6 ECTS credits
151 h study time
Offer 1 with catalog number 1021567CER for all students in the 1st semester at a (C) Bachelor - specialised level.
This course’s subject is cultural industries. It addresses the question how media and cultural production are shaped. Media and cultural products are defined as symbolic goods or nonmaterial goods directed at a public of consumers, for whom they generally serve an esthetic or expressive, rather than a clearly utilitarian function. We like to watch TV-series because their stories struck a chord. We love music because it helps us to express our identity. We are blown away by films because they resonate with what we expect from life. We buy photo-posters because we find them beautiful. Although publics, fans and audiences are important, the point of departure in this course is the production and producers of media and culture.
In a series of lectures and classroom discussions we study from different theoretical perspectives the following issues:
By using concrete examples and by means of classroom discussions theoretical ideas and concepts are brightened up.
This course uses two handbooks:
1/ David Hesmondhalgh, The Cultural Industries (4th edition), published in 2019 by Sage.
2/ Mark Deuze & Mirjam Prenger (eds.), Making Media: Production, Practices, and Professions, published in 2019 by Amsterdam University Press.
After having taken this course students are able to:
On a more generic level this course aims to contribute to a set of official learning outcomes of the bachelor of science in Media and Communication Studies: see course information in Dutch for more information.
The final grade is composed based on the following categories:
Oral Exam determines 70% of the final mark.
Other Exam determines 30% of the final mark.
Within the Oral Exam category, the following assignments need to be completed:
Within the Other Exam category, the following assignments need to be completed:
Students are assessed based on (1) an oral exam (70% of the final grade) and (2) the preparation of and participation in the discussion seminars (30% of the final grade).
This offer is part of the following study plans:
Bachelor of Adult Education: Profile Social Studies (only offered in Dutch)
Bachelor of Adult Education: Profile Cultural Studies (only offered in Dutch)
Bachelor of Adult Education: Initial track (only offered in Dutch)
Bachelor of Communication Studies: Standaard traject (only offered in Dutch)
Bachelor of Political Science and Sociology: - afstudeerrichting sociologie, minor samenleving en cultuur (only offered in Dutch)