180.561 (21W) De-Westernizing Media and Cultural Studies

Wintersemester 2021/22

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Erster Termin der LV
08.01.2022 09:00 - 16:00 Online Off Campus
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Lehrende/r
LV-Titel englisch De-Westernizing Media and Cultural Studies
LV-Art Vorlesung-Kurs (prüfungsimmanente LV )
LV-Modell Präsenzlehrveranstaltung
Semesterstunde/n 2.0
ECTS-Anrechnungspunkte 6.0
Anmeldungen 9 (30 max.)
Organisationseinheit
Unterrichtssprache Englisch
LV-Beginn 08.01.2022
eLearning zum Moodle-Kurs
Anmerkungen

COURSE ETIQUETTE GUIDE

 

Students for this course may come from a variety of academic fields as well as cultural and national backgrounds. While some may be already familiar with many of the themes discussed in this course, for others they may represent a major challenge. The international and interdisciplinary nature of the student’s body will enrich your learning experience. The purpose of this brief Etiquette Guide is to suggest ways of improving that experience for everyone.

àRecognise that we will not always share the same points of view.

àTreat people fairly, with courtesy and respect. Any ethnic, racial or sexual discrimination is considered immoral and is prohibited.

àAcknowledge that our personal behaviour has an impact on others.

In lectures:

Late arrivals to the class and talking in lectures is distracting for everyone.

Laptops, Tablets and Phones: It is strongly advised to turn these off in all lectures, unless they are required for note taking. They should always be switched off when the lecturer requests this.

Preparation for the class. The reading and other preparation that you are asked to undertake before a session is vital to your benefit from the course as well as for facilitating student discussion. While given the size of the class an in-depth control of the reading week by week cannot be secured, it is your responsibility to apply the independent learning principles.

Plagiarism:  Plagiarism is the passing off of another person’s thoughts, ideas, writings or images as one’s own.  A student commits plagiarism when he or she incorporates in his or her own work substantial unacknowledged portions of another person’s material, or attempts to pass off such work as original through its inclusion. Plagiarism is an act of fraud.

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LV-Beschreibung

Inhalt/e

This course is an advanced introduction to debates on culture, mediaand society in various national, international and transnational contexts. Itwill promote a deeper understanding of specific patterns of cultural productionand reception in countries and societies beyond the “relativelyunrepresentative nations as Britain and the US” (Downing, 1996) which can nolonger serve as the only valid pattern and model for analysing cultural andmedia history and currents (Curran & Park, 2000). At the beginning of thecourse we shall review the key critical debates in cultural theory with aparticular attention to the development and impact of the British culturalstudies tradition (Birmingham 1964-2002). The purpose of this review is torethink the conceptual apparatus of mainstream cultural studies and test itssuitability for the analysis of cultural production, distribution and receptionin a variety of non-western socio-political contexts during the Cold War.Attention will also be given to the de-centralisation and privatisation ofculture in post-communist Europe. The course will make references to examplesfrom two specific areas of cultural industries, i.e. film and book publishing.The aim is to achieve broader understanding of how various cultural formatswork away from the traditional West vs rest dichotomy. This effort will requirea fresh focus on concepts such as censorship,exile, propaganda, resistance, underground, dissent, identity and repression,as well as theoretical and analytical engagement with most recent modes ofcultural production and agencies and their transformation (media archaeologyand ecology, e-book, e-piracy, etc.).

Literatur

see document "course description" on Moodle

Prüfungsinformationen

Im Fall von online durchgeführten Prüfungen sind die Standards zu beachten, die die technischen Geräte der Studierenden erfüllen müssen, um an diesen Prüfungen teilnehmen zu können.

Prüfungsmethode/n

Participation in class discussion will constitute 30% of your final grade.

Group presentation (15 – 20 mins) which will address a selected topic of the course content will constitute further 30% of the final grade. Format and content of the presentation will be discussed during the first meeting of the course.

Final essay of 10 pages (doubled-spaced, typed, 12-point font) on a selected topic is worth 40% of your grade. The list of topics, and formal characteristics of the essay will be discussed during the first meeting of the course. The essay must be submitted by email to jirina.smejkalova@gmail.com.

There will be no midterm or final exam.

References to reading materials and all relevant audio-visual resources will be provided during the course.

Beurteilungskriterien/-maßstäbe

100 - 90 %
A (1)
89 - 80 %
B (2)
79 - 60 %
C (3)
59 - 0 %
F (4)

Beurteilungsschema

Note Benotungsschema

Position im Curriculum

  • Masterstudium Medien, Kommunikation & Kultur (SKZ: 841, Version: 20W.1)
    • Fach: Kultur (Pflichtfach)
      • 4.1 Cultural Studies und Medien ( 0.0h VC, VI / 6.0 ECTS)
        • 180.561 De-Westernizing Media and Cultural Studies (2.0h VC / 6.0 ECTS)
          Absolvierung im 1., 2., 3. Semester empfohlen
  • Masterstudium Medien, Kommunikation und Kultur (SKZ: 841, Version: 09W.1)
    • Fach: Medien- und Kommunikationsforschung (Pflichtfach)
      • Vorlesung mit Kurs ( 2.0h VK / 6.0 ECTS)
        • 180.561 De-Westernizing Media and Cultural Studies (2.0h VC / 6.0 ECTS)
  • Masterstudium Medien, Kommunikation und Kultur (SKZ: 841, Version: 09W.1)
    • Fach: Cultural Studies und Medien (Wahlfach)
      • Kurs ( 2.0h KU / 6.0 ECTS)
        • 180.561 De-Westernizing Media and Cultural Studies (2.0h VC / 6.0 ECTS)
  • Masterstudium Medien, Kommunikation und Kultur (SKZ: 841, Version: 09W.1)
    • Fach: Information und Gesellschaft (Wahlfach)
      • Vorlesung mit Kurs ( 2.0h VK / 6.0 ECTS)
        • 180.561 De-Westernizing Media and Cultural Studies (2.0h VC / 6.0 ECTS)

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