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POSTGRADUATE REGULATIONS & SYLLABUSES 2012 - 2013
THE FACULTY OF HUMANITIES & EDUCATION
YEAR: 3
SEMESTER: I AND II
COURSE CODE: COMS 8099
COURSE TITLE: COMMUNICATION DISSERTATION (PHD) 2
SEMESTERS
NUMBER OF CREDITS:
COURSE DESCRIPTION: This is a dissertation of 50-80,000 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: GRSM 7000/8000
COURSE TITLE: COMMUNICATION RESEARCH SEMINARS 1
AND 2 (MPHIL) PASS/FAIL: TWO SEMESTERS
YEAR: 3
COURSE CODE: GRSM 7000/8000
COURSE TITLE: COMMUNICATION RESEARCH SEMINARS 1, 2,
3 (PHD) PASS/FAIL: TWO SEMESTERS
CULTURAL STUDIES -
PROGRAMMES
AIMS
Cultural Studies is an emerging discipline that seeks to
understand the complexity of culture and its political uses.
Its contemporary force and relevance is that it has a wide
vocabulary for the accommodation of the comparative
understanding of different societies. The central aim of the
postgraduate programme in Cultural Studies is to promote the
discipline at UWI as an important area of study and research
and, by so doing, to stimulate academic discourse and promote
understanding of Caribbean culture and identity.
OBJECTIVES
1. To engage with and explore the concept of Cultural Studies
in a Caribbean context.
2. To study and document the historical range and diversity
of Caribbean peoples and their cultures.
3. To examine the many facets of Caribbean cultural practices
in an interdisciplinary context and from a variety of
theoretical perspectives.
4. To promote research and publication in the area of
Caribbean Cultural Studies.
5. To explore the relationships between Caribbean culture
and the social and political developments of the region.
6. To analyze the attitudes towards and policies regarding the
Caribbean’s cultural heritage in the context of economic
development of the region and its people.
7. To investigate the constructions of nation and identity
within the cultural history and to explore how the dynamics
of globalization are impacting its constructions.
8. To critique the formation and existence of gender
hierarchies in the Caribbean and the normalizing effects of
culture.
9. To establish UWI as a recognized international centre of
excellence for the study of Caribbean culture and identity.