted to discussions of Senior Lecturer. Previously, he was Hourly Paid This module is for you if you have little or media and identity, fans, diasporas and new Lecturer in Psychosocial Studies at the University no knowledge of the Chinese media, but media audiences. ENTRY REQUIREMENTS of East London from 2012-2015. He holds a nevertheless realise that for anyone interested BA in Communication Studies (University of in the media in the world today, some Media Business Strategy You should possess, or be expecting, a Salzburg) and an MA in Media and understanding of the biggest national media This module explores the challenges facing good first degree – equivalent to at least an Communications (Goldsmiths, University of system is a necessity. The objective is to media organisations in the fields of strategy Upper Second Class Honours or a minimum London). His research interests include audience introduce participants to the Chinese media and innovation. It addresses the contextual Grade Point Average (GPA) of 3.00 – from research, social media, digital labour, in the context of a world order changing on nature of strategy formation, identifies and a recognised university in a humanities psychoanalysis and the media, affect theory, account of the growth in wealth and power analyses key drivers of change within media or social sciences discipline and/or have psychosocial studies, critical theory, as well as of several countries, in particular China. The industries, and examines the application relevant professional experience. Particular digital culture. Chinese media are seen as a factor in this, and of structured methods of planning in media consideration will be given to mature also as an example of a media system distinct product and service development. The module applicants. The testing nature of the degree from the Anglo-American, which has often been applies management concepts and tools to means that you must be able to write and touted as a model of universal applicability. business and strategic challenges confronting speak fluent English. If English is your second public and private media enterprises across language you should have an IELTS score of at Development and Communications Policy the globe. least 6.5 with 6.0 in each element. You may The aims of this module are to provide you additionally be asked to write 500 words on with a theoretical overview of the concept Policies for Digital Convergence a topic assigned by the University. As far as of ‘development’, and the opportunity to The module studies digital convergence and possible, telephone interviews are conducted consider how it relates to empirical experience the role of policy and regulation in facilitating before offers of admission are made. In these, in communications in small and developing and controlling that process. The focus is on the interviewer looks for evidence of interest in, countries. You will be able to compare internet-related policy debates and concepts and commitment to, the study of communication, the experiences of a range of countries drawing mostly on developments in the USA, as well as analytical skills. in attempting to retain cultural autonomy, the European Union and UK, but with a critical in developing their own communications awareness of the issues facing developing, technologies and policies, in democratisation, transitional and small countries. It critically and in exporting mass media content. assesses competing arguments concerning the interplay between policy and technology and implications for market structures and business models, as appropriate.

86 COMMUNICATION MA westminster.ac.uk/mad westminster.ac.uk/mad COMMUNICATION MA 87 SEMESTER ONE Political Economy of Communication COMMUNICATIONS This module will introduce you to the political POLICY MA CORE MODULES economy approach to analysing the Dissertation Module production, distribution and consumption of A taught module and group workshops in the media content in text and audiovisual form, first semester will guide you in conducting a whether online or offline, as well as the Length of course major piece of independent research. This workings of telecoms networks behind online One year full-time or two years part-time day module will be supplemented by individual media. It identifies distinctive economic features supervisions beginning from the second of media and relates these to trends in the Location semester. The aim is to give you a guided organisation of specific media industries, taking Harrow framework within which you can demonstrate account of ways in which the economics of your ability to carry out advanced independent media have been affected by the spread of Course fees and funding study and write it up in the form of a dissertation. digital technologies. See westminster.ac.uk/fees The dissertation is a 15,000-word piece of original research on a topic agreed with your Study Skills (no credits) More course information supervisor and related to issues of policy If your first language is not English, or you have See westminster.ac.uk/journalism and regulation in the media, information no experience of the UK education system, and/or telecommunications/internet sectors. you will benefit from this module. You will be This may include links between policy and taken through the process of producing a piece This course is designed to give you a policy-making affecting media industries and of written work, from note taking to editing, critical analysis of issues of policy and telecommunications/internet and political, so as to enable you to produce written work regulation in the media, information and/ economic or social developments affecting in accordance with current UK academic or telecommunications/internet sectors. markets, companies, technologies, institutions standards and practices. This may include links between policy and or international relations. policy-making affecting media industries Technology and Communications Policy and telecommunications/internet and Political Analysis of Communications Policy This module will offer a comprehensive political, economic or social developments As international regimes and national introduction to a range of broadcasting affecting markets, companies, technologies, regulation become increasingly important in and telecommunications technologies and institutions or international relations. The the creation and delivery of communications, the internet, enabling you to assess the course encourages diversity and is designed it becomes necessary to understand how economic and political issues surrounding to have international appeal. It ensures that the two levels interact. This module will each technology. Topics covered include you receive a relevant, well-grounded, high- introduce you to those theories of policy making capital investment in networks, how and why quality education and skill base, enabling and international relations which provide tools technologies change, strategic interests and you to have a wide, clear and comprehensive for the analysis of communications policies, and communications, and substitutable technologies understanding of communications policies. their dynamic interaction at the national and and the creation of markets. international level. Based on continuous assessment, the course Theories of Communication is taught in lectures and seminars by the team The module is intentionally eclectic. You from Westminster’s top-rated Communication OPTION MODULES will cover (in a loosely historical way) the and Media Research Institute (CAMRI). You will arguments, advantages and problems of the be part of a bustling, multicultural academic Global Media main sociological, cultural and psychological department which boasts a strong research This module provides an overview of theories about the media, from classical culture. You will be able to attend the regular contemporary developments in global media modernisation concepts to contemporary talks by outside speakers (academics and and communication industries and their concerns with network society. It aims to practitioners) on a variety of communication impact on cultures worldwide. It focuses on provide a comprehensive introduction to the and mass media issues. transformations in existing media, with a most important ways of approaching the particular emphasis on broadcasting and the fundamental issues posed by the relationships audio visual media and looks at innovations between the media of communication and of new information and communications social and economic life. It will also enable you technologies, especially the internet. to understand the problems posed by different intellectual traditions, and to place those theories in their proper contexts.

88 COMMUNICATIONS POLICY MA westminster.ac.uk/mad westminster.ac.uk/mad COMMUNICATIONS POLICY MA 89 SEMESTER TWO Media, Activism and Censorship Sociology of News RELATED COURSES This module offers a critical assessment of the You will examine both theoretically and CORE MODULE role of media in political mobilisation, social empirically different aspects of the news • Communication MA Approaches to Media and movements, dissent, wars, conflicts, elections, creation, dissemination and reception • Diversity and the Media MA Communication Research and political and social crises. The module processes. The module will look at the • Global Media MA This module will introduce you to the main considers the impact of different forms of relevance of different traditions in mass media • International Media Business MA methods of communication research. We shall censorship and regulation on social, political research to the study of news and will be based • Media and Development MA and cultural expression in the media. It also on a number of case studies. The module will look at how to undertake selective quantitative • Media Management MA and qualitative methods, understanding and looks at the impact of the internet and new focus mainly on contemporary practices, in • Multimedia Journalism – Broadcast, or Print exploring the different stages of the social means of transparency and communications both print and electronic media, but attention to and Online MA/Postgraduate Diploma science research process, from a definition of on journalism and activism in a range of historical and conceptual perspectives will also a research hypothesis, to data collection and circumstances from secure democracies through be given. • Public Relations MA analysis. We shall also look at the theoretical different kinds of political systems. • Social Media, Culture and Society MA reasoning behind different methodological approaches to media and society, in particular Media Audiences ASSOCIATED CAREERS the politics of social research. This module begins with an overview Jacob Johanssen of media audiences, and goes on to analyse Graduates have found jobs in middle Acting Course Leader – Communication MA, audiences and media institutions, passive/ and upper management in media industries, Communications Policy MA and Global active audiences, media influence and effects, as well as the broader private sector (eg Media MA OPTION MODULES and ethnography and media audiences. consulting and advertising firms) and public Jacob Johanssen joined CAMRI in 2016 as Chinese Media The second part of the module is devoted sectors (eg government ministries, regulatory Senior Lecturer. Previously, he was Hourly Paid This module is for you if you have little or to discussions of media and identity, fans, authorities), international organisations and Lecturer in Psychosocial Studies at the University no knowledge of the Chinese media, but diasporas and new media audiences. non-governmental organisations. of East London from 2012-2015. He holds a nevertheless realise that for anyone interested BA in Communication Studies (University of in the media in the world today, some Media Business Strategy Salzburg) and an MA in Media and understanding of the biggest national media This module explores the challenges ENTRY REQUIREMENTS Communications (Goldsmiths, University of system is a necessity. The object is to introduce facing media organisations in the fields London). His research interests include audience participants to the Chinese media in the of strategy and innovation. It addresses You should possess, or be expecting, a research, social media, digital labour, context of a world order changing on account the contextual nature of strategy formation, good first degree – equivalent to at least an psychoanalysis and the media, affect theory, of the growth in wealth and power of several identifies and analyses key drivers of change Upper Second Class Honours or a minimum psychosocial studies, critical theory, as well as countries, in particular China. The Chinese within media industries, and examines the Grade Point Average (GPA) of 3.00 – from digital culture. media are seen as a factor in this, and also as application of structured methods of planning a recognised university in a humanities an example of a media system distinct from the in media product and service development. or social sciences discipline and/or have Anglo-American, which has often been touted The module applies management concepts relevant professional experience. Particular as a model of universal applicability. and tools to business and strategic challenges consideration will be given to mature confronting public and private media applicants. The testing nature of the degree Development and Communications Policy enterprises across the globe. means that you must be able to write and The aims of this module are to provide speak fluent English. If English is your second you with a theoretical overview of the concept Policies for Digital Convergence language you should have an IELTS score of of ‘development’, and the opportunity to The module studies digital convergence and at least 6.5 with 6.0 in each element. You consider how it relates to empirical experience the role of policy and regulation in facilitating may additionally be asked to write 500 words in communications in small and developing and controlling that process. The focus is on on a topic assigned by the University. As far countries. You will be able to compare internet-related policy debates and concepts as possible, telephone interviews are also the experiences of a range of countries drawing mostly on developments in the conducted before offers of admission are in attempting to retain cultural autonomy, USA, the European Union and the UK but made. In these, the interviewer looks for in developing their own communications with a critical awareness of the issues facing evidence of interest in, and commitment to, technologies and policies, in democratisation, developing, transitional and small countries. the study of communications policy, as well and in exporting mass media content. It critically assesses competing arguments as analytical skills. concerning the interplay between policy and technology and implications for market structures and business models, as appropriate.

90 COMMUNICATIONS POLICY MA westminster.ac.uk/mad westminster.ac.uk/mad COMMUNICATIONS POLICY MA 91 DIVERSITY AND COURSE CONTENT SEMESTER ONE In addition to your programme of studies, we CORE MODULE THE MEDIA MA work hard to ensure that as a Diversity and the Approaches to Social and Cultural Diversity Media MA student, you are offered opportunities This module examines the various theoretical to gain valuable experience with media and attempts to make sense and deal intellectually NGOs whose work is relevant to your programme Length of course with social and cultural diversity, from of studies and enhances your employability One year full-time assimilationism to liberal universalism, after graduation. We have established integration theories, liberal multiculturalism partnerships with the Media Diversity Institute, Location and the various strands of multiculturalism. TAG International Development and The Prisma/ Harrow It examines the concepts of pluralism, The Multicultural Newspaper which offer paid or universalism, cosmopolitanism, tolerance unpaid internships that give you the opportunity Course fees and funding and respect as they have developed in various to work in the UK or overseas or to contribute See westminster.ac.uk/fees theoretical contexts and assesses their implications to the production of media content. In the past in contemporary politics and culture. our students have also gained experience by More course information participating in the Pearson Diversity Summer See westminster.ac.uk/journalism Internship Programme and other similar schemes. We place particular importance to OPTION MODULES such opportunities as these help you to build This highly innovative new course (developed Introduction to Inclusive Journalism upon your academic and practical work and in collaboration with the Media Diversity This module examines the practice of contemporary further develop the skills that will enable you Institute) will give you the opportunity to journalism and its role in shaping a democratic to embark on your chosen career. study and research the main ways in which and inclusive society. The module introduces social scientists analyse the role of the mass journalistic techniques of information gathering You can choose one of two routes for the media in the social construction, representation and analysis, journalistic norms and values and award: the Dissertation Route or a Practice and understanding of difference and social basic principles of inclusive media formats. It Route culminating in a Final Project. diversity. You will also gain a critical employs practical journalistic exercises, personal examination, critical media analysis, and understanding of the social and media Dissertation structures and journalistic practices that impact scholarly study to increase awareness and A major 15,000-word piece of independent upon these processes. critical engagement with the issues surrounding original research on a topic agreed with your reporting of diversity in society. supervisor and related to the political, The course combines a portfolio of theory economic, cultural and/or sociological factors modules designed to develop your knowledge Issues in Journalism: Freedom of Speech, which shape the practices and outcomes of and critical understanding of the processes of Ethics and Democracy mass media, including media texts and the managing and making sense of cultural diversity, This module provides a critical examination and audience reception of them. key issues in intercultural communication and of discussion of the impact of ethical, human rights and other issues that confront journalists around various aspects of the sociology of news with a Final Project number of practice-oriented modules intended the world, in a variety of social, political and An independent in-depth practical project, which to give you first-hand experience in the practice economic contexts. involves researching, compiling and presenting of inclusive journalism. your own TV or radio documentary, website or Media Production Skills print journalism work, together with a self- Drawing upon this unique combination of The module will give you a basic understanding reflective, critical analysis (7,000 words) that rigorous theoretical engagement and specialist of the structures and practical abilities needed in will demonstrate the skills and techniques practical training, this course is designed to: news journalism. You will develop individual gained during the course. Please note equip you with a comprehensive conceptual/ skills in study, research and writing as well as that all the information contained herein theoretical grounding and the practical skills team skills in designing and writing for the web. is subject to approval. to engage in responsible media coverage of The module aims to enable you to: develop a diversity; practice culturally informed and critical understanding of how print, radio and inclusive journalism; develop a career TV operate; develop news-writing techniques (whether practical, strategic, or research-based) for different media platforms; learn individual involving understanding and responding to and team skills across different media the challenges of social diversity. platforms; acquire knowledge of ethical considerations faced by journalists; and to design and develop a website in teams.

