Friday, 27 November 2009
Culture, Communication and Media Studies
 
University of KwaZulu-Natal, Howard College Campus, Durban, South Africa 
  
"... when you get a degree from CCMS you know that you earned your stripes and can go toe to toe with the best in the industry!"
Richard Delate (Hons, MA)
Country Programme Director, Communication, Johns Hopkins Health and Education SA; previously
Advocacy and Media Advisor, UNAIDS Eastern and Southern Africa.

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Communication for development. Photo by Simon McTavish.
Culture, Communication and Media Studies (CCMS) is the Southern African region's premier graduate research and educational unit in media studies. The unit consists of both graduate and undergraduate components. The staff, research and publications of CCMS are internationally renowned and read, and its leading staff members have been visiting professors in a variety of universities allover the world.

CCMS was established after the Soweto uprising of 1976, in order to develop strategies of cultural resistance through media and culture. The aim of CCMS was to teach critical media and cultural studies and to actively contribute topolitical change from inside the anti-apartheid coalition then known as the Mass Democratic Movement. Staff and students set out to develop theories and strategies to enable grassroots empowerment and local media and cultural development projects.

CCMS offers courses of an interdisciplinary nature, calling on contributions for the faculties of Humanities, Social Science, Science, Architecture and Education. Graduates find employment in a wide range of professions including:

  • Non-government or community-based organisations
  • University-based education, research and consultancy
  • Film industry
  • Television and radio broadcasting
  • Marketing and market research
  • Journalism
  • Community development

With the advent of democratic political processes in South Africa, CCMS has shifted its emphasis to policy research and development support for communication projects, in the context of reconstruction and policy studies. This requires working as critical consultants for the state and parastatal corporations, commissions and task groups, as well as the progressive business sector. CCMS also engages in major research projects, development projects, conferences and media production.

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