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G R A D U A T E D E G R E E P R O G R A M M E : E N G L I S H S T U D I E S Supplementary reading Teaching methods Assessment methods Language of instruction Quality assurance methods Seminars on rhetorical forms and structures / Practical sessions – student centred critical analysis of rhetorical techniques in written arguments and the construction of spoken arguments / Advisory hours / Independent research and study – production of written essays and preparation of a spoken debate lecture. Course title Media Culture Course code Type of course Level of course The assessment of student knowledge/performance will be based on the following: 1. Continuous assessment: independent homework/project tasks (written responses to various assignments), observation of the quality and frequency of the student’s participation in critical analyses. 2. Production of two research tasks: a research essay on student selected argument topic, and a literary topic as assigned by the lecturer. 3. The presentation of a spoken argument on a student selected debate topic. 4. Exam: a written response to a specified rhetorical debate. English. 1. Student feedback via questionnaires and surveys. 2. Occasional class observations and appraisal by colleagues. HZE706 Seminar /Advisory hours Elective Module Advanced level course Year of study First Semester Two ECTS (Number of credits allocated) Name of lecturer Learning outcomes and competences Prerequisites 3 ECTS Contact hours (25 seminars + 5 advisory hours) = 0.75 credits. Student study time (67.5 hours) = 2.25 credits. Mr. sc. Jurica Pavičić, Senior Lecturer Brian Willems, Assistant After the completion of the course, the student will have developed and applied an in-depth understanding of a number of theoretical and practical approaches in the field of media culture. This will have involved a discussion of today’s media theory, practice, and criticism via contemporary thinkers in philosophy and other disciplines. Overall English language competence at C2 level. Course contents Students will examine a number of contemporary issues including: creative 29
G R A D U A T E D E G R E E P R O G R A M M E : E N G L I S H S T U D I E S Recommended reading Supplementary reading Teaching methods Assessment methods Language of instruction Quality assurance methods Course title Course code possibilities of/in cyberlife, the art of living as artificial existence, Deleuze’s rehabilitation of the monad, Levinas’ ethics of the other, the media aesthetics of Homo generator, media culture as unaware of its potential as post-technological event, and the ethics of singularity. This will be done through a close reading of such key thinkers as Martin Heidegger, Michael Hardt, Manuel Delanda, Avital Ronell, Alain Badiou, Giorgio Agamben and others. 1. Stephenson, N. (2000). Snow Crash. NY: Bantam Spectra. 2. Coupland, D. (2007). jPod. London: Bloomsbury. 3. Script Harrigan, P. and WardripFruin, N. eds. (2007). Second Person: RolePlaying and Story in Games and Playable Media. Cambridge: MIT Press. Houellebecq, M. (2006). H. P. Lovecraft: Against the World, Against Life. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. Jackson, S. (1995). The Patchwork Girl. (CDROM). Watertown: Eastgate Systems. McLuhan, M. (1962). The Gutenberg Galaxy. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. Ronell, A. (1989). The Telephone Book: Technology, Schizophrenia, Electric Speech. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press. Ronell, A. (2005). The Test Drive. Urbana; Chicago: University of Illinois Press. Serres, M. (2007). The Parasite. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. WardripFruin, N. and Montfort, N. eds. (2003). The ew Media Reader. Cambridge: MIT Press Lectures / Seminars / Student participation is encouraged through various tasks and activities, such as: problem-solving tasks, group work, pair work, (etc.) / Advisory hours The assessment of student knowledge/performance will be based on the following: 1. Continuous assessment (independent homework / short essays) 2. Exam: written English 1. Student feedback via questionnaires and surveys. 2. Lecturers responsible for the same subject area collaborate closely and monitor each other’s work. Creative writing workshop HZE707 30
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