92 DIVERSITY AND THE MEDIA MA westminster.ac.uk/mad westminster.ac.uk/mad DIVERSITY AND THE MEDIA MA 93 Reporting Diversity: Gender, Sexuality, it raises questions about interpretations of and journalistic practice in such processes. RELATED COURSES Age, Disability contemporary developments. The module It provides a context for critical thinking and This module will present information for critical assesses the range of institutions campaigning discussion about multi-racial, multi-ethnic and • Communications Policy MA thinking and discussion about media for freedom of expression and those seeking multi-cultural issues associated with contemporary • Global Media MA representation of age, gender, sexual to hold the media and journalism to account. news media. You will study and research the • International Media Business MA orientation and disability. The module will The module is quite unique in its combination stereotypes of people of colour, various ethnic • Media and Development MA discuss ways of improving journalism practice of traditional academic lectures and seminars groups, refugees and immigrant communities in • Media Management MA in order to bridge social and cultural divisions. the mainstream news media. The module will with attendance of topical events and visits to • Multimedia Journalism – Broadcast, You will study and research the stereotypes of look at the influence, responsibility, and power relevant exhibitions and institutions. or Print and Online MA/PG Diploma youth and the elderly, men and women, gay of journalism in reporting diversity issues. The • Public Relations MA and lesbian communities and people with Media Audiences purpose of this module is to encourage student disabilities. The course will look at the This module begins with an overview of media journalists to see, look at, report and reflect on • Social Media, Culture and Society MA influence, responsibility, and power of audiences, and goes on to analyse audiences the society they live in. journalism in reporting these diversity issues. and media institutions, passive/active audiences, media influence and effects, and Sociology of News Roza Tsagarousianou ethnography and media audiences. The second A critical study of the news media in the context Course Leader SEMESTER TWO part of the module is devoted to discussions of of current society; this module examines Roza is Reader in Mass media and identity, fans, diasporas and new different aspects of how news is created, Media and Communication CORE MODULE media audiences. disseminated and consumed. Followed by a at Westminster School of Media, Arts and Design. She Diversity in the Media: Models, Institutions, dissertation (Dissertation route) or a final project has been Director of the Practices Planning Campaign Communications for NGOs (Practice route). Faculty’s Communication MA, The core module for the practice route of the and Charities of the CAMRI Doctoral programme and has course looks at the various ways in which our In this module you will learn how to research You may choose optional modules from the developed the Diversity and the Media MA, understanding of diversity and difference has and plan a campaign for social change Media and Society cluster courses subject to the which she is currently leading. impacted on the way in which media models, based on the theories of social change agreement of the course leaders concerned. institutions and professionals engage with social examined in Semester One. You will produce She is convenor of the Diasporas and the and cultural diversity. It focuses on different communication material such as news releases, Media working group of the International national media policy frameworks and media e-alerts, tweets, infographics, apps and / or ASSOCIATED CAREERS Association for Media and Communication cultures, it examines the meaning of the melting videos to support the campaign strategy. Research and leads and teaches pot, cultural mosaic and salad bowl metaphors Where possible, you will work to live briefs, This course is designed to attract a mix of new Multiculturalism and the Media; Media, and their operationalisation by the media, and both UK and international in focus. This is a graduates, often with a media-related degree or Time, Space; Approaches to Social and looks at various media institutions and their practical, hands-on module taught through a work experience, and people who have already Cultural Diversity; Understanding and responses to social diversity. This module is series of workshops, visits to campaign worked in journalism, but want to enhance their Managing Diversity in the Media; as well as offered as an option in the dissertation route. communication teams in London-based understanding of social diversity and their skills campaigning organisations, and guest talks by in the area of inclusive journalism. It is suitable the Doctoral Research Module for the CAMRI leading international campaigners and social for existing media practitioners, as well as Doctoral programme. Her research interests change communicators. students who want to pursue a career in the include the study of diasporic media and OPTION MODULES media, national and local government, IGOs cultural politics; multiculturalism, European Media, Activism and Politics Reporting Diversity: Faith and Religion and NGOs or who intend to embark on a Muslim cultures and media. The module critically investigates the This module presents and critically evaluates relevant research/academic career. It will be relationship between media, activism and debates around social and faith/religious a valuable asset for civil servants and local Her publications include a special issue of censorship. It offers a critical assessment of the diversity, awareness of the issues surrounding authority staff, NGO workers working on Javnost/The Public (2002:1) on the theme role of media in political mobilisation, social the reporting of faith and faith communities immigration, equality, social inclusion and Diasporic Communications, a special issue of movements, dissent, wars, conflicts, elections, in their societies. Through a series of lectures cohesion and community regeneration whose Journal of Contemporary European Studies on and political and social crises. The module and workshops/seminars, it will encourage duties involve communication and media work. Rethinking Multiculturalism (2013), considers the impact of different forms of you to reflect on the various aspects of media Cyberdemocracy: Technologies, Cities and censorship and regulation on social, political and journalism practice in relation to religion Civic Networks (1997), Diasporic Cultures and and cultural expression in the media. It also and faith. ENTRY REQUIREMENTS Globalization (2007), and Islam in Europe: looks at the impact of the internet and new Public Spaces and Civic Networks (2013). You should possess, or be expecting, at least means of transparency and communications Reporting Diversity: Migration, Race, Ethnicity an Upper Second Class Honours degree (or on journalism and activism in a range of This module introduces the students to key equivalent). If English is your second language circumstances from secure democracies theoretical perspectives on the cultural production you should have an IELTS score of at least 6.5 through different kinds of political systems. By and representation of race, ethnicity and with 6.0 in each element. examining the role of the media historically migrancy and discusses the role of the media

94 DIVERSITY AND THE MEDIA MA westminster.ac.uk/mad westminster.ac.uk/mad DIVERSITY AND THE MEDIA MA 95 SEMESTER ONE Political Economy of Communication GLOBAL MEDIA MA This module will introduce you to the CORE MODULES political economy approach to analysing the Dissertation production, distribution and consumption A taught module and group workshops in of media content in text and audiovisual Length of course the first semester will guide you in conducting a form, whether online or offline, as well as One year full-time or two years part-time day major piece of independent research. This the workings of telecoms networks behind module will be supplemented by individual online media. It identifies distinctive economic Location supervisions beginning from the second features of media and relates these to trends in Harrow semester. The aim is to give you a guided the organisation of specific media industries, framework within which you can demonstrate taking account of ways in which the economics Course fees and funding your ability to carry out advanced independent of media have been affected by the spread of See westminster.ac.uk/fees study and write it up in the form of a dissertation. digital technologies. The dissertation is a 15,000-word piece of More course information original research on a topic agreed with your Study Skills (no credits) See westminster.ac.uk/journalism supervisor and related to developments, If your first language is not English, or you have processes and outcomes in transnational media no experience of the UK education system, and communications, ranging from the sub- you will benefit from this module. You will be From Al Jazeera to Hollywood, News national to the supra-national, and/or their taken through the process of producing a piece Corporation to China Central TV, the media impact on cultures worldwide. of written work, from note taking to editing, increasingly operate in a global context. This so as to enable you to produce written work course offers a comprehensive interdisciplinary Global Media in accordance with current UK academic approach to global media, and is designed for This module provides an overview of standards and practices. those who work in, or want to work in, the contemporary developments in global media industries. media and communication industries and Technology and Communications Policy their impact on cultures worldwide. It focuses This module will offer a comprehensive You will examine key developments in on transformations in existing media, with a introduction to a range of broadcasting and the media and communications industries particular emphasis on broadcasting and the telecommunications technologies associated with the logic of globalisation, and audio visual media and looks at innovations and the internet, enabling you to assess the explore the complex nature of the globalisation of new information and communications economic and political issues surrounding process in the media. You will gain a relevant, technologies, especially the internet. each technology. Topics covered include well-grounded, high-quality education and skill capital investment in networks, how and why base, enabling you to develop a clear and technologies change, strategic interests and comprehensive understanding of communications, substitutable technologies and communication and the mass media. OPTION MODULES the creation of markets. Political Analysis of Communications Policy Based on continuous assessment, the course As international organisations and national Theories of Communication is taught in lectures and seminars by the team regulation become increasingly important in the The module is intentionally eclectic. You will from Westminster’s top-rated Communication creation and delivery of communications, it cover (in a loosely historical way) the arguments, and Media Research Institute (CAMRI). becomes necessary to understand how the two advantages and problems of the main You will be part of a bustling multicultural levels interact. This module will introduce you to sociological, cultural and psychological theories academic department which boasts a strong those theories of policy making and about the media, from classical modernisation research culture, and you will be able to international relations which provide tools for concepts to contemporary concerns with attend the regular talks by outside speakers the analysis of communications policies, and network society. It aims to provide a (academics and practitioners) on a variety of their dynamic interaction at the national and comprehensive introduction to the most important communication and mass media issues. international level. ways of approaching the fundamental issues posed by the relationships between the media of communication and social and economic life. It will also enable you to understand the problems posed by different intellectual traditions and to place those theories in their proper contexts.

96 GLOBAL MEDIA MA westminster.ac.uk/mad westminster.ac.uk/mad GLOBAL MEDIA MA 97 SEMESTER TWO Media, Activism and Censorship Sociology of News RELATED COURSES This module offers a critical assessment of the You will examine both theoretically and CORE MODULE role of media in political mobilisation, social empirically aspects of the news creation, • Communication MA Approaches To Media and movements, dissent, wars, conflicts, elections, dissemination and reception processes. The • Communications Policy MA Communication Research and political and social crises. The module module will look at the relevance of different • Diversity and the Media MA This module will introduce you to the main considers the impact of different forms of traditions in mass media research to the study • International Media Business MA methods of communication research. You will censorship and regulation on social, political of news and will be based on a number of • Media and Development MA case studies. The module will focus mainly learn how to undertake selective quantitative and cultural expression in the media. It also • Media Management MA and qualitative methods, understanding and looks at the impact of the internet and new on contemporary practices, in both print and • Multimedia Journalism – Broadcast, or Print exploring the different stages of the social means of transparency and communications electronic media, but attention to historical and and Online MA/Postgraduate Diploma science research process; from a definition of on journalism and activism in a range of conceptual perspectives will also be given. a research hypothesis, to data collection and circumstances from secure democracies through • Public Relations MA analysis. You will also look at the theoretical different kinds of political systems. • Social Media, Culture and Society MA reasoning behind different methodological ASSOCIATED CAREERS approaches to media and society, in particular Media Audiences the politics of social research. This module begins with an overview of media Graduates have found jobs in middle Jacob Johanssen audiences, and goes on to analyse audiences and upper management in media industries, Acting Course Leader – Communication MA, and media institutions, passive/active as well as the broader private sector (eg. Communications Policy MA and Global OPTION MODULES audiences, media influence and effects, consulting and advertising firms) and public Media MA and ethnography and media audiences. sectors (eg. government ministries, regulatory Jacob Johanssen joined CAMRI in 2016 as Chinese Media The second part of the module is devoted to authorities), international organisations and Senior Lecturer. Previously, he was Hourly Paid This module is for you if you have little or discussions about media and identity, fans, non-governmental organisations. Lecturer in Psychosocial Studies at the University no knowledge of the Chinese media, but diasporas and new media audiences. of East London from 2012-2015. He holds a nevertheless realise that for anyone interested BA in Communication Studies (University of in the media in the world today, some Media Business Strategy ENTRY REQUIREMENTS Salzburg) and an MA in Media and understanding of the biggest national media This module explores the challenges facing Communications (Goldsmiths, University of You should possess, or be expecting, system is a necessity. The objective is to media organisations in the fields of strategy London). His research interests include audience a good first degree – equivalent to at least introduce participants to the Chinese media and innovation. It addresses the contextual research, social media, digital labour, an Upper Second Class Honours or a in the context of a world order changing on nature of strategy formation, identifies and psychoanalysis and the media, affect theory, minimum Grade Point Average (GPA) of account of the growth in wealth and power analyses key drivers of change within media psychosocial studies, critical theory, as well as 3.00 – from a recognised university in a of several countries, in particular China. The industries, and examines the application of digital culture. humanities or social sciences discipline and/ Chinese media are seen as a factor in this, and structured methods of planning in media product or have relevant professional experience. also as an example of a media system distinct and service development. The module applies Particular consideration will be given to mature from the Anglo-American, which has often been management concepts and tools to business applicants. The testing nature of the degree touted as a model of universal applicability. and strategic challenges confronting public means that you must be able to write and and private media enterprises across the globe. Communications Policy and Development speak fluent English. If English is your second language you should have an IELTS score of at The aims of this module are to provide you Policies for Digital Convergence least 6.5 with 6.0 in each element. You may with a theoretical overview of the concept The module studies digital convergence and the additionally be asked to write 500 words on of ‘development’, and the opportunity to role of policy and regulation in facilitating and a topic assigned by the University. As far as consider how it relates to empirical experience controlling that process. The focus is on internet- possible, telephone interviews are conducted in communications in small and developing related policy debates and concepts drawing before offers of admission are made. In these, countries. You will be able to compare mostly on developments in the USA, the the interviewer looks for evidence of interest the experiences of a range of countries European Union and Britain, but with a critical in and commitment to the study of global and in attempting to retain cultural autonomy, awareness of the issues facing developing, transnational media and communication, as in developing their own communications transitional and small countries. It critically well as analytical skills. technologies and policies, in democratisation, assesses competing arguments concerning and in exporting mass media content. the interplay between policy and technology and implications for market structures and business models, as appropriate.

