Gwybodaeth Modiwlau

Module Identifier
FM10220
Module Title
STUDYING TELEVISION
Academic Year
2009/2010
Co-ordinator
Dr Glen Creeber
Semester
Semester 2
Other Staff
 

Course Delivery

Delivery Type Delivery length / details
Lecture 10 x 1-hour (weekly) lectures
Seminars / Tutorials 10 x 1-hour (weekly) seminars
Other 10 x 2-hour (weekly) TV screenings
 

Assessment

Assessment Type Assessment length / details Proportion
Semester Assessment 1 x 2,500-word Essay  50%
Semester Exam 2 Hours   1 x 2 hour Formal Unseen Examination  (answering two questions from a list of around eight questions, requiring essay-style answers, held during the semester 1 examination period)  50%
Supplementary Assessment All failed or missing elements must be retaken or made good.  Different assignment questions and a resit examination paper during the formal August supplementary assessment period will be provided for this purpose. 

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this module, students should be able to:

1. Demonstrate an understanding of television in terms of various critical methodologies.

2. Effectively and purposefully analyse the formal construction of television texts.

3. Draw critically upon a range of reading from the field of TV studies.

4. Understand the processes of the key theories and concepts that have dominated the academic study of TV and be able to apply these theories and concepts to programme examples.

Content

1. Introduction: What is Television Studies?
2. Defining Television: A Medium in its Own Right?
3. Textual Analysis 1: Shot by Shot Analysis
4. Textual Analysis 2: Genre and Narrative Structure
5. Textual Analysis 3: Structuralism & Semiotics
6. Textual Analysis 4: Television & Ideology
7. Textual Analysis 5: Post-Structuralism
8. Television and its Audience
9. Television and Postmodernism
10. Global Television

Aims

1. Introduction: What is Television Studies?
2. Defining Television: A Medium in its Own Right?
3. Textual Analysis 1: Shot by Shot Analysis
4. Textual Analysis 2: Genre and Narrative Structure
5. Textual Analysis 3: Structuralism & Semiotics
6. Textual Analysis 4: Television & Ideology
7. Textual Analysis 5: Post-Structuralism
8. Television and its Audience
9. Television and Postmodernism
10. Global Television

Brief description

1. Introduction: What is Television Studies?
2. Defining Television: A Medium in its Own Right?
3. Textual Analysis 1: Shot by Shot Analysis
4. Textual Analysis 2: Genre and Narrative Structure
5. Textual Analysis 3: Structuralism & Semiotics
6. Textual Analysis 4: Television & Ideology
7. Textual Analysis 5: Post-Structuralism
8. Television and its Audience
9. Television and Postmodernism
10. Global Television

Module Skills

Skills Type Skills details
Communication * Students' written communication skills will be developed (e.g. appropriate language and style, accuracy, precision and ability to be concise). * Opportunities will be given, through seminar sessions, for students to develop confidence in using their speaking and listening skills when communicating their ideas.
Improving own Learning and Performance * Students will be able to develop their skills of information location and retrieval. * Students will be given opportunities to develop effective note-taking skills. * Students will develop their critical thinking skills. * Through group discussion, students will be given opportunities to develop an awareness of the opinions of others and reconsider initial ideas if necessary.
Information Technology * Students will be given the opportunity to develop their authorial and note-taking skills when planning and preparing for the written assignments, and will be encouraged to develop their note-taking skills in lectures. * Students will be given opportunities to develop their skills in searching for relevant reading and other materials through the University's Voyager Library Catalogue, the University electronic resource, Joey, and through the newspaper database, Lexis-Nexis. * E-mail and Blackboard will be the main forms of communication and information-sharing in this module, so students will be encouraged to actively engage in these processes.
Personal Development and Career planning * Students will be given the opportunity to evaluate current knowledge and skills and set targets for self-improvement. * Students will be encouraged to take increasing responsibility for managing their own learning. * Students will be encouraged to build upon the knowledge gained from lectures through developing skills in self study (supported by the general and specific reading lists and other resources distributed throughout the module).
Problem solving * Students should be able to identify tensions and debates in the field, and will be encouraged to critically reflect on the process by which academics arrive at particular theoretical interpretations of particular television programmes.
Research skills * Students will be able to develop their skills of information location and retrieval. * Students will be able to develop their textual analytic skills, and to learn to analyse texts in a focused and purposeful manner.
Team work * All seminar sessions will involve group work where students will be able to collaborate through discussion, and then feed back their ideas to the seminar group as a whole.

Notes

This module is at CQFW Level 4