09.050.612 M5-MA Seminar: Places in the Media

Lehrende/r: Prof. Dr. Chris Lukinbeal; Dr. Elisabeth Sommerlad

Veranstaltungsart: online: Seminar

Anzeige im Stundenplan: M5-MA S: Fd

Semesterwochenstunden: 2

Credits: 5,0

Unterrichtssprache: Englisch

Min. | Max. Teilnehmerzahl: - | 20

Prioritätsschema: Senatsrichtlinie
Zulassung gemäß Richtlinie über den Zugang zu teilnahmebeschränkten Lehrveranstaltungen vom 07. März 2007.

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Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:
This is an online-only course with no compulsory attendance. Presence is only required for a kick-off event (April 12th, 18:00 CET). 

Inhalt:
Films like The Battle of Algiers (1966), Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981), Sex and the City 2 (2010) and Encounters at the End of the World (2007) bring places like the French colonial empire, the “Orient,” Antarctica, and cities like New York to our computers, cell phones and living room couches, creating contact that might not otherwise exist with those places. Importantly, this contact is based upon media representations, rather than personal experience. This class explores how media represents and stages places and builds the conceptual foundations to understand and question the effects that media produce in our everyday lives. Besides focusing on places, this class has a general “Diversity Emphasis,” meaning it is geared towards better understanding gender, race, class, ethnicity and sexual orientation.  Therefore, course material involves explicit representation of gender, sexual orientation, ethnicity, race or social class and tackles how to apply them as analytical categories.

 
Course Objectives:

• Students will demonstrate their understanding of contemporary theories of media.
  
• Students will deepen their knowledge on how to recognize the processes through which identity (political and cultural) is produced through media and geography.
  
• Students will 1) define well known key geographic concepts (space, place, landscape) and 2) critique the ways that particular places are represented in popular media.
  
• Students will craft an argument about how geographic factors influence the production and consumption of certain media.
  

• Weekly performance review via quizzes and small assignments (25%)
  
• Short, pre-recorded presentation (25%)
  
• Final paper (50%)