Course
Course 30 credits • MHIK13
Teaching – autumn semester of 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic continues to affect our courses and programmes. Teaching and assessment during the first half of the autumn semester 2021 will be conducted both online and on campus. From 1 November more elements will be conducted on campus – the current schedule is available on course websites and/or in Canvas.
The aim of the bachelor course is to broaden and deepen your study of media history, to give you an insight into current media historical research and, not least, to give you the opportunity to design a small research project of your own in the writing of a scientific paper, a bachelor thesis.
The analytical tools you have acquired on previous levels of your studies in media history are now employed and applied. You will be able to dig deeper into different perspectives, concepts and themes such as the expanded media concept, media system analysis, digital history, media and power, media participation, media materiality, and remediation. But you will also encounter new and exciting theoretical perspectives and concepts such as media ecologies, media archaeology, and entangled media histories. On the bachelor course, your own input in our common discussions is central and grades are based on seminar activity as well as written tasks. As a bachelor student, you are also invited to join our research seminars in Film and Media History and thereby take your first steps to learn more about how researchers think and present their work.
The course consists of three modules. The first one, Theory and Method in Media History, is a seminar-based course when you will read and discuss recent and relevant texts and write a short paper (7,5 ECTS). In the second module,Elective Advanced Course in Media History (7,5 ECTS), you will together with your teacher design a list of relevant course literature based on your specific interests within the field of media history and present your reading of these texts in an oral exam. The course ends with the third module, which is the Bachelor’s Thesis on a media historical topic of your interest (15 ECTS).
Study period:
autumn semester 2021
Type of studies:
full time,
day
Study period:
2021-08-30 – 2022-01-16
Language of instruction:
English
Application code:
LU-32751
Introductory meeting: Monday, 30 August at 13.15 – 15.00
Information on included parts
- Theory and Method in Media History , 7.5 credits
- Elective Advanced Course in Media History , 7.5 credits
- Bachelor's Thesis , 15 credits