Digital Culture and Communications
Limerick, Ireland
DURATION
4 Years
LANGUAGES
English
PACE
Full time
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EARLIEST START DATE
Sep 2025
TUITION FEES
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STUDY FORMAT
On-Campus
Introduction
The development of digital and social media has led to profound changes in our cultural practices. Increasingly, our lives are lived through mediated communication, which makes it even more urgent to examine the relationship between culture, media and technology. The pathway in Digital Culture and Communications is designed to address these challenges and to enable graduates to live and work in the digital present and future. Students will undertake modules which enable them to develop media production and media writing and to develop the critical and analytical skills to examine the relationship between communication, technology and culture.
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Admissions
Scholarships and Funding
Several scholarship options are available. Please check the university website for more information.
Curriculum
Year 1
Semester 1
Introduction to Digital Media for Arts
Semester 2
Social Media and Society
Year 2
Semester 3
Students select 2:
- Visual cultural Studies
- Introduction to Digital Media
- Introduction to Technical Communication
- Sociology of the Media
Semester 4
Cooperative Education Placement
Year 3
Semester 5
External Academic Placement
Semester 6
Students select 2:
- Cultural Studies 4: Cultural Theory
- How to Read a Film
- Analyzing Media discourse
- Writing for New Media
Year 4
Semester 7
Students select 2:
- Comparative Literature: Crime Fiction as Critical Memory
- European Cinema to the 50's
- New Media, Language and Globalisation
Semester 8
Students select 2:
- European Cinema post 60's
- Travel Literature
- Content Development and Information Management
- Media Challenges in the Digital Age
Program Outcome
NFQ Level 8 major Award Honours Bachelor Degree
- MA Technical Communication and E-Learning
- MA in Marketing, Consumption and Society
- MA English
- MA Journalism
- MA in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL)
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Career Opportunities
Digital Culture and Communications graduates find work in a wide range of careers including:
- Communications and public relations
- eCommerce and ePublishing
- Technical Writing and editing
- Print and electronic media journalism
- Media production
- Media research and analysis
- Advertising and marketing
- Research and teaching at third level
- Development and research in voluntary organisations