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AS/A Level Communication & Culture

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Study Times: 
Part of Full Time Programme
Level: 
AS Level
Level 3 - Full A Level equivalent
Length of course: 
One year for AS, 2 years for the full A level
Venue: 
Poplar Centre
Age Group: 
16-19 Year Olds

Assessment:
50% exam, 50% coursework

AS Communication & Culture
Understand cultural difference and cultural diversity. Learn about your culture; its unwritten rules and codes, its power structures and value systems – and its importance for your own sense of identity.

What do we mean by communication? What is culture? How do the two come together to turn us into the person we are? Look at your own culture and connect your own experience to your study. Draw on your own experiences to compare 'high' and 'popular' culture.

How do we judge different cultural products and practices? Have you got a mobile phone or an MP3 player? How important are they to you, and why? Why are they designed the way they are? Can they tell us anything about ourselves and the way we relate to others? As objects, what do they mean?

A2 Communication & Culture
We look at perspectives such as Postmodernism and Feminism, and key concepts such as power, discourse and technology. We study “Fictions” – the ‘stories’ that make up our culture in the form of films, music videos, plays, adverts, social networking, computer games.

A2 coursework
Cover set topics such as Celebrity, Body Modification or Cinema as Cultural Practice. You will produce an essay and a movie.

Where this course might take me: 
Progress to university to study subjects including English, Communication, Cultural Studies, Anthropology, Social Science, Social Work, Humanities, Marketing, Public Relations, Business Management, Journalism, Education, Advertising and Media.