Component

MA Public Opinion and Political Behaviour
BA Art History, Visual Culture and Media Studies options

Final Year, Component 05

CS307-6-AU and/or Option(s) from list
CS307-6-AU
Beyond the BA: Preparing for Life as a Graduate
(0 CREDITS)
SC306-6-AU
Crime, Media and Culture
(15 CREDITS)

In this module, we want to enable you to critically assess contemporary thinking and research on the relationships between crime, media and culture. These relationships have long been the subject of intense debate and this option offers an account of crime stories in the media that is more interested in their social character: the ways they are produced, circulated and read. In doing so it will also move beyond their symbolic meaning – by emphasising the work such stories perform in the wider social order, how they alter over time, shape political processes and clarify moral boundaries.

SC362-6-SP
Visual Cultures: the Social Meanings of Photography and Art
(15 CREDITS)

This module examines how photography and other forms of visual art provide meanings and interpretations of societies.

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