Not available in 2015/16
MC416 Half Unit
Representation in the Age of Globalisation
This information is for the 2015/16 session.
Teacher responsible
Dr Shani Orgad STC. S110
Availability
This course is available on the MSc in Global Media and Communications (ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ and Fudan), MSc in Global Media and Communications (ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ and USC), MSc in Media and Communications, MSc in Media and Communications (Data and Society) and MSc in Media and Communications (Research). This course is available with permission as an outside option to students on other programmes where regulations permit.
Priority access will be given to students on MSc Global Media and Communications (with Fudan or USC).
In order to accommodate academic staff research leave and sabbaticals, and in order to maintain smaller seminar group sizes, this course is capped, meaning that there is a limit to the number of students who can be accepted. Whist we do our best to accommodate all requests, we cannot guarantee you a place on this course.
Course content
Images and stories circulated in the media play a central role in informing how we imagine the world, others and ourselves. We become increasingly dependent, often exclusively, on what we see, read and hear in the news, on our favourite television drama series, in advertisements, on the radi