Module manager: Dr. Gary Wong
Email: g.p.f.wong@leeds.ac.uk
Taught: Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) View Timetable
Year running 2024/25
| SLSP5501M | Research Strategy and Design |
This module is not approved as an Elective
Individuals are embedded in complex networks of international, national, and local flows of culture, media and new media from which we draw our understandings of ourselves and our worlds. This module explores a broad range of methods and approaches used to critically understand media and cultural texts and the contexts in which they are produced and consumed.
Provide an advanced understanding of contemporary approaches to the study of media and culture.
Critically engages with a number of methods and epistemologies to explore their potential for producing different kinds of data, evidence on, and interpretation of, media and cultural forms and practices.
On successful completion of the module students will have demonstrated the following learning outcomes relevant to the subject:
1. demonstrate an understanding of and critical engagement with the key conceptual, theoretical, empirical and critical debates within the sociological investigation of culture and the media;
2. apply conceptual understanding to the analysis of contemporary debates and issues;
3. demonstrate a mastery of the key texts and approaches from the field of the social science concerned with the investigation of media and culture;
4. display advanced abilities for critical thinking and in-depth analysis of existing scholarship on media and culture; and
5. demonstrate the ability to produce and present a piece of individual analysis of media or cultural text or practice that employs appropriate methodological and conceptual frameworks and critical inquiry.
Skills learning outcomes
On successful completion of the module students will have demonstrated the following skills learning outcomes:
Apply critical thinking skills to a range of social issues
Deploy system thinking skills to a variety of social debates
Communicate complex information, including concepts, verbally and in written form
Present complex information on social issues verbally
Details of the syllabus will be provided on the Minerva organisation (or equivalent) for the module
| Delivery type | Number | Length hours | Student hours |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lectures | 11 | 1 | 11 |
| seminars | 10 | 1.5 | 15 |
| Independent online learning hours | 11 | ||
| Private study hours | 263 | ||
| Total Contact hours | 26 | ||
| Total hours (100hr per 10 credits) | 300 | ||
1. Verbal feedback on the contributions during seminars
2. Verbal feedback through discussing your ideas and formative work with the module team during their open door times
| Assessment type | Notes | % of formal assessment |
|---|---|---|
| Assignment | Coursework | 100 |
| Total percentage (Assessment Coursework) | 100 | |
Normally resits will be assessed by the same methodology as the first attempt, unless otherwise stated
The reading list is available from the Library website
Last updated: 8/9/2024
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