Broadcast Analysis 2

Overview

Building on the material covered in Broadcast Analysis 1, this module continues to develop the foundation of academic analytical skills and contextual knowledge for the BA in Broadcast Production. It covers further methods of analysing broadcasting and broadcast texts and their role in society, in cultural life, and for the individual. This provides the student with a range of avenues for developing their own future research as well as understanding academic material. It also continues to expand the student’s contextual understanding of the broadcast industries and a range of historical and contemporary broadcast texts, factual and fictional, radio and television, domestic and international.

Learning Objectives

On completing this module, students should be able to:

• Understand key elements of the history of broadcasting and place broadcast texts and developments into this context

• Understand key concepts regarding the industrial and regulatory frameworks of broadcasting

• Understand and use key theoretical concepts in the analysis of broadcasting, both in broad terms and in relation to specific texts

Skills

• Textual analysis of audio-visual material.
• Applying critical concepts to texts.
• Critiquing critical concepts.
• Oral communication and argumentation (seminars).
• Written communication (assessed work).
• Time management.
• Independent research.
• Group work (seminars)

Assessment

None