2024/25 Taught Postgraduate Module Catalogue

SLSP5366M Approaches and Methods for Media and Culture

30 creditsClass Size: 140

Module manager: Dr. Gary Wong
Email: g.p.f.wong@leeds.ac.uk

Taught: Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) View Timetable

Year running 2024/25

This module is mutually exclusive with

SLSP5501M

Research Strategy and Design

This module is not approved as an Elective

Module summary

Individuals are embedded in complex networks of international, national, and local flows of culture, media and new media from which we draw our understandings of ourselves and our worlds. This module explores a broad range of methods and approaches used to critically understand media and cultural texts and the contexts in which they are produced and consumed.

Objectives

Provide an advanced understanding of contemporary approaches to the study of media and culture.

Critically engages with a number of methods and epistemologies to explore their potential for producing different kinds of data, evidence on, and interpretation of, media and cultural forms and practices.

Learning outcomes
On successful completion of the module students will have demonstrated the following learning outcomes relevant to the subject:
1. demonstrate an understanding of and critical engagement with the key conceptual, theoretical, empirical and critical debates within the sociological investigation of culture and the media;
2. apply conceptual understanding to the analysis of contemporary debates and issues;
3. demonstrate a mastery of the key texts and approaches from the field of the social science concerned with the investigation of media and culture;
4. display advanced abilities for critical thinking and in-depth analysis of existing scholarship on media and culture; and
5. demonstrate the ability to produce and present a piece of individual analysis of media or cultural text or practice that employs appropriate methodological and conceptual frameworks and critical inquiry.

Skills learning outcomes
On successful completion of the module students will have demonstrated the following skills learning outcomes:

Apply critical thinking skills to a range of social issues

Deploy system thinking skills to a variety of social debates

Communicate complex information, including concepts, verbally and in written form

Present complex information on social issues verbally

Syllabus

Details of the syllabus will be provided on the Minerva organisation (or equivalent) for the module

Teaching methods

Delivery type	Number	Length hours	Student hours
Lectures	11	1.00	11.00
seminars	10	1.50	15.00
Independent online learning hours			11.00
Private study hours			263.00
Total Contact hours			26.00
Total hours (100hr per 10 credits)			300.00

Opportunities for Formative Feedback

1. Verbal feedback on the contributions during seminars
2. Verbal feedback through discussing your ideas and formative work with the module team during their open door times

Methods of assessment

Coursework

Assessment type	Notes	% of formal assessment
Assignment	Coursework	100.00
Total percentage (Assessment Coursework)		100.00

Normally resits will be assessed by the same methodology as the first attempt, unless otherwise stated

Reading list

The reading list is available from the Library website

Last updated: 09/08/2024

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