Engagement skills
This assignment allows you to revisit your analytical, academic, and critical engagement skills, as well as building our transferable skills such as research, time management/project planning, adhering to format rules, and over time develop an argument. Especially in light of future application processes, papers, and dissertation, this is an excellent opportunity to improve your academic language as well as professional planning and development.
Assignment Description
This paper is your opportunity to interrogate a larger and contemporary issue, such as those discussed in this module, and connect various threads to gain a better understanding of the media systems at large. Representational issues, financial concepts, identity formation, etc. all require a more complex analysis of interconnected elements, much as you will find in the post-university world job market, postgraduate studies environment, and simply put everyday life.
This assignment accounts for (50%) of this module’s marks.
Learning Outcomes Assessed by this Assignment
This assignment assesses the following module learning outcomes:
1. analyze media configurations as texts, artifacts, and experiences within the contemporary media landscape
2. demonstrate a detailed understanding of and engagement with media configurations so as to research media objects, texts, and experiences in both a strategic and creative fashion.
3. adopt a critical perspective to evaluate and possibly re-think the relationship between the production and consumption of cultural, communication and media texts, their experiences and contexts.