Advanced textual analysis: Film, TV and Visual Culture
Postgraduate course
- ECTS credits
- 10
- Teaching semesters Autumn
- Course code
- MEVI383
- Number of semesters
- 1
- Teaching language
- Norwegian or English.
- Resources
- Schedule
Course description
Objectives and Content
The course focuses on the formal and expressive aspects of media and on their cultural-historical context. Grounded in media studies as a discipline within the humanities, the course will provide a basis for theoretical reflection and aesthetic analysis of (for instance) films, television, photography, visual culture and computer games. The significance of aesthetic and technological circumstances for how media texts are created, produced and function is central to the course. The media forms under scrutiny and the theoretical-analytical traditions we will engage with will vary with each iteration of the course.
Learning Outcomes
A student who has completed the course should have the following learning outcomes:
Knowledge
The student
- has knowledge of selected theoretical and analytical traditions central for understanding media form and content.
- has knowledge of how the form and the content of media are related to specific aesthetic, cultural-historical, and technological conditions.
Skills
The student
- is able to compare, assess, and discuss important characteristics of different analytical traditions.
- is able to apply theoretical insights and concepts in analyses of media expressions and genres.
ECTS Credits
10 ECTS.
Level of Study
Master
Semester of Instruction
Autumn
Required Previous Knowledge
Bachelor's degree in Media Studies or equivalent.
Credit Reduction due to Course Overlap
MEVI303 (10 ECTS)
Access to the Course
Reserved for students in the master's programme in Media Studies.
Teaching and learning methods
Lectures, seminars and individual supervision.
Compulsory Assignments and Attendance
Course literature presentation. See guidelines published at the start of the semester.
Approved work requirements valid only in the teaching semester.
Forms of Assessment
The course will conclude with an individual oral exam.
Grading Scale
A-F
Assessment Semester
Assessment only in the teaching semester.
Reading List
The syllabus for the course will be available by July 1 for the fall semester.
Course Evaluation
All courses are evaluated according to UiB's system for quality assurance of education.
Programme Committee
The Programme Committee is responsible for the content, structure and quality of the study programme and courses.
Course Administrator
The Department of Information Science and Media Studies at the Faculty of Social Sciences has the administrative responsibility for the course