MDS-40018 - Module Specification
School of Humanities
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences

Programme/Approved Electives for 2024/25

Available as a Free Standing Elective

Co-requisites

None

Prerequisites

none

Barred Combinations

none

Description for 2024/25

This module will help you examine how culture and society are shaped by the relationship between media and globalisation. You will be introduced to a wide-range of theoretical approaches including postcolonial theory, the global culture industry, cultural imperialism and cosmopolitanism. For assessment, you will have the chance to apply these theories to the analysis of exciting, cutting edge case-studies from the global film industry and news media to tourism and heritage industries. The module will provide you with crucial theoretical tools that you will be able to use in the rest of your degree. You will also develop vital skills in independent analytical thinking and academic writing. Overall, this module will give you tools and skills that equip you to critically analyse the complex and shifting global flows and interactions of media texts and cultural practices.


Overall, the module will give students tools to critically evaluate the complex and shifting relationships between global economic relations, the transnational culture industries and cultural politics.

To enable students to critically understand the processual nature of globalisation
To enable students to recognise the impact of processes of globalisation on contemporary culture and society
To enable students to identify and critically analysis a variety of theoretical perspectives on processes of globalisation
To enable students to critically apply cultural theories of globalisation to a variety of substantive examples

Intended Learning Outcomes

critically assess the processual nature of contemporary globalisation: 1
demonstrate a rigorous knowledge of processes of globalisation: 1
communicate a systematic understanding of globalisation theory and apply this beyond the first context: 1
critically engage with research at the forefront of social and cultural study in the area of globalisation: 1
demonstrate originality in the application of their knowledge of globalisation to a variety of substantive examples: 1
evaluate critically current research and advanced scholarship in the study of globalisation: 1

Study hours

20 hours seminars; 4 hours tutorials
116 hours assessment preparation
160 hours seminar preparation and research

School Rules

None

Description of Module Assessment