Research Training Course Focusing on Ethnicity and Media 6 sp
Credits
ECTS credits: 6Teachers
Camilla HaavistoTime, location and registration
13.01.2009 - 26.02.2009- Dates: 13.1.-26.2.
- Days as below, times 10-12hrs, except on the seminar day 26.2. 10-16hrs.
- week 3 Tuesday 13.1., Wednesday 14.1., Thursday 15.1., 10-12hrs, location: Unioninkatu 37 seminar room 2.
- week 4 Tuesday 20.1., Wednesday 21.1., Thursday 22.1., 10-12hrs, location: Unioninkatu 37 seminar room 2.
- week 5 Tuesday 27.1., Wednesday 28.1., Thursday 29.1., 10-12hrs, location: Unioninkatu 37 seminar room 2.
- week 6 Tuesday 3.2., Wednesday 4.2., Thursday 5.2., 10-12hrs, location: Unioninkatu 37 seminar room 2.
- week 7 and 8 self study period
- week 9 Thursday 10-16hrs seminar, location Unioninkatu 37, seminar room 1. 30hours
! This course can be registered under the study unit S14 (course code 770047) or S15 (course code 770048).
Preregistration in Weboodi is required: 18.12.2008-13.1.2009! 20 students will be accepted to the course in the order of registration.
Content
The course is a research training course focusing on media texts representing racial and ethnic minorities. The course consists of lectures and practical research work. During the lectures current research findings from international and Finnish research projects on ethnicity and media are presented. Further on are introductive lectures given for presenting relevant research methods for analysing media representations. The main focus is on various modes of qualitative text analyses (i.e. discourse analyses, critical discourse analyses and frame analyses), but the usability of content analyses, focus group interviews and expert interviews will be explored in relation to the topic of the course.
During the course, students are individually, in pairs and in small groups analysing media texts and inserts in international newspapers, television and radio and on various Internet news sites and discussion forums. For obtaining the 6 Credits, students are in addition to this deepening their research skills by conducting small scale case studies on their own time.
All the case studies will focus on a common topic decided upon in the beginning of the course according to the interests of the course participants. The theme will however be related to media representations of racial, ethnic, cultural or religious minorities. One suggestion is to focus on media representations of Islam and/or Muslims.
Course Material in BSCW
Grading
Assessment scale: 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5