Check the link for further information: 

http://www.uta.fi/cmt/opiskelu/kurssimateriaalit/tied/1213/JOVA15RadioJournalism.html

Course will be offered in cooperation with University of Lapland.

by nettiopsu max 25 students

This is an intensive course, meaning the lectures happen in one week of sessions arranged on Monday through Thursday. Prof. Robert G. Picard teaches the course as a visiting professor. He is a founding figuring in the scholarly fields of media economics as well as media management.  Students will take an exam later in the term, and must also write a term paper for Prof. Picard. The details will be provided along with the syllabus when the course begins. The course is required and students earn 5 ECTS.  

Paper due: Dec. 1 at noon, Finnish time via email attachment as MS Word

by Nettiopsu max 30 students

Teaching in the module contextualizes the diversity of research on media, culture and communication by illuminating paradigm changes in the field and by analyzing how these changes relate to broader societal developments. Major focus is on the concepts, themes and approaches that provide fruitful intersections for the study of communication and interaction in a post-industrial and increasingly technologically mediated world.

The module consists of seminar meetings (2 ECTS) on communication and media studies completed with an individual essay of a selected article (2 ECTS) and group work (1 ECTS) in which the students familiarize themselves with key problematics in the field through certain research traditions and their representatives. Every seminar session contains required readings which are discussed in the seminar. Seminar presentations are based on this group work. The teacher provides both group and individual tutoring.

Essay

The series of canonic texts and authors (see the Moodle list) are available for individual essays and group work. The length of the individual essay is 8-10 pages (3200-4000 words). The essay introduces the author as well as his/her main theoretical starting points and key concepts. All essays should be returned to Moodle by Friday, December 18th.

Group work and book diary

On the basis of the essay a student will be prepared a short (15-20 minutes) presentation in his/her group. This requires disciplined teamwork and the division of labor between students; in other words, each student introduces one article and shares its basic ideas and key concepts, themes and approaches with others. During group meetings every student keeps also a personal book diary (1/2-1 page/group session). The most important is to recognize what is learned - not just repeat what is heard or read. The book diary should be returned to Moodle by Friday, December 18th.

Seminar presentation

On the basis of the essay a student will be prepared a short Power point –presentation for all fellow students. Power Point – presentation contains 5 slides: 1 (presentation title & your name), 2 (brief description of the author/theorist), 3 (his/her main theoretical contribution to the field), 4 (his/her key theoretical concepts), 5 (your own views).

Programme

26.10.

Welcome, course opening (2 hours): Course introduction, the schedule and requirements

2.11.

Seminar session: Paradigm changes in the field – readings across traditions

Group work; a guided first meetings

9.11.

Seminar session: ‘Three degrees’ of media: material, symbolic and institutional

Group work, a second meeting (sharing ideas of the chosen articles)

16.11.

Seminar session: Canonic texts in research on media, culture and communication

Group work, a third meeting (sharing ideas of the chosen articles)

23.11.

Group work, a fourth meeting (sharing ideas of the chosen articles)

30.11.

No meetings

7.12.

Seminar: Presentations (I)

14.12.

Seminar: Presentations (II)

Until 30.9. By NettiOpsu.

Approximately 24 students. Priority will be given to exchange students and students of the Master's Degree Programme in Media Management.

Nettiopsu

NettiOpsu

This course aims at developing a theoretical and methodological basis for a comparative analysis of public service media worldwide. The lectures will focus on description and analysis of public service broadcasting in the Nordic countries; history and development, structure & remit, organization, funding, programming and production, construction of audiences as well as performance. This broadcasting oriented view is then discussed in relation to the new identity of public service broadcasting as public service media. Through student work in the course the lectures are complemented by a comparative European and global view. The main assignment for the students is to produce basic comparative data from their respective countries of origin by making use of the analytic scheme of the lectures. The web pages of broadcasters and similar Internet sources will be used as main measures to collect the needed information for student work.

Lectures and Exercises (2 ECTS), Working Paper (3 ECTS)

The students studying journalism as their main subject are preferred.

Check the link for further information: 

http://www.uta.fi/cmt/opiskelu/kurssimateriaalit/tied/1213/JOVA15RadioJournalism.html

Course JOUJOVTS Brics and Media is suitable for this JOVA8.

Students will be accepted to the course in the following order:

1. degree students of the MDP in Media Education

2. other degree students of UTA

3. exchange students

Short lecture course gives an overview of the media in Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa which form a new coalition of raising economies known as "BRICS". The lectures are based on research project "Media systems in flux: The challenge of the BRICS countries" (http://uta.fi/cmt/tutkimus/BRICS.html).

NettiOpsu (max. 40 students)

Includes 7 lectures.

This course is suitable for JOVA8 too.