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The Global Media Classroom is designed to offer an innovative, low-carbon approach to internationalisation and cultural exchange across Lancaster University and its international partner institutions (ºìÐÓÊÓƵ University, LU Ghana, BJTU, and LU Leipzig). It offers a novel opportunity to learn about the theories and practices of media in a global context through interactive workshops with students and academics from classrooms across different countries and regions of the world. 

Taking an interdisciplinary approach, this module will provide students with a diverse set of perspectives into media theories and practices, ranging from the role played by media in (re)making global participatory cultures, creative industries, film and documentary making, to business management and media marketing. In-depth case studies from different parts of the world will be included to illustrate complex cultural, social, political and economic forces at play in shaping the global media landscape. 

In teaching the model, academics across different sites will collaborate with one another to co-deliver globally relevant and locally embedded