Παρουσίαση/Προβολή

(410913) -  Πατρίτσια Κόκκορη

Περιγραφή Μαθήματος

This course provides a working knowledge of media vocabulary and is designed primarily to develop confidence in spoken and written English for occupational and academic writing purposes. To achieve this double objective, the focus in class is on detailing the features of print and broadcast media as we consolidate vocabulary for discussing the most pressing issues at present, and on critiquing a body of media materials (photojournalism, documentary, advertisement) and non-mainstream films on journalism that evolve or subvert the Hollywood model feature film. We examine how the codes and conventions of the different genres function as formulae to inform, divert, persuade and please audiences, and how they shape social perception. To discover what the audience is being persuaded we explore major contributions of different theories to critical analysis (semiotics, deconstruction and spectatorship). Our primary concern is to determine not only the persuasive techniques in the diverse utterances of print and audio-visual genres but how they capture or construct realities. Students are expected to demonstrate competence in using specialist and general vocabulary for discussing current affairs with informed opinion and by drawing on concepts studied for analysing narratives, production techniques, representations and stereotyping when they come to assess media material in an essay. The course also seeks to actively engage students in weekly tasks that foster the use of theme based vocabulary in discussions and writing activities.

Learning outcomes
A. Knowledge and Understanding
By the end of the semester students should be able to:

• read journalistic articles and book chapters rapidly to find specific information and get an overall impression of the content
• take notes and summarize articles or book chapters in some detail
• listen to spoken English in interviews, news broadcasts, documentaries and films, for general impression and specific information
• recognise rhetorical tropes, production and narrative techniques, in journalism, advertising and film
• give personal responses with evaluative language
• write a comment piece, summary and short academic essay

B. Intellectual abilities:
By the end of the semester students should be able to:

• show some critical awareness of the language and forms used in media
• recognise representations and stereotyping in media
• raise questions about the functions of media
• draw on bibliography to formulate a research topic and produce a case study

C. General Competencies:

By the end of the semester students should:

• have understood the importance of forming informed opinion
• have developed competence in acceptance of gender & cultural ‘otherness’
• have become more confident in expressing their own views in their second language
• have become more autonomous learners

Ημερομηνία δημιουργίας

Πέμπτη 20 Νοεμβρίου 2014