Gender, Sexuality and Media
| Code | School | Level | Credits | Semesters |
| MLAC3176 | Media, Languages and Cultures | 3 | 20 | Autumn Malaysia |
- Code
- MLAC3176
- School
- Media, Languages and Cultures
- Level
- 3
- Credits
- 20
- Semesters
- Autumn Malaysia
Summary
This module examines the politics of gender and sexuality in media and popular culture. It offers advanced inquiry into the intersectional fields of feminism, queer theory, and media and cultural studies. This module asks the key questions: how gender and sexuality are represented in media and popular culture, how media and cultural industries structure gender and sexual inequalities, how identities and practices of media audiences and users are gendered and sexualised, and what are creative and radical ways of resistances to gender and sexual norms?
Target Students
This Module has been identified as being particularly suitable for final year students of the BA (Hons) in International Communication Studies (w.FTW or ELL) and other schools in the faculty. Non-ICS students are advised to contact the module convenor for prior approval.
Classes
- One 2-hour seminar each week for 12 weeks
- One 1-hour lecture each week for 12 weeks
Assessment
- 50% Coursework 1: 2500 words portfolio
- 50% Coursework 2: 2500 words essay
Assessed by end of autumn semester
Educational Aims
The purpose of the module is to familiarise students with key concepts, theories and debates in feminist media studies and queer media studies; to encourage students to discriminate between particular theoretical and political positions in feminism and queer theory; and to enable students to analyse a range of media and cultural texts, contexts and practices through the perspectives of feminism and queer theory.Learning Outcomes
knowledge of concepts, theories and debates on gender and sexuality; understanding of the ways in which media and popular culture are shaped by, and at the same time shape gender and sexual norms, practices and identities; understanding of the political potential of the media engagement with issues of gender and sexuality. Students will be able to critically analyse, interpret and evaluate representations of gender and sexuality in media and popular culture; and draw on the industrial context of media and reflect on its impacts. On transferable skills, they will be able to adopt a critical approach in the inquiries; be able to evaluate different sources of information, work independently and demonstrate initiative, self-organisation and time management.
Conveners
- Ms Gayathry S.Venkiteswaran