HSTM60561 30 Semester 1 Postgraduate Taught Level 6 Elizabeth Toon Unit coordinator Harriet Palfreyman Unit coordinator 1 FHEQ level (Framework for Higher Education Qualifications) ' Masters/Integrated Masters P4 ' European Credit Transfer & Accumulation System Rating : 15.0 <p>This unit introduces students on the MSc Science and Health Communication to science and health communication as professional practice, an object of scholarly study, and as a cultural and social phenomenon. It gives students from diverse backgrounds a common vocabulary and theoretical toolkit for approaching a variety of topics, including:</p><ul> <li>science and health journalism</li> <li>health communication</li> <li>risk communication</li> <li>climate communication</li> <li>museums, science centres, and public events</li> <li>science, health, and the arts</li> <li>documentary media</li> <li>fictional media</li> <li>social and digital media</li></ul> <p>This unit introduces students on the MSc Science and Health Communication to science and health communication as professional practice, an object of scholarly study, and as a cultural and social phenomenon. It gives students from diverse backgrounds a common vocabulary and theoretical toolkit for approaching a variety of topics, including:</p><ul> <li>science and health journalism</li> <li>health communication</li> <li>risk communication</li> <li>climate communication</li> <li>museums, science centres, and public events</li> <li>science, health, and the arts</li> <li>documentary media</li> <li>fictional media</li> <li>social and digital media</li></ul> <p>The unit aims to:</p> <ul> <li> Introduce students to key ideas and findings in science communication studies</li> <li> Introduce students to the range of disciplinary approaches available for studying science communication</li> <li> Establish an understanding of the relationship between theory and practice in science communication studies</li> <li> Enable students to understand and analyse critically the key literature in the field</li> <li> Acquaint students with the range, scope and functions of science communication, now and in the past</li> <li> Develop a sense of the political and economic context for science communication</li> </ul> 0 Other 100% <p><strong>Assessment 1: </strong>News story and framing piece</p><ul> <li>A news story for a print or online outlet, 750 words (25%)</li> <li>A framing piece justifying the outlet chosen and approach taken, 1500-1750 words (25%)</li></ul><p><strong>Assessment 2</strong>: Academic research essay 2500 words (50%)</p> <p>All by specific and general comments on Blackboard; standard turn-around time applies</p> Y 0 0 300