CULTURAL POLITICS OF AMERICAN MASS MEDIA

Course Information
TitleΠΟΛΙΤΙΣΜΙΚΗ ΠΟΛΙΤΙΚΗ ΤΩΝ ΑΜΕΡΙΚΑΝΙΚΩΝ ΜΜΕ / CULTURAL POLITICS OF AMERICAN MASS MEDIA
CodeΛογ7-481
FacultyPhilosophy
SchoolEnglish Language and Literature
Cycle / Level1st / Undergraduate
Teaching PeriodWinter/Spring
CommonNo
StatusActive
Course ID600018114

Programme of Study: 2024-2025

Registered students: 0
OrientationAttendance TypeSemesterYearECTS
KORMOSElective CoursesWinter/Spring-6
Class Information
Academic Year2019 – 2020
Class PeriodSpring
Instructors from Other Categories
Weekly Hours3
Total Hours39
Class ID
600148253
Course Type 2011-2015
Knowledge Deepening / Consolidation
Mode of Delivery
  • Face to face
Digital Course Content
Erasmus
The course is also offered to exchange programme students.
Language of Instruction
  • English (Instruction, Examination)
Learning Outcomes
With the completion of the course the students will be able to: - Understand what we mean by visual culture in the context of American culture - Examine how mass media/social media/advertisements/TV/cinema work in the context of American contemporary culture - Examine the connection between the above mentioned media cultural practices in relation to American literary production - Examine how to read images - Examine how images work in relation to the way we understand and perceive the real - Comment on the socio-cultural factors (history, politics, race, gender, class) that determine and control the content of mass media.
General Competences
  • Apply knowledge in practice
  • Retrieve, analyse and synthesise data and information, with the use of necessary technologies
  • Adapt to new situations
  • Make decisions
  • Work autonomously
  • Work in teams
  • Work in an international context
  • Work in an interdisciplinary team
  • Appreciate diversity and multiculturality
  • Demonstrate social, professional and ethical commitment and sensitivity to gender issues
  • Be critical and self-critical
  • Advance free, creative and causative thinking
Course Content (Syllabus)
This course explores the various ways that visual mass media in the United States - cinema, television, advertisement, as well as new media - shape and determine the public' s perception of the world events. Without a doubt, visual culture has become a predominant epistemological tool in today' s society. The public has grown to rely heavily on images as a means of making sense of socio-political, historical, and cultural phenomena. The course considers the media effects on individuals, social groups (women, racial groups and the figure of the working-class male) as well as society at large.
Keywords
visual culture, american literature and culture, history, politics, gender, race, class, social media, cinema, TV, advertisements
Educational Material Types
  • Notes
  • Multimedia
  • Interactive excersises
  • material from the School of English online portal www.asrp.gr
Use of Information and Communication Technologies
Use of ICT
  • Use of ICT in Course Teaching
  • Use of ICT in Communication with Students
  • Use of ICT in Student Assessment
Description
Using elearning for the course material, answering forum questions, the submission and grading of their essays, communicating with the students; using material uploaded on the American Studies Resource portal (www.asrp.gr)
Course Organization
ActivitiesWorkloadECTSIndividualTeamworkErasmus
Lectures150✓✓
Reading Assigment10✓
Written assigments20✓
Exams3✓
Total183
Student Assessment
Description
Essay writing, presentations, short responses to forum questions, final exam.
Student Assessment methods
  • Written Exam with Extended Answer Questions (Summative)
  • Written Assignment (Formative)
  • Performance / Staging (Formative)
  • short responses to forum questions (Formative)
Bibliography
Additional bibliography for study
Essays/Book chapters by Walter Benjamin, Stuart Hall, John Berger, Marshall McLuhan, Jean Baudrillard, Roland Barthes, and Henry Jenkins.
Last Update
16-07-2019