Analysis, Commenting and Forecasting of Societal Problems (KSK_055)
About Study Course
Objective
The course will introduce some of the most important theoreticians in the fields of ideology, media and communication theories, as well as their analytical models and the conceptual apparatus used in relation to the analysis, forecasting and commenting of contemporary societal problems.
Prerequisites
Introduction to Communication Theories.
Learning outcomes
• To get to know the social theories of leading humanities analysts;
• to be able to analyse and evaluate contemporary social situations;
• to identify the most characteristic social problems of the contemporary situation.
Students have to acquire the skills to analyse processes in society in the context of Latvia in the following scheme: Sign-Culture-Society; symptomatology and prevention, and skills to theorise on contemporary social issues within different conceptual schemes.
As a result of attending the course, students must develop an understanding of the possibilities of analysing the contemporary social situation in the various paradigms of the humanities: anthropologically, semiotically, and simply critically.
