Program Overview

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PGDip in Race, Media & Social Justice

Overview

The Postgraduate Diploma in Race, Media and Social Justice offers a rigorous and academic approach to this subject to deepen your understanding of contemporary issues regarding race and ethnicity. This will enable you to form your own interventions that can contribute to social justice and equality.

Programme Details

Aims of the Programme

• Demonstrate an informed understanding of the complexities of race, social justice, activism and research
• Understand the formation of ethnic and racial identities in relation to social justice specifically the social ideals of equality, valuing diversity, and the right to live in dignity
• Understand how modern understandings of race and ethnicity are shaped by history and the legacies of empire and colonialism, as well as contemporary forces of commercialism and global capital
• Develop a systematic understanding of key theoretical approaches to race and ethnicity and media apply them to critically examine current debates on race, ethnicity and racism
• Recognise the media as a key site where understandings of race and ethnicity are simultaneously reinforced and challenged
• Develop the critical and analytical skills to identify, explain and evaluate discourses of race and ethnicity, particularly in the media
• Develop knowledge and/or skills that can be applied in a practical work context

Structure

The diploma has two main components:

The Conceptual Basis

You will be given a foundation in sociological and critical cultural approaches to race and ethnicity, offering a strong conceptual basis for understanding matters of race and racialisation historically and with regard to contemporary contexts and debates.

Context within the Media

The second component situates the study of race and racism more explicitly within the context of the media, looking at issues of representation and the persistence of historical constructions of Otherness.

Modules

You will study the following compulsory modules:

• Race Critical Theory and Social Justice (30 credits)
• Race, Empire and Nation (15 or 30 credits)

Students are also required to take 60 credits worth of option modules, which can be taken from those on offer from the departments of Media, Communications and Cultural Studies, and Sociology and from other departments too, including Politics, English and Anthropology.

Examples of modules that will be of particular interest to students on this programme include:

• Postcolonial Theory (30 credits)
• Globalisation: Policy, Politics and Critique (30 credits)
• Theories of the Culture Industry (30 credits)
• Mediating Violence: Feminist, Queer, Decolonial Perspectives (30/15 credits)
• Cultural Studies and Capitalism (30 credits)
• Practices of the Culture Industry (30 credits)
• Strategies of World Cinema (30/15 credits)
• Race and Technology (30/15 credits)

Teaching and Learning

Taught sessions and lectures provide overviews of themes, which students are encouraged to complement with intensive reading for presentation and discussion with peers at seminars.

Support for learning and wellbeing is provided in a number of ways by departments and College support services who work collaboratively to ensure students get the right help to reach their best potential both academically and personally.

Entry Requirements

Applicants will normally have, or expect to gain a first degree of at least upper second class standard (or equivalent).

International Qualifications

We accept a wide range of international qualifications. Find out more about the qualifications we accept from around the world.

If English isn’t your first language, you will need an IELTS score (or equivalent English language qualification) of **6.5 with a 6.5 in writing and no element lower than 6.0 to study this programme.

Fees and Funding

Annual tuition fees:

• Home - full-time: £7500
• Home - part-time: £3750
• International - full-time: £14650

Careers

The PGDip in Race, Media and Social Justice has a strong emphasis on professional development. The programme will teach you to recognise and account for sensitive ethical issues relating to research and representation.

It teaches important transferrable skills (such as critical analysis, communication, development of verbal and written work, independent thought etc.) Consequently, these skills will be suited for any career that is related to issues of race, social justice, diversity and equality whether in government and public administration, NGOs/charities/grassroots organisations, media and cultural industries, academia, policy or business.

Many industries require communications professionals who have the ability to speak to diverse audiences, and these are roles that will be particularly suited to graduates from this degree.

With its in-depth analysis of media/cultural production this programme is also perfectly suited for those interested in working in the cultural and creative industries and who want to work with issues around race and ethnicity. It is also well suited to those who want to work in local, national, and international social justice and policy organisations, particularly those tackling issues around racism.