6 ECTS credits
180 u studietijd

Aanbieding 1 met studiegidsnummer 1021099BER voor alle studenten in het 2e semester met een verdiepend bachelor niveau.

Semester
2e semester
Inschrijving onder examencontract
Mogelijk
Beoordelingsvoet
Beoordeling (0 tot 20)
2e zittijd mogelijk
Ja
Inschrijvingsvereisten
Students who want to enroll for this course, must have passed ‘Introduction to Communication Studies’ and must have obtained at least 30 ECTS-credits on bachelor level. Studenten van de bachelor Communicatiewetenschappen kunnen zich inschrijven voor dit vak, indien ze geslaagd zijn voor 'Inlediding tot de Communicatiewetenschappen en voor minstens 30 ECTS-credits zijn geslaagd op bachelorniveau.
Onderwijstaal
Engels
Onder samenwerkingsakkoord
Onder interuniversitair akkoord mbt. opleiding
Faculteit
Faculteit Sociale Wetensch & SolvayBusinessSchool
Verantwoordelijke vakgroep
Communicatiewetenschappen
Externe partnerinstelling(en)
Universiteit Gent
Onderwijsteam
Frederik Dhaenens (titularis)
Onderdelen en contacturen
0 contacturen Exam
24 contacturen Lecture
12 contacturen Practical exercises
144 contacturen Self study
Inhoud

Diversity and identity have become key notions in contemporary societies. Both in popular and academic debate, socio-cultural issues related to social class, racial, ethnic, gender, and sexual identities are being broached. This course is particularly concerned with how contemporary media and popular culture deal with (these debates on) diversity and aims to provide students with knowledge and insight into the role media and culture assume in the process of making sense of the world.

Drawing on various perspectives within media, communication, and cultural studies, this course starts with the following questions on media, culture, and diversity: What approaches are used by media and popular culture to represent diversity? What kinds of diversity are tackled and which ones are ignored? How do audiences respond to representations of diversity? To answer these and other diversity-related questions, this course assumes a critical, holistic and contextual approach. It focuses on particular types of media (film, popular music, television, digital media…), takes into account the role of production and reception in the process of making meaning of diversity, and uses historical and contemporary examples/cases from Western media and popular culture as illustrations to the issues at stake.

Studiemateriaal
Digitaal cursusmateriaal (Vereist) : Downloadable Powerpoint slides
Digitaal cursusmateriaal (Vereist) : Additional scholarly literature (max. 2 book chapters or articles per seminar)
Bijkomende info

This course combines different teaching methods:

•  Lecture: offering an introduction to key concepts, important theories, and contemporary debates prevailing in the research on media, culture and diversity.

•  Self-reliant study activities: students individually and independently process and assess additional scholarly literature that deals with the content of the course, as preparation to the formal lectures.

•  Group work: Students work together on understanding a contemporary case that links up to one or more of the key issues and concepts presented within the course and present the case in class.

Leerresultaten

General competences

  1. Being able to describe, explain and reflect on the key concepts, important theories, and contemporary debates prevailing in the research on media, culture and diversity.
  2. Being able to apply key concepts onto contemporary phenomena that relate to media, culture and diversity in order to make a make a scholarly sound and informed judgment and evaluation of these phenomena.
  3. Being able to argue what the relevance is of media, communication and cultural studies for the analysis of contemporary problems and, as such, to demonstrate the societal role and responsibility of a communication scholar.
  4. Being able to successfully conduct a small research project on diversity and popular (media) culture in group.
  5. Being able to clearly and concisely communicate a research project on diversity and popular (media) culture to fellow students.

Beoordelingsinformatie

De beoordeling bestaat uit volgende opdrachtcategorieën:
Examen Schriftelijk bepaalt 75% van het eindcijfer

Examen Andere bepaalt 25% van het eindcijfer

Binnen de categorie Examen Schriftelijk dient men volgende opdrachten af te werken:

  • Schriftelijk Examen met een wegingsfactor 75 en aldus 75% van het totale eindcijfer.

    Toelichting: .

Binnen de categorie Examen Andere dient men volgende opdrachten af te werken:

  • Groepspresentatie met een wegingsfactor 25 en aldus 25% van het totale eindcijfer.

Aanvullende info mbt evaluatie

The written exam consists of questions of reproduction, insight and application:

  • The questions of reproduction and insight test the student’s knowledge and understanding of the key concepts, important theories, and contemporary debates.
  • The questions of application evaluate the student’s abilities to apply the key concepts onto contemporary, relevant events within contemporary media culture.

Evaluation assignment:

  • Create a group presentation based on a topic that relates to the setup of this course

In order to pass the course, students have to participate in the evaluation of both components (i.e. written exam and group presentation).

If students pass the group assignment (score of 10/20 or more) but fail the written exam, students can retain the score of the group assignment in the resit and/or following academic year. The student has to e-mail the lecturer within a week (from the moment the results have been communicated) if they want to redo the assignment, which will be in the form of a modified and individual assignment.

 

Note: Further information on the assignments and grading is included in the seminar's guidelines that will be published on Canvas.

Toegestane onvoldoende
Kijk in het aanvullend OER van je faculteit na of een toegestane onvoldoende mogelijk is voor dit opleidingsonderdeel.

Academische context

Deze aanbieding maakt deel uit van de volgende studieplannen:
Bachelor of Social Sciences: Communication Studies (enkel aangeboden in het Engels)
Bachelor of Social Sciences: Political Sciences (enkel aangeboden in het Engels)
Bachelor of Social Sciences: Sociology (enkel aangeboden in het Engels)
Bachelor of Social Sciences: Startplan (enkel aangeboden in het Engels)