98 GLOBAL MEDIA MA westminster.ac.uk/mad westminster.ac.uk/mad GLOBAL MEDIA MA 99 MEDIA AND SEMESTER ONE OPTION MODULES CORE MODULES Approaches to Social and Cultural Diversity DEVELOPMENT MA The module examines the various theoretical Dissertation A taught module and group workshops in the attempts to make sense and deal intellectually first semester will guide you in conducting a with social and cultural diversity, from assimilationism to liberal universalism, integration Length of course major piece of independent research. This theories, liberal multiculturalism and the One year full-time module will be supplemented by individual supervisions beginning from the second various strands of multiculturalism. It examines the concepts of pluralism, universalism, Location semester. The aim is to give you a guided cosmopolitanism, tolerance and respect as they Harrow framework within which you can demonstrate your ability to carry out advanced independent have developed in various theoretical contexts and assesses their implications in contemporary Course fees and funding study and write it up in the form of a dissertation. politics and culture. See westminster.ac.uk/fees The dissertation is a 15,000 word piece of original research on a topic agreed with Global Media More course information your supervisor and related to the political, This module examines key developments in See westminster.ac.uk/journalism economic, cultural and/or sociological factors which shape the practices and outcomes of the media and communications industries mass media, including media texts and the associated with the logic of globalisation. You will explore the complex nature of the This interdisciplinary course teaches main audience reception of them. globalisation process, focusing on the theories, concepts, case studies and practical emergence of both supra-national and media skills around the theme of media and Theories of Communication sub-national developments and explore development and its implications for less The module is intentionally eclectic. You the relationship between new contexts developed countries. The course will provide will cover (in a loosely historical way) the of production and questions of collective you with a unique blend of theory and arguments, advantages and problems of the culture and identity. practice teaching, aimed at deepening your main sociological, cultural and psychological theories about the media. It aims to provide knowledge of the history of communications Media Production Skills within the development process of emerging a comprehensive introduction to the The module gives students a basic economies. It will critically evaluate the impact most important ways of approaching the understanding of the structures and practical of international and regional institutions from fundamental issues posed by the relationships abilities needed in news journalism. They will a critical political economic perspective. between the media of communication and develop individual skills in study, research and Teaching by academic staff, guest lecturers and social and economic life. It will also enable you writing and team skills in designing and writing other carefully selected staff from development to understand the problems posed by different for the web. The module aims to enable you to organisations will provide you with an intellectual traditions, and to place those develop a critical understanding of how print, overview of the policies, actions and impact of theories in their proper contexts. radio and TV operate; develop news-writing state and non-state institutions within the area of techniques for different media platforms; learn communication media and development. Theories of Development This module focuses on different theories and individual and team skills across different media platforms; acquire knowledge of ethical A distinctive feature is its emphasis on the approaches to development. It considers key considerations faced by journalists; and design practical role of communication media in development theories and approaches such as and develop a website in teams. development. You will participate in media modernisation, dependency and neo- liberalism and will provide you with an opportunity to production workshops and take part in our Political Analysis of Communications Policy internship programme, offered in partnership critically assess their relevance to specific As international regimes and national with media and development organisations contexts in developing countries. regulation become increasingly important in in London. As part of the work experience the creation and delivery of communications, it module, students participate in an extensive becomes necessary to understand how the two NGOs and media seminar series featuring levels interact. This module will introduce you to experts and panel discussions. The work those theories of policy making and placement programme is in line with the international relations which provide tools for University of Westminster’s strategy of nurturing the analysis of communication policies, and of the critical practitioner. their dynamic interaction at the national and international level.

100 MEDIA AND DEVELOPMENT MA westminster.ac.uk/mad westminster.ac.uk/mad MEDIA AND DEVELOPMENT MA 101 Political Economy of Communication SEMESTER TWO Media Business Strategy This module introduces students to the political This module explores the challenges facing economy approach to analysing the structure CORE MODULES media organisations in the fields of strategy and performance of communication industries Media Work Experience and innovation. It addresses the contextual in capitalist economies. It identifies distinctive Students will be encouraged to take work nature of strategy formation, identifies and economic features of media and relates these experience during the course. With the number analyses key drivers of change within media to trends in the organisation of specific media of charities and NGOs dealing with industries, and examines the application of industries, taking account of ways in which the development in London, we expect students will structured methods of planning in media economics of media have been affected by the get a placement with an organisation and we product and service development. The module spread of digital technologies. envisage them working in a communications applies management concepts and tools to role. Students on the media and development business and strategic challenges confronting Reporting Diversity: Migration, Race, Ethnicity MA have the option to join the C4D network public and private media enterprises across This module introduces the students to key and each can do a fellowship/internship with the globe. theoretical perspectives on the cultural the network during the course. Policies for Digital Convergence production and representation of race, ethnicity Media, Activism and Censorship The module studies digital convergence and and migrancy and discusses the role of the Political Economy of Communication This module offers a critical assessment of the the role of policy and regulation in facilitating media and journalistic practice in such The aims of this module are to provide you role of media in political mobilisation, social and controlling that process. The focus is on processes. It provides a context for critical with a theoretical overview of the concept of movements, dissent, wars, conflicts, elections, internet-related policy debates and concepts thinking and discussion about multi-racial, ‘development’, and the opportunity to consider and political and social crises. The module drawing mostly on developments in the USA, multi-ethnic and multi-cultural issues associated how it relates to empirical experience in considers the impact of different forms of the European Union and the UK but with a with contemporary news media. You will study communications in small and developing censorship and regulation on social, political critical awareness of the issues facing and research the stereotypes of people of countries. You will be able to analyse the role and cultural expression in the media. It also developing, transitional and small countries. colour, various ethnic groups, refugees and of multilateral and bilateral agencies, NGOs, looks at the impact of the internet and new It critically assesses competing arguments immigrant communities in the mainstream news public service broadcasting and to compare means of transparency and communications concerning the interplay between policy and media. The module will look at the influence, the experiences of a range of countries in on journalism and activism in a range of technology and implications for market responsibility, and power of journalism in attempting to retain cultural autonomy, in circumstances from secure democracies structures and business models, as appropriate. reporting diversity issues. The purpose of this developing their own communications through different kinds of political systems. module is to encourage student journalists to technologies and policies, in democratisation, Reporting Diversity: Sexuality, Age, Disability see, look at, report and reflect on the society and in exporting mass media content. This Planning Campaign Communications This module will present information for they live in. module also critically discusses chinese Campaigning in the last century saw the critical thinking and discussion about media intervention in communication and development mobilisation of large numbers of people to representation of age, gender, sexual Study Skills (no credits) in Africa. bring about political and social change. The orientation and disability. The module will If your first language is not English, or you political landscape has changed and the ways discuss ways of improving journalism practice have no experience of the UK education to influence it have grown. Major changes in in order to bridge social and cultural divisions. system, you will benefit from this module. You society and technology now enable concerned You will study and research the stereotypes will be taken through the process of producing OPTION MODULES citizens from around the world to come together of youth and the elderly, men and women, a piece of written work, from note taking to Approaches to Media and online and take action on issues that concern gay and lesbian communities and people editing, so as to enable you to produce written Communication Research them. Is there still a role for civil society with disabilities. The course will look at work in accordance with current UK academic This module will introduce you to the main organisations in this new environment or is the influence, responsibility, and power of standards and practices. methods of communication research. We shall online activism mapping out a new model for journalism in reporting these. look at how to undertake selective quantitative social change? Campaigning non-governmental Technology and Communication Policy and qualitative methods, understanding and organisations (NGOs) are, in some areas, the Reporting Faith This module will introduce you to a range exploring the different stages of the social natural voice of dissent, but they too run the risk This module presents and critically evaluates of broadcasting and telecommunications science research process, from a definition of of being seen as part of the establishment. As debates around social and faith/religious technologies, enabling you to assess the a research hypothesis, to data collection and trust in institutions declines, how can NGOS diversity, awareness of the issues surrounding economic and political issues surrounding each analysis. We shall also look at the theoretical maintain their influence and change their the reporting of faith and faith communities technology. Topics covered include capital reasoning behind different methodological techniques to deliver successful campaigns? in their societies. Through a series of lectures investment in networks, how and why approaches to media and society, in particular What does the new political and campaigning and workshops/seminars, it will encourage technologies change, strategic interests and the politics of social research and diversity issues. landscape look like, what are the current you to reflect on the various aspects of media communications, and substitutable technologies techniques and how can you decide which is and journalism practice in relation to religion and the creation markets. the best technique to use for your campaign? and faith.

102 MEDIA AND DEVELOPMENT MA westminster.ac.uk/mad westminster.ac.uk/mad MEDIA AND DEVELOPMENT MA 103 Sociology of News RELATED COURSES You will examine both theoretically and empirically different aspects of the news creation, • Communication MA dissemination and reception processes. The • Communications Policy MA module will look at the relevance of different • Diversity and the Media MA traditions in mass media research to the study • Global Media MA of news and will be based on a number of case • International Media Business MA studies. The module will focus mainly on • Media, Campaigning and Social Change MA contemporary practices, in both print and • electronic media, but attention to historical and Media Management MA conceptual perspectives will also be given. • Public Relations MA • Social Media, Culture and Society MA

ASSOCIATED CAREERS Winston Mano The course is suitable for you if you would value Course Leader an opportunity to be able to reflect critically on Winston Mano was educated the role of media in the process of development in Zimbabwe, Norway and and learn practical skills. The course will be Britain. He worked as editor for of interest to you if you have a background in Africa Film and TV and taught working for governmental, intergovernmental at the University of Zimbabwe. and nongovernmental organisations, and a He joined CAMRI in 2000 range of international business organisations, and obtained his Doctoral degree in 2004. while at the same time providing appropriate He teaches undergraduate and postgraduate preparation for those seeking employment courses. He has written many articles and book in such fields or, indeed, wanting to prepare chapters, and edited (2005) The Media and for further studies for higher a higher degree, Zimbabwe, a Special Issue of Westminster including a PhD. Papers in Communication and Culture. Winston is the founding editor of the Journal of African While the majority of our graduates will return Media Studies and sits on the advisory boards of to more senior posts with improved skills, other academic journals. He helped to organise knowledge and qualifications gained from their the CAMRI Africa Media Series and to establish year with us, we would expect them to apply the Africa Media Centre. for jobs at development organisations such as Internews, BBC Media Action, Oxfam, Save the Children, Red Cross, Actionaid, Panos, DFID, Intermedia, Institute of War and Peace, Christian Aid, WACC, OneWorld and War on Want.

ENTRY REQUIREMENTS You should have, or expect, at least an Upper Second Honours degree (or equivalent). If English is your second language you should have an IELTS score of at least 6.5, with 6.0 in each element.

