Gender, Sexuality and Media L4
| Code | School | Level | Credits | Semesters |
| CULT4059 | Cultural, Media and Visual Studies | 4 | 20 | Spring UK |
- Code
- CULT4059
- School
- Cultural, Media and Visual Studies
- Level
- 4
- Credits
- 20
- Semesters
- Spring UK
Summary
This module examines the politics of gender and sexuality in media and popular culture. It offers advanced inquiry into the intersectional fields of feminism, queer theory, and media and cultural studies. This module asks the key questions: how gender and sexuality are represented in media and popular culture, how media and cultural industries structure gender and sexual inequalities, how identities and practices of media audiences and users are gendered and sexualised, and what are creative and radical ways of resistances to gender and sexual norms?
Target Students
Only available to students on MA International Media and Communication Studies.
Classes
- One 1-hour workshop each week for
- One 2-hour lecture each week for 11 weeks
This module will share timetabled classes with CULT3033 Gender, Sexuality and Media. MA students will be an additional hour at the end of the workshop to further develop the issues for that week and will be given additional and more challenging tasks in the online activities.
Assessment
- 100% Coursework 1: Portfolio of written work or equivalent 4,000 words
Assessed by end of spring semester
Educational Aims
The purpose of the module is To familiarise students with key concepts, theories and debates in feminist media studies and queer media studies To encourage students to discriminate between particular theoretical and political positions in feminism and queer theory To enable students to analyse a range of media and cultural texts, contexts and practices through the perspectives of feminism and queer theoryLearning Outcomes
Knowledge and understanding:
on completion of this module, students will demonstrate:
Knowledge of concepts, theories and debates on gender and sexuality;
An understanding of the ways in which media and popular culture are shaped by, and at the same time shape, gender and sexual norms, practices and identities
An understanding of the political potential of the media engagement with issues of gender and sexuality
Intellectual skills:
students of this module will be able to:
Critically analyse, interpret and evaluate representations of gender and sexuality in media and popular culture
Draw on the industrial context of media and cultural industries and reflect upon how this impacts on gender and sexual norms, practices and identities
Draw on the social context of media and popular culture and reflect upon how this impacts on gender and sexual norms, practices and identities
Transferable/key skills:
on completion of this module, students will be able to:
Adopt a critical approach in investigation
Evaluate different sources of information
Work independently, demonstrating initiative, self-organisation and time management.