FSS:ZUR104 Communication studies - intro - Course Information
ZUR104 Introduction to media and communication studies
Faculty of Social StudiesAutumn 2009
- Extent and Intensity
- 2/0. 6 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
- Teacher(s)
- PhDr. Jaromír Volek, Ph.D. (lecturer)
- Guaranteed by
- PhDr. Jaromír Volek, Ph.D.
Department of Media Studies and Journalism – Faculty of Social Studies
Contact Person: Ing. Bc. Pavlína Brabcová - Timetable
- Mon 12:00–13:30 P51 Posluchárna V. Čermáka
- Course Enrolment Limitations
- The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.
The capacity limit for the course is 200 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/200, only registered: 0/200 - fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
- Media Studies and Journalism (programme FSS, B-HE)
- Media Studies and Journalism (programme FSS, B-HS)
- Media Studies and Journalism (programme FSS, B-KS)
- Media Studies and Journalism (programme FSS, B-MS)
- Media Studies and Journalism (programme FSS, B-PL)
- Media Studies and Journalism (programme FSS, B-PS)
- Media Studies and Journalism (programme FSS, B-SO)
- Media Studies and Journalism (programme FSS, B-SP)
- Sociology (programme FSS, B-HE)
- Sociology (programme FSS, B-HS)
- Sociology (programme FSS, B-KS)
- Sociology (programme FSS, B-MS)
- Sociology (programme FSS, B-PL)
- Sociology (programme FSS, B-PS)
- Sociology (programme FSS, B-SO) (2)
- Sociology (programme FSS, B-SP)
- Sociology (programme FSS, B-TV)
- Course objectives
- This course outlines a range of communication theories, models and methods with special emphasis on problems of media communication. The first aim of this course is to provide a clear introduction to the most important results of contemporary research into communication together with the theories that seek to explain it. The second aim is to equip students with apropriate methods for analysis of media content. The course comes especially from the structuralist, sociological and linguistic perspectives (Barthes, Fiske, Hartley, Hall, Hurwitz).. By the end of the course students will understand basic principles of semiotic analysis of media content. Next to it, they should be able to understand a/ the proces of signification and b/ to design semiotic analysis of news.
- Syllabus
- 1. Communication and media studies
- 2. Communication: basic definitions
- 3. Basic paradigms of communication theory: processual and semiotic approach
- 4. Sign and meaning
- 5. Paradigmatic and syntagmatic analysis
- 6. Signification
- 7. Two orders of signification
- 8. Codes
- 9. News as a form of communication
- 10. Ideology, hegemony, prefered reading and news
- 11. News narativity: basic structures
- 12. Structural analysis and popular culture
- Literature
- - Volek, J.: Úvod do komunikačních studií. Brno. FSS. 2002 (Skriptum v elektronické podobě)
- Jirák, J., Kopplová, B.: Média a společnost. Portál 2003.
- - Burton, G., Jirák, J.: Úvod do studia médií. Barrister and Principal. 2001.
- - Lohisse, J.: Komunikační systémy: Socioatropologický pohled. Praha. Karolinum, 2003.
- Teaching methods
- lectures, class discussion
- Assessment methods
- 12 lectures written test+semiotic analysis
- Language of instruction
- Czech
- Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
- Study Materials
The course can also be completed outside the examination period.
The course is taught annually.
General note: Tento předmět je určen pro studenty I. ročníku. Studenti přicházející na FSS v září roku 2003 si předmět zapisují v PS 2003. Předmět tvoří součást postupové zkoušky.
Information on course enrolment limitations: Kurz se vypisuje pouze pro studenty mediálních studií a žurnalistiky
- Enrolment Statistics (Autumn 2009, recent)
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