If you wish to complete the course during the academic year 2016-2017, contact the teacher no later than March 15, 2017.

This module (54 hours) is online apart from individual teacher-student tutorials for discussion of the submitted thesis extract. The work consists of readings, group analysis tasks and thesis writing work. Students should take the module after their research proposal has been accepted by their programme and they are about to embark upon the writing of their thesis.

The course is organized in collaboration with the University of Lapland and, part of the lectures are delivered online.

Available for other students at the University of Tampere.

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

1. degree students of the MDP in Media Education and Cultural Studies

2. other degree students of UTA

4. exchange students

Course can be completed two ways:

1. Summer school: 15. - 19.8.2016: ICT FOR DEVELOPMENT: A TECHNICAL AND SOCIO-CULTURAL PERSPECTIVE Lectures 13-16 and independent assignments in Moodle

2. A course in I period: Lectures (6 h) and independent study

Course is available only for the students in Media Education and Media Management programmes.

Students select a target, context and pedagogic means to their project after discussion with the person in charge of the study module. It is possible to implement the research-based project in media, school, youth work etc. in a media educational context. Media educational internship is one possible mode of the project. An internship can be included to this module.

This autumn students in Media Education programme have a possibility to complete part of the project studies ( 5 ECTS) by participating in the SOMEJAM weekend:

SOMEJAM2016 Tampere www.somejam.fi

SOMEJAM2016 Tampere is an intensive weekend event 21st – 23rd October 2016 working together with young people, youth workers and with students of various fields of study. The language of the event is English.

The course offers a media educational perspective to the participants in a real youth work at the City of Tampere. The completion of the course requires participation for the whole weekend and a report as an assignment.

How does it work?

Somejam kicks off on Friday at 4 pm and the multi-talent teams have 48 hours to create new concepts in the form of apps, games or web services for youths with the help of team mentors who are top specialists in new technology. On Sunday the jury of technology specialists will announce the winner. The winning team can have the opportunity to pitch their idea to New Factory Demola.

Organizing partners: University of Tampere, Verke - the National Center for Digital Youth Work in Finland, Tampere City Youth Service, University of Tampere and Tampere University of Applied Sciences TAMK

Contact:

More information: Daria Erofeeva

Erofeeva.Daria.V[at]student.uta.fi

Project studies (10 ECTS) is only available for the students in Media Education programme

Only for the master's students in Media Education programme.

Students learn about how people are using media goods and services today, and how that is both the same and different in the historic
context. Lectures also highlight changing perceptions of media, emphasising what that implies for meeting expectations and accommodating variation in preferences. Coursework encourages developing more nuanced understandings in a comparative framework that offers contrasts between legacy media and new media, audiences and users in key segments (e.g. younger versus older, men versus women), and in different countries (i.e. international comparison).

• 9.11 Exam at 14.30-16.30 in PinniB building 1096
• Paper due 25.11 at 17.00

Some places available for other students at UTA. Students are accepted in the following order:

1. degree students of the MDP in Media Management and MDP in Media Education

2. other degree students of UTA

3. exchange students

The course includes an introductory lecture series ( 2 ECTS) followed by group discussion and exercises (1 ECTS) + literature and a written study diary (2 ECTS).

Lectures will be held on Mondays at 12-14 with guest lecturers and at 14-15 is the group discussion.

One lecture is 2x 45 minutes long. After a 30 minutes pause the group meeting will take 45 minutes.

Lectures:

29.8. Mikko Lehtonen: What is this thing called culture?

5.9. Mikko Lehtonen: Cultural Studies.

12.9. Hanna Suutela:  The Archive and the Repertoire. Aspects of understanding culture.

19.9. Hanna Suutela: From theatre and performance to the theatrical and the performative.

26.9. Mahmut Mutman: Edward Said and Orientalism

3.10. Meri Kytö: Sound and culture: listening as knowing, doing and being

10.10. Hanna Suutela/Riku Roihankorpi: Performance and ethics

Maximum 50 students is accepted in the following order:

1. degree students of the MDP in Cultural Studies

2. other degree students of UTA

3. exchange students

Some places available for other students at UTA. Students are accepted in the following order:

1. degree students of the MDP in Media Management

2. other degree students of UTA

3. exchange students

Priority is given to students in Computer Sciences (UTA)

Ilmoittautuminen syyskuussa

This course introduces students to the testing of causal hypotheses with statistical methods, focusing on social-science applications.  Causal inference in this setting requires melding the language of mathematical statistics with the reality of human decision-making.  Successfully testing a social-science hypothesis thus requires both facility with the mathematics, as well an understanding of how people actually behave.  This course gives students an introduction to the math, and experience in translating the math to reality.

The course is timed according to the scripted schedule of the masters’ program in Public Choice, and is tailored to the needs of that program.  As a result, non-PCP students should be aware that the course will proceed at a substantially faster pace than other courses.

The first week is the program’s Math Camp, consisting of 10 lecture hours (no quarters) and nightly group homework assignments.  The following three weeks form the Statistics component, consisting of 24 lecture hours (no quarters), twice-a-week group homework assignments, and a final exam.  The final mark comes from the Statistics component alone: 50% weight on homework, and 50% on the exam.

Course in North American Studies: NAM-VII Methodology

Enrolment in NettiOpsu not later than on Wednesday, 31th of August, 2016.

The course includes an introductory lecture series including group discussion and exercises (3 ECTS) + literature and a written study diary (2 ECTS).

Lectures:

25.10. Mikko Lehtonen: Becoming of culture: From material to symbolic activity and back 4h

1.11. Mikko Lehtonen: Culture as material and bodily practices 4h

8.11. Mikko Lehtonen: Transnationalism and culture 4h

15.11. Mikko Lehtonen: Economy, politics and culture: Spheres or what? 3h

22.11. Kaarina Nikunen: Gender, affects and culture 3h

29.11. Mahmut Mutman: "Michel Foucault's Concept of Power" (Discipline and Punish and History of Sexuality, excerpts)

Maximum 50 students is accepted to the course in the following order:

1. degree students of the MDP in Cultural Studies

2. other degree students of UTA

3. exchange students

By NettiOpsu By 6 March.

Especially for exchange students.

ALTERNATIVE COMPLETION: an essay (5 ECTS) based on the course literature. Contact person: professor Kaarina Nikunen

Vaihtoehtoisesta suorituksesta sovittava Kaarina Nikusen (kaarina.nikunen@uta.fi) kanssa syksyllä ennen marraskuun alkua ja keväällä ennen huhtikuuta. 

Alternative studies have to be agreed in the Autumn term before November and in the Spring term before April (kaarina.nikunen@uta.fi).