Media and Cultural Studies II
links to weeks
Weeks 11, 12 and 13 with Scott Wilson
Week 14 15 and 16 with Sarah Gibson
Week 17 Essay tutorials
Week 20
Media and Cultural Studies II (CULT 201)
useful media links here
lent term week by week course outline
please purchase lent term reading pack
autumn term week by week course outline:
Seminar Presentation list
WHO CAN DO IT?
This is a 20 week, full unit, compulsory second year core course for Culture, Media and Communication BA hons and Film and Cultural Studies BA hons students. It is not available as an option*.
* (JYA students may apply to do this course, however they should note that whilst it is possible to undertake term one, the first 10 weeks, independently of the rest of the course, they may find themselves disadvantaged taking the second term without having taken term one).
WHAT YOU NEED: Essential Purchases
READING PACK: You also need to purchase the Lent term reading pack from the CMC office, A33, Cartmel. This will be about £5.
3. You need a lancaster university email address, (not hotmail etc). This is essential and you cannot take the course without one.
CONTENT: The course is divided into three blocks taught over two terms, Autumn and Lent: Semiotics, Identity and the Politics of Consumer Culture.
This second year core course will introduce you to different academic approaches to the study of culture and media.
This course aims to encourage you to develop critical skills which will enable you to reflect upon, analyse and challenge assumptions about the cultures we inhabit and the media which construct and represent contemporary culture. In particular, this course aims to make you question values meanings and representations that seem natural, normal or common sense.
This course focuses on close textual analysis and structural analysis of visual images and written texts, such as photography, advertising, magazines and newspapers. To make cultural and media theory more accessible, this course is organized around a number of key themes and topics from contemporary Western Culture, but students from or interested in other cultures, such as Chinese culture, are encouraged to bring contemporary cultural and media examples to seminars and undertake comparative analysis.
This course builds on the first year core course, Media, Film and Cultural Studies (CULT 101), and provides a platform for the more challenging theories of the third year core course, Media and Cultural Studies III. This course will also link up with some of the ideas about documentary you will study in Media and Cultural Studies Project II and should give you lots of ideas for the third year Media and Cultural Studies project III, in which you will undertake a Cultural Studies/Media dissertation or group project on a topic of your choice.
STAFF
Course Convener: Imogen Tyler B39 Cartmel
Administration: Janine Grenfell, the ICR Departmental Officer, administers this course.
Lecturers: Imogen Tyler, Scott Wilson, Adrian Mackenzie, Sarah Gibson, Jules Pidduck
Seminar Tutors: Imogen Tyler and Sarah Gibson
CONTACT
Email: j.grenfell@lancaster.ac.uk, i.tyler@lancaster.ac.uk, s.t.wilson@lancaster.ac.uk. s.gibson@lancaster.ac.uk.
Office Hours Imogen: Tuesday 10-11am or by appointment
Office Hours Sarah Gibson: Tuesday 12-2pm A floor cartmel
Lecture: Tuesday 3pm-4pm George Fox 5/6
Plus one seminar per week. Seminar Groups list on
CMC notice board, (A floor, Cartmel Annex). NOTE: You need to sign up
for a seminar asap.
email: i.tyler@lancaster.ac.uk