Politics of the Media

Learning Outcomes

Learning Outcomes

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Students will gain a critical, developed, independent perspective on the role of media in the politics across contemporary states.
• Students will gain a basic working knowledge of today’s incipient trends and questions in the politics of media, and their institutional landscape.
• Students will gain a more reflexive awareness of how the politics of media shape their own perceptions and behaviors.

Each week will be devoted to a theme where a diverse range of perspectives is presented. Typically, each week’s theme will expose the student to the main classic/canonical theoretical perspective(s), the main dissident/heterodox and typically more contemporary perspective(s), a qualitative empirical piece (case studies) providing evidentiary material and, where applicable, quantitative studies. The balance of these materials will be variable and depend on the nature of theme

Weekly lecture and seminar with occasional film showing and other such events. Teaching on this module is geared towards encouraging students to see themselves as active participants in their own learning process.

Summative

This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.

Referral

This is how we’ll assess you if you don’t meet the criteria to pass this module.