104 MEDIA AND DEVELOPMENT MA westminster.ac.uk/mad westminster.ac.uk/mad MEDIA AND DEVELOPMENT MA 105 MEDIA, CAMPAIGNING AND SOCIAL CHANGE MA

Length of course One year full-time or two years part-time

Location Harrow and central London

Course fees and funding See westminster.ac.uk/fees

More course information See westminster.ac.uk/journalism

This new Masters from the highly regarded Media and Society cluster aims to equip you with the skills, knowledge and strategic approach to develop and analyse social change campaigns, with a particular focus on the role of communications and the media. It is the only MA in the UK to specialise in this field.

This innovative course builds on our close links The course team has extensive experience both These three core modules make up the with leading campaigners and communicators in developing social change campaigns and in Postgraduate Certificate. in London’s vibrant social change sector. academic research into the connections between They include representatives from Amnesty media and social change. The course is jointly You can take another three modules – chosen International, Friends of the Earth, Water led by Michaela O’Brien and Dr Anastasia from a very wide range of options including Aid and The National Council of Voluntary Kavada with additional teaching by leading Practical Media and Content Production Skills; Organisations. Their involvement ensures the social change practitioners and members of Diversity Issues; Development and Policy; Social course accurately reflects the skill sets in demand CAMRI. The course offers a number of delivery Media; Theories of Communication and more – and delivers an exciting learning experience. modes to suit the different needs of students to complete a Postgraduate Diploma. A limited number of work placements and and can be taken either part-time or full-time. internships will be available. You can apply for a Postgraduate Certificate, If you want to take the Masters course you will the longer Postgraduate Diploma, or the full also complete either a 15,000-word research The course is aimed at those with some Masters course. dissertation, or a professional practice project experience in social change, the media, (which can be work-based). and campaign communications within not There are three core modules. The first for profit organisations. The course will help develops practical planning and campaign you improve your practical skills, develop communications skills; the second considers a deep understanding of the theories and media and activism theories; and the third frameworks that underpin and shape campaign combines theory with practice, reflecting on communications, and enjoy the space to applying concepts like power and ethics within reflect critically on current and past practice. the setting of campaign communications. It is designed to help you start, or progress, Each module has assessments – eg essays, a career in charity, pressure group or public campaign plans, reflective blogs, debates and sector campaign communications. It may also presentations – rather than exams. be of interest to those working in corporate social responsibility.

106 MEDIA, CAMPAIGNING AND SOCIAL CHANGE MA westminster.ac.uk/mad westminster.ac.uk/mad MEDIA, CAMPAIGNING AND SOCIAL CHANGE MA 107 CORE MODULE OPTION MODULES SEMESTER ONE You choose three option modules from the Critical Issues in Campaigning following menu. You may choose to focus In this module, you will consider the factors on practical skills, on new technologies, that influence social change in the context of on diversity or development, or on media current campaigns around the world, and the audiences and industries. historical development of campaign techniques and practices. You will apply a critical analysis of concepts such as power, theories of change, SEMESTER ONE ethics, innovation, media representation, Choose two of the following in addition to the narrative and framing to practical scenarios core module: and topical campaigns. This module requires • Approaches to Social and Cultural Diversity you to monitor and critically evaluate practice in the UK and/or internationally. • Global Media • Media Management and Content Production (PR and the Media) CORE MODULES • Media Production • Political Economy of Communication SEMESTER TWO • Reporting Diversity: Gender, Sexuality, Media, Activism and Politics Age, Disability The module investigates the relationship • Social Media and e-Marketing between media, activism and politics. • Social Media: Creativity, Sharing, Visibility It offers a critical assessment of the role • Technology and Communications Policy of media in political mobilisation, social Michaela O’Brien • Theories of Communication. ASSOCIATED CAREERS movements, dissent, memes, satire and art, Dr Anastasia Kavada This course is particularly relevant if you and political and social crises. The module Course leaders want to start, or to progress, a career in The course is jointly led by Michaela O’Brien looks at the impact of the communications communications and campaigning for on activism in a range of circumstances from SEMESTER TWO and Dr Anastasia Kavada. Michaela brings to social change, whether in a charity or non- the course her extensive practical experience secure democracies through different kinds Choose one of the following in addition to the governmental organisation; in a public of using media to create social change, having of political systems. The module combines core modules: sector body; in a political party or election traditional academic lectures and seminars worked as a campaign communicator for • Approaches to Media and campaigning setting; or even in a corporate 20 years prior to joining the University. She with attendance at topical events and visits to Communications Research social responsibility role. It could also be a relevant exhibitions and institutions. has developed award winning campaigns • Critical Theory of Social Media stepping-stone towards a PhD and an academic for a range of not for profits in the UK and and the Internet career in this growing field of study. Planning Campaign Communications Australia. Her previous clients include Amnesty In this module you will learn how to research • Development and Communications Policy International, the British Library, Carers UK, the and plan a strategic campaign for social • Media Audiences Department of Education (NSW), Gingerbread change based on the theories of social • Online Journalism ENTRY REQUIREMENTS and War on Want. Anastasia has a PhD in Media and Communication and has published change examined in Semester One. You will • Reporting Diversity: Faith and Religion You should possess an Upper Second Class extensively in academic journals on the links produce communication material such as • Reporting Migration, Race and Ethnicity Honours degree (or equivalent). If English between online tools and activists’ organising, news releases, e-alerts, tweets, infographics • Sociology of News is your second language you should have decision making and solidarity. She has carried and/or videos to support your campaign an IELTS score of 7.0 overall, with 6.5 in • Web Production: Westminster News Online. out research into Avaaz, the Global Justice strategy. Where possible, you work to live each element. briefs from campaigning organisations. This Movement, Greenpeace and the Occupy is a practical, hands-on module taught through movement. Anastasia is Assistant Editor of a series of workshops, visits to campaign Media, Culture and Society and Deputy communication teams in London-based RELATED COURSES Director of the Communication and Media campaigning organisations, and guest • Communication MA Research Institute. talks by leading campaigners and social • Diversity and the Media MA change communicators. • Media and Development MA • Public Relations MA • Social Media, Culture and Society MA

108 MEDIA, CAMPAIGNING AND SOCIAL CHANGE MA westminster.ac.uk/mad westminster.ac.uk/mad MEDIA, CAMPAIGNING AND SOCIAL CHANGE MA 109 • Acquiring advanced knowledge and OPTION MODULES SOCIAL MEDIA, understanding of the key categories, CULTURE AND theories, approaches and models of Study Skills (no credits) social media If your first language is not English, or you have no experience of the UK education system, SOCIETY MA • The role and impact of social media and you will benefit from this module. You will the internet on society and human practices be taken through the process of producing • Obtaining advanced insights into practical a piece of written work, from note taking to activity and practice-based work that relate editing, so as to enable you to produce written Length of course to how social media and the internet work One year full-time or two years part-time day work in accordance with current UK academic and the implications they have for social and standards and practices. cultural practices. Location Harrow Two elective modules from two topical clusters You can also visit the course’s Facebook page: (any combination of modules is applicable): facebook.com/MASocialMedia Course fees and funding • Theory and Global Political Economy See westminster.ac.uk/fees of Media and Communication • Media Politics, Regulation and More course information SEMESTER ONE Business Strategies. See westminster.ac.uk/journalism CORE MODULES Dissertation Module THEMATIC GROUP: THEORY AND The Social Media, Culture and Society MA A taught module and group workshops in the GLOBAL POLITICAL ECONOMY OF offers a flexible interdisciplinary exploration first semester will guide you in conducting MEDIA AND COMMUNICATION of key contemporary developments in the a major piece of independent research or networked digital media environment. It creating a theoretically inspired social media Global Media will benefit those seeking to develop their artefact. This module will be supplemented This module examines key developments understanding of contemporary communication by individual supervisions beginning from in the media and communications industries and its societal, political, regulatory, industrial the second semester. The aim is to give you associated with the logic of globalisation. and cultural contexts. a guided framework within which you can You will explore the complex nature of demonstrate your ability to carry out advanced the globalisation process, focusing on the The course provides you with the opportunity to independent study and write it up in the emergence of both supra-national and focus at postgraduate level on: form of a dissertation. The dissertation is a sub-national developments and explore 15,000-word piece of original research on a the relationship between new contexts of • Studying the ways in which social media topic agreed with your supervisor and related production and questions of collective culture and the internet shape and are shaped by to the political, economic, cultural and/or and identity. social, economic, political, technological sociological factors which shape the practices and cultural factors, in order to equip you and outcomes of social media or a social Political Economy of Communication to become critical research-oriented social media artefact accompanied by a written report This module will introduce you to the political media experts of approximately 7,000 words, in which you economy approach to analysing the structure • Developing reflective and critical insights critically reflect on your social media project and and performance of communication industries into how social media and the internet are ground it in relevant theory. in capitalist economies. It identifies distinctive used in multiple contexts in society, and into economic features of media and relates these which roles social media can play in various Social Media: Creativity, Sharing, Visability to trends in the organisation of specific media forms of organisations that are situated in This module provides you with a theoretical industries, taking account of ways in which the these societal contexts. The aim is that you understanding of the development, significance economics of media have been affected by the are equipped to become reflective and and contemporary uses of social media. It spread of digital technologies. critical social media practitioners fosters both critical analysis and reflective • Gaining in-depth knowledge and practice in the networked digital media Theories of Communication understanding of the major debates about environment. You will critically engage with key The module is intentionally eclectic. You the social and cultural roles of social media ideas of creativity, sharing and visibility in will cover (in a loosely historical way) the and the internet social media and will participate in creative arguments, advantages and problems of the and reflective practice using leading social main sociological, cultural and psychological media tools and platforms. theories about the media. It aims to provide a comprehensive introduction to the

110 SOCIAL MEDIA, CULTURE AND SOCIETY MA westminster.ac.uk/mad westminster.ac.uk/mad SOCIAL MEDIA, CULTURE AND SOCIETY MA 111 most important ways of approaching the OPTION MODULES Sociology of News to work as digital media professionals in fundamental issues posed by the relationships A critical study of the news media in the research organisations, public administration, between the media of communication, and Two elective modules from two topical clusters context of current society; this module examines international organizations and civil society social and economic life. It will also enable you (any combination of modules is applicable): different aspects of how news is created, organisations, such as NGOs, and private to understand the problems posed by different • Media Politics, Regulation and disseminated and consumed. companies. It will also provide an excellent intellectual traditions, and to place those Business Strategies preparation for those wishing to continue their theories in their proper contexts. • Media, Culture and Everyday Life. Understanding and Managing Diversity studies to PhD level. in the Media This module looks at the various ways in which THEMATIC GROUP: MEDIA POLITICS, THEMATIC GROUP: MEDIA POLITICS, our understanding of diversity and difference has ENTRY REQUIREMENTS REGULATION AND BUSINESS STRATEGIES REGULATION AND BUSINESS STRATEGIES impacted on the way in which media models, institutions and professionals engage with social You should possess an Upper Second Political Analysis of Communications Policy Development and Communications Policy and cultural diversity. It focuses on different Class Honours degree (or equivalent). If As international regimes and national regulation The aims of this module are to provide you national media policy frameworks and media English is your second language you should become increasingly important in the creation with a theoretical overview of the concept cultures, it examines the meaning of the melting have an IELTS score of at least 7.0, with 6.5 and delivery of communications, it becomes of ‘development’, and the opportunity to pot, cultural mosaic and salad bowl metaphors in each element. necessary to understand how the two levels consider how it relates to empirical experience and their operationalisation by the media, and interact. This module will introduce you to those in communications in small and developing looks at various media institutions and their theories of policy making and international countries. You will be able to compare responses to social diversity. This module is RELATED COURSES relations which provide tools for the analysis the experiences of a range of countries offered as an option in the dissertation route. of communications policies, and their dynamic in attempting to retain cultural autonomy, • Communication MA interaction at the national and international level. in developing their own communications Another 20 Credit Level 7 module for which the • Communication Policy MA technologies and policies, in democratisation, student meets the prerequisites and gains the • Diversity and the Media MA Technology and Communications Policy and in exporting mass media content. permission of the course leader(s). The selected • Global Media MA This module will introduce you to a range module must fit with your timetable and the • Media and Development MA of broadcasting and telecommunications Media, Activism and Censorship course’s goals. • Media, Campaigning and Social technologies, enabling you to assess the The module critically investigates the Change MA economic and political issues surrounding relationship between media, activism and This MA is organised in the environment of the each technology. Topics covered include censorship. It offers a critical assessment of the Communication and Media Research Institute capital investment in networks, how and why role of media in political mobilisation, social (CAMRI) and its Centre for Social Media Professor Graham Meikle technologies change, strategic interests and movements, dissent, wars, conflicts, elections Research. CAMRI is a world-leading research Course leader communications, and substitutable technologies and political and social crises. The module centre that studies the role of media and Graham Meikle is Professor and the creation of markets. considers the impact of different forms of communication in society. It has become known of Communication and Digital censorship and regulation on social, political as the Westminster school of critical media and Media. He joined the University and cultural expression in the media. communication research. The analysis of social of Westminster in 2013, SEMESTER TWO media, culture and society is one of its research having previously taught at specialisms. In the 2014 Research Excellence the University of Stirling in CORE MODULE THEMATIC GROUP: Framework (REF), 42.2 per cent of CAMRI’s Scotland and Macquarie University in Sydney, Critical Theory of Social Media MEDIA, CULTURE AND EVERYDAY LIFE research was classified as world-leading and Australia. Graham’s most recent book is Social and the Internet 37.5 per cent as internationally excellent, Media: Communication, Sharing and Visibility, This module provides an overview of the critical Media Audiences which makes it one of Britain’s four leading published by Routledge in February 2016. and theoretical analysis of how the internet and This module begins with an overview media and communication research institutions. His current research projects include writing a social media (Facebook, Twitter, Wikipedia, of media audiences, and goes on to analyse book about the internet of things, and editing WikiLeaks, file sharing, blogs etc) shape and audiences and media institutions, passive/active The Routledge Companion to Media and impact on society, the economy and politics, audiences, media influence and effects, and ASSOCIATED CAREERS Activism. Graham’s other books include: Media and how power structures in society shape the ethnography and media audiences. The second Convergence: Networked Digital Media in The degree will benefit those seeking a internet and social media. part of the module is devoted to discussions Everyday Life (2012), co-written with Sherman competitive edge in a careers market that of media and identity, fans, diasporas Young; Future Active: Media Activism and the values high-level skills in communication, and new media audiences. Internet (2002); and Interpreting News (2009). research and critical thinking. This degree He has a PhD in Media and Communication; will be of particular interest to those who plan a Masters in Media, Technology and Law, to work in the creative industries, as well as (both from Macquarie University); and an those already working in this field. The MA in MA(Hons) in English Literature from the Social Media, Culture and Society will also University of Edinburgh. be of interest to those working or planning

