Media Studies

Department Intent: To Become Media Literate Citizens

Skilled in Media Literacy with an understanding of media as a business, constructed with a specific purpose in mind. As such media reflects social and political values which hold unquestioned biases and assumptions.

Implementation: Through analysis of a variety of media texts students will become:

• Informed Intellectuals

Recognising how the ideologies that govern our lives are created, sustained and conveyed through media, allowing individuals to have different views about the same product.

• Empowered Consumers

Understanding how representations of gender, age, ethnicity, national and regional identity, and social issues are constructed and the impact this has on us as consumers. 

• Critical Thinkers

Engaging critically with texts, forming balanced views on a range of issues including their thoughts towards representation, media manipulation and the need for regulation to protect vulnerable individuals.

Impact: Progressive Individuals 

Students will have reinforced their general competencies through their study of the subject. Through a rich application of the theoretical framework in media they will refine essential qualities such as enquiry, critical thinking, decision-making and analysis, providing them with transferable skills to support them as global citizens beyond Putteridge.