BA Cultural and Media Studies(For students entering from September 2024 onwards)

Year 2

(Award available for year: Diploma of Higher Education)

Learning outcomes

On successful completion of this level in the programme you will be able to:
1. critically analyse keywords and concepts related to the contemporary world and how they are created and culturally mediated.
2.consider the ways in which questions of aesthetic, creative and cultural value are experienced and understood.
3. reflect on the ways in which culturally mediated artefacts emerge from and engage with social, political and economic processes.
4. relate conceptually to cultural mediated artefacts and the ways in which social interactions about such objects may operate through circulating meanings and systems of representations.
5. reflect historically on how cultural and mediated artefacts are originated, realised, and distributed.
6. analyse the role which community and participatory media forms do or can play in contributing to cultural debates and the contesting of power as well as the extent to which these processes have changed and continue to change.

Skills Learning Outcomes
1. Applying critical skills in framing written/verbal/other communication skills to present a coherent and sustained argument;
2. Collaborating with peers on topics and issues that integrate diverse and global perspectives and contexts and effectively communicating information to a diverse range of audiences.
3. Contribute to contemporary artistic and cultural discourses by incorporating ethically aware and globally diverse perspectives in their communication.

Assessment

Students will be assessed through a variety of methods that allow them experiment, as appropriate, with forms, conventions, languages, techniques, and practices. These may include essays, question-based exams, blogs, video-essays, critical self-reflections, group projects based on field visits and other collaborations with peers. This collaboration could be in the development of diverse textual, verbal, and multimodal artefacts.