112 SOCIAL MEDIA, CULTURE AND SOCIETY MA westminster.ac.uk/mad westminster.ac.uk/mad SOCIAL MEDIA, CULTURE AND SOCIETY MA 113 POSTGRADUATEEMERGING COURSESMEDIA INLABS POLITICS AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS

This group of new Masters programmes forms of engagement and effective focuses on evolving creative and interaction. Taught by internationally cultural practices at the interface of leading practitioners, scholars and media technologies and social change. professionals, these practice-based These new postgraduate courses cover and project-oriented programmes a range of digital and networked aim to stimulate students’ creative media, advanced creative methods and and intellectual agility, and their technical tools, prototyping and testing. capacity for interdisciplinary and They foster students’ abilities to operate transcultural collaboration that drive with different modes of knowledge societal transformation. production, to understand their critical frameworks and historical contexts, For more information please go to to build publics through imaginative westminster.ac.uk/mad

Creative Commons by Flickr user jahdakinebrah westminster.ac.uk/mad EMERGING MEDIA LABS 115 IMAGING ART AND COURSE OVERVIEW COURSE STRUCTURE AND The University of Westminster was the first MODULE CONTENTS SCIENCE MA* institution in the UK to provide academic

degrees in Photography, Imaging Science and Technology and has produced world MA pathway MSc pathway leaders in the fields of Image Science, Length of course Imaging Technologies, Photographic Arts and Methods – Process – Context One year full-time or two to five years Photographic Theory. (20 credits) part-time day The MA/MSc in Imaging Art and Science is Transactions and Public Engagement Location a cross-disciplinary programme built on our Harrow and Cavendish (40 credits) experience and proficiency in these fields, run in collaboration by Westminster School of Media, Course fees and funding Colour Imaging Colour Imaging Arts and Design (MA) and the Faculty of Science See westminster.ac.uk/fees dual pathway dual pathway and Technology (MSc). It provides cutting edge (20 credits) (20 credits) education, supported by external links to creative More course information and scientific industries. See westminster.ac.uk/mad Image Quality Image Quality and Content and Content dual pathway dual pathway The MA/MSc in Imaging Art and Science is MA AND MSc PATHWAYS (20 credits) (20 credits) a unique programme in Imaging, designed Students enroll for an MA or an MSc degree, Imaging Arts Imaging Science to equip students with advanced skills in but can potentially change pathway. The areas relating to image conception, MA and MSc pathways share some common (20 credits) (20 credits) formation, capture, analysis, evaluation and syllabus, whilst the majority of the content visualisation from the perspectives of art, is distinctive to each degree, to allow for Research Project Research Project science and technology. discipline specialisation to be developed within (60 credits) (60 credits) an multidisciplinary environment. Relevant areas include digital image representation Option module Option module from and visualisation; digital imaging systems from Westminster the Faculty of Science and their performance evaluation; cultural, School of Media, and Technology theoretical, and historical aspects of the Arts and Design (20 credits) production and consumption of images; colour (20 credits) vision, measurement and management; image quality, content and aesthetics; programming for imaging. The course encourages understanding of interdisciplinary issues Methods – Process – Context relating to imaging, by providing space for Methods – Process – Context is a shared MA/ art/science collaborative projects and hybrid MSc module providing advanced research skills methodologies. Students engage in a Major relevant to art, science and inter-disciplinary Project, specific to the MA or MSc pathway, projects. It offers data analysis/statistics, and where appropriate, collaborate with technical and creative skills, introduction to external creative, technological and scientific creative programming and programming industries. MA students obtain their degree for imaging. A range of skills is offered to from Westminster School of Media, Arts and allow students to tailor their skill-set to support Design and MSc students from the Faculty of themselves throughout the course. Science and Technology. Transactions and Public Engagement Transactions and Public Engagement encourages understanding of interdisciplinary aspects of imaging, and provides a space for art/science collaborative imaging projects, the outputs of which are disseminated in yearly events. *Subject to approval

116 IMAGING ART AND SCIENCE MA westminster.ac.uk/mad westminster.ac.uk/mad IMAGING ART AND SCIENCE MA 117 The Research Project ASSOCIATED CAREERS The Research Project is a self-directed, pathway- specific body of work undertaken with academic Depending on the tailored module/content supervision; it often runs in collaboration with selection and Major Project topic, graduates relevant industries/organisations. of the MA/MSc will be able to work in a range of fields, including: imaging practice *You must take at least two module options and production (eg fine art/ commercial from the course. One option can be taken from photography, film post production and other relevant postgraduate courses within special effects); image management, picture Westminster School of Media, Arts and Design, research, curating (eg photographic libraries, or the Faculty of Science and Technology. museums and archives); scientific imaging and processes (eg biomedical imaging labs, image processing and analysis, colour management), imaging science research WHO IS THE COURSE FOR? (eg optical system development, image The course is aimed at Art or Science graduates quality, imaging performance). Graduates from disciplines relating to Imaging (eg may also work in a number of other areas, photography, media, fine art, or computer including imaging education, research labs science, electrical engineering, mathematical and creative applications. and physical sciences), wishing to specialise Colour Imaging* in Imaging Arts or Imaging Sciences, while Studying in a multidisciplinary environment Colour Imaging is a dual pathway MA/ developing a cross-disciplinary outlook, will equip graduates with a lateral approach MSc module discussing colour theory, colour informed by scientific, art and theoretical to problem solving, and the ability to vision, colour measurement, appearance perspectives. We also encourage applicants communicate disciplinary issues to wide and management, alongside the cultural, with equivalent experience in related fields audiences, including the public. Collaboration theoretical, and historical dimensions of colour such as photography, art, science, media or with the industry will provide graduates with in visual arts and imaging. imaging industries. real world research experience, an attribute that is highly prized by prospective employers. Image Quality and Content* ADMISSION CRITERIA Image Quality and Content is a dual pathway A number of our graduates now work in MA criteria WHO TEACHES THE COURSE? leading imaging centres in the industry, MA/MSc module, exploring cultural and Normally, applicants will require a First or The course is delivered by staff from such as Apple Research Labs, Aptina Imaging, scientific approaches to image quality. Areas Upper second Honours degree in photography, Westminster School of Media, Arts and Design, ON Semiconductor, The Home Office of study include visual psychophysics, image media, fine art, or other relevant academic and the Faculty of Science and Technology. The Centre for Applied Science and Technology, quality models, critical theory and aesthetics. discipline; or equivalent experience in a staff team has extensive expertise in imaging Moving Picture Company (MPC), Framestore, photography, art, and/or media related science, visual science, computer science, or research and teach in academic Imaging Arts* industrial context. Imaging Arts is MA pathway specific; it focuses commercial and fine art photography, critical institutions internationally. theory and philosophy. It includes members on the cultural production and consumption of MSc criteria of the Imaging Technology Research Group images, issues of visuality and visualisation, Normally, applicants will require a First or (ITRG, westminster.ac.uk/imaging-technology) and the politics of image aesthetics. Upper second Honours degree in a scientific at the Centre for Research into Art and Media discipline relating to imaging, such as imaging Practice (CREAM) and the Computer Vision and Imaging Science* science electrical engineering, physics, Imaging group (westminster.ac.uk/research/ Imaging Science is MSc pathway specific; it mathematics, computer science; or equivalent a-z/computer-vision-and-imaging). Members focuses on signal sampling and quantisation, experience in relevant subject areas in of the staff team disseminate and publish their digital image formation, image analysis and industrial contexts. measurements of imaging system performance. research internationally and are also active in consultancy within the creative and scientific It includes optics relevant to image formation If English is your second language an IELTS industries. Recent publications include Fashion and system performance. score of 7.0 overall, with 6.0 in each element as Photograph, Emerging Landscapes and the is required for both pathways. classic textbooks Manual of Photography and Langford’s Advanced Photography.

118 IMAGING ART AND SCIENCE MA westminster.ac.uk/mad westminster.ac.uk/mad IMAGING ART AND SCIENCE MA 119 The Interactive Factual Narrative MA has a MODULES INTERACTIVE FACTUAL totally different approach from any masters’ degree course you might know of. It has been Interactive Factual Fundamentals NARRATIVE MA (IF Fundamentals) conceived as a multi-disciplinary lab that will be taught in “burst mode” - blocks of three full days The aim of this module is to provide you with every two to three weeks - in order to allow you a theoretical and historical overview of the field of interactive storytelling – with a focus on Length of course to keep your professional life while developing factual narratives. Theories of interactivity and One year full-time taught in block release your dream personal project on the side. Treat it as a way to do R&D for your company’s narrative models will be analyzed while looking at existing examples. This module will run Location special project, or as a way to stay creative through the first two semesters and will provide Harrow and socially engaged while keeping your day- to-day job. The Interactive Factual Narrative a critical space for the class. Taking a full day out of the three of each burst, IF Fundamentals Course fees and funding MA offers you a creative space to engage with will use the theme of the burst and give the See westminster.ac.uk/fees your passions. students a chance to be active in their research and experimentation. Students will be asked More course information Modules on this course are following the to present case studies, guest speakers will be See westminster.ac.uk/journalism production schedule of an interactive project and adopt an iterative way of working - invited, examples will be peer-critiqued - so that where testing and user experience is taken you will have a solid understanding of the field that will allow you to place your projects in a The storyteller of the future is not just in consideration at each step of the creative critical context. someone with ideas, but a person that is process. It will feel as a safe playing ground able to communicate concepts through a where you will be encouraged to learn, fail, re-iterate and ultimately think outside of the Ideation: Interactive Storytelling and series of platforms, that can lead innovation Prototyping and communicate effectively within an box. You will be asked to adopt a collaborative The first part of this module will be dedicated inter-disciplinary team. Today’s designers, ethos and open your professional expertise to to sharpening the core story of each group. coders, journalists, documentary film makers, the benefit of your course peers, In doing so Strategies to pin down and research the photographers, educators, broadcasters, radio you will feel part of a creative community that primary and secondary audience of the producers and social campaigners need to will support you when needed, and hopefully project will be disclosed, and teams will work have the appropriate digital media skills to “tell serve you as a network even after the course on the “what, whom and why” methodology. their stories” in an interactive way. has finished. This is where a mixture of user personas, impact charts, platform maps and other user The Interactive Factual Narrative MA is The modules will be very hands on and will experience design techniques will be tried. designed to create a safe experimental be lead by a mixture of professionals from The second part of this module will be environment where you will acquire the the field and university staff. All modules will dedicated to initial prototyping of your ideas. methodology you need in order to develop be compulsory – this is to allow the different User journeys and user flows might act as a your interactive factual stories. As this is a groups to advance at a similar pace. starting point to start paper prototyping and new field, terminology is still confusing and presenting a first structure to the class. Testing you will have heard wording as varied as By the end of the year you will have expanded techniques and iterative design will also be i-docs, web-docs, social apps, mobile news, your ideas of what an interactive narrative can experimented. immersive journalism, VR stories, factual digital be, acquired a solid knowledge of the field, consolidated a multi-skilled network of people experiences, serious games, stories for change, Building 1: Platforms, Design and Technology transmedia non-fiction… and more. We have and developed a digital prototype of your This module wants to give you the tools to conglomerated all these different terminologies group idea. By then your project should be decide of the scope of your project so that you into the larger family of interactive factual ready to be presented to potential financers and can start digitally prototyping it. Concepts such narratives, or “interfactuals”: stories that use media partners. as “minimum viable product” and “project digital interactive media to portray the world scoping” will be used to delimitate your first around us and who want to initiate change. prototyping efforts. Current authoring and digital prototyping tools will be presented and you will be asked to experiment with them. Theories of user experience, iterative design and user testing will be core to this module. By the end of this module you will aim to have your first project’s digital prototype.

