Duration
30h Th
Number of credits
| Master in multilingual communication, professional focus in digital media education (Digital media education) | 5 crédits |
Lecturer
Language(s) of instruction
English language
Organisation and examination
Teaching in the first semester, review in January
Schedule
Units courses prerequisite and corequisite
Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program
Learning unit contents
The course "History and theory of media education and literacy" delivers an introduction to the main critical paradigms that have fueled media education from the early 1950s to the present day, drawing on the theoretical texts and manifestos that have successively built its foundations in the field of (critical) media analysis. In 2024-2025, the course will be structured into 5 chapters based on a range of critical approaches to television. Several manifestos and declarations that laid the foundations of the discipline will be discussed, as well as essays and theoretical texts by T. W. Adorno, H. M. Enzensberger, J. Baudrillard, H. Jenkins and others. Each theoretical chapter will be concluded with an analysis of an audiovisual work that explores, through creation, alternative uses of television and its recent media legacies (H. Farocki, J. Loader and K. & P. Rafferty, J. Grimonprez a.o.).
Learning outcomes of the learning unit
At the end of this course, the students will master the main theoretical milestones in the history of media education and in the evolution of the theoretical and critical approaches that have laid its foundations. In addition, students will be able to understand and comment upon - from a comparative perspective - the complex theoretical texts that have built the fertile ground of the discipline. While the primary purpose of this course is thus historical and theoretical, it will also allow students to problematize some of the contemporary issues in media education, a discipline that is now driven by the return, intersection and superposition of several paradigms that emerged over the course of its history.
Prerequisite knowledge and skills
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
Face-to-face (in English).
The course will alternate of ex-cathedra lectures, close-reading and discussions of theoretical texts, and presentations by the students.
Mode of delivery (face to face, distance learning, hybrid learning)
Face-to-face course
Course materials and recommended or required readings
Platform(s) used for course materials:
- eCampus
Further information:
The program of the sessions, the texts discussed in class as well as the reader will be posted on eCampus.
Written work / report
Further information:
Students will write an individual 10-page paper on a text (to be chosen from a list of ten proposals, which will be issued in November). The submission of the written work will be preceded by an oral presentation to the class (last session), which will enable each student to present an initial progress report on his or her work and obtain feedback from the teacher.
Work placement(s)
Organisational remarks and main changes to the course
Contacts
Jeremy Hamers
jhamers@uliege.be