AMG5894 Communications theories and practices

When you finish this unit, you should be able to:

1. 1

   To develop awareness of the range of social and professional contexts in which communication occurs;

2. 2

   To develop an understanding of communication as a set of practices and to identify common features within these practices;

3. 3

   To introduce some of the major ways in which communication and media have been understood at a theoretical level;

4. 4

   To consider the relation between theory and practice in the field of communication and an appreciation of how they can productively inform each other;

5. 5

   To introduce communications and media studies as a basis for further graduate study and professional practice in the field.