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Humanities / Law Employability
MA Popular Culture Duration:
Possible career routes include: scriptwriter, script editor, script reader, script supervisor, researcher, agent, writer-producer or writer-director, technical video scriptwriter, media journalist, teaching, museum, or heritage work and tourism writer (eg. virtual/interactive tours), e-learning developer and content marketer.
1 year (full-time), 2 years (part-time)
Campus: City
Overview
This innovative course introduces you to advanced level study of various aspects of popular culture; principally that produced and consumed in Britain since the late 19th century. The programme consists of a broad range of modules from a number of academic disciplines, including History, English, Sociology, Cultural Studies, Religious Studies, and Film Studies. All modules are taught by experts in their respective fields, and informed by research at the forefront of the various disciplines. Modules include Popular Consumerism, Youth Subcultures, Science Fiction and Fantasy, Screening Horror, Murders and the Media, The Sacred and Profane in Popular Culture, Fads and Fame, Picturing Britain, and Theories of Popular Culture. For your own independent research into popular culture, we can also offer supervision in a wide range of areas and approaches. You will experience a variety of teaching methods with a high level of input from you and other students on the course.
Employability
Skills and knowledge gained throughout the programme will be particularly relevant to archivists and curators, researchers, writers and journalists, librarians, and teachers of popular culture. Successful students have also progressed on to PhD study in various disciplines.
LLM International Commercial and Financial Law (Oil and Gas) Duration:
1 year (full-time), 2 years (part-time)
Campus: City
Overview
This highly specialised course is designed to prepare and support people working in oil, natural gas or mineral extraction who wish to gain an understanding of the legal and commercial issues involved in these areas. The course is designed to be practical and interactive, providing an international and global perspective of key legal and commercial aspects associated with the gas, oil and mineral extraction industries in a number of key jurisdictions. The course covers a number of critical issues, including: the unique complexities in relation to oil and gas exploration contracts and their terms; the legal and practical issues associated with financing oil and gas projects; and the importance of environmental management issues. You will also complete an individually researched dissertation on a relevant topic of your choice supported by staff who are experts in the field.
Example modules:
MA Transmedia Screen Writing Duration:
1 year (full-time), 2 years (part-time)
Campus:
• International Project Finance (Oil and Gas) • Contract Law Relating to the Oil and Gas Industries.
Employability
This course is well suited to those who are seeking career progression, as well as those planning a career in law, the oil or gas industries, investment banking, international consultancy firms, commerce, and those who wish to concentrate on further academic study.
City
Overview
Sometimes called cross-platform or multiplatform storytelling, transmedia screen writing is telling a story across multiple media and with a degree of audience participation, interaction or collaboration. The new MA in Transmedia Screen Writing will equip you with the creative knowledge and craft skills that allow you to bring your stories to life by creating immersive storyworlds on social media, mobiles, film, television, games, books – almost everywhere. It is distinct from other creative writing MAs through its emphasis on interactive narrative, collaborative creativity, and commercial viability across a variety of media. This MA affords you the opportunity to complete a PG Certificate as well as a PG Diploma in Transmedia Screen Writing.
Full course details: wlv.ac.uk/postgrad
LLM International Corporate and Financial Law Duration:
1 year (full-time), 2 years (part-time)
Campus: City
Overview
This unique course will provide you with an in-depth knowledge of a number of critical aspects of corporate and financial law. Set against