Department of Communication

Courses in English, Spring Term 2005

FACULTY EXAMS

It is possible to get credits for some courses by taking the faculty exams. The department of communication offers two faculty exams to exchange students in Spring 2005. Degree students take faculty exams, besides these two, as required in the ECTS Study Guide. To register to a faculty exam you need to fill in a brown exam envelope which is available both from the international office (next to the computer) and from the department (on the bookshelf in the department corridor, opposite to the photocopier).

The faculty exam dates for Spring 2005 are as follows:

29.1, 26.2, 2.4, 7.5

The distribution of the lecturehalls for the faculty examinations.

Social Shaping of Communication Technologies (2 credits)

Description:

The exam aims to deepen students’ understanding of the relationship between communication technologies and society as well as the historical construction of communication technologies.

Examination:

Two books of the following literature in the faculty exam:

Miller, Daniel & Slater, Don (2000) The Internet. An Ethnographic Approach. Berg, Oxford. Winston, Brian (1998) Media, Technology and Society. A History: From the Telegraph to the Internet. Routledge, London.
Preston, Paschal (2001) Reshaping Communications. Technology, Information and Social Chance, Sage, London.
Slevin, James (2000) The Internet and Society, Polity, Oxford.
McLuhan, M. (1964): Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man. New York. McGraw-Hill.
Innis, H (1951): The Bias of Communication. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
Ong, W. (1982): Orality and Literacy. The Technologizing of the Word. London and New York: Routledge.

Mode of assessment:

Assessment scale: 1, 1+, 2-, 2, 2+, 3- and 3.

Theories of Information Society (2 credits)

Description:

The exam aims to deepen students’ understanding of the approaches to information society.

Examination:

Two books of the following literature in the faculty exam:

Bauman, Z. (1997): Globalization. Polity Press: Cambridge.
Castells, M. (1996): The Information Age: Economy, Society and Culture. Volume I: The Rise of the Network Society. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers.
Karvonen, Erkki (ed.) (2001) Information Societies. Understanding the Third Industrial Revolution. Tampere University Press, Tampere.
Mattelart, Armand. (2003) Information Society, Sage Publications  

Mode of assessment:

Assessment scale: 1, 1+, 2-, 2, 2+, 3- and 3.

Additional information:
University Lecturer (acting), Yonca Ermutlu , e-mail Yonca.Ermutlu@helsinki.fi