Note from June 29, 2020
Although we do not yet know how long the social distancing related to the Covid-19 pandemic will last, and regardless of the changes that had to be made in the evaluation of the June 2020 session in relation to what is provided for in this learning unit description, new learnig unit evaluation methods may still be adopted by the teachers; details of these methods have been - or will be - communicated to the students by the teachers, as soon as possible.
Although we do not yet know how long the social distancing related to the Covid-19 pandemic will last, and regardless of the changes that had to be made in the evaluation of the June 2020 session in relation to what is provided for in this learning unit description, new learnig unit evaluation methods may still be adopted by the teachers; details of these methods have been - or will be - communicated to the students by the teachers, as soon as possible.
3 credits
15.0 h
Q1
Teacher(s)
Fastrez Pierre; Grevisse Benoît;
Language
French
Main themes
By the end of the seminar, students will have to be able to locate these approaches by differentiating between them, and particularly by identifying their convergences on the basis of the following questions:
Which issue underpins each approach?
Which study topics do they offer?
In what ways is their theoretical growth developed?
What methods of observation and analysis do they put in place?
What fundamental concepts do they construct?
What interactions do they have with communication practices?
Which issue underpins each approach?
Which study topics do they offer?
In what ways is their theoretical growth developed?
What methods of observation and analysis do they put in place?
What fundamental concepts do they construct?
What interactions do they have with communication practices?
Aims
At the end of this learning unit, the student is able to : | |
| 1. | Compare various key approaches to the study of communications systems by linking them. |
The contribution of this Teaching Unit to the development and command of the skills and learning outcomes of the programme(s) can be accessed at the end of this sheet, in the section entitled “Programmes/courses offering this Teaching Unit”.
Content
Every year, the seminar examines key approaches that address communications systems.
The approaches are selected by the inter-disciplinary team of teachers who jointly run the seminar. They merge semiotic, systemic and narratological perspectives together with psychological, anthropological, sociological and other approaches.
After the selected approaches have been presented one after the other, they will be subjected to comparative linkage.
Students will be invited to produce an analysis of the relationships between approaches presented on the seminar depending on the issue that is defined, and under the direction of the staff jointly running the seminar. The issues may refer to the issue, the focus of study, the way in which the theoretical elaboration is constructed, the methodology, the concepts, and the scope and evolution of the theoretical approaches.
The course will include a brief review of the theoretical approaches, a course of back-up reading, a presentation of research work exemplifying an approach, and a comparison of a range of approaches.
Evaluation methods
Assessment will use work presented by students as the basis for focusing on their ability critically to locate the characteristics of the theoretical approaches studied during the seminar.
Bibliography
La bibliographie sera communiquée sur Moodle en fonction des orientations que le séminaire se choisira lors des premières séances.
Faculty or entity
COMU
