Welcome to the Faculty of Media and Knowledge Sciences

The Faculty of Media and Knowledge Sciences (MaKS) is one of the youngest of the fourteen faculties of the University of Malta having been established in 2011 to offer study programmes and carry out research that are relevant in a knowledge society and that reflect the importance of the knowledge-based economy. The Faculty has recently moved into a refurbished and extended building that includes a new Digital Arts Lab and Art Room, new Cognitive Science Lab, new lecture halls, seminar rooms, and meeting areas.

The Faculty offers a number of taught programmes at Diploma, Undergraduate and Postgraduate levels. These include programmes relating to the media and communications, digital arts, marketing communications, the management of knowledge and information, and cognitive science.

MaKS is made up of six departments that deal with different aspects of knowledge. 

• Department of Media and Communications focuses on the transfer of knowledge between individuals and society.
• Department of Library Information and Archive Sciences focuses on the management and storage of knowledge and information. 
• Department of Digital Arts bridges contemporary artistic practice and digital technology to study how knowledge is expressed in the creative industries. 
• Department of Corporate Communication seeks to understand and investigate how knowledge transfer takes place within and between institutions and their numerous stakeholders.
• Department of Cognitive Science undertakes the study of the mind with special emphasis on the use and acquisition of knowledge and information.
• Department of Information Policy and Governance deals with the wider societal implications and applications of communication systems. 

The Faculty’s diverse research streams, which have attracted over EUR 1.5 million of European Union research funding under the FP7 and H2020 funding programmes, continue to pursue the investigation of knowledge creation, its accumulation and transfer, and its multiple uses in society. MaKS embraces cognitive neuroscience and social science research as theoretical frameworks for communication, as well as different forms of digital media expressions and social structures that make the dissemination of knowledge possible.