Admission requirements
Having successfully finished Propaedeutics SSEAS or equivalent knowledge of South and Southeast Asian history and society. Please, contact the student advisor, Nicole A.N.M. van Os or Prof. Dr. B. Arps, if you are interested in taking this course, but do NOT fulfill the abovementioned requirement.
Description
The seminar (werkcollege) Modern Media in South and Southeast Asia gives an introduction to the study of electronic media and communication technologies (television, film, radio, video, sound carriers, telephony, internet, and more) in South and Southeast Asia, with a focus on Indonesia and India. We attend especially to the cultural, social, and political dimensions of these media. The focus lies on the present, but with awareness of recent history.
Course objectives
Knowledge of and insight into the recent history, in social and political context, of media and communication technologies in South and Southeast Asia.
Knowledge of and insight into the cultural functions of media and communication technologies in modern South and Southeast Asia.
Knowledge of and insight into the main themes and approaches of media studies in general and particularly with regard to South and Southeast Asia.
Timetable
Mode of instruction
- Seminar
Course Load
- Total course load for the course: 140 hours. – Hours spent on attending lectures and seminars: 24 hours. – Approximate time for studying the compulsory literature: 80 hours – Approximate time for writing the web-postings and preparing for presentations: 36 hours
Assessment method
- active participation: weekly web-postings, presentations, discussion (40% of the overall mark)
- concluding written examination with essay-type questions (60% of the overall mark)
The course is an integrated whole. All categories must be completed in the same academic year. No partial marks can be carried over into following years.
In order to pass the course, students must obtain an an overall mark of “6” or higher. An exam resit is possible only for element (2), and only if the student participated in the first written exam and received an overall mark for the course of “5” or lower.
Blackboard
Blackboard is used for:
table of contents of the course
course materials
making available of assignments
webpostings by students
announcements
Blackboard serves as the primary means of communication about the course between instructors and students outside class meetings. Registration for the course on Blackboard is essential.
Reading list
To be announced later. The readings must be studied prior to the class in question.
Registration
Students are requested to register through uSis, the registration system of Leiden University for this course. General information about uSis is available in English and Dutch.
Registration Contractonderwijs
Contact information
The coordinator: Prof. Dr. B. Arps