Universität Wien

124261 KO Critical Media Analysis (2017S)

Space Exploration 101

6.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 12 - Anglistik
Continuous assessment of course work
Moodle

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Details

max. 30 participants
Language: English

Lecturers

Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N

  • Tuesday 07.03. 16:00 - 18:00 Helene-Richter-Saal UniCampus Hof 8 3G-EG-21
  • Tuesday 14.03. 16:00 - 18:00 Helene-Richter-Saal UniCampus Hof 8 3G-EG-21
  • Tuesday 21.03. 16:00 - 18:00 Helene-Richter-Saal UniCampus Hof 8 3G-EG-21
  • Tuesday 28.03. 16:00 - 18:00 Helene-Richter-Saal UniCampus Hof 8 3G-EG-21
  • Tuesday 04.04. 16:00 - 18:00 Helene-Richter-Saal UniCampus Hof 8 3G-EG-21
  • Tuesday 25.04. 16:00 - 18:00 Helene-Richter-Saal UniCampus Hof 8 3G-EG-21
  • Tuesday 02.05. 16:00 - 18:00 Helene-Richter-Saal UniCampus Hof 8 3G-EG-21
  • Tuesday 09.05. 16:00 - 18:00 Helene-Richter-Saal UniCampus Hof 8 3G-EG-21
  • Tuesday 16.05. 16:00 - 18:00 Helene-Richter-Saal UniCampus Hof 8 3G-EG-21
  • Tuesday 23.05. 16:00 - 18:00 Helene-Richter-Saal UniCampus Hof 8 3G-EG-21
  • Tuesday 30.05. 16:00 - 18:00 Helene-Richter-Saal UniCampus Hof 8 3G-EG-21
  • Tuesday 13.06. 16:00 - 18:00 Helene-Richter-Saal UniCampus Hof 8 3G-EG-21
  • Tuesday 20.06. 16:00 - 18:00 Helene-Richter-Saal UniCampus Hof 8 3G-EG-21
  • Tuesday 27.06. 16:00 - 18:00 Helene-Richter-Saal UniCampus Hof 8 3G-EG-21

Information

Aims, contents and method of the course

If, for Cultural Studies, culture is "a particular way of life, which expresses certain meanings and values not only in art and learning but also in institutions and ordinary behaviour" (Williams, The Long Revolution), questions become relevant that address the everyday spaces in which such ways of life meander: Where can we go, and where can we not? And, if you can, why can’t I? And why do we keep off the grass?

This course sets out to explore space(s) in an Anglophone context: public spaces and private space; earphones and wireless speakers; urban nomads and orientalism; carnivals and prisons; comfort zones and heterotopias; exhibition spaces and hostile architecture; tactical tagging and guerrilla knitting; well-trodden paths and roads less traveled by; ruin porn, and pornography as the politics of space.

• Concepts of semiotics, multimodality and proxemics add up to a methodological toolkit that will equip students to critically analyse the complex meanings that structure space.
• Key theoretical concepts in Cultural Studies will be reviewed, and applied, in the second half of the semester.

Aimed at BA students and teacher trainees, this course is thus designed to contribute to both the methodological skills and theoretical understanding involved in critical media analysis. Readings, viewings and class discussions will be supplemented by online performance, group research and peer feedback.

Assessment and permitted materials

• In-class and online participation; • midterm exam; • group research projects.

Minimum requirements and assessment criteria

Participation (1/3):
• pre-class readings,
• online pre-reading performance: 3 extensive blog posts or comments before 9 May 2017,
• in-class performance: the maximum number of absences is 2,
• online feedback of another group's project proposal;

Midterm Exam (1/3):
• 8 questions based on readings,
• exam pass mark 50%;

Group Project (1/3):
• online project proposal submission,
• in-class project discussion,
• email BA thesis proposal submission.

All individual performances in the participation and group-project segments are assessed (+)/(-);
midterm-exam results are assessed (1)/(2)/(3)/(4)/(5).

Examination topics

Course readings.

Reading list

Course readings will be made available on Moodle. Before the first session, please read

Kellner, Douglas, and Jeff Share. "Critical Media Literacy Is Not an Option."; Learning Inquiry 1.1 (2007): 59-69.
http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs11519-007-0004-2

and please watch the first two videos of

"Key Concepts in Multimodality." Mode: Multimodal Methodologies. Institute of Education. University College London, 16 Feb. 2012, https://mode.ioe.ac.uk/2012/02/16/video-resource-key-concepts-in-multimodality/. Accessed 18 Feb. 2017.

Association in the course directory

Studium: UF 344, BA 612, BEd 046
Code/Modul: UF 4.2.5-426, BA07.3; BEd 08a.2, BEd 08b.1
Lehrinhalt: 12-4260

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