MAScreen Media and Innovation
| Study location | Estonia, Tallinn |
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| Type | Postgraduate, full-time |
| Nominal duration | 2 years (120 ECTS) |
| Study language | English |
| Awards | MA |
| Accreditation | 208657 |
| Tuition fee | €2,100 per semester |
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| Application fee | €100 one-time |
| Entry qualification | Undergraduate diploma (or higher) Master’s level applicants are required to have a Bachelor’s degree or a corresponding qualification.
At least 60% of the possible maximum results is expected in order to qualify for studies in Tallinn University. Please see a list of required documents here. For country-specific requirements please see here. Step-by-step application guides can be found here. We advise you to apply as soon as possible so that the admission specialists can give you feedback before the application deadline and a chance for you to update your application, if necessary. Tallinn University does not accept applications submitted by third parties. Applicants must complete and sign the application form themselves. The entry qualification documents are accepted in the following languages: English / Estonian. You must take the original entry qualification documents along with you when you finally go to the university. All required documents must be uploaded with the application by the application deadline. Applicants who have successfully passed their entrance exam, may be asked to send their educational documents to Tallinn University by post. Specific instructions will be given by the admission specialists to each applicant individually. Please do not send any documents by post until you have personally been asked to do so. Whether any documents are required by post can also be determined by examining Tallinn University’s country-specific requirements. which may state, for example, that the applicant’s Transcript of Records must be sent to Tallinn University by the awarding institution or that a document needs to be certified in a particular way. |
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| Language requirements | English Only applicants who have completed their previous levels of education or their previous studies fully in English in the United States, Canada, the Commonwealth of Australia, New Zealand, United Kingdom, Switzerland or the EU/EEA countries (attested proof from the previous educational institution required), will be exempted from submitting an international language test as a proof of their English proficiency. Students who have completed International Baccalaureate studies can submit their graduation documents as proof of English language proficiency. The following tests with scores outlined are accepted:
Please make sure that the test score you are submitting is still valid. Invalid test scores will not be accepted. NB! Students coming from Finland do not have to prove their language proficiency for B2 level if they have at least “cum laude approbatur” (pitkä oppimäärä) as the result of the English language exam in their matriculation certificate. Students coming from Latvia do not have to prove their language proficiency for B2 level if the result of their Latvian Secondary Education State Exam in English is at least grade “A” or “B” or corresponds to B2 English proficiency level. Students coming from Lithuania do not have to prove their language proficiency for B2 level if the result of their Lithuanian Secondary Education State Exam in English is at least 70 points. More information is available here. |
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| Other requirements | A motivation letter must be added to your application. Your letter of motivation should include your full name and be written by you alone, in Please find the guidelines here. Please see the programme-specific requirements on the website of the Screen Media and Innovation MA programme and make sure you have submitted all the required assignments. Students with long-term medical conditions may encounter obstacles in higher education. Aiming to provide equal education, students have the opportunity to apply for adjustments based on their condition. Lecturers have the right to give reasonable adjustments, but this is not an obligation. Applicants applying for adjustments to be made during the admission exams due to their physical or psycho-social special need must submit a copy of medical proof of their special need. Specific requirements for Non-EU applicants: Citizens of Non-EU/EEA countries are required to pay the first semester’s tuition fee before the beginning of studies. |
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Overview
How relevant are screens in your life? Do you, like an average American, spend 12 hours a day with screens? Does it matter? Screen media is a crucial source of information, knowledge and entertainment for a huge segment of the global population, an increasingly significant economy, yet also a source of anxieties regarding health, wellbeing, culture and politics.
Join our new MA program “Screen media and Innovation” to make sense of the changes that ubiquitous screens, digitalization, platformization and datafication bring to media industries and media participation, and to learn how to solve complex problems and innovate in this context.
At the centre of the “Screen media and innovation” program lies innovation. Our pedagogy is based on the logic of project/problem based learning developed at the Harvard Teaching and Learning Lab, Stanford d.school and Aalborg University. The project/problem based learning process is based on a practical or theoretical screen media problem, which teams of students operationalize and solve during a set period of time, following pregiven steps and using design thinking.
Our teaching staff are internationally renowned experts in various fields of screen media research. Their lectures and seminars provide a systematic overview of contemporary screen media and in-depth knowledge of its impact, implications and functioning.
The quality of teaching and the experience gathered through the creative learning system equip a successful graduate with the capacity to confidently and knowledgeably solve complex screen media problems and work in teams. People with such a profile are needed internationally in media-, and creative industry jobs as well as the public and NGO sector.
Career opportunities
We prepare innovators. The knowledge and understanding of the nuances of screen media industries, practices and cultures, as well as the experiences generated via the project/problem based learning process provide a successful graduate with a suitable profile to work as an innovator, developer, consultant, analyst, specialist, manager or an entrepreneur within the media-, and creative economies as well as a consultant or an expert within the public or NGO sector.