Certificate of Achievement
Mary Templeman Hogg - O'Rourke
has completed the following course:
Propaganda and Ideology in Everyday Life
The University of Nottingham and British Library
This online course explored how everyday beliefs, political ideology, and propaganda interact through texts, images and objects.
5 weeks, 4 hours per week
Professor Maiken Umbach
Professor of Modern History
The University of Nottingham
Professor Mathew Humphrey
Professor of Political Theory
The University of Nottingham
Transcript
Learning outcomes
- Assess the usefulness of different academic methodologies for understanding ideologies
- Compare propaganda produced by regimes from across the political spectrum
- Discuss how political ideals and values travel between different historical periods and cultural contexts
- Explore how images and spaces reflect and shape ideological assumptions
- Reflect on the relationship between personal beliefs and political behaviours
Syllabus
- Political ideology and its communication through propaganda
- Key political concepts – freedom, justice, community, territory, and consumption
- The articulation of political ideas through images, texts and objects
- Interdisciplinary perspectives on ideology from politics, history, sociology, classics, psychology, and media studies
- The relationship between such everyday activities as consumption, cooking, and living in urban spaces with political beliefs
Issued on 27th June 2021
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