6 ECTS credits
165 u studietijd

Aanbieding 1 met studiegidsnummer 1009367BNR voor alle studenten in het 1e semester met een verdiepend bachelor niveau.

Semester
1e semester
Inschrijving onder examencontract
Niet mogelijk
Beoordelingsvoet
Beoordeling (0 tot 20)
2e zittijd mogelijk
Ja
Inschrijvingsvereisten
Studenten in de bachelor communicatiewetenschappen hebben 'Communicatiewetenschappen I’ gevolgd, alvorens dit opleidingsonderdeel op te nemen. Studenten in de bachelor Social Sciences hebben 'Introduction to Communication Studies' gevolgd, alvorens dit opleidingsonderdeel op te nemen.
Onderwijstaal
Engels
Faculteit
Faculteit Sociale Wetensch & SolvayBusinessSchool
Verantwoordelijke vakgroep
Communicatiewetenschappen
Onderwijsteam
Benjamin De Cleen (titularis)
Onderdelen en contacturen
1 contacturen Hoorcollege
30 contacturen Werkvormen en Praktische Oef.
134 contacturen Zelfwerk en -studie
Inhoud

This course aims to help students to acquire insight into the political dimension of popular media/culture, building on a reflections embedded within the field of social, cultural and political theory. Especially the culturalist and discursive approaches to media studies are used. The course covers the relation between popular media/culture and the field of politics as well as the broader political-ideological dimension of popular media/culture, focusing on categories such as class, ethnicity, gender, nation and war. The course looks at the different dimensions of the relation between politics and popular culture: popular fictional depictions of politics, popular culture as a political stage (how political actors appear on and use the stage of popular culture), and at popular culture as a political practice in itself (celebrity politics, the use of popular culture to political or ideological ends). Through a detailed analysis of a number of films, the political-ideological layers of these film are identified and their political potential and limitations are analysed.

Studiemateriaal
Digitaal cursusmateriaal (Vereist) : Politics and Popular Media, Reader, slides, student notes
Bijkomende info

Will be communicated regularly via the e-learning platform Canvas.

Teaching Methods

  • Lecture: collective contact-dependent moments during which the lecturer engages with learning materials
  • Seminar, Exercises or Practicals (Practical): collective or individual contact-dependent moments during which the students are guided to actively engage with learning materials
  • Independent or External Form of Study (Self): independent study

This description of the teaching methods is indicative, in order to assess the expected study load.

Lecture: 1 hour

  • Introduction lecture

Seminar, Exercise or Practicals (Practical): 30 hours

  • Seminars with group discussion of academic articles 18 hours  (6 x 3 hours)
  • Film screenings and student presentations of film analysis based on academic literature 12 hours (4 x 3 hours)

Self: 134 hours

  • Preparatory reading for seminars 50 hours (10 x 5 hours)
  • Analysis of film using academic literature in group: 20 hours
  • Writing academic film review article in group: 16 hours
  • Preparing film analysis presentation in group: 8 hours
  • Preparation exam: 40 hours 
Leerresultaten

Algemene competenties

At the end of this course, students will have:

  • enhanced theoretical and factual insights, the analytical capacity, and the ability to critically reflect on the political-societal meaning of popular media content;
  • enhanced ability to read and analyse academic texts
  • gained insights in diverse theoretical approaches of the media-politics relation and of the political-ideological meaning of popular media;
  • gained insights in the political-societal and cultural context in which these media forms develop; and by doing this
  • strengthened critical contextualizing attitude towards questions on popular media, politics and ideology;
  • enhanced capacity to analyse popular cultural products from a political-ideological perspective;
  • further developed aptitude to critical reflection;
  • strengthened capacity to communicate your analysis through written and oral presentation

Beoordelingsinformatie

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

Examen Praktijk bepaalt 25% van het eindcijfer

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

  • Mondeling Examen met een wegingsfactor 1 en aldus 75% van het totale eindcijfer.

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

  • Filmanalyses in groep met een wegingsfactor 1 en aldus 25% van het totale eindcijfer.

Aanvullende info mbt evaluatie

First session

  1. Open book oral exam: one questions with sub-questions based on reader and seminars (75%)
  2. Film analysis in group: written film essay + oral presentation (25%)

It is not allowed to use generative AI to generate text used in the film analysis essay.

Active and prepared participation in seminars is taken into account when determining the score for film analysis part. Individual score can differ between members of the same group depending on input in film analysis and active participation in seminars.   

Second session

  1. Open book oral exam: one questions with sub-questions based on reader and seminars (75%)
  2. Students who did not participate in the group film analysis in the first session, will be given an individual film analysis assignment in the second session. Students who failed in the first session and scored under 50% for the FILM ANALYSIS part, will also need to make this alternative assignment in the second session.

It is not allowed to use generative AI to generate text used in the film analysis essay.

If you need to participate in the second session, but scored minimum 10/20 for one of the two parts of the evaluation, the partial result of the part of the evaluation you scored minimum 10/20 for (the film analysis assignment or the oral exam) is transferred to the second session. If you wish to retake that part you scored minimum 10/20 for in the second session, you need to send an e-mail to bdecleen@vub.be within five days after the publication of the exam results. In case you retake that part in the second session, your first session result is cancelled and the second session result becomes the official result (even if it is lower than the first session result).

If you need to retake the course in the next year, the same rules apply. Partial results from 10/20 (for assignment or oral exam) are transferred to the next academic year. If you want to retake that part, you need to request this before the end of October by mail to bdecleen@vub.be.

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 in de communicatiewetenschappen: Standaard traject
Bachelor in de politieke wetenschappen en de sociologie: - afstudeerrichting sociologie, minor communicatiewetenschappen
Master in de onderwijskunde: Standaard traject
Master in de agogische wetenschappen: profiel culturele agogiek
Master in de agogische wetenschappen: profiel sociale agogiek
Master in de criminologische wetenschappen: Standaard traject
Master of Educational Sciences: Standaard traject (enkel aangeboden in het Engels)