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175-008 Language and media | |
Availability | 2nd and 3rd year |
Credit Points | 12.5 |
Coordinator | Mr Paul Gruba |
Prerequisites | None |
Semester | 1 (view timetable) |
Contact | A 1.5-hour seminar and a 1-hour laboratory class per week |
Subject Description | Working within a mediated environment, this subject examines issues regarding the role of language in the media and linguistic viewpoints on media texts. Topics include: the relationship between media, language, text and message; doing media research; non-verbal communication; structure of the media text types; approaches to media text analysis; genre analysis and the media; media representations; using corpora; hypertext issues; developing websites; media literacy. Students are given training in using multimedia tools and current technologies and practice in presenting their research through different media. |
Assessment | Participation in a collaborative project equivalent to 1000 words, and an individual class presentation of 2000 words, and participation in group development of a web site and 1000 word report. |
Prescribed Texts | Materials prepared by the department. |
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