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Identical coursesMedia Text Analysis (B-KUL-S0B01A)
This is a translated version. Original version in Dutch.
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Aims
By the end of this course:
- the student will have gained insight into various social theories with specific attention to their visions on the working of the media and their theoretical foundation for different concrete analysis methods of media texts.
- the student can assess the different analysis methods of media texts on their own merits and compare them critically.
- the student can assess which type of analysis methode is most appropriate for a particular media text and substantiate why.
- the student can make a rudimentary analysis regardless of the media text concerned, using the methods that have been provided during the series of lectures.
These aims will be communicated to the students at the start of the lectures.
Is included in these courses of study
- Bridging Programme: Master of Social and Cultural Anthropology (Leuven) 61 ects.
- Bridging Programme: Master of Communication Science (Leuven) 59 ects.
- Bachelor of Communication Science (Programme for students started before 2022-2023) (Leuven) 180 ects.
- Preparatory Programme: Master of Communication Sciences for Bachelors in Biomedical and Exact Sciences)(Leuven) 47 ects.
- Bachelor of Communication Science (Programme for students started in 2022-2023 or later) (Leuven) 180 ects.
- Bridging Programme: Master of Journalism (Programme for students started in 2023-2024 or later) (Brussels) 45 ects.
Activities
4 ects. Media Text Analysis (B-KUL-S0B01a)
Content
Apart from the quantitative conventional content analysis the course will discuss the different forms of qualitative media text analyses: the argumentation analysis, the discourse analysis, the rhetorical analysis, the semiotic analysis, the narrative and the frame analysis. Each time we will present an example on the basis of a research article, in which one of the above mentioned forms of analysis is treated.
Evaluation
Evaluation: Media Text Analysis (B-KUL-S2B01a)
Type : Exam during the examination period
Description of evaluation : Written
Type of questions : Multiple choice, Open questions
Learning material : None