Postgraduate Diploma in English and New Media Studies

How do you develop a narrative for video games? Can you counter fake news? How do people write on social media? Explore these and other topics with this postgraduate diploma.

The Postgraduate Diploma in English and New Media Studies will advance your knowledge about the relationship between technology and communication. It includes opportunities for hands-on explorations, and enables you to focus on an area of your interest.

The programme is suitable for professionals, including educators, as well as graduates with a background in language, literature, media studies and other related areas.

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Start date: 2021

Minimum entry requirements

  • A relevant bachelor’s degree with a B grade average or higher in papers at level 7 or equivalent

In exceptional circumstances an applicant who doesn’t meet the requirements above but who has an appropriate combination of academic and professional experience may be considered for admission. Contact the programme administrator: nancy.fai@aut.ac.nz

International student entry requirements

English language requirements

  • IELTS (Academic) 6.5 overall with all bands 6.0 or higher

English language requirements

You must complete 120 points to complete the Postgraduate Diploma in English and New Media Studies.

Areas covered include:

  • Game narrative and interactive storytelling
  • Multiplatform transmedia narratives
  • Web communication
  • New media theory
  • Corpus, multimodal and critical discourse analysis of new and social media
  • Text mining and analytics
  • Virtual reality, new media and language education
  • Internet phenomena, eg memes, challenges, netspeak
  • Social media and (virtual) identity
  • Intercultural communication and new media
  • Social media, communication and creativity

Complete 90 points from

And complete the following paper

Your chosen papers need to be approved by the programme leader.

  • Game narrative designer
  • Online journalism
  • Digital marketing and public relations
  • New and social media practice
  • The arts and cultural industries
  • Online content curator
  • Content development for virtual and augmented realities
  • Social media account manager
Quick facts
Programme code:
AK1075
Level:
8
Points:
120
Duration:
1 year full-time / part-time available
Campus:
City Campus
Starts:
22 Feb 2021
12 Jul 2021
Fees:
Domestic
$8,711
  • This represents the approximate tuition fee based on a full-time workload of 120 points in 2020. The exact tuition fee will depend on papers selected and may exceed this figure.
  • Fees are subject to change year to year. If you are planning for beyond 2020, fees may vary from those stated.
  • There may also be other fees and charges you need to pay. Learn more about fees to study at AUT
International
$33,058
  • This represents the approximate tuition fee based on a full-time workload of 120 points in 2020. The exact tuition fee will depend on papers selected and may exceed this figure.
  • Fees are subject to change year to year. If you are planning for beyond 2020, the tuition fee may vary from the figure stated.
  • There may also be other fees and charges you need to pay. Learn more about fees to study at AUT
  • International students' tuition fees reflect the full cost of tuition. Domestic students' tuition fees are less due to a proportion of the tuition fees being funded by the New Zealand Government.

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