The course is included in these curricula and study modules

The course takes place in period

  • 1 (2023-08-01 to 2023-10-22)
  • 2 (2023-10-23 to 2023-12-31)
  • 3 (2024-01-01 to 2024-03-17)
  • 4 (2024-03-18 to 2024-07-31)

Level/category

Extension studies

Teaching language

Swedish

Type of course

Optional

Cycle/level of course

First

Recommended year of study

3

Total number of ECTS

5 cr

Competency aims

Within this study unit we will focus on the following competencies:

F. RESEARCH and DEVELOPMENT
C. CRITICAL AND ANALYTICAL MEDIA INDUSTRY KNOWLEDGE
D. PROFESSIONAL COLLABORATION within the cultural field

Learning outcomes

Once you have completed the study unit you will have:

Knowledge
You
-have the ability to make analytical and reflective reasoning about different types of interactive productions and their message

Skill
You
-are able to research, find theoretical material and evaluate the reliability of sources
-can use sources in your discussion and place them in relation to the personal reflections, public opinion and analysis
-can summarize well-structured and fluid written wholes to illustrate and highlight the result in the analysis

Attitude
You
-are analytical and critical towards your surrounding and the media landscape
-are able to separatie your subjective opinions from facts and can discuss and motivate

Course contents

In order to pass the course, students analyze interactive productions online. The choice of productions is discussed with the course examinator to achieve highest possible focus on the work. Following the analyses the student writes three essays with 2000 words each essay.

The essays should contain:
facts about the works treated. That means e.g. information about the production company, year of production, screenwriter, director, producer, ie such that might be interesting about production creation. To clarify your goal, you should in the various essays present an issue that you specifically want to research and examine and that you want get answers to, or that you want to problematize. You may well be personal and your opinions may be heard in text but the work needs its analytical perspective that compare the productions relationship to each others and to the world they describe. It can for instance be about the values lying hidden in the productions and how they manifest them. It can involve production of knowledge, human and worldview, ethics and morality, genus perspective etc. Or the productions rhetoric, dramaturgy, aesthetics, scenery, pictorial narrative, audio work or other components that in different way affects our experience etc. You also have to use references if you strengthen/motivate your own opinions with theories or statements.

If you analyze something strongly visual (e.g. concerning usability) you have to refer to the production with images or links.

Prerequisites and co-requisites

None

Previous course names

-

Study activities

Individual studies - 133 hours

Workload

  • Total workload of the course: 133 hours
  • Of which autonomous studies: 133 hours
  • Of which scheduled studies: 0 hours

Mode of Delivery

Virtual self studies

Assessment methods

Essays, reports, productions and portfolio

Assessment requirements

To pass the performance, the student must pass
the following examinations: Three accepted essays of at least 2,000 words each. The structure of the essay, the flow and readability, the use of resources and versatility of the material are evaluated. Details of the requirements on the essays are presented under course content.

Teacher

Törnqvist Jutta

Examiner

Törnqvist Jutta

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Group size

No limit (2 students enrolled)

Assignments valid until

Until further notice

Course enrolment period

2023-08-10 to 2023-09-06

Assessment methods

Date will be announced later - Reports and productions

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