CK2S15 - Media, Gender, and Global Diversity 06 Jul 2023 - 31 Aug 2026 | Version 1
Associated Module Information
| Module Code: | CK2S15 | ||
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| Module Title: | Media, Gender, and Global Diversity | ||
| Faculty: | Faculty of Business and Creative Industries | ||
| Faculty Group: | Film and TV | ||
| Faculty Sub Group: | Film and TV | ||
| Module Leader: | Peter Jachimiak | ||
| Module Team: | Daryl Perrins, James Rendell, Gwyneth Moore | ||
| First Intended Intake: | SEP 2023 | Final Year of Intake: | 2025 |
| Date Closed: | |||
| Credit Value: | 20 | Credit Level: | 5 |
| Language: | English | ||
| Percentage of Module Taught in Welsh: | 0 | ||
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Document Version Information
| Version | 1 |
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| Valid From | 06 Jul 2023 |
| Valid To | 31 Aug 2026 |
Module Aims
This module aims to introduce students to the canon of gender studies scholarship. In doing so, the students will be offered a range of theoretical perspectives that will then form the tools needed to both interpret and interrogate the ways in which gender is performed, imagined, and contested across multiple media platforms on both a national and a global scale.
This module will also aim to encourage students to engage with a thorough consideration of the application and execution of appropriate research methodologies and approaches to studying gender and global diversity. With, in turn, all of the week-by-week lectures being driven by research-informed teaching.
Finally, this module aims to reinforce students’ appreciation of gender as social identity which is inherently embedded within wider, and often strongly delineated, global gendered communities.
Content Summary
The module will take a holistic approach to its topic, situating gender, firstly, within western society as an ongoing negotiation between the needs of capital - indicatively underpinned by the nuclear family - and progressive movements and cultural shifts which seek to redefine that relationship. Students, for example, will be introduced to: first and second wave feminism exploring its cultural manifestations right through to the later post-feminism; the changing role of masculinity - defined monolithically through strength and labour in the industrial age but replaced in the post-industrial epoch by the plurality of masculinities; debates around gender fluidity and gender as performance; queer theory, transfeminism, and gender identity as self-elected; gender critical debates that revolve around such new orthodoxies. Especially those to do with the ways in which these designations intersect with racial, class and national identity (all key determinants in opening the topic up to engage with the overarching debates to do with equality, diversity, and inclusivity).
As such, this module considers a range of issues and themes, appertaining to media, gender, and global diversity, whereby constant reference will be made to gender-based case studies that are to be found amid a range of texts and media forms (including literature, film, television, popular music, social media, and the Internet).
In short, then, this modules will cover a broad spectrum of issues appertaining to the enactment and study of gender from recognisably western examples, through to less familiar global forms, as well as ‘nationless’ transnational modes indicative of an increasingly mobile global population whose experience is without borders.
Learning and Teaching Methods
| Activity Type | Hours |
|---|---|
| Lecture | 18 |
| Seminar | 18 |
| Independent Study | 92 |
| Directed Study | 72 |
| Total Hours Selected | 200 |
Learning Outcomes
| # | Learning Outcome |
|---|---|
| LO1 | On successful completion of this module students will be able to demonstrate their widening knowledge of theoretical approaches to the combined study of media, culture, and gendered communities, as appropriate to Level 5. |
| LO2 | On successful completion of this module students will be able to demonstrate their enhanced study skills, in particular those relating to research, essay planning, and critical academic writing, as appropriate to Level 5. |
Module Requisites
N/A
Assessment Criteria
| Assessment Category | Assessment Type | Description | Duration | Word Count | Weight (%) | Best of? | Pass Mark |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Asynchronous Assessment | Visual Journal 1 | One 8-minute Video Essay responding to one set question from a choice of options. | 8 | N/A | 50 | No | 40 |
| Asynchronous Assessment | Research Plan / Proposal / Project/ Log 1 | One 2,500 word Extended Research Project, where the student, engaging with identifiable research methodologies, conducts an in-depth, case study-based analysis of an aspect of gendered global diversity of their own choosing. | 0 | 2500 | 50 | No | 40 |
Assessment Matrix
| Assessment Type | Learning Outcomes | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| LO1 | LO2 | ||
| Visual Journal 1 | ✔ | ✔ | |
| Research Plan / Proposal / Project/ Log 1 | ✔ | ✔ | |