ATS3627 Global cultures, media flows: Creating and consuming (popular) culture

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

1. 1

   A deeper knowledge of the concepts of modernity and tradition, and the problems of cultural ownership and authenticity, and an understanding of contemporary issues regarding copyright law;

2. 2

   Acquired knowledge about the challenges to cultural nationalism by transnational cultural flows, and the role of electronic media, especially the Internet in this;

3. 3

   Studied in depth some cases of cultural production and its local consumption, and critically analysed web-based and mass media material relating to these case studies;

4. 4

   Improved their oral skills by participating in tutorial debate, both face-to-face and on-line cross-campus, on specific instances of cultural flows and local identities created through their consumption;

5. 5

   Improved their written skills by producing a well-reasoned and well-documented essay on an aspect of the globalisation debate;

6. 6

   Developed independent research skills;

7. 7

   Developed the ability to critically assess the ideological implications of global cultural flows.