Postgraduate Diploma in English and New Media Studies

at Auckland University of Technology

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, like memes, challenges, netspeak
• Social media and (virtual) identity
• Intercultural communication and new media
• Social media, communication and creativity

Minimum entry requirements

• A relevant bachelor’s degree with a B grade average or higher in courses 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.

International
$35,334 (for 120 points)
($34,400 tuition fees + $934 student services levy)

• 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