Undergraduate Course: Sport, Media and Society (SPRT10021)

Course Outline
School	Moray House School of Education	College	College of Humanities and Social Science
Credit level (Normal year taken)	SCQF Level 10 (Year 4 Undergraduate)	Availability	Not available to visiting students
SCQF Credits	20	ECTS Credits	10
Summary	This Honours level optional course provides an analysis of the mass media as institutions in industrial and industrialising societies, and considers the position of sport in the print, broadcast and electronic media from sociological, comparative and historical perspectives. Different approaches to the study of the mass media in society and the process by which media messages are produced, distributed and interpreted are critically assessed.
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
Pre-requisites		Co-requisites
Prohibited Combinations		Other requirements	Available to Sociology students at Honours level otherwise students must be enrolled on BSc Sport and Recreation Management programme UTSPRMG

Course Delivery Information

Academic year 2015/16, Available to all students (SV1)		Quota: 0
Course Start	Semester 2
Timetable	Timetable
Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info)	Total Hours: 200 ( Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 4, Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours 196 )
Assessment (Further Info)	Written Exam 0 %, Coursework 100 %, Practical Exam 0 %
Additional Information (Assessment)	1. One detailed essay plan of no more than 1200 words with annotated notes and references (Formative) (30%) 2. One written essay of no more than 3000 words. For example: To what extent does the media coverage of sport help to construct the "imagined community" of the nation? (Summative) (70%)
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Learning Outcomes
By the end of this module students will be able to: -Understand the relationship between the mass media and modern sport. -Appreciate the theoretical and methodological issues raised by sociological research into the mass media -Apply these concepts to the analysis of sport in the mass media -Critically assess the presentation of sport in the mass media