Veidlapa Nr. M-3 (8)
Study Course Description
Analysis, Commenting and Forecasting of Societal Problems
Course Code
KSK_055
Branch of Science
Media and communications
ECTS
3.00
Target Audience
Communication Science
LQF
All Levels
Study Type And Form
Full-Time
Study Course Implementer
Course Supervisor
Normunds Kozlovs
Structure Unit Manager
Ieva Puzo
Structural Unit
Faculty of Social Sciences
Contacts
Dzirciema street 16, Rīga, szf@rsu.lv
About Study Course
Objective
The course will introduce some of the most important theoreticians in the fields of ideology, media and communication theories, as well as their analytical models and the conceptual apparatus used in relation to the analysis, forecasting and commenting of contemporary societal problems.
Preliminary Knowledge
Introduction to Communication Theories.
Learning Outcomes
Knowledge
1.• To get to know the social theories of leading humanities analysts; • to be able to analyse and evaluate contemporary social situations; • to identify the most characteristic social problems of the contemporary situation.
Skills
1.Students have to acquire the skills to analyse processes in society in the context of Latvia in the following scheme: Sign-Culture-Society; symptomatology and prevention, and skills to theorise on contemporary social issues within different conceptual schemes.
Competences
1.As a result of attending the course, students must develop an understanding of the possibilities of analysing the contemporary social situation in the various paradigms of the humanities: anthropologically, semiotically, and simply critically.
Assessment
Individual work
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Presentation for the student media.
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Confidence building capacity.
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Study Course Theme Plan
FULL-TIME
Part 1
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Lecture
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On site
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Auditorium
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2
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Analytical mechanisms. Psychoanalysis, Marxism and philosophy of life; structuralism.
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Auditorium
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2
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Topics
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Analytical mechanisms. Psychoanalysis, Marxism and philosophy of life; structuralism.
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On site
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Auditorium
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2
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Analytical mechanisms. Psychoanalysis, Marxism and philosophy of life; structuralism.
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Class/Seminar
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On site
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Auditorium
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2
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Topics
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Analytical mechanisms. Psychoanalysis, Marxism and philosophy of life; structuralism.
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Auditorium
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Analytical mechanisms. Psychoanalysis, Marxism and philosophy of life; structuralism.
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Total ECTS (Creditpoints):
3.00
Contact hours:
10 Academic Hours
Final Examination:
Exam (Written)
Bibliography
Required Reading
1.
Pierre Bourdieu, http://www.homme-moderne.org/societe/socio/bourdieu/varia/essneoUK.html par neoliberālismu
2.
K.Markss, Kapitāls, R.1973.76.-86.lpp Preču fetišisms
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Kultūra Teksts Zīme, R.1993. 23.-60.,137.-152.lpp. J.Lotmana Kultūras semiotika
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Kentaurs 5, R.1993. 38.-45.lpp. Ż.Bodrijāra vīrusu teorija
5.
M.Fuko, Patiesība, Vara, Patība, R.1995. 32.-49.lpp. Antipsihiatrijas diskursi
6.
V.Šmids, Dzīves Māksla Izaicinājums Tagadnei, Aizkraukle 1996. 54.-80.lpp. 68.g. kontr-kultūras kustība
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Interstanding 2 conference, Estonia 1999. 17.-25.lpp. E.Kluitenbergs par mašīnas fetišu
8.
Valstiska Cilvēka Kanons, R.1990. 204.-213.lpp. M.L.Kons par birokrātu
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Studija 2000.Nr.3, 30.-33.lpp. K.Vanags par digitālo kultūru
10.
Noam Chomsky, Powers and Prospects, London 1997, 31.-55.lpp. par valodas dabu
11.
Paul Virilio: http://www.ctheory.net/text_file.asp?pick=72 Speed and Information: Cyberspace Alarm! par tehnoloģijām
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F.Nīče http://www.beseen.com/hc-index.htmlhttp://www.beseen.com/hc-index.html On the Use and Abuse of History for Life, 1873 par dzīves filozofiju
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Foucault: What is Enlightenment? par apgaismību
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K.Levi-Stross, http://mural.uv.es/madelro/myth.html Levi-Straus: par mītiem
16.
Ernests Gelners, Arkls, zobens un grāmata, 1988. 216.-230.lpp.
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Ērvings Gofmanis Sevis izrādīšana ikdienas dzīvē 1959, 163.-196.lpp.
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Friedrich Kittler http://www.ctheory.net/text_file.asp?pick=45The History of
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Communication Media par mediju vēsturi
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G.Debors http://library.nothingness.org/articles/SI/en/display/17 The Society of the Spectacle Debord: Izrāžu sabiedrība
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Sigmund Freud http://psychclassics.yorku.ca/Freud/Dreams/ psihoanalītiskās interpretācijas darbs
Additional Reading
1.
ctheory.net
Other Information Sources
1.
arterritory.com