Department Of Media Music Communication & Cultural Studies

Education NSW introduces Department Of Media Music Communication & Cultural Studies in North Ryde, for all your education and learning needs.

The Department of Media, Music and Cultural Studies combines the academic disciplines of Media, Contemporary Music Studies, Critical and Cultural Studies and International Communication. Situated in the Y3A building the department offers a range of undergraduate, Honours and postgraduate coursework and research opportunities.

Media offerings cover a range of traditional media theory studies as well as production units. The undergraduate units prepare students to understand, analyse, critique and produce diverse forms of media from screen to print to multimedia forms. The Media discipline emerged from Macquarie’s Department of Media, the oldest such department in Australia. Media production units are taught by experts in the field and utilize state of the art facilities housed in Y3A. Media hosts Scan: Journal of Media, Arts Culture.

Contemporary Music Studies is dedicated to the study of various forms of 20th and 21st Century music (popular, folk/indigenous, electronic, avant garde etc.) Music staff is actively engaged in research, publication and recording projects and is Australia’s leading centre of activity in these fields. It publishes Perfect Beat – The Pacific Journal of Research into Contemporary Music and Popular Culture and runs Coral Music – a label dedicated to recording artists from Western Pacific communities.