Digital Screen Cultures

Learning Outcomes

Transferable and Generic Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Organise time successfully by respecting and meeting deadlines
• Present analytical skills and research findings in an appropriate format
• Write effectively, critically, and accurately in an appropriate academic style
• Complete a Final Project that demonstrates analytical thinking and ability to carry out and process independent research
• Translate complex theories, histories, ideas, and research findings in a coherent, concise, and effective manner

Knowledge and Understanding

Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:

• The proliferation of screens in the twenty-first century, and how users engage with them
• The globalised, converged, and conglomerated media landscape of the twenty-first century
• The theories and histories of new and emerging media
• The digital shift in media and communications since the late twentieth-century, and how it represents both a continuation of and departure from analogue media and communications

Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Discuss the weekly readings and apply their critical frameworks to the screenings, seminar discussions, and Final Project
• Evaluate and apply a range of theoretical and historical frameworks to a variety of digital, screen-based media

Formative

This is how we’ll give you feedback as you are learning. It is not a formal test or exam.

Class discussions

• Assessment Type: Formative
• Feedback: In-class feedback from the seminar tutor, based on their conversation with the students.
• Final Assessment: No
• Group Work: Yes

Summative

This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.

Referral

This is how we’ll assess you if you don’t meet the criteria to pass this module.

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.