Thursday 10 November 2011

Thursday

So its Thursday again and that means I had Introduction to Study in Higher Education or ISHE for short.
Today we talked about News Broadcasting. Basically we discussed things like what different things in the opening sequence of BBC signify.
These are some points that we talked about in the lecture :
1 Conventions of news discourse (opening sequence)
2 Immediacy in TV news
3 Narrative functions of TV News
4 Visual signs in TV News (Bignall)5 Hegemony

After that we had a seminar where we watched some clips of BBC news and had to discuss some of the points that we talked about in the lecture.

Tuesday 8 November 2011

Tuesday

On Tuesdays I have applied studies. This term I'm doing feature writing. This week instead of sitting in our tiny classroom we went to the Guardian. It's a British newspaper which is the Guardian on working days and the Observer on the weekend.
Our so called tour guide was Denis Campbell who is mainly the health journalist.
He showed around the building which is new and its amazing inside. Later we had the chance to ask him questions.
All together I expectedmore from this trip but it wasn't that bad.
After the trip I went to the CSM library to study because I find it a lot better then LCC library. Its new and they have air conditioning which is always good.




http://www.guardian.co.uk/

Monday 7 November 2011

Monday

Every Monday my lecture starts at 10.30
This particular lecture was about Public Sphere. The lecturer just talked about the history of Public Sphere, where did it come from, why its important and different philosophers(not sure maybe like social scientists) said about it. The lecture it self was about 2.30 hours. By the end of it I was sleepy and just wanted to have a break.
The break was an hour which I think is a bit long but I had time for lunch. In my Uni the food is good and a warm meal is cheaper then in a restaurant/cafe.
After the break I had a seminar where we talked about the Public Sphere and what it meant and related different recent events to it. So all together the day was informative which is always good.



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Thursday 3 November 2011

Thursday

I have lessons only on Monday, Tuesday and Thursday.
That is because I am doing an creative/artistic subject, people who do Law or Medicine have lessons every day.
So on Thursdays my lecture starts at 10 am. The Thursday lecture is called Introduction to Study in Higher Education. The topic of this lecture was "Researching Media Institutions" .
This is the summery of the lecture which is written in the handout :
"How can we read social situations and spaces as one would read media text? The session reflects on the relationship between reader and text in the production of meaning and using key ethnographic approaches....."
There is a lot written on the hand out but you get the idea.
Personally I found the lecture a bit boring but it was because I knew half of the stuff because I studied it in college but I did get some new and useful information.

After the lecture we usually have a very long break and then we have a seminar. Only this time we had an assignment. My group had to go to High Street Kensington to Albert Memorial and do the ethnographic research which I didn't really understand or at least the point of it. I had to leave early so I didn't really help my group but I'm planning to go next week and do it.

Student

Tuesday 1 November 2011

University of the Arts London (UAL)

UAL consist of 6 colleges which together form the University.
These colleges are :

Central Saint Martin
http://www.csm.arts.ac.uk/

London College of Communication - where I study
http://www.lcc.arts.ac.uk/

London College of Fashion
http://www.fashion.arts.ac.uk/

Camberwell College of the Art
http://www.camberwell.arts.ac.uk/

Wimbeldon College of Art
http://www.wimbledon.arts.ac.uk/

Chelsea College of Art and Design
http://www.chelsea.arts.ac.uk/

All of these colleges are considered to be one of the best. All of them are in different part of London but they are all near a tube station or a bus stop.
If you are interested in a creative career then this University is the place for you. Famous people like Tom Ford, Colin Firth, Alexander McQueen have all studied at this University but in different colleges.
A lot of the courses do not provide a lot of guidance from the teachers because they believe that we UAL students must be independent, target driven and motivated, so most of the work has to be done in your own time and usually its very obvious who does work and who is not coming back next year.
It is not easy to get in into courses like art or photography or fashion but if you do it will be the best experience in your life.
If you become a student at UAL then you have access to all of those colleges. You can use their libraries or just come and study there.
People there are very friendly and helpful.
I will try to post pictures of London College of Communication and Central Saint Martin very soon.

Feel free to leave questions or comments