6 ECTS credits
150 u studietijd

Aanbieding 1 met studiegidsnummer 1021438CER voor alle studenten in het 1e semester met een gespecialiseerd bachelor niveau.

Semester
1e 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 for ‘Media, Culture and Diversity’ and must have obtained at least 30 ECTS-credits on bachelor level.
Onderwijstaal
Engels
Onder samenwerkingsakkoord
Onder interuniversitair akkoord mbt. opleiding
Faculteit
Faculteit Sociale Wetensch & SolvayBusinessSchool
Verantwoordelijke vakgroep
Communicatiewetenschappen
Externe partnerinstelling(en)
Universiteit Gent
Onderwijsteam
Florian Vanlee (titularis)
Onderdelen en contacturen
39 contacturen Hoorcollege
111 contacturen Zelfstudie en externe werkvormen
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Aim of the course

The aim of this course is to make the students familiar with the domain of both the theory and the analysis of popular media culture and cultural media studies. The central idea is that (mass) media plays a crucial role in the construction and determination of the ideology, taste and culture.

Contents

This course consists of three parts :

  1. In the introduction, the issues are stated and the basic concepts, like culture, high/low culture, mass culture and popular media culture are defined.
  2. In the second part we deal with the development of the theory of popular media culture and thinking about popular media culture, together with attention for the divers paradigms or perspectives like the postwar British (later international) cultural studies perspective. During this part, we constantly refer to concrete research.
  3. In the last part, the perspectives are applied to several cases.

 

Studiemateriaal
Handboek (Vereist) : Cultural Theory and Popular Culture, An introduction, Storey, J., 9de, London: Routledge, 9780367820602, 2021
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Teaching methods

Group work, lecture, microteaching, project, self-reliant study activities.

This course combines two work forms:

  1. Lectures that focus on the field of cultural media studies, the contextualisation of the different perspectives and the paradigms and research methods with illustration of the concepts used.
  2. Guided self-study in which the students themselves gain knowledge by processing the provided knowledge of the handbook. During the lectures, the knowledge that is provided in the handbook is contextualised and is provided with illustrations based on case studies.

Learning materials and price

Handbook: Storey, J. (2015). Cultural Theory and Popular Culture. An introduction (7nd ed.). London: Routledge. PowerPoint hand-outs available via Minerva. Potentially additional texts available via Minerva For free downloadable or electronically available material, an amount of 5 eurocent per page needs to be counted. Estimated total price: 35 EUR

References

Strinati, D. (1995). An introduction to Theories of Popular Culture. London: Routledge. Barker, C. (2000). Cultural Studies. Theory and Practice. London: Sage. Lewis, J. (2002). Cultural Studies. The Basics. London: Sage.

Leerresultaten

General Competences

  1. To gain basic knowledge of and insight in the theory of the popular media culture and cultural media studies, as well as in the current state of research.
  2. To gain basic knowledge of and insight in the socio-scientific research methodology concerning popular media culture.
  3. To gain basic knowledge of and insight in the relationship between popular media culture and the society.
  4. To be aware of the social role and relevance of the cultural media studies and of the associated ethical, socio-cultural, juridical and economical questions.
  5. To form a scientifically based verdict and to take a stand in issues concerning popular media culture.

Beoordelingsinformatie

De beoordeling bestaat uit volgende opdrachtcategorieën:
Examen Schriftelijk bepaalt 60% van het eindcijfer

Examen Andere bepaalt 40% van het eindcijfer

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

  • Written Exam met een wegingsfactor 100 en aldus 60% van het totale eindcijfer.

    Toelichting: open-ended questions

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

  • Visual Essay Assignment met een wegingsfactor 30 en aldus 30% van het totale eindcijfer.
  • Participation met een wegingsfactor 10 en aldus 10% van het totale eindcijfer.

Aanvullende info mbt evaluatie

Periodical evaluation (60%): written exam with open-ended questions
Non-periodical evaluation (40%): visual essay assignment (30%) and overall participation (10%)

If you pass the section "non periodical evaluation", this component should not be retaken at the second examination period. However, you always have the right to use your full second examination opportunity if you do not yet pass the entire course. The last exam result achieved counts when calculating the final result.

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)