Master's Program
The graduates of the Master's Program are prepared to be academics, researchers, and practitioners in the media and cultural fieldwork who have theoretical and critical knowledge.
Education Process and Period
The master's program is planned in 4 semesters (2 years) with a minimum of 54 credits, including a thesis. The maximum time limit for the study period is in 4 years.
Academic calendar:
• Semester I: early August - late January
• Semester II: early February - late July
The classroom and other academic activities, such as seminars, research, and so on, are carried out with a mentoring system by academic supervisors and thesis supervisors. All theses tested must have gone through a Turnitin plagiarism check with a maximum similarity of 20% and an AI Checker with a maximum similarity of 10%.
Tuition
- Tuition fees for domestic students per semester is IDR9,000,000
- Tuition fees for foreign students are approximately $2,000 per semester.
Prospective students who meet the requirements are likely to get scholarships from BPPS Depdiknas project (specifically for permanent lecturers). Graduate School of UGM also provides scholarships for students who meet the criteria. Further information about the Graduate School of UGM is on the: http://www.pasca.ugm.ac.id/v3.0/scholarship/id/
Registration
Information on requirements and registration of new students for the Media and Cultural Studies Program: https://um.ugm.ac.id/
Curriculum
The Media and Cultural Studies Master's Program is designed for four (4) semesters or two (2) years of study.
Semester I: Compulsory and Elective Courses (12 credits – 18 credits)
Semester II: Compulsory and Elective Courses (12 credits – 18 credits)
Semester III: Thesis Proposal Seminar (4 Credits)
Semester IV: Thesis (8 credits)
The Graduates' Outcome
Attitude | Students have a critical attitude, respect differences, and social sensitivity to forms of unequal power relations in all aspects of daily life, both in the private and public spheres. |
Knowledge | Students understand in-depth theories and concepts of media and cultural studies fieldwork and use them to examine various media and cultural practices with critical paradigms and interdisciplinary approaches. |
General Skills | Able to express sensitivity and critical attitude towards forms of unequal power relations in various ways of writing, both academic and non-academic. |
Special skill | Students contribute to the society's development of an intelligent, critical, and wise society towards mediated cultural practices through media literacy activities. |
Courses
Compulsory Courses
This course consists of theoretical and methodological courses and a thesis. The students must be master the compulsory courses to become academic or professional experts in media and cultural studies fieldwork.
Elective courses
Students can choose the courses according to their study interests and support their thesis research. This course contains issues related to media and cultural studies along with their theories and approaches. Students are required to take 2 – 3 elective courses (6 – 9 credits).
| Courses | Credits | Type of Course | Group | Semester |
| Foundations of Media Studies | 3 | Compulsory | MKK | 1 |
| Introduction to Cultural Studies | 3 | Compulsory | MKK | 1 |
| Critical Social Theory | 3 | Compulsory | MKK | 1 |
| Postcoloniality and Decoloniality | 3 | Compulsory | MKK | 1 |
| Methodology of Social Sciences | 3 | Compulsory | MKK | 1 |
| Contemporary Capitalism and Postmodernism | 3 | Compulsory | MKK | 2 |
| Narrative, Semiotics, and Discourse Analysis | 3 | Compulsory | MKK | 2 |
| Ethnography of Culture and Media | 3 | Compulsory | MKK | 2 |
| Political Economy of Digital Media | 3 | Compulsory | MKK | 2 |
| Cyberculture and Digitalisation of Society | 3 | Compulsory | MKK | 2 |
| Screen and Visual Culture | 3 | Elective | MKK | 1 |
| Media, Gender, and Sexuality | 3 | Elective | MKK | 1 |
| Media and Politics of Representation | 3 | Elective | MKK | 1 |
| Cultural Industries and Digital Economy | 3 | Elective | MKK | 1 |
| Locality, Transculturality, and Transnationalism | 3 | Elective | MKK | 2 |
| Branding and Promotional Culture | 3 | Elective | MKK | 2 |
| Prosumption, Lifestyle, and Consumerism | 3 | Elective | MKK | 2 |
| Digital Humanities | 3 | Elective | MKK | 2 |
| Proposal Seminar | 5 | Compulsory | MKK | 3 |
| Thesis | 10 | Compulsory | MKK | 4 |