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Modern Communication Theories
Study Course Description
Course Description Statuss:Approved
Course Description Version:6.00
Study Course Accepted:02.02.2024 12:25:57
| Study Course Information | |||||||||
| Course Code: | KSK_206 | LQF level: | Level 7 | ||||||
| Credit Points: | 2.00 | ECTS: | 3.00 | ||||||
| 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) | 6 | Lecture Length (academic hours) | 2 | Total Contact Hours of Lectures | 12 | ||||
| Classes (count) | 4 | Class Length (academic hours) | 2 | Total Contact Hours of Classes | 8 | ||||
| Total Contact Hours | 20 | ||||||||
| Study course description | |||||||||
| Preliminary Knowledge: | Basics of Communication. | ||||||||
| Objective: | This course provides Master students with an opportunity to study fields, which are very important in the field of communication on a broader scale, and to better understand methods and theoretical approaches that are used more broadly in the field of communication. | ||||||||
| Topic Layout (Full-Time) | |||||||||
| No. | Topic | Type of Implementation | Number | Venue | |||||
| 1 | Communication – special discipline or field combining several disciplines? | Lectures | 2.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 2 | Communication models. | Lectures | 2.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 3 | Communication models: Situation analysis. | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 4 | Communication research traditions. | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 5 | Communication functions. | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 6 | Presentation of individual work. | Classes | 2.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 7 | Types of communication. Communication – narrative and storytelling. | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| Assessment | |||||||||
| Unaided Work: | The student should prepare a report analysing in detail the selected communication theory, as well as read recommended scientific articles. Their discussion is expected to take place at seminar classes. 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: | Positive evaluation in ascending order: • communication theories and models, its analysis methods with practical examples from the performed individual work (20%). • comparison of different communication theories, models and analysis methods, main conclusions from specified literary sources, practical work, using basic methods (20%). • comparison of different communication theories, models and analysis methods, main conclusions from specified literary sources, practical work, widely using different methods, student’s additional work with additional literature (30%). • Examination – report and its presentation (30%). | ||||||||
| Final Examination (Full-Time): | Exam (Written) | ||||||||
| Final Examination (Part-Time): | |||||||||
| Learning Outcomes | |||||||||
| Knowledge: | Students are able to explain theoretical models and concepts, to analyse specific cases and main problems related to the field of communication. | ||||||||
| Skills: | Students are able apply theoretical knowledge in the field of communication to resolve specific problems, showing understanding of what the appropriate scientific discourse in this field consists of. | ||||||||
| Competencies: | Students know how to characterise main theoretical approaches and topical matters of communication in the field of mass communication, identify and analyse processes and problems in different areas and different aspects of mass communication, use communication theories as a basis to justify their research ideas. Students are able to use their knowledge in the field of mass communication to develop independent research based on a selected theoretical perspective with its conceptual and methodological apparatus. | ||||||||
| Bibliography | |||||||||
| No. | Reference | ||||||||
| Required Reading | |||||||||
| 1 | Littlejohn, S. W., & Foss, K. A. Theories of Human Communication 10th Edition., Waveland Press, 2011. | ||||||||
| 2 | Mattelart A., Mattelart M. Theories of Communication. Sage publications, 1998, 186 pp. | ||||||||
| 3 | Jahn, M. Narratology: a guide to the theory of narrative. English Department, University of Cologne. 2005. | ||||||||
| 4 | Petra Zia Slukovà. Communcation of Information Charles University in Prague, 2006. | ||||||||
| 5 | R. Dimbleby, G. Burton More than words. An Introduction to Communication. 3rd Edition. New York, 1998. Ch.1 What is Communication? ( P. 1 – 40).Ch. 2 Interpersonal communication p.41.-94 | ||||||||
| 6 | John Fiske. What is communication, in: Introduction to the communication studies, 1999, pp. 1 – 23. | ||||||||
| 7 | Veinberga S. Komunikācija. Teorija un prakse. Rīga: Sava grāmata, 2019. | ||||||||
| 8 | McQuail, D. McQuail's mass communication theory. London, Sage publications, 2010. | ||||||||
| Additional Reading | |||||||||
| 1 | Asimina Michailidou. The role of the Internet in the European Union’s public communication strategy and the emerging European publicsphere”, doctoral thesis, Loughborough University, 2006, 273 pp. | ||||||||
| 2 | Skulte I. Komunkācijas teorijas. | ||||||||
| Other Information Sources | |||||||||
| 1 | European Journal of Communication. | ||||||||
