Teaching Responsibility
LJMU Schools involved in Delivery:
LJMU Partner Taught
Learning Methods
Lecture
Seminar
Module Offerings
5513ISTMCC-JAN-PAR
Aims
1. To deepen and broaden student understanding of the theoretical roots underpinning the study of media, culture and communication.
2. To encourage students to assess the relative strengths and weaknesses of theoretical approaches discussed throughout the module.
3. To offer students opportunities to analyse media texts and cultural practices whilst drawing upon a range of theoretical positions.
Learning Outcomes
1.
Evaluate and critique theoretical approaches relevant to the study of media, culture and communication.
2.
Develop an essay plan that acts as a foundation for the research and writing of a student-defined essay that offers a theoretically-informed analysis of a student-selected media text or cultural practice.
3.
Critically apply a given theoretical approach to a student-selected media text, cultural practice or piece of communication.
Module Content
Outline Syllabus:Marxism, Media and Culture; The development of British Culturalism; The development of structuralism; Psychoanalysis/Media Analysis; The history of theories of mass society and mass culture; Gender, Feminism and the Media; Postmodernism and Popular Culture; Class, Taste and Distinction; Subcultures and Social Identities; Identity Politics and Contemporary Media and Culture.
Additional Information:Workshop sessions will be largely devoted to supporting the development of the essay plan and the subsequent student-defined essay. Small group and individual tutorials will be offered to support students towards the development of theoretically informed analyses of media texts or cultural practices.
Assessments
Essay
Report