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28 POSTGRADUATE REGULATIONS & SYLLABUSES 2012 - 2013 THE FACULTY OF HUMANITIES & EDUCATION COURSE DESCRIPTIONS YEAR: I SEMESTER: I & II COURSE CODE: COMS 6009 COURSE TITLE: COMMUNICATION RESEARCH METHODS 1 & 2 (MA /MPHIL/PHD) 2 SEMESTERS NUMBER OF CREDITS: 8 COURSE DESCRIPTION: This year-long course for MA, MPhil, PhD candidates explores a range of human communication research topics leading to the development of a research proposal topics based on concepts that have been the source of inquiry in the discipline. This postgraduate level course emphasises critical reading and discussion of selected topics and concepts related to research in the various sub-fields of communication studies, including but not limited to health communication, communication education, mass-mediated communication and media studies, and corporate and organisational communications. Participants are encouraged to use systematic research procedures for developing human communication research topics and proposals in theoretical and applied settings ASSESSMENT: Coursework 50% Examination 50% YEAR: I SEMESTER: I COURSE CODE: COMS 6000 COURSE TITLE: HUMAN COMMUNICATION THEORY (MA) 1 SEMESTER NUMBER OF CREDITS: 6 COURSE DESCRIPTION: This course provides advanced study and exploration of human communication concepts in professional settings and research contexts. It is a postgraduate level course suitable for persons preparing for careers requiring expertise and training in the various sub-fields of communication studies, including but not limited to health communication, communication education, mass-mediated communication and media studies, and corporate communications. Participants are encouraged to use systematic research procedures for analysing, investigating and resolving human communication issues in theoretical and applied settings. ASSESSMENT: Coursework 50% Examination 50% YEAR: I SEMESTER: I & II COURSE CODE: COMS 6001 COURSE TITLE: TOPICS IN LANGUAGE AND COMMUNICATION RESEARCH (MPHIL/PHD) 2 SEMESTERS NUMBER OF CREDITS: 12 COURSE DESCRIPTION: This year-long course for MPhil/ PhD candidates surveys a range of human communication topics and concepts that have been the source of inquiry in the discipline. This postgraduate level course emphasises critical reading and discussion of selected topics and concepts related to research in the various sub-fields of communication studies, including but not limited to health communication, communication education, mass communication, and corporate communications. Participants are encouraged to use systematic research procedures for analysing, investigating and resolving human communication topics and concepts in theoretical and applied settings. ASSESSMENT: Coursework 50% Examination 50% YEAR: I SEMESTER: 2 COURSE CODE: COMS 6002 COURSE TITLE: HEALTH COMMUNICATION THEORY (MA, MPHIL/PHD ELECTIVE) 1 SEMESTER NUMBER OF CREDITS: 6 COURSE DESCRIPTION: This one-semester course for MA candidates explores a range of health communication research topics based on concepts that have been the source of inquiry in the discipline. This postgraduate level course emphasises critical reading and discussion of selected topics and concepts related to research in health communication. Participants are encouraged to use systematic research procedures for investigating and describing issues in health communication research topics and studies in theoretical and applied settings. ASSESSMENT: Coursework 50% Examination 50%
POSTGRADUATE REGULATIONS & SYLLABUSES 2012 - 2013 THE FACULTY OF HUMANITIES & EDUCATION YEAR: I SEMESTER: 2 COURSE CODE: COMS 6003 COURSE TITLE: MEDIA, CULTURE AND SOCIETY THEORY (MA, MPHIL/PHD ELECTIVE) 1 SEMESTER NUMBER OF CREDITS: 6 COURSE DESCRIPTION: This one-semester course for MA students critically explores a broad range of theories and approaches to communication that attempt to define media and their social and cultural roles. This survey is part historical, tracing out some of the major schools and paradigms in media studies since the 1940s. Theories examined are divided into selected topics and concepts related to research in media theory. Students relate themselves and their lives to the contemporary media-saturated environment and its developments that identify tensions as well as complementarities of concepts and topics. They critically engage with the connections between media and power through epistemological and ontological approaches. This postgraduate level course emphasises critical readings and discussions of topics. Students engage with a particular set of questions within methodology and theory of media studies by focusing on contemporary international discussions in the field. Participants are encouraged to use systematic research procedures for investigating and describing issues in media studies in theoretical and applied settings. ASSESSMENT: Coursework 100% YEAR: I SEMESTER: 2 COURSE CODE: COMS 6004 COURSE TITLE: ORGANISATIONAL AND CORPORATE COMMUNICATIONS THEORY (MA, MPHIL/PHD ELECTIVE) 1 SEMESTER NUMBER OF CREDITS: 6 COURSE DESCRIPTION: This course is an advanced modular study of central organisational communication theories followed by corporate communication theories. It examines the process of theory construction to explain issues of power, participation, culture, and critical theory in organisations. It also explores how organisations assist in shaping human relationships and social structures, and are shaped by these factors. The second part of the course surveys theories and praxis of how corporations communicate and influence consumers, investors, employees and lobby governments. ASSESSMENT: Coursework 100% YEAR: 2 SEMESTER: I AND II COURSE CODE: COMS 7009 COURSE TITLE: COMMUNICATION PROJECT RESEARCH METHODS 1 AND 2 (MA) 2 SEMESTERS NUMBER OF CREDITS: 8 COURSE DESCRIPTION: This year-long course for MA candidates explores a range of human communication project method based on an approved research project proposal from one of the various sub-fields of communication studies, including but not limited to health communication, communication education, mass-mediated communication and media studies, and corporate and organisational communications. Participants are encouraged to use systematic research procedures for developing and reporting on the method employed in investigating a human communication project in theoretical and applied settings. In the first semester the focus is on the research project’s data collection and analysis; ethics and approval. In the second semester the focus is on the research project data collection and analysis and presentation of findings, oral and written presentations: Abstract, introduction, discussion and conclusion, appendices; update/refine literature, methodology and findings. ASSESSMENT: Coursework 100% YEAR: 2 SEMESTER: I AND II COURSE CODE: COMS 7099 COURSE TITLE: COMMUNICATION PROJECT (MA) 2 SEMESTERS NUMBER OF CREDITS: 12 COURSE DESCRIPTION: This is a written project report of 15-20,000 words based on the investigation of an approved research project proposal from one of the various sub-fields of communication studies, including but not limited to health communication, communication education, mass-mediated communication and media studies, and corporate and organisational communications. ASSESSMENT: Coursework 100% YEAR: 3 SEMESTER: I AND II COURSE CODE: COMS 8009 COURSE TITLE: COMMUNICATION THESIS (MPHIL) 2 SEMESTERS NUMBER OF CREDITS: COURSE DESCRIPTION: This is a thesis of 40-50,000 words based on the investigation of an approved research project proposal from one of the various sub-fields of communication studies, including but not limited to health communication, communication education, mass-mediated communication and media studies, and corporate and organisational communications. ASSESSMENT: Coursework 100% 29
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