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Social, Political and Cultural Processes of Global Communication
Study Course Description
Course Description Statuss:Approved
Course Description Version:9.00
Study Course Accepted:02.02.2024 12:26:22
| Study Course Information | |||||||||
| Course Code: | KSK_091 | LQF level: | Level 7 | ||||||
| Credit Points: | 4.00 | ECTS: | 6.00 | ||||||
| Branch of Science: | Communication Sciences; Communication Theory | Target Audience: | Communication Science | ||||||
| Study Course Supervisor | |||||||||
| Course Supervisor: | Ivans Jānis Mihailovs | ||||||||
| Study Course Implementer | |||||||||
| Structural Unit: | Faculty of Social Sciences | ||||||||
| The Head of Structural Unit: | |||||||||
| Contacts: | Dzirciema street 16, Rīga, szf rsu[pnkts]lv | ||||||||
| Study Course Planning | |||||||||
| Full-Time - Semester No.1 | |||||||||
| Lectures (count) | 12 | Lecture Length (academic hours) | 2 | Total Contact Hours of Lectures | 24 | ||||
| Classes (count) | 8 | Class Length (academic hours) | 2 | Total Contact Hours of Classes | 16 | ||||
| Total Contact Hours | 40 | ||||||||
| Study course description | |||||||||
| Preliminary Knowledge: | Bachelor’s degree or second level professional higher education in humanities or social sciences. | ||||||||
| Objective: | To promote understanding of students and to develop practical research skills in the analysis of society and communication structures and forms in the context of globalisation, viewing the globalisation process/-es as a multi-layered phenomenon, which manifests in culture, political decision-making, social space. | ||||||||
| Topic Layout (Full-Time) | |||||||||
| No. | Topic | Type of Implementation | Number | Venue | |||||
| 1 | Introduction to globalisation discourse development: process or event? Problems of definition and chronology of globalisation. Globalisation in dynamics of global development processes. What changes in the process of globalisation: time and space categories and their transformation. | Lectures | 3.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 2 | Discursive tradition of globalisation: three globalisation analysis “schools”. Hyperglobalists, sceptics, transformationalists. Types, manifestations of anti-globalism. Global communication in modern world. Informative participation and communicative exclusion. | Lectures | 3.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 3 | Globalisation and religion. Search for new faith. Economic dilemmas in the context of globalisation challenges. “Global” state and governance transformations. Globalisation and modern crisis. | Lectures | 3.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 4 | Transformation of law in the context of globalisation. Human rights as an agent of globalisation. Globalisation and culture. Consumer society – agent of globalisation. Globalisation and glamour. Analysis of global threats. Manifestations of globalisation and development “balance” in Latvia. | Lectures | 3.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 5 | 1. Presentation of reports. Globalisation phenomenon: globalisation feedback with target groups and sectors being affected. Regional development scenarios in the content of European Union policy. 2. Presentation of reports. Globalisation in Latvia. 3. Presentation of reports - student's choice. | Classes | 8.00 | auditorium | |||||
| Assessment | |||||||||
| Unaided Work: | Task – students, upon agreement with the university lecturer, should select a topic for their report and to present the report. Distant students must independently get acquainted with the materials developed by the lecturer, as well as participate in a discussion with the lecturer on the course content issues selected by the lecturer. In order to evaluate the quality of the study course as a whole, the student must fill out the study course evaluation questionnaire on the Student Portal. | ||||||||
| Assessment Criteria: | Students must get acquainted with the lecturer's materials and participat in seminars – 30%, report – 70%. | ||||||||
| Final Examination (Full-Time): | Exam (Written) | ||||||||
| Final Examination (Part-Time): | |||||||||
| Learning Outcomes | |||||||||
| Knowledge: | Students understand the nature andr processes of globalisation, are aware of the possibility of different interpretations. | ||||||||
| Skills: | Students will be able to independently analyse actual events in communication, culture, social sphere, policy, taking into account global discourses. | ||||||||
| Competencies: | Students will be able to integrate approaches to research of globalisation phenomena in their studies and research. | ||||||||
| Bibliography | |||||||||
| No. | Reference | ||||||||
| Required Reading | |||||||||
| 1 | Literatūras saraksts (tikai latviešu valodā). Studenti ir īpaši aicināti meklēt jaunākos avotus svešvalodās, izmantojot zin.datu bāzes un Inteneta iespējas: | ||||||||
| 2 | Globāla dienaskārtība. – Rīga: Zinātne, 2007. | ||||||||
| 3 | Džonsone B. Māja bez atkritumiem. – Rīga: Zvaigzne ABC, 2018. | ||||||||
| 4 | Stīgers M. Globalizācija. Ļoti saistošs ievads. – [b. v.]: ¼ satori, 2008. | ||||||||
| 5 | Stiglics Dž. Globalizācija un neapmierinātība ar to. – Rīga: BAT, 2010. | ||||||||
| 6 | Ekonomiskā krīze Latvijā: veiksmes stāsta pēcgarša. – Rīga: RSU, 2016. | ||||||||
| 7 | Krīzes kā Eiropas Savienības liktenis. - Rīga: Latvijas Ārpolitikas institūts, 2021. | ||||||||
| Additional Reading | |||||||||
| 1 | Hanovs D., Mihailovs I.J., Tēraudkalns V. Globalizācija: teorijas un prakses. – Rīga: [b.i.], 2006. | ||||||||
| 2 | Apvienoto Nāciju Organizācija. Globālas atbildes globāliem jautājumiem. – Rīga: Zinātne, 2007. | ||||||||
| 3 | Agora 5. Paterniecības izpausmes Latvijā un ārpus tās. – Rīga: LU Akadēmiskais apgāds, 2006. | ||||||||
| 4 | Hanovs D. Šeit, visur un tagad... Globalizācija Latvijā: konteksti, diskursi un dalībnieki. – Rīga: Drukatava, 2008. | ||||||||
