Courses / Module

• On successful completion of the module, students should be able to: understand the role played by the media in the development process.
• Be able to critically analyse media representations of development; identify the main ICT4D technologies and their roles and relevance in different contexts.
• Understand the key focii of lobbying & advocacy campaigning.
• Have developed the skills to plan and coordinate lobbying & advocacy campaigns.
• Have developed a case study illustrating knowledge gained.

• Lectures, presentations and discussion

• Module Graded (numeric value) or Ungraded (Pass/Not Passed): Graded
• Continuous Assessment detail(s): 100% Continuous Assessment
• Other detail(s): 100% Continuous Assessment

• Pass standard: 40%
• Could the result of this module be capped? No
• 40%
• Penalties: 10% of awarded grade for unauthorised late continuous assessments

• Are supplemental/resit registrations permitted? Yes
• Repeat students must sit the repeat exam in Autumn and submit their continuous assessment by a date before the Autumn examination, which will be specified by the department. Students are responsible for familiarising themselves with this deadline. If students do not submit by the deadline, the existing continuous assessment mark will be carried forward to the Autumn. No continuous assessment work will be accepted after this date. The maximum mark awarded to a piece of continuous assessment submitted for the Autumn repeat examinations is 50%. This will apply except upon presentation of a medical certificate covering the relevant period or in other extremely extenuating circumstances, which must be communicated to, and accepted by, the lecturer prior to, or immediately after, the relevant deadline.
• Is Supplemental Continuous Assessment registration permitted? No
• Is Supplemental Continuous Assessment capped? No

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