Kurs

Kurskod: MKVN09
Engelsk titel: Media and Communication Studies: Media, Health and Society
Högskolepoäng: 15

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Kurstillfälle: höstterminen 2024
Studiesätt: heltid, dagtid
Kursperiod: 2024-09-02 – 2024-10-31
Kursspråk: engelska

Beskrivning

What can we learn from watching Dr House? Why are there so many headlines on dieting in the tabloids? This course investigates how media represents health risks and medical conditions, and the consequences thereof.

Obesity, mental disorders, malaria, flu, diets, STDs, traffic accidents, and death; this is but a short list of different health related issues presented in the media. Our responses to illness, health care and health related behavior are by and large deeply influenced by the media and its representations. The media provides strategic tools for health politicians, health professionals, and other opinion makers, including health consumers and various patient groups. The media is often the only source through which the public gains information about scientific discoveries and it is consistently ranked by the public as the number one source of nutrition and food information.

This course brings together Media and Communication Studies with Sociology of Health and Illness. The purpose of the course is to critically explore the mediation and the mediatization of health in order to better understand the role media plays in people’s comprehension of health, their own health development, and in social change processes.

The course offer students great opportunity for individual specialization theoretically, methodologically, as well as in relation to different health topics.

Observera!

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International student?

Make your application in the First Admission Round at universityadmissions.se.

Application period October–January for autumn semester and June–August for spring semester.

First or Second Admission Round?

All international students are encouraged to apply to the First admission round. This round takes place many months before the start of a semester and gives students the time they need to pay their tuition fees, apply for and receive their residence permit (if required), find housing, etc.

The Second admission round is an alternative for students from EU/EEA countries as they do not need a residence permit. Non-EU/EEA students will most likely not have enough time to obtain their permit before the start of the semester. However, even EU/EEA students are advised to apply during the First admission round, as some programmes can be applied for only in the January round. Also, this provides applicants with an admission decision much earlier, which is helpful in making decisions about their studies.

Anmälnings- och studieavgifter för medborgare utanför EU/EES

Avgifterna gäller alltså inte dig som är medborgare i Sverige, något annat EU- eller ESS-land eller Schweiz. Läs mer om anmälnings- och studieavgifter.

Sidansvarig: michael.rubsamenkom.luse | 2020-06-15