In producing the MA in Mass Communications we have been able to call on the expertise of leading scholars and teachers in the field of communications and media from many different institutions and countries from around the world to create learning materials which areexclusive to our course and which build into an invaluable resource for the study of the media. The very best scholars have been brought together to provide written course material that reflects a far broader range of research and scholarship than is likely to be available in any conventional campus-based postgraduate course anywhere in the world. By following the Distance Learning mode our students are guided through this rich and varied material and encouraged to pursue their own lines of interest in the field as their knowledge expands and their experience grows.