Year 1

Semester 1      focus: Film, TV, NM, Information Science of other (12 EC) - block 1,2     CC I: Classic Texts/Advanced Methods (18 EC) - block 1,2,3 Semester 2     CC II: Media & Politics (12 EC) - block 1,2     Elective (6 EC) - block 1     Elective or Tutorial Media Studies (12 EC) deel Ia - block 2     Summer School (6 EC) or Tutorial Media Studies (12 EC) deel Ib - block 3

Year 2

Semester 1      Elective (12 EC) - block 1,2     Elective (6 EC) - block 1     Elective or  Tutorial Media Studies (12 EC) deel IIa - block 2     Winter School (6 EC) or  Tutorial Media Studies (12 EC) deel IIb - block 3 Semester 2       Researchmaster Thesis Media Studies (18 EC) - block 1,2,3       Thesis-related Tutorial Media Studies (6 EC) - block 1       Thesis Conference (6 EC) - block 2

Please note: The programme comprises Tutorials (at least 18 EC, incl. the Thesis-related Tutorial Media Studies (6 EC)) and Electives, but the order in which these are to be taken is not fixed.

Focus courses to choose from:

• Film:  Film Theories & Practices (6 EC) AND Media Archaeology (6 EC)
• Television:  Society and Infrastructure (6 EC) AND Aesthetics and Practices (6 EC) 
• New Media: New Media Theories (12 EC)
• Information Science (in Dutch): Information Retrieval (12 EC)
• Other focus: other focus courses may be chosen subject to approval from the master coördinator and the Examination Board of the Graduate School for Humanities

Electives to choose from:

• 10 Fundamental Questions on Language
• Academic and Electronic Writing and Research
• Argumentation and Discourse in Science 1 (6 EC)
• Art as Institution and its Critique (12 EC)
• Arts, Science and Technology (12 EC)
• Autonomie en engagement: van Romantiek tot Avant-garde (12 EC)
• Beyond Europe: Asia, Aesthetics and Politics (12 EC)
• Communisme in Oost-Europa
• Creating Identities
• Culture, Interpretation, and it's Critique
• Cultureel erfgoed: canoniseringsprocessen
• Curating the Moving Image I (6 EC)
• Dante's Divine Comedy and its Post(Modern) Metamorphoses (12 EC)
• De hedendaagse roman (na 1980)
• De productie van literatuur: de praktijk
• Digital Heritage (12 EC)
• Digital Humanities (12 EC)
• EU Cultural Policy
• Gender, Bodies and the Post-Human (12 EC)
• History, Cultural Memory and Trauma (12 EC)
• History, Identity, Agency (12 EC)
• Informatielogistiek (12 EC)
• Innovatie van de publieke informatievoorziening (12 EC)
• Kunst, cultuur en het publieke domein (12 EC)
• Lexical Semantics
• Linguistics Rust Removal: Iconicity in (Literary) Language
• Literaire motieven sequentieel verteld: het stripverhaal
• Narrative and Globalization (12 EC)
• Nationaal theater in Europa: een theatraal zelfportret van Europa anno 2011
• Nationalism and Modernity
• Occidentalisme: de Westerse Ander in Midden-Oosten discoursen
• Pictorial and Multimodal Methaphor and Cognition (12 EC)
• Research Design and Statistical Analysis
• Self and Agency in English Literature and Culture (12 EC)
• The Ethics of Literary and Visual Art
• The Historical Avant-garde and Beyond (12 EC)
• The Histories of Art Studies and Media Studies
• Contemporary European Literature: The Postmodern Detective (12 EC)
• Vormgeving en letter van het boek (6 EC)
• Wie bezit het verleden? Dissonant en gedeeld erfgoed (12 EC)
• other electives may be chosen subject to approval from the Examination Board of the Graduate School for Humanities

To complete your programma, that started before 1-9-2012, consult the transitional arrangements.