Teaching Responsibility
LJMU Schools involved in Delivery:
Humanities and Social Science
Learning Methods
Lecture
Seminar
Module Offerings
6115MEDCUL-SEP-MTP
Aims
1. To consolidate and expand students' understandings of the concept of diversity in media, culture and communication.
2. To critically engage with diverse representations in media, culture and communication texts.
3. To enable students to produce critically and theoretically informed essays analysing diversity in media, culture and communication texts.
Learning Outcomes
1.
Produce a media artefact that demonstrates understanding of the representation of diversity and diverse identities in different media and cultural texts.
2.
Critically engage with representations of diversity in a range of different media, cultural and communication texts.
3.
Produce theoretically informed critical essay about a selected aspect of mediated representation(s) of diversity.
Module Content
Outline Syllabus:Indicative subjects include:
Representing Dissent; Representing Migration; Mediating Global Politics; Representing Race and Racism;
Global Perspectives on Class Struggle; Representing Disabilities.
Indicative case studies include:
Representations of democracy in the UK/US; Reporting conflict(s); Representing Pride & LGBTQIA Communities; Femininities & Masculinities; Black Lives Matter movement; #MeToo and gender power relations; Disabilities in Popular Television.
Module Overview:
This module aims to equip you to explore, interpret, and analyse representations of diversity and diverse identities in the media. The module will present a range of themes and topics alongside case studies of media and cultural texts that represent and mediate key issues in contemporary culture to enable students to critically engage with diverse representations in media, culture and communication texts. Case studies will be used to explore key themes and issues. These currently include: representations of democracy in the UK/US; reporting conflict(s); representing Pride & LGBTQIA Communities; femininities & masculinities; the Black Lives Matter movement; #MeToo and gender power relations; disability and migration.
This module aims to equip you to explore, interpret, and analyse representations of diversity and diverse identities in the media. The module will present a range of themes and topics alongside case studies of media and cultural texts that represent and mediate key issues in contemporary culture to enable students to critically engage with diverse representations in media, culture and communication texts. Case studies will be used to explore key themes and issues. These currently include: representations of democracy in the UK/US; reporting conflict(s); representing Pride & LGBTQIA Communities; femininities & masculinities; the Black Lives Matter movement; #MeToo and gender power relations; disability and migration.
Additional Information:This module aims to equip students to explore, interpret, and analyse representations of diversity and diverse identities in the media. The module will present a range of themes and topics alongside case studies of media and cultural texts that represent and mediate key issues in contemporary culture.