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FS30390

Academic Year 2026/2027

Decolonial Media Studies: Mediating Palestine and Decolonization (FS30390)

Subject:
Film Studies
College:
Arts & Humanities
School:
English, Drama & Film
Level:
3 (Degree)
Credits:
10
Module Coordinator:
Dr Yulia Gilichinskaya
Trimester:
Spring
Mode of Delivery:
On Campus
Internship Module:
No
How will I be graded?
Letter grades

Curricular information is subject to change.

This advanced undergraduate module is dedicated to the study of decolonial media. Bringing together scholarship from media studies, Palestine studies, and decolonial and Indigenous studies, the module explores decolonial media's political commitments to collective liberation, its experimental aesthetic and formal practices, its relationship to social movements, and its role in fostering transnational solidarities and producing critical knowledge for social transformation. Students will examine how colonial histories and structures of power shape material realities, social institutions, and media representations, while also exploring how liberators movements for decolonization have used media as tools of resistance and world-making. While this module is centered on Palestinian media examined through the decolonial lens, it will illuminate the role of media in settler colonial practices and decolonial struggles around the world.

About this Module

Learning Outcomes:

- demonstrate an advanced understanding of key concepts and debates in decolonial media studies
- evaluate the role of media in both reproducing and challenging colonial systems of knowledge, power, and representation
- critically analyse a wide range of media forms, practices, and institutions using appropriate theoretical and methodological approaches
- understand the role of media in the Palestinian liberation struggle and other struggles for decolonization around the world

The United Nations identified seventeen Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as core to the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, and UCD contributes in general to SDG 4 Quality Education. Further SDGs explored within this module if relevant are listed below. A scale of 1 - 5 indicates the extent to which the SDG is covered.


 

Student Effort Hours:
Student Effort Type Hours
Seminar (or Webinar)

24
Studio

24
Specified Learning Activities

76
Autonomous Student Learning

76
Total

200

Approaches to Teaching and Learning:
This module uses a variety of approaches towards seminar time, including group-work, lectures, class discussions, and creative assignments.

Requirements, Exclusions and Recommendations

Not applicable to this module.


Module Requisites and Incompatibles
Not applicable to this module.
 

Assessment Strategy
Description Timing Component Scale Must Pass Component % of Final Grade In Module Component Repeat Offered
Assignment(Including Essay): Final project 1500-2000 words Week 14 Graded No
50
 No
Portfolio: A collection of small creative and critical exercises. Week 2, Week 5, Week 8, Week 10 Graded No
50
 No

Carry forward of passed components
No
 

Resit In Terminal Exam
Autumn No
Please see Student Jargon Buster for more information about remediation types and timing. 

Feedback Strategy/Strategies

• Feedback individually to students, post-assessment
• Group/class feedback, post-assessment

How will my Feedback be Delivered?

Not yet recorded.

Timetabling information is displayed only for guidance purposes, relates to the current Academic Year only and is subject to change.
Spring Film Screening Offering 1 Week(s) - 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33 Tues 15:00 - 17:50
Spring Seminar Offering 1 Week(s) - 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33 Wed 15:00 - 16:50
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