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Inter-Session Activities
*faculty correspondence on syllabus development
*review of ongoing research and newly-instituted course work
*review of impact that new teaching approaches are having on students
Media and Economics
Syllabus Development Roundtable: On-line inter-session
activity in which participants will develop and share draft syllabi
for courses on media economics with the resource faculty member
and with the other session participants and receive feedback (non-contact).
On-line inter-session activity in which participants will develop
and share ideas/proposed methodologies for research projects in
the media economics area with the resource faculty member and with
other session participants and receive feedback. Completed research
projects also will be circulated for feedback and comment (non-contact).
Media and Society
During the intersession, I plan to continue communication with the
participants. Participants will review the new syllabi they will
develop during the year and will discuss the impact their new teaching
approaches are having on students. The instructor will be available
to offer solutions based on comparable situations that have occurred
in the West. Once every semester, after a computer-based website
has been created, participants will be urged to send a message to
reflect a reaction to a recent news or economic event. The dialogue
will be interactive and will provide participants with an opportunity
to perfect their newly-learned media literacy analytical skills.
The dialogue will enable participants to observe multiple critiques
and solutions based on contemporary methodologies and issues.
In addition, if participants are able to raise the money, she/he/they
could come to Duke to be a Media Fellow. This program is the largest
and most international residential program in the United States.
It involves specially designed seminars and lectures, shared "challenges"
of journalists in various systems, and access to all of Duke's rich
learning facilities to go deeper into a special project or special
interest. The DeWitt Wallace Center for Media and Democracy has
a website: www.media.duke/edu In many ways, this is by far the most
concentrated form of intersession activity and the kind of activity
that mixes the participants with peers from many other countries
and exposes them to new issues and new techniques.
Media Criticism
Participants will produce new media criticism course syllabi, which
will be posted and reviewed online at the project website. A major
component of inter-session activities will also be to research and
to contribute to online media criticism resources. Even the most
academic of courses in media criticism cannot be effective without
websites. For this reason, all seminar participants will be asked
to find and monitor media criticism-related websites operating in
their countries of residence. Drawing on the data that will emerge
from their research and monitoring activities, the participants
will be assigned to produce a review and will produce a write-up
that will give an overview of website materials that are most noteworthy.
They will also be asked to identify and describe the basic characteristics
and most distinctive features of the website or, preferably, websites
that they have analyzed. The write-up will be completed in English
and will be submitted for review by course instructors. After the
materials have been reviewed, the most insightful and analytical
articles will be posted on the project website. Select articles
will also be published on the www.mediakrytyka.info website and,
possibly, other media criticism-related sites.
Instructors will also be available to discuss with seminar participants
any media criticism-related issues that might arise during the year,
including questions or problems they might have when trying to create
new departments or when integrating their new courses into existing
university programs.
Media and Governance
During inter-session participants will review
the development of their new syllabi and will discuss with the resource
faculty problems and/or concerns they have with their new teaching
approaches. Participants will review their research papers, which
will include new methodology and new methods of media criticism.
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