1212 - Communication and Media
Course information
- Title
- Communication and Media
- Course number
- 1212.18
- Academic year
- 2024-2025
- ECTS
- 5.00
- Level
- Bachelor
- Faculties
- Faroese Language and Literature
- Educations
- BA in Faroese
- Prerequisites
- An academically oriented upper secondary diploma with a good average mark in Faroese (i.e. at least 5.8 on the 7-step marking scale or 8 on the marking scale from 00 to 13).
- Language of instruction
- The course is taught in Faroese. The instructional materials are in Faroese, and Scandinavian languages. Presentations, assignments, exams etc. are in Faroese.
- Registration
- Students on the first semester of Bachelor of Arts in Faroese Language and Literature are automatically enrolled. Applicants for an individual course must apply via the Student Service Center at lss@setur.fo
- Beginning date
- Tuesday, September 3, 2024
- End date
- Tuesday, December 3, 2024
Academic content
- Purpose
- To provide students with knowledge about communication and the media, including media history, forms of media, media theory, media analysis and methods. The course also emphasises enabling students to understand the interplay between media and culture, as well as to define, analyse, interpret and critically discuss media text in its communication context (herein the term ‘text’ refers to different media expressions, e.g. printed or oral text, online texts, images, audio/video clips and programmes).
- Learning outcomes
- Successful students can demonstrate ability to: • explain key issues and questions in communication and mass media • explain key theories about communication and mass media in cultural context • analyse mass media text discussing it in its communication context based on relevant theories and methods • demonstrate conceptual understanding of media forms and selected texts in their cultural and social context • argue for and evaluate the theories and methods applied in textual analysis
- Content
- The course provides insight into the main concepts theories and methods applied to the interplay between culture and media in a contemporary Nordic and international context. Course reading materials include key texts on communication and media, as well as samples of classical and contemporary original text. The course discusses the printed media, broadcast media, online media and contemporary interactive social media, with regards to their emergence, development and role in modern society. Topics discussed may include: news coverage, documentaries, the Faroese party press, online social media, blogs, classical narrative forms in contemporary media, media and democracy, political communication and spin, advertising communication. Based on relevant theories and methods, selected texts, images, programmes and clips will be analysed and critically discussed in their communication context.
- Learning and teaching approaches
- The course is offered over one semester as two hours a week of class-based teaching. The main learning and teaching strategies used are lectures, student presentations and exercises.
Assessment
- Assessment method
- Oral examination with half an hour of preperation time. For the preperation the student may bring the self-chosen works and any course materials. Reexamination: Same method as the regular examination.
- Examination (internal/external)
- External
- Grading scale
- Not set
- Exam date/dates
- The oral exam is set for 14-01-2025
- Deadline for withdrawal from exam
- Tuesday, September 3, 2024
Academic responsibility and teachers
- Academic responsibility
- Zakaris Svabo Hansen
- Teachers
- Bjarni Arge