Module overview
Aims and Objectives
Learning Outcomes
Transferable and Generic Skills
Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:
- Evaluate concepts, principles, histories, theories, and practices and make critical judgements of the strengths and weaknesses of particular arguments
- Reflect constructively upon your learning, and make effective use of feedback received
- Plan and structuring a task in areas of literature, communication and the cultural industries in which you have already studied
- Present knowledge and argument in a clear, structured and comprehensible manner, adapted to the needs or requirements of a particular audience or exercise
- Structure in coherent manner information and materials from disparate sources, sifting the relevant from the irrelevant
Knowledge and Understanding
Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:
- The practical implications of analysing literature and communication within the cultural industries, in relation to issues around genre, form, reading, marketing
- The theoretical history between literature, communication and the cultural industries, as it relates to the production, consumption and circulation of a wide range of cultural texts
- The institutions and practices that create and sustain literature and communication within the cultural industries, including publishers, newsprint, online content providers, art and heritage bodies
- The social, cultural and political contexts in which literature and communication function and circulate and the theoretical concepts that have made them meaningful
Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills
Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:
- Research with appropriate supervision the areas of literature, communication and the cultural industries which you have not previously studied
- Demonstrate a sophisticated proficiency in analysing the varied genres and registers that communicating in the cultural industries requires, these include writing reviews, proposals, pitches, blurbs
- Develop a research plan in relation to understanding a specific case study taken from the literary and cultural industries
Subject Specific Practical Skills
Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:
- Demonstrate a sophisticated proficiency in writing in the varied registers of the cultural industries, including critical reviews, pitches, proposals, analytical commentary, interviews
- Demonstrate an appreciation of the social, economic and political contexts through which texts are produced, read and consumed
Syllabus
Learning and Teaching
Teaching and learning methods
Type | Hours |
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Workshops | 10 |
Independent Study | 580 |
Project supervision | 10 |
Total study time | 600 |
Resources & Reading list
Textbooks
Gary Thomas (2013). How to Do Your Research Project: A Guide for Students. Sage.
David Hesmondhalgh (2014). The Cultural Industries. Sage.
Amaranth Borsuk (2018). The Book. MIT Press.
Assessment
Summative
This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.
Method | Percentage contribution |
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Feedback | 10% |
Final project | 50% |
Reflection | 20% |
Annotated bibliography | 20% |
Referral
This is how we’ll assess you if you don’t meet the criteria to pass this module.
Method | Percentage contribution |
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Assessment | 100% |
Repeat
An internal repeat is where you take all of your modules again, including any you passed. An external repeat is where you only re-take the modules you failed.
Method | Percentage contribution |
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Assessment | 100% |
Repeat Information
Repeat type: Internal & External