This one-year (full-time) MA advances practical, research and analytical thinking skills while deepening creative and theoretical engagement with media of all kinds. The programme  combines critical thinking and cutting-edge creative practice to tackle the challenging environment of contemporary media industries. It develops a wide range of theoretical and practical approaches across several media forms  including film, interactive media, print, broadcast TV and radio. It situates these media in their historic and social contexts, examining how people engage with them, their economic infrastructures and technological forms, alongside hands-on practical engagement with media tools. 

The programmes flexible structure also allows you to build a degree that suits you. 

Students can follow one of our 3 pathways: Creative Media; Society and Justice; or History and Culture, or a programme of their own design. The programme also allows students to pursue their own interests by taking related modules from across a range of subjects available at Maynooth University. Finally, students can choose between a final dissertation or creative project based on where they want the MA to take them.