Section outline
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Lectures:
1. Critical thinking as the basic skill of the 21st century.
Seminars:
1. Critical thinking in action. Bloom's taxonomy.
2. SWOT analysis, “Fishbone” diagram, their application for problem-solving.
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Do the test on the material studied within the course. You have to answer 20 questions in 10 minutes.
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Lectures:
2. Media evolution.
3. Pragmatic, structural and semantic parameters of media texts.
Seminars:
3. Media in modern society. Media as business.
4. Media content perception.
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Prepare a detailed analysis of any Ukrainian, British or American mass media in the form of a 5-7 minutes' report accompanied by a Powerpoint presentation (7-10 slides).
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Do the test on the material studied within the course. You have to answer 10 questions in 20 minutes.
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Lectures:
4. Functional and linguistic peculiarities of media texts.
Seminars:
5. Structural-semantic analysis of media text.
6. Manipulative impact: features and threats.
7. Fake as the mechanism of manipulation: features and threats. Creating and debunking fakes.
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Lectures:
5. Media literacy in digital media space.
Seminars:
8. Fact-checking of various types of content. Using the instruments of information verification.
9. WebWise: online instruments of dialogue interaction and foreign language teaching.
10. WebSafe: social media. social networks' ethics. The basics of cyber safety.
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Do the task according to the requirements and the plan specified in the attached file.
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