120 INTERACTIVE FACTUAL NARRATIVE MA westminster.ac.uk/mad westminster.ac.uk/mad INTERACTIVE FACTUAL NARRATIVE MA 121 Building 2: The Business of Interactive ASSOCIATED CAREERS Storytelling Not forgetting that your project will need The course is mainly geared at giving you the a solid business grounding if it wants to be right support and methodology to develop your fully developed, this module will touch upon interactive project during the course. The critical four main areas: impact, budget, marketing awareness and the iterative methodology that and pitching. Each of these themes will be you will gain will then serve you to remain developed through a full hands-on day lead competitive in the digital creative industries by specialists in each field. By the end of this you might enter in the future, regardless of the module you will have to complete a first draft technologies they use. of your project’s industry treatment.

Major Project RELATED COURSES The last semester will be dedicated to the building of your interactive project and the • Documentary Photography and consolidation of its industry treatment. Through Photojournalism MA regular meeting points and tutorials you will be • Interactive Media Practice MA coached all the way till your final pitch in front of a panel of industry members. Following the pitch you will be asked to provide a critical review piece that could be a written paper of 3,000 words or an interactive piece – the form of which will need to be discussed with your module leader. Here you will be able to critically evaluate your own work within the group efforts, position your project within the current interactive landscape and relevant interactive theory.

122 INTERACTIVE FACTUAL NARRATIVE MA westminster.ac.uk/mad westminster.ac.uk/mad INTERACTIVE FACTUAL NARRATIVE MA 123 ART AND POSTGRADUATEDISTANCE LEARNING COURSES IN POLITICS ANDDESIGN INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS

Westminster School of Media, Arts and Design recognises the role of technology in creating flexible learning options that meet the demands of students globally.

Distance Learning courses offer students the opportunity to benefit from high quality teaching and world renowned research whilst studying from a location of their choice.

The School works alongside the University’s Education Technology Specialists to offer an engaging online learning platform where specialised modules can be delivered and students can collaborate remotely.

The asynchronous nature of our Distance Learning courses means that students based in different time zones can learn effectively and this allows students to fit their studies around other commitments such as employment.

124 westminster.ac.uk/mad DISTANCEART AND LEARNING DESIGN 125 INTERNATIONAL CULTURAL RELATIONS MA/DIPLOMA/ CERTIFICATE

Length of course 18 months full-time for MA, part-time options available for MA/Diploma and Certificate

Credit requirements MA (180), Diploma (140), Certificate (60)

Location Online delivery On-site Summer Leadership Intensive Course fees COURSE CONTENT (20 credits) See course page on the website The learning environment is primarily online The Summer Leadership Intensive occurs over and is designed to be highly interactive with two weeks between May and July each summer an emphasis on experiential and inclusive in a geographically rotating location. You will The International Cultural Relations programme learning and cross-cultural collaboration in a have the opportunity to engage with expert is an interdisciplinary postgraduate course of virtual environment. speakers, to follow special leadership topics study at the nexus of international relations, arts and to have field experiences. Full information and cultural management and cultural policy All students must pass the prerequisite core will be available at the beginning of Term 2 that bridges theory and practice. It provides an module, “Global Perspectives”, which is offered (January) prior to the module’s convening. opportunity to gain conceptual knowledge and every term, before undertaking any options, Additional accommodation, travel and visa applied skills in cultural relations, intercultural project or dissertation, and all students must costs will apply. This is a core module for MA communication, cross-cultural management, take one summer on-site intensive module, students, although you may be permitted to cultural policy, cultural development and although exemption from the latter may be substitute another module in exceptional cases cultural diplomacy in global, multi-stakeholder granted through mitigating circumstances. of accepted mitigating circumstances. environments. Students learn within a global faculty and have the opportunity to MA Dissertation (40 credits) develop professional networks among expert The MA Dissertation module, undertaken over practitioners and scholars, learn best practices, CORE MODULES three semesters, enables you to build your and participate in experiential learning and Global Perspectives in International Cultural understanding of research and evaluation field experiences that allow for deeper inquiry Relations (20 credits) by undertaking a piece of independent into specific interest areas of international This module offers a critical introduction to academic research (library or field work cultural relations. international cultural relations practiced globally based) within your chosen subject area under through analysis of the major approaches the guidance of the faculty. The first semester The course is guided by an Advisory Group underlying the interdisciplinary, cross-cultural will include online seminars, lectures and from the University of Westminster and external study of international cultural engagement. It discussion around research methods, literature expert representatives working in the field of is built around the key theorists and relevant review and identifying a research topic. The international cultural relations worldwide. conceptual approaches practiced by multiple second semester will include online lectures actors (states, corporations, civil society, sub- and seminars around structure and style of national actors and citizens), and through their dissertations including ethical considerations. work examines the complex interactions of During the third semester, you are expected to culture in relation to globalisation, diplomacy, complete your research and produce the final the pursuit of mutual understanding and dissertation of 12,000-15,000 words. international cultural engagement in its many forms.

126 INTERNATIONAL CULTURAL RELATIONS MA/DIPLOMA/CERT westminster.ac.uk/mad westminster.ac.uk/mad INTERNATIONAL CULTURAL RELATIONS MA/DIPLOMA/CERT 127 OPTION MODULES Public Engagement and Cultural Diversity (20 credits) Cultural Development and the Creative This module introduces you to theories and Economy (20 credits) practical applications for cultural relations, This module provides an introduction to considering contexts of cultural diversity, the place of culture in the contemporary changing demographics and new media understanding of development and the creative strategies. You will learn processes for bringing economy, placing emphasis on international individuals, groups, governmental agencies, development policies and programmes. and non-governmental organisations together Combining approaches from different to address issues of common importance, disciplines and introducing a wide range for shared problem solving around, and of practical examples and case studies, the participation in positive social change through module aims to bridge theory and practice. deliberation, dialogue and action. Cultural Policy (20 credits) This offers a critical introduction to cultural policy practiced locally, nationally, regionally ASSOCIATED CAREERS and globally through analysis of frameworks The International Cultural Relations MA is and current priorities, and topics including designed for the early to mid-level NGO, civil cultural participation, culture and trade, arts society or government practitioner with two to education, international cooperation and five years of experience and those who have mobility, cultural diversity and cultural rights, career ambitions in the fields of: international culture in communities and overall wellbeing. arts, education and cultural management, It is built around the key theorists and relevant cultural diplomacy/external cultural relations, conceptual approaches practiced by multiple cultural policy, cultural development and the actors who create, influence, implement and creative industries. The course welcomes more evaluate policy. The module examines the mature candidates who want to gain credit process of cultural policy making and the value for or update their skills. The degree also of arts and culture to societies. enables further academic study in relevant fields at PhD level. Intercultural Communication (20 credits) This module examines a wide range of theorists who have written on intercultural communication; it also challenges you to ENTRY REQUIREMENTS apply these theories critically to your own Admission to the course requires a First Class intercultural behaviour in personal and or Upper Second Class Honours degree professional contexts by drawing on your or equivalent (BA 3.0 GPA) in the Arts, own wide-ranging intercultural experiences. Social Sciences or Humanities; equivalent Through professional and autobiographical qualifications from overseas are accepted. case studies, you will learn to function Students with other first degrees will be effectively in environments where a variety of considered, but will be required to show strong cultures or sub-cultures are present. evidence of motivation and related professional experience. You should have a minimum of International Cultural Relations Programme two to five years of related work experience. If Development (20 credits) your first language is not English, you will need This module provides an opportunity for you an IELTS score of 6.5 or equivalent with seven to design an international cultural relations strongly preferred. programme of your choice. The module will culminate in a “grant selection committee” simulation where you will present, advocate for and evaluate your peers’ proposals based on set criteria to determine which proposals are funded.

128 INTERNATIONAL CULTURAL RELATIONS MA/DIPLOMA/CERT westminster.ac.uk/mad westminster.ac.uk/mad INTERNATIONAL CULTURAL RELATIONS MA/DIPLOMA/CERT 129 ENGLISH LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT PRE-SESSIONAL AND ACADEMIC ENGLISH COURSES

International students who have been offered a place to study a postgraduate course at Westminster, but who have not met the English language requirements, may also be offered a place on one of our pre-sessional courses.

If you are an international student who has met the English language requirements for your course, but would still like to study on one of our pre-sessional courses, you may also apply to the admissions officers responsible for your course.

To be admitted onto either the seven-week or 12-week course, you will need to meet minimum English language criteria; full details of entry requirements can be found on our website, at westminster.ac.uk/pre-sessional- english-courses

Once you have started your degree, our Westminster Professional Language Centre can offer you modules to develop your Academic English proficiency in the context of your disciplinary studies.

Pre-sessional English Academic English modules Our pre-sessional English courses will help Our Academic English modules have been you to develop the language, literacy, and designed to allow you to consolidate, extend study skills necessary for academic life on and develop your proficiency in Academic your postgraduate course. You will also English alongside your degree course. experience student life through our social and Assessment of your level of proficiency in welcome programmes. Academic English will take place during orientation week and learning week one (exact Our aim is to provide you with a solid dates and time-slots will be circulated in early foundation in the use of Academic English September or early January, depending on your orally and in writing before you start your course start date). This will determine whether degree course, and to give you the skills, you will benefit from taking one of the modules. knowledge and experience to make the most of your time at university. For more information visit westminster.ac.uk/ academic-english

130 ENGLISH LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT westminster.ac.uk/mad westminster.ac.uk/mad ENGLISH LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT 131 FACILITIES

Only 20 minutes by Tube from the West End, Harrow Campus is home to Westminster School of Media, Arts and Design and its vibrant undergraduate, postgraduate, research student and staff community.

Our purpose-built campus has undergone an extensive programme of refurbishment and modernisation in recent years, and we continue to make a substantial investment in enhancing its learning and social environments.

The redevelopment work has seen the creation of the Forum, a generous open space for socialising, informal learning and interactive presentations and multi-media performances. It contains a number of bookable project rooms and a new state-of -the-art exhibition space: London Gallery West.

As one of the main media and music education Fashion design students work within their own campuses in Europe we offer our students state of the art studios with access to industry-standard music facilities that include dedicated facilities for sewing, pattern cutting, 16 professional, fully-equipped rehearsal and printing, fitting, a fashion resource room and recording studios, a purpose-built live music computer suites. venue, a state of the art, room in a room recording studio and satellite public and multi- The Photography Centre accommodates a purpose performance spaces. broad range of analogue and digital imaging processes. It offers six large, professionally Our purpose-built television, film and audio equipped studios, industry-standard post- recording studios, set construction workshop, production facilities, a selection of medium- and professional moving image and sound format backs, two Hasselblad Flextight drum editing facilities offer an ideal environment scanners, over a hundred medium-format film to prepare students for professional life. cameras, specialist printing facilities and much Specialist online production facilities support more. In addition, there are well-equipped the development of professional practices in laboratories for post-production, image journalism and communication. analysis, sensitometry, colour evaluation and colour profile and management. The Faculty provides dedicated, high specification studios for its portfolio of art Our dedicated library is open 24/7 during and design courses, with dedicated analogue term time and has recently undergone and digital workshop facilities for print, wood significant refurbishment to create a vibrant and metal work, resins and plaster. Practices and inspiring learning environment with plenty of drawing, animation, performance and of spaces for individual study and group installation, lens based and digital imaging learning, computer stations, new furniture and are taught in specialist facilities. Project spaces sympathetic lighting. support students’ collaborative endeavours, prototyping and curating of creative works. Students and staff on campus benefit from access to generous landscaped outdoor spaces and indoor sports facilities.

