Current students

Please see our dedicated Student Handbooks webpage.

Information about the scheme and how to apply can be found here.

We hope that you enjoy your studies in the Department, and that you are pleased with the teaching and other forms of support that you receive. 

However, if you have any suggestions or concerns, we aim to respond to these constructively and address any problems as promptly as possible. Specifically, if you have a concern about your programme or any aspect of the Department's activities, you are invited to raise this with any of the following:

• the elected student representatives for your programme
  (see Moodle for details)
• the relevant course teacher (see Moodle for details)
• your Programme Director
• the Director of Graduate Studies
  
• the Department Manager and/or Deputy Department Manager
  
• the Head of Department
  

In addition, LSE has clear guidance on how you can voice concerns and complaints, both formally and informally. See here for more. 

Should you decide to express a concern or pursue a complaint outside the Department, we ask that you also inform Department Manager James Deeley so that they are aware of the issue.

The final time and date for submission is 12.00 midday (UK time) on Friday of Michaelmas Term Week 9.

This section is designed to give brief information to MSc students from the Department of Media and Communications who have failed a course, deferred a course, or have not been awarded their degree, and should be read in conjunction with the Department's MSc Handbook and Dissertation Guide (see above) and the webpages on Re-entry. 

Please also read the Scheme for the Award of a Taught Masters Degree. 

All results are provisional until the publication of final and confirmed results in November of each year, therefore we are not able to give advice on possible or likely outcomes before the Exam Board has confirmed those results.

We will communicate with you only via your LSE email address. You must ensure that you can access your LSE IT account so that you can use Moodle for coursework submission, and access your final results on LFY.  If you need to recover your IT account, please contact Tech Support.

Fail with Resits

Please note that failing only a half unit course does not necessarily mean that a degree will not be awarded in the current year.

Students on the MSc Global Media & Communications (USC): if you do not successfully complete four units at LSE, you may be required to compensate for the failed course(s) by registering for additional courses at USC. 

• All students must pass MC499 (Dissertation) to be eligible for the award of the MSc degree.

• All MSc Media and Communications (Research) students must pass MC499 and MC4M2 to be eligible for the award of the MSc degree.

If you have not been successful in obtaining your degree, you will be entitled to resit any failed courses on one occasion only. 

The School has an appeals procedure for students who wish to appeal their overall classification.  Full information on this procedure is available on the Appeals webpage.

Resitting or Deferring Assessments

General (LSE) information

For full details of the re-entry/resitting process, please see web pages on Re-Entry. 

Specific information for resitting and deferring MC courses:

Courses assessed by un/seen examination

If the syllabus of a particular course has changed, a special resit examination paper, based on the syllabus you studied, will be set. Resit examinations take place each year alongside examinations for current students.

Courses assessed by coursework

Submission date

Students resubmitting coursework for examination in 2021 should do so by the last day of Lent Term, Thursday 1 April 2021 (12noon UK time).

Essay titles

Students should either rewrite the failed piece of work or select another summative essay title from the list of summative coursework questions for courses taught in your year of study.

Submission procedure

Coursework must be submitted online via Moodle before the deadline. Essay coversheets are available on Moodle. Instructions on how to format essays and how to name the file are in the MSc Handbook. Students must use their candidate number for the current academic year, which can be found on LSE for You.

MC499 Dissertation

Students resubmitting dissertations should do so by Thursday 19 August 2021 (12noon UK time), using the same submission procedure as for coursework (above). Students must use their candidate number for the current academic year, which can be found on LSE for You.

Students resitting or deferring only the MC499 Dissertation are entitled to resubmit by the earlier date of the last day of Lent Term. If successful, the degree may be awarded in July rather than December.

Note that Dissertations must be submitted to Moodle only.

No formal supervision is available to resit or deferred students but students' former dissertation supervisors will send you brief feedback. In addition, students may contact Dissertation Officers for advice and guidance. Their details will be posted on Moodle towards the end of the LSE Summer Term. Students may resubmit their existing dissertation with revisions, or may change the topic and submit a new dissertation. Please note, given that supervision is not available to resit or deferral students, most students choose to submit a variation of their original dissertation.

Resitting assessments for courses taken outside the Department

For guidance on submitting work for deferred/resit assessment outside the Department of Media and Communications, please contact the appropriate academic department.

Please submit your agenda items for the Department of Media and Communications SSLC meeting below.

• You are not limited to six items, if you have more, please complete a second version of the form.

If you are a current MSc student or an alumnus of this department and you would like a reference from one of our academic staff, please complete this reference request form and submit it by email. 

Please include as much information as possible as this makes it much easier to write a meaningful reference. You must include all of your courses and all of your coursework and exam results.

Please allow 10 working days for the reference to be written. Let us know if it must arrive by a certain date and if there are any other special requirements (e.g., sealed envelope).

Download the form

Exceptionally, students may be permitted to change to a different programme after registration.

• MSc students on 12-month programmes may request to transfer programmes only during the Michaelmas Term course selection period. Please follow the guidance on the following Programme Transfer webpage. 
• MSc students on 24-month programmes may request to transfer to another programme during the Michaelmas Term course selection period. However, 24-month MSC students may request to transfer to the MSc Media and Communications (also known as 'Classic Track') at any point during their first year of study. Please follow the guidance on the following Programme Transfer webpage.