UTVB2400 Media and Development Course description

The course description was approved 1 June 2016 by the Academic Affairs Committee and established by the Dean 9 June 2016 at the Faculty of Education and International Studies. Latest revision approved by the Academic Affairs Committee 11 May 2017. Minor revision made 20 December 2017.

The Faculty of Education and International Studies at the Oslo and OsloMet offers interdisciplinary courses in Development Studies and North-South relations, leading to a Bachelor's degree in Development Studies comprising 180 ECTS credits. The module in "Media and Development" is a course at the intermediate level, 4th semester in the BA programme. Fulfilled requirements and a passable grade entitle the student to 10 ECTS credits.

This interdisciplinary course seeks to combine perspectives from the social sciences and the humanities on media and development. Drawing on contributions from various disciplines the course is concerned with historical processes of media, their uses and the social consequences of media practices.

The language of instruction is English or Norwegian, depending on the language proficiencies of the student body. However, students may submit assignments in English, Norwegian, Swedish or Danish.

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For the final assessment a grading scale from A to E is used, where A denotes the highest and E the lowest pass grade, and F denotes a fail.

Two internal examiners. External examiner is used periodically.

It is an advantage to have some experience with the following subjects:

• Mathematical Analysis
• Basic programming, such as scripting
• Statistics, specifically probability theory

• Data streaming systems
• Data mining systems and BigData platforms
• Data stream processing methods, such as, but not limited to, anomaly detection, clustering, association rule learning
• Data visualization
• Statistical analysis on large data sets
• Linear algebra applied on BigData
• Using programming to implement analysis and toolchaining

The following grading scale is used: A to E for pass and F for no pass.

The exam will be jointly marked by an internal and an external examiner. The external examiner will read a selection of the exam papers and collaborate with the internal examiner in a way that benefits all the students.