132 FACILITIES westminster.ac.uk/mad westminster.ac.uk/mad FACILITIES 133 From our prime locations across three large help you develop both the knowledge and the During your time at Westminster you will have ABOUT THE UNIVERSITY campuses in London’s West End, we are well life skills you will need to succeed in an access to our comprehensive online vacancy OF WESTMINSTER connected to the UK’s major centres of increasingly international workplace. service, where you will find internal and business, law, science and architecture. Our external career opportunities. Our students are fourth campus in Harrow is a hub for the study Careers and employability invited to a series of careers events throughout For more than 175 years the University of of media, arts and design, with its own on-site Whilst studying a postgraduate degree at the year, which will provide you with access to Westminster has been a vibrant and creative student village. the University of Westminster, you will not a wide variety of employment and networking place for learning, where students have enjoyed only acquire an in-depth knowledge and opportunities to boost your professional a dynamic professional and educational Westminster School of Media, Arts and Design understanding of the subject you have chosen, prospects. environment, graduating with the skills they is based at Harrow Campus, our recently you will also develop beneficial transferable need to succeed in their chosen career. redeveloped site which offers state-of-the-art skills related, for example, to research and Postgraduate students can also benefit from facilities, gallery and exhibition spaces, and analysis, communication, organising and Westminster’s mentoring scheme. Mentoring As an international centre for learning and places for private and joint study, socialising prioritising, and logical and critical thinking. is a long-term relationship that meets a research, we are committed to continuing those and performing. developmental need, and your mentor will traditions. We pride ourselves on our record of Our dedicated Career Development Centre facilitate your personal and professional growth excellence in research that makes a difference The University of Westminster has more than works with an ever-expanding network of over by sharing knowledge and insights, to help you – to academia, to the professions, to business, 950 full-time teaching staff supported by a 3,000 employers, to provide students with to succeed. to industry. Westminster has led the way – large number of visiting subject specialists, exceptional careers support and guidance. nationally and internationally – in research in delivering high-quality learning and research. architecture, art, and media and communications Our libraries provide access to more than politics, allied health and biomedical sciences. 380,000 titles, 30,000 e-journals, 20,000 The Research Excellence Framework (REF) 2014 e-books and 230 databases; the libraries at confirmed our world leading positions in Art and all four of our campuses are open 24 hours a design and Media and communications and day, seven days a week, during the majority of internationally excellent (3*) performances in term time. English, Architecture and built environment and Allied health; all five units having more than 65 Based in the heart of one of the world’s greatest per cent of research activity assessed as 4* and cities, our close links with industry and 3*. Additionally, Psychology and neuroscience, professional organisations in London, across Politics, Area studies, and Law were the UK and all over the world enable us to acknowledged for their excellence, with the attract the highest quality guest speakers and majority of their research being of 3* or above. lecturers, and provide you with extensive networking opportunities and introductions to Our Graduate School, launched in 2012/13, many of the world’s leading companies. More is a dynamic ‘hub’ and cross-university focus than 50 separate professional bodies offer for all staff and doctoral researchers engaged accreditation, approval or recognition of our in research activity. The School supports the courses, or membership for our graduates. personal and professional development of doctoral and early career researchers through Our extensive network of tutors, administrators, a range of activities, including seminars and counsellors, health service professionals, networking events to facilitate sharing of financial consultants and faith advisers is best practice. there to support you in every aspect of your life at Westminster. Each year a diverse mix of students of many backgrounds and abilities join the Westminster Studying for a postgraduate degree is a family. We have more than 20,000 students challenging but extremely rewarding experience. from over 150 nations (a quarter of whom You will develop specialist knowledge, hone are postgraduates) studying with us. We also your professional skills, and enhance your have extensive connections with universities career prospects. To help you achieve your and industries throughout the world benefitting aims, we offer a mature study environment, our students. dedicated postgraduate facilities and a broad range of courses that respond to and anticipate developments in professional life. We aim to

134 ABOUT THE UNIVERSITY OF WESTMINSTER westminster.ac.uk/mad westminster.ac.uk/mad ABOUT THE UNIVERSITY OF WESTMINSTER 135 English language support during your studies LIVING AND STUDYING AN INTERNATIONAL The Westminster Professional Language Centre IN LONDON EXPERIENCE provides in-sessional Academic English courses during your studies with us. The modules have been designed to allow you to consolidate, London is one of the world’s most exciting With one of the UK’s largest international extend and develop your proficiency in cities. From business and finance to fashion, student populations, the University of Academic English at postgraduate or doctoral art, music, cinema and sport, London is where Westminster has plenty of experience in giving level. For more information visit westminster. things tend to happen first. And as one of the you the help and support you need to make ac.uk/efl city’s 400,000 students, much of what happens the most of your time with us. Before you arrive, in the capital is within your reach. Importantly, you will receive a full information pack with Pre-sessional English making the most of London doesn’t have to be details of your enrolment, healthcare and other Our pre-sessional English courses will help you expensive. With substantial student discounts information. We also provide a ‘meet and to develop the language and study skills you and many of the city’s attractions being free, greet’ service for students landing at Heathrow need to join a full-time postgraduate degree you’ll always find ways to make your money Airport on specific days in September. at Westminster. The courses are designed for go further. Despite the size of the city, travel is Our team will meet you at the airport, and students with an IELTS score of 0.5 or 1.0 IELTS usually straightforward with good underground, arrange transport for you to travel with other points below the required level for your chosen bus (including night buses) and train networks, postgraduate programme. We run 12-week and Culture and entertainment international students to your halls of residence and student discounts are available on seven-week pre-sessional courses for academic London is home to more than 250 art and or private accommodation. Transport for London (TfL) travelcards. London courses; successful completion allows you to design galleries such as the Tate Modern, is well connected by rail and road to the rest progress to your Masters course starting in Tate Britain and National Gallery, over 600 Once you are here, we can give you of the UK and Europe, and there are global September and January. You can find more cinema screens – including Westminster’s comprehensive help and assistance including air links through the city’s five major airports. information online at westminster.ac.uk/pre- very own Regent Street Cinema and 200-plus a whole range of services and activities to The University of Westminster’s central London help you settle in. The International Students’ sessional-english-courses campuses are within easy reach of many theatres. The city also boasts a particularly vibrant music scene, ranging from rock, dance Welcome Programme gives you the chance famous landmarks and institutions including to meet fellow new students and Westminster Postgraduate Semester Study Abroad the Houses of Parliament, the BBC, the London and pop, to world and classical music, a Programme level of variety matched by London’s exciting staff, find your way around the University Stock Exchange and the British Museum. If you are a current postgraduate studying a nightlife. And there is no shortage of places for and London, learn about our facilities and masters at an overseas institution you can join socialising and dining out – with world cuisines services, and meet current international If you choose to study in Harrow, you can our Semester Postgraduate Study Abroad and represented at prices to suit everyone you can students. For more information visit combine the advantage of a residential green choose to study from a range of modules or eat out for as little as £5. westminster.ac.uk/international site with easy accessibility to all that London combine study with an internship. You can has to offer. transfer these credits to your home degree and If your passion is for fashion and shopping Meet us in your country embed an international experience in your rather than traditional culture, London is home University staff frequently travel overseas The University is also ideally located to network graduate programme of studies to enhance to designers such as Vivienne Westwood, Stella to meet and advise potential students at with the city’s business leaders and employers, exhibitions, partner institutions, alumni your global learning and future employability. so we can offer great placements and work McCartney and Burberry. Oxford Street, the top spot for high street fashion is on the doorstep of receptions and other events. We also work opportunities for our students through contacts For more information on all the opportunities our Regent campus, and the city is famous for with representatives around the world who can with our Careers Development Centre. Career help you with your application to Westminster. open to you visit westminster.ac.uk/PG-SA opportunities in the capital are exceptional, its markets including Portobello Road, Camden and . Visit westminster.ac.uk/international to with more than one million private sector see our calendar of visits and the overseas businesses and public sector organisations representatives we work with. operating within 20 miles of the University of Football, rugby, cricket and tennis are among the sports that feature high on London’s leisure Westminster. And with the British Library, the Student visas University of London Library and the archives scene, at legendary venues such as Wembley, Twickenham, Lords and Wimbledon. But if you If you are a non-EU EEA passport of many institutions and professional bodies holder you will need to check your visa all close at hand, there is a huge variety of prefer your leisure activities to be more relaxed, London is a city of more than 140 parks; 39 requirements for study in the UK, by reference books and information to help you visiting gov.uk/visas-immigration with your studies. per cent of the city is green space. If you are wondering what it would be like to study in London, visit www.thestudentroom. co.uk/London to get first-hand information University of Westminster ranked about all the opportunities London students can among top 100 most international benefit from. universities in the world (THE, 2016)

136 LIVING AND STUDYING IN LONDON westminster.ac.uk/mad westminster.ac.uk/mad AN INTERNATIONAL EXPERIENCE 137 If your degree (or equivalent qualification) is STUDYING AT from outside the UK please look at westminster. COURSE STRUCTURE WESTMINSTER ac.uk/international for information on our requirements from your country. Any specific MASTER OF ARTS OR SCIENCE entry requirements for a course are given in the (MA OR MSc) HOW TO APPLY AND ENTRY course description on the course page. REQUIREMENTS Full-time study Gaining credit for what you have learned Courses last for one calendar year (48 weeks). Taught Masters You will probably attend the University for Your previous study or experience, whether The University of Westminster accepts seminars or lectures at least two days a week through paid work or in a voluntary capacity, applications through the online system UCAS during the teaching year (31 weeks). The delivery may mean you can gain exemption from Postgraduate. For more information visit and assessment of taught modules will normally some modules. ukpass.ac.uk. Once you have registered you be carried out between September and June, can apply free of charge, and there is no but it’s likely that you will need to study over the Accreditation of Prior Certificated learning application deadline for UKPASS, so you can summer months for your independent research – (APCL) can be gained based on previous study make your course choices one at a time or all usually a project or dissertation. together. There is no official deadline for that has led to a formal certificated qualification and this may include work based experience postgraduate applications, but we strongly Part-time study (CPD). The Accreditation of Prior Experiential recommend you apply early (by the beginning There are part-time routes in most subjects, Learning (APEL) recognises knowledge or skills of April for September start and the beginning which offer daytime or evening study or, in acquired through life or work experience, of October for January start), especially if you some cases, a mixture of both. Achieving a which have not been formally recognised by an are interested in applying for a scholarship postgraduate qualification part-time normally academic or professional certification. since you will need to submit a separate takes at least two years, attending two sessions application and to send it by post for each week of the academic year, with a further You can make a claim if you think you may be consideration. six to 12 hours each week of personal study. eligible by visiting westminster.ac.uk/apcl Some employers will enable you to study by If you require additional guidance you can day release from work. contact our Course Enquiries Team, The process is rigorous and credits will only be awarded for learning that is current and that T: +44 (0)20 7915 5511, Modular scheme related to the aims and content of the course for E: [email protected] Our Masters degree courses are modular study which you are applying. schemes based on a system of accumulating International students can get advice and Notes for applicants credits, and offer the most flexibility and choice support with applications from one of our in your course programme. You can transfer While courses are offered as described at partners around the world; to find out more, visit credits you have gained to other courses or the time of going to press, some revisions are westminster.ac.uk/international/countries/visits institutions, and every course combines core and made, mainly to ensure our courses are kept option modules which, as you complete them, up-to-date. We will only cancel a course if Entry requirements bring you closer to gaining your higher degree. Most courses have the following minimum it is unavoidable. Should any major change be necessary, applicants will be notified at standard entry requirements: Intensive block study the earliest point. There is no guarantee that • a good Honours degree from a recognised Some Masters courses are offered in short, courses that are undergoing validation will university, or qualification or experience intensive, block study periods of one to four be approved. deemed to be equivalent, and weeks. They are full-time and may include • English language competency judged Research degrees weekend and weekday study; they are often sufficient to undertake advanced level study. followed by 12 weeks of personal study Separate application and admissions Please visit the individual course pages or using an Independent Learning Package (ILP) procedures apply for MPhil/PhD research westminster.ac.uk/international/full-degree- approach. Single postgraduate modules can degrees. Contact us for more details. study/english-language-requirements for sometimes be studied in this way. further details. MPhil/PhD courses See the website: westminster.ac.uk/research- degrees

138 STUDYING AT WESTMINSTER westminster.ac.uk/mad westminster.ac.uk/mad COURSE STRUCTURE 139 ACCOMMODATION, FEES AND FUNDING ACCOMMODATION After choosing your course, one of your biggest decisions will be where to live, and we aim to make that choice as easy as possible. Whether you decide to live in our halls of residence or in private housing, we can help you to find the right accommodation. For more information visit westminster.ac.uk/housing

