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Media and War

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2023-2024

Admission requirements

This course is designed for the minor Global Affairs. For both Dutch based and exchange students, it is not possible to follow single courses of this minor. You need to be enrolled in Usis for the minor to be accepted to this course. There are 200 places open for registration, on a first come, first served basis, where LDE students are given priority.
This course is also open for inbound exchange students if they wish to take the entire minor Global Affairs. Exchange students must be admitted by the FGGA International Office prior to the start of the minor; priority will be given to direct exchange partners of FGGA. For more information about the application procedure for exchange students, please contact the FGGA International Office

Description

Through studying the wars in Afghanistan, Yugoslavia, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, and Ukraine from the 1980s onwards, the course will focus on how the coverage of such conflicts has significantly changed over the past forty years in a now globalised world, whilst also confronting students with both the positive and negative sides of the extraordinary changes the media and public communication have undergone.

Course objectives

At the end of this course, students will be able to:

  • Describe the complex relationship between modern (primarily Western) media and the conflict it covers;

  • Explain how war has changed and evolved over the past quarter of a century since the end of the Cold War, and identify the major conflicts which have contributed to this evolution;

  • Describe the impact of globalisation on warfare and its coverage in the media, and discuss how this dynamic has contributed to the challenging nature of the conflicts in Afghanistan, Syria, and Iraq;

  • Provide critical, concise analysis on the topic of warfare, utilising relevant academic research and literature to build an argument.

Timetable

The schedule for 2023 will be published in due time
The timetable will be displayed with a link on the website, Brightspace and on the page of this minor programme.

Mode of instruction

7 lectures of 2-3 hours by instructors and guest lecturers.
Participation in lectures, discussions and exercises is required in order to obtain a grade. One lecture may be missed. Being absent more than once may likely lead to expulsion from the course.

The total study load for this course is 140 hours, consisting of:

  • 21 hours for attending lectures

  • 119 hours studying – work on assignments

Assessment method

Mid-term assignment

  • 25% of total grade

  • Re-sit not possible

  • Grade must be compensated

Final assignment

  • 75% of total grade

  • Grade must be 5.50 or higher to pass the course

  • Re-sit possible

  • Re-sit will take the same form

Students will also be permitted to re-sit the 75% final assignment if they have a calculated overall course grade lower than 5.50 or with permission of the Board of Examiners. There is no re-sit for the mid-term which needs to be compensated.

Late hand in penalty: 0,5 minus per day, and after seven days we do not accept papers any longer.

In the case of written assessment methods, the examiner can always initiate a follow-up conversation with the student to establish whether the learning objectives have been met.

The Course and Examination Regulation Security Studies and the Rules and Regulation of the Board of Examiners of the Institute of Security and Global Affairs apply.

Reading list

TBA on Brightspace

Registration

Registration via MyStudymap or uSis is possible from Monday 17 July, 13.00 h, after registration for the entire minor. Register for every course via MyStudymap or uSis. Some courses of the minor have a limited number of participants, so register on time.

Leiden University uses Brightspace as its online learning management system. After enrolment for the course in MyStudymap you will be automatically enrolled in the Brightspace environment of this course.

After registration for an exam you still need to confirm your attendance via MyStudymap. If you do not confirm, you will ultimately be de-registered and you will not be allowed to take the exam.

More information on registration via MyStudymap can be found on this page.

Please note: guest-/contract-/exchange students do not register via MyStudymap but via uSis. Guest-/contract-/exchange students also do not have to confirm their participation for exams via MyStudymap.

Contact

globalaffairs@fgga.leidenuniv.nl

Remarks

  • All sessions will be in English.

  • Papers need to be written in English.

  • Please note that the re-sits of this minor will be organised in January