This course aims to develop the critical abilities that create literate media consumers. The increasing pervasiveness of Western popular culture via all forms of media around the world has had an immense impact on the ways in which we produce ourselves socially in relation to our own lived experiences and desires, together with how these identities may be perceived by others in relation to their own practices of consumption. In this context, this course will consider the wider pedagogical implications of popular culture in terms of the production and distribution of media texts and how we consume and respond to them.

CILO-1: Examine critically information and popular culture via all forms of media from around the world. CILO-2: Demonstrate an understanding of contemporary debates in the critical discourse of all forms of media. CILO-3: Analyse the impacts of diverse forms of media on shaping our life. CILO-4: Reflect on the connection between media literacy and the responsive citizen.