Halls of Residence Media, Arts and Design full-time postgraduate students studying can apply to live at Harrow Hall, our on-campus accommodation complex of self-contained units arranged in small, purpose-built, low-rise blocks, all surrounded by shrubbery and green lawns. Each unit has its own front door, lobby and six single bedrooms with en suite facilities. There are also double units, as well as twin-bedded rooms for those FEES, FUNDING AND postgraduate course you can apply for a who wish to share. scholarship. Scholarships are competitive and SCHOLARSHIPS have strict deadlines. Details of the application Rents range from £124.39 per person for Studying at university is a long-term investment process, and deadlines for full-time UK, EU and a shared room, or £167.65 for a standard in your future, and one which can make a international students, can be found by visiting significant difference to career prospects and single room, to £227.15 for a double studio Private accommodation westminster.ac.uk/scholarships your earning power. But to be able to make the room, including bills. A short bus ride from the If you prefer a more independent lifestyle, we most of your time at Westminster, it’s also Hall takes you into Harrow and its lively town can help you to find your ideal student home. If you would like to apply for a scholarship important to work out how you will pay your centre, where you can find a wide range of There is a huge supply of rented housing around on a PhD course, you can find information at fees, accommodation and day-to-day expenses westminster.ac.uk/graduate-school shops, an art centre and a multiplex cinema. Harrow and in London at a wide range of prices. while you are here. Baker Street and central London are only 20 Rents depend on where you live but, as an minutes away, but it is also easy to escape example, the majority of students studying in From September 2016, Student Finance Fees increase each year, normally in line with the hustle and bustle of the city and visit the central London commute from travel zones 2 or England (SFE) are introducing a loan of up to the rate of inflation. To find out the latest fee picturesque country villages and towns of the 3 (just outside the central area), where you can £10,000 for students starting a postgraduate levels for your particular course, visit the course Home Counties. Applications can be made expect to pay from £150 per week for a room Masters course starting in September 2016 or page on our website at westminster.ac.uk/ following the instructions on our website. in a shared flat or house. We can offer all later. The loan can be used to pay tuition fees courses/postgraduate students comprehensive advice on finding or help meet your maintenance or study costs. suitable private accommodation, and a good Your course must be at postgraduate Masters The University of Westminster has one of the starting point is to attend one of our housing level and you must meet the eligibility rules most generous scholarship schemes of any UK meetings in August and September. Here you that relate to residence, settled status, previous university, and we are able to offer a wide can get a range of housing information and study and qualifications. Eligible courses can range of scholarships for UK, EU and tips on successful flat hunting, as well as be taught or research-based. At the University international postgraduates, and for those meeting other students to form groups to flat of Westminster, eligible courses include MA, studying on either full-time or part-time routes. hunt together. MSc, LLM, MBA, MRes and MPhil. RIBA Part You can find our latest scholarship funding II architecture and integrated Masters do not opportunities online, at westminster.ac.uk/ qualify. The loan is available for full-time and scholarships; please check the site regularly part-time study. for updates. For further information, please visit westminster. Once you have been offered a place ac.uk/pg-student-funding (conditional or unconditional) on a

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University of S Y A R O G T OA Westminster O Park R R University of EE 20 minutes by Tube from central London, and K Westminster WO B No. 1 Subway P A N R A S I R Marylebone O T D G K T close to Harrow town centre. Here you will find (Holy Trinity Radisson Edwardian AY KENTON ROAD S 9 E Park Square S T W Q EE U Grafton Hotel N H E U Church) STR O Harrow Hill Gardens N W H IT F T U A E E T F R R A N T L E Y R major retail stores, a civic centre, an arts centreGolf Course R E A R W O G University of Westminster W B D A O R D R O F T A W I R E L T E S U The S S T F D T S A N SW I and a multiplex cinema. Nearby Harrow-on- O E T T Z R S T UCH R U T E C E Warren E RA Great G T E T T ER R E R K O R (Rosenheim T C I O R C KI E T R Y D Y S A F T O N M E W E E E C T N Building) R C O L L E OA E T TR Grant Museum the-Hill is a historic village offering a richly E T R C R T RE C O N S N IR P C Y O Portland R E Y W R H L Venezuelan of Zoology EE A L L U TE R E N S S IT O A AR E R W W T T C A E R K B O N E Consulate IVER E E A BMI contrasting atmosphere. R Y S A C G Street Y M UN A L S A L E A RYL Fitzroy Square W S M E W International T T O T Royal Academy A UCH E M P Hospital O N P S S T Regent’s Students Royal F T LA W E of Music Croatian (Macmillan CE AC E House RA ERR National G K T Embassy Cancer Centre) Central London B Y OR Park Orthopaedic St. Mark’s O School location County Court SLO Crescent The Portland Hospital C L Northwick Park Hospital Fitzroy C Hospital E H E N I Gardens for Women and Children V E L A N D S T A The London V Institute of Sport, Hospital E EE L S R R Square Watford Road, T Indian T E H Clinic E N S Exercise & HeC alth S S M D S C O PA R K CR E U N T YMCA T St. Mark’s E P The London E Mortimer Baker R Madame O E V T E T Hospital E W P O R TR L E Y T L A Tussaud’s D Clinic E S RMa r ket Centre S TfL Lost Northwick E N S U Northwick Park T A E E B Holiday Inn Park Hospital O E T S C PL PPE A Street R H H AR L Berkeley Property St. Marylebone A R A T E T Regent’s M C K E N I G H T I N G A L E AV E N U E RI R E E S Arcade Office T O N E R Parish Church E Park London H T R B M Princess E G LE D STRY I C O S N E Y I G R T R H H E W Grace T I St. Marylebone N A N G V OPAL CNR ESH I T R A M L E AV E N U E E S EE W O HA1 3TP Northwick Park W E Hospital N The STR A Garden E E O Y E E IR E T A © Crown copyright and database rights 2013 Ordnance Survey 100035971/021 © Copyright Transport for London 2013 E H T B T S T RE S T O of Rest Conran N S S Embassy E V O N C L T E TO D L D R L R F IT Marylebone D Shop U E Y PI E of Latvia St. Marylebone ARB G E T T B R C E R E T E Z AC N I G H T I N G A I E AV E N U E H S T E E Circus U School A R R O R A T T R A M O S S N Y AL Y Grange T N E E C D T O N P L O S B L L N G L P T I P E A I T A E T R R O B X U Fitzrovia L L N B M V T Medical T Institute T C M EW M W RRIN If you study at the University of Westminster, A E EE E E E G I R O O T S G RE L N C A U M OS N T S Hotel H T H Express I R E of Physics H A T E T G B A IF N R O H VONSH S D M Clinic DE E E O L H U N A A M E TS DL everything that London has to offer is on S H G U M W H Habitat P T PT O E

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L L E C C O R High Commission F TRS R R E E A T Y S T S O H E I R E V E L E L your doorstep. Our central London campuses C I T of the Maldives E L R T T AL N D E T E E E T D S T E T R T E A R E E TR RE S Royal Institute RE S Heal’s EW E E T T N D T M I RE E S E R H T D T T O N E S E R E E RE T N E T V ONS of British T F are ideally located for shopping, eating out, S T R E E T PS S H AM D I T R RE AL T I N G U P CL S NO T T Embassy L Architects C H A S T T B E W L A N D E E T University of University of O Y R A E R S T H ST of China A T TT A L L K E Westminster E E T R L I W MR I SPO EL E R E E Westminster Goodge enjoying London’s nightlife or just simply NH R TR CH O T T E C KE T E S BI N E TON S Park Plaza S 7 B E T R CLIP D T The Embassy S Street Sherlock A relaxing. As a University of Westminster student E T U M of Poland 8 R Hellenic C A L P 6 T Holmes Hotel EE T T E R R E E E Centre O ST T T E E T UT H H S R STN T O S S T S T R E E T T Y M Kenya High British K O N R E ENDI O G you will have access to all the facilities the A D D I NGT WE AV YOR P Commission Central W C Paralympic E E Screen N L Pollock’s T R E E T R Synagogue E Association on Baker S T E Toy Museum N S T University has to offer on all four campuses. T O W E E T G Marylebone T N W E Street I R E RE DD T E T British Olympic Association PA E E Y M O S R H S T Y E M H H Village T A M T A T R A N S MOU O U NH WEY L Embassy E A U MTH EW E T H AL S Cleveland TT T Y T T O O SN St. Charles SC W of Poland EE T EE E T E S Embassy TR EE R R M E S T I R T H M P Borromeo S T Cavendish Campus D S S G is situated in the artistic and R (Consulate) I E R of China Street Paddington W O G WFO T Charlotte Street A W I E VEND Y S T D C R O A S R RC Church E G O W E E S (Consulate) All Souls C of E Street EL T S F E M PO Great GOO N E W C I E FOL O S T E T Primary School C L D G bohemian area of Fitzrovia, with Oxford Street, L Gardens M M O D E EE T L E W E T Portland V E EE P M O X O N S T R R S E E S T T L A N R E S H L A M The S Harley AC R T ENDIS Regent’s Park and the British Museum only a A C P L V E L A N SD R A Street E D E R Heart E E T E Grange LL E N E W C T T S I Y T TR E Street E V T R E L T S E L Hospital T E SE Langham R T T O Crabtree D OR T E C ten-minute walk away and the peaceful Fitzroy OB S Area under EE O Hotel 82 E R Fields T Court E Y RE T C M A L ST R FO development H N E T S T A E R E Hotel GE A T E T T N Y S D R E B R S SE E T M S L O R B E U Embassy of STR C H S H OO O Square just around the corner. The campus A C T O ET T U E G T S O D R E N A T C M T OR R N H E S T Angola D A H G E S AM E S O A D H S I T G T E E F IN B E L Y R E S A L K P S S T T R LAN T I D T E S T H E L O I R S serves the Faculty of Science and Technology. E S DI Broadcasting R U R O N E N R G R E E R T E E S T V D T B A K A R S E N C W S L House T R E T E E R N A O H A S T P E N E R T I H E N A T R O D M A R E T R E L Rathbone D R R E T T T T E STR E E L E E P I E R Charlotte E T T Hotel G T W EBLC K L T Y University of C S A G R R R H W E L L S Street P C E E A R T S H Marylebone Campus F M T H B is opposite Madame L A Westminster I E St. Marylebone I T T T A T Hotel T E R O N British Dental Queen’s O N C L S T O N EE High Commission of P O M E R C of E School E D T R W E E Association College E B S S the Republic of Namibia R TL S S T R E E S Embassy E M Tussauds and just off Baker Street. We are E CY T RE T T T T R R B LA N R A DFOR R D S T 3 N PE of Algeria N R E E A E E T E T E T E Baker T All Souls N E University of E B S T R EE 2 R T T T D E S Portuguese S T RD Church R close to the elegant shopping available on S 1 309 Regent Street Westminster R St. James’ S N E Street T R T BLANDFO E T Consulate E E E L LITTLE TITCHFIELD S R E E Church STR A St. George’s R T C N E N N E G S Marylebone N A H H Hotel M Marylebone High Street and just five minutes Durrants T W E L L S S T R E T E T UEE A A TR E Q E T S Hotel N M T 4 E E Hotel O R G E E E W G OL U CE R G E 2 4/12 Little Titchfield Street D O S T R ST P S S R D E R Family W O L M D F HT T I away is one of London’s finest green spaces, N S H R E A A O TSR E BL P M Proceedings L A R E A The Langham, C L A T S G SN I Y Davies E R R L Court S S R E London M E E Y A S T E E Sanderson Laing & Dick E Great T S Regent’s Park. The campus serves the Faculty H W E T Sameday H EE 3 16 Little Titchfield S Street T R R W ST W S Hotel B P T P AL C E T RE College Doctor I O ORG L A C ER I G G E M P Titchfield N M O RE E E E T A C E E All Saints of Architecture and the Built Environment and T ST W BELC K O R R E T S T P E H P L L L I S D Wallace N D A N Street Church A E E E T L V R C 32/38 S Wells Street A O 4 P C P T Collection LE Embassy of E T E R EE E T L T T E T T E T G I T E E T R Westminster Business School. S TR A L R S E R EE S R E S T Turkmenistan LE S T C T T GE ORG E I N CK AR E R E CA S AM E U E A T NT R G A S N BE T A E R T A D SQUAR H S Q M E BE R D I S R O E STE E N N Castle Street W M A N S H Holiday Inn 35 Marylebone Road C AV M ANC 5 1 Welsh Baptist T Plaza Oxford Circus R E B The Wigmore E T Church T A R E Cavendish E E E ST Oxford B Regent Campus is situated on and around K STR T E MandeviMlle RE T Hall O S E E R R G L OS E R Manchester GM TL C A University of Street E L O WI N STCAS N MA Hotel R Square T A E T S 6 E 115 New Cavendish Street T Y E U OR Westminster P T RE 100 Square L R one of the busiest streets in London, home to C E R E S T W E E B T RE R G S Club S S O I E R N T R T GE N T T E I N SQUA E E R D R E R E S W I S T HA T A L E E E R TZ H ESTE L E E Sports a wide range of bustling shops, cafés and FI C T A AR P L N M P G T N 7 Hanson Street Y MA D Royal E MAR T P Market Direct

U O S A C SO EL T R E K College of E R T Royal AR J E E T E U E E T W EBLC O H N restaurants and just a couple of minutes walk Nursing L Place R E S T H S Q E R TRE Society of I S A T A S D T S U M N Q RE T RE E N M R R E MO AV D U G C D M A N S M O E WI A 101 New CavendishMedicine Street P D R Y W 8 O E S E E R R NI C F PORT E S A T Y L E X from Oxford Street. The campus serves the S Radisson SAS K T T O B N London R E S E R W S Portman Hotel B Topshop E T R H O LE ’ W T O N E L S E College of A R T I Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities and E S C K S T R E T P E HarrowE Campus Fashion D 9 R O T T E NikeTown O A L S E U N E A E T ST T R R E E Portman TR Zara N E

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