Programme overview

Media, Culture & Society is one of the five master Media Studies specialisations. This specialisation offers students key tools to examine and understand the complex and changing roles of the media in our personal, political, and cultural lives. Scroll down to have a look at the study programme for the academic year 2023 – 2024.

What you will learn

As a Media, Culture & Society student, you will gain expertise on key developments in the media world and their wider societal causes and consequences. You will acquire state of the art knowledge about processes of media production, distribution, and reception, while being prepared to systematically examine these processes and their implications. All this will equip you to analyse complex social and cultural phenomena related to the fast-changing media environment.

The interdisciplinary focus of Media, Culture & Society is strengthened by real-life cases and guest lectures from professionals. We aim at effectively bringing theory into practice by diving into the communication challenges faced by actors and organizations within the media and other social fields. Next to combining theory and practice, students also train academic skills such as critical reading, presenting, debating, writing, and conducting empirical research.  They also have the opportunity to join several(extra-curricular) honours projects.

Course overview

Below you can view the fulltime programme of Media, Culture & Society for this year.

Note: The capacity of Elective Seminars and Research Workshops is limited. Students have the opportunity to indicate their course interests. Allocation will be done by the Programme Office. Content, themes and scheduling of Elective Seminars and Research Workshops is subject to change and may vary in subsequent academic years. If you want to know more about a particular course, you can enter the course code in the Course Catalogue.

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