Gwybodaeth Modiwlau
Module Identifier
TFM7220
Module Title
Television History and Policy
Academic Year
2015/2016
Co-ordinator
Semester
Semester 2
Other Staff
Course Delivery
Assessment
| Assessment Type | Assessment length / details | Proportion |
|---|---|---|
| Semester Assessment | 1 x 2500 word essay | 50% |
| Semester Exam | 2 Hours 1 x 2 hour written examination | 50% |
| Supplementary Assessment | 1 x 2500 word essay | 50% |
| Supplementary Exam | 1 x 2 hour written examination | 50% |
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this module, students should be able to:
1. engage in critical debates about the historical development of television and television policy
2. demonstrate an advanced level of knowledge in relation to historical debates on television, its policy and institutions
3. critically engage with, and evaluate, contemporary issues in television policy
Content
1. PART ONE: Pre-war television
2. Post-war television: from monopoly to competition
3. Television from Pilkington to Annan
4. Public service vs neo-liberalism: television since the 1980s
5. Globalisation, social change and television reform
6. PART TWO: Regulating television: national and international histories
7. Case study: regulating television in China
8. Case study: Television policy in lesser-used language communities
9. Television and multiplatform formats
10. Critical issues in television history and policy: a summary
2. Post-war television: from monopoly to competition
3. Television from Pilkington to Annan
4. Public service vs neo-liberalism: television since the 1980s
5. Globalisation, social change and television reform
6. PART TWO: Regulating television: national and international histories
7. Case study: regulating television in China
8. Case study: Television policy in lesser-used language communities
9. Television and multiplatform formats
10. Critical issues in television history and policy: a summary
Aims
The aim of this module is to provide students with an advanced knowledge of the development of television in the UK and beyond up to the present day. It will enable students to understand the historical development of television, engage with historical and critical debates about that process, and to critically evaluate these debates.
Brief description
This module enables students to explore and critically evaluate the histories and contexts that have been seen to inform television in the UK and beyond. It also encourages students to adopt historical and archival methodologies in their work and locates the work undertaken in other modules on the scheme within a wider framework.
The aim of this module is to provide students with an advanced knowledge of the development of television in the UK and beyond up to the present day. It will enable students to understand the historical development of television, engage with historical and critical debates about that process, and to critically evaluate these debates.
The aim of this module is to provide students with an advanced knowledge of the development of television in the UK and beyond up to the present day. It will enable students to understand the historical development of television, engage with historical and critical debates about that process, and to critically evaluate these debates.
Module Skills
| Skills Type | Skills details |
|---|---|
| Application of Number | |
| Communication | Students will be expected to contribute to seminar discussions and relate their own research progress orally. Students' capabilities to structure ideas and arguments in their coursework and exam essays will form part of the module assessment criteria. |
| Improving own Learning and Performance | At multiple points across the module, students will be asked to summarise how their learning and performance are progressing. This will enable learning and performance to be improved by identifying strengths and weaknesses. |
| Information Technology | Students will be encouraged to use information resources within the library where relevant within their research. |
| Personal Development and Career planning | Students will be encouraged to develop research skills, presentation skills, engage in group work, and develop their writing skills. These attributes will feed into their development as individual researchers well-suited for academic / research careers. |
| Problem solving | Students will need to articulate work on historical/policy developments in their written assignment, as well as responding appropriately and effectively to unseen exam essays. |
| Research skills | Students will bring research and information literacy skills to bear upon the module, articulating the results in their assessments (essay and exam). |
| Subject Specific Skills | |
| Team work | There is no assessed group work on the module, but students will work together in seminars within small-group discussions. |
Notes
This module is at CQFW Level 7