Course description

The combined master’s degree is a combination of the subject media culture studies with one of the three obligatory elective subjects (OE) Media Management and Media Economics, Media Informatics or Media Law. Building on the bachelor’s degree, the master’s programme enables greater linking of empirical, social studies and economic fields with issues within media culture studies.

The media culture studies course involves analysing and discussing media and media content with a particular focus on using approaches from in cultural studies. Why is Shakespeare's Hamlet also referenced in the Simpsons, for example? Why do video games utilise, for example, the principles of theatrical design?

In this way, the course focuses above all on questions dealing with the reciprocal relationship between media, culture and society. The degree programme not only examines distribution media such as writing, book printing, telegraphy and optical media but also the ‘new’ media of the 20th and 21st centuries.

The obligatory elective subjects supplement this basic knowledge of media culture studies through theoretical and empirical special knowledge from the respective disciplines. These teach, among other things, detailed knowledge on media markets, media technologies, and media law.

Libraries & Archives
The Institute of Media Culture and Theatre offers you a media-related study library and, with the theatre studies collection (www.tws.uni-koeln.de), one of the world’s largest special libraries and archives of the performing arts.