Education in Media and Communication Studies
The Department of Communication offers its English courses predominantly at the postgraduate level.
When you study Media and Communication Studies, you learn about how news is created, the importance of the internet for democracy and the role of television. We examine how attitudes are shaped, culture is produced and how the media influence people's consumption and lifestyle. You will be trained in source criticism, media theory and methods for conducting research, collecting information and analysing information transfer between individuals, groups and cultures.
These skills are extremely valuable, no matter what industry you work in. Knowing how to get your message across and how information flows work is indispensable, whether you are an engineer, an economist, a manager or an employee.
A key principle of our education is to train primarily communication analysts and strategists, not information producers. The subject can be studied as a foundation for a degree in journalism, TV production, multimedia design or graphic design. Many former students work as communicators, PR consultants, and business analysts in the media and communications industry.
Undergraduate Level
Most of our undergraduate courses are in Swedish.
Visit our Swedish website for information about our Swedish language course catalogue.
Animals figure in human society and culture in multiple ways, frequently marginalized or reduced to commodities, production units, status symbols and tools. This course offers a critical exploration of how a shifting economic, scientific, political and media-shaped landscape assigns various roles and values to animals in contemporary Western society, and the consequences for the living conditions of animals and humans alike. The course integrates innovative critical animal studies research from sociology, media and communication studies, philosophy, cultural studies, geography, gender studies and critical race studies.
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The Internet offers a trove of data for both academic research and industry applications. This course introduces the student to the basics of collecting data from Internet web pages.
After an introduction to the differences between approaches to web scraping, the student will learn to apply basic web scraping methods for collecting data. Limitations to what types of data are obtainable through these methods are also discussed.
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Postgraduate Level
Lund University has Sweden's most popular master's programme in Media and Communication Studies. In the Master's Programme in Media and Communication Studies, you immerse yourself in the media's connection to popular culture, morality, the audience, diversity and political engagement.
Freestanding Courses
The course is structured according to a critical reading of dominant methodological and epistemological perspectives of research methods within social science. This is done from the perspective of a pragmatist and phronetic philosophy of social science, which emphasizes questions of how, why and to whom media and communication studies matter. The course aims to problematize and evaluate the significance of media and communication research for individuals, society and culture.
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