15ZUZU018 - Communication Studies 1
| Course specification | ||||
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| Course title | Communication Studies 1 | |||
| Acronym | 15ZUZU018 | |||
| Study programme | Journalism | |||
| Module | ||||
| Type of study | first degree undergraduate academic studies | |||
| Lecturer (for classes) | ||||
| Lecturer/Associate (for practice) | ||||
| Lecturer/Associate (for OTC) | ||||
| ESPB | 6.0 | Status | ||
| Condition | None | Oblik uslovljenosti | ||
| The goal | Introducing students to socio-historical conditions of emergence and development of communication studies as an interdisciplinary science of communication, gaining general access to basic communication concepts: sign, symbol, code, semiosis, information and message as content of communication, message types and problems of their interpretation. | |||
| The outcome | The acquisition of theoretical knowledge necessary for understanding the process of communication, understanding the most important theories preceding the establishment of communication studies and established theories of communication, mastering the conceptual and categorical apparatus of communication studies. | |||
| Contents | ||||
| Contents of lectures | . Communication studies: socio-historical conditions of their emergence and development; interdisciplinary research subject and relationship with other sciences. 2. Pre-communication studies theories and theories of communication. 3. Semiotic basis of communication: sign, code, process of semiosis, symbol, symbolic systems. 4. Information Theory: cybernetic and socio-anthropological research framework. 5. Information and messages: the structure of the message; pragmatic and aesthetic messages; truthfulness, objectivity and intentionality of messages. | |||
| Contents of exercises | Group and individual analysis of selected communication phenomena, different types of symbols and symbolic systems, and messages. | |||
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| Number of hours per week during the semester/trimester/year | ||||
| Lectures | Exercises | OTC | Study and Research | Other classes |
| 2 | 2 | |||
| Methods of teaching | Lectures: oral lectures with Power Point presentations Practical classes: discussions about previously analyzed communication phenomena, different types of symbols and symbolic systems, and messages; student group and individual work. | |||
| Knowledge score (maximum points 100) | ||||
| Pre obligations | Points | Final exam | Points | |
| Activites during lectures | 5 | Test paper | ||
| Practical lessons | 10 | Oral examination | 35 | |
| Projects | ||||
| Colloquia | 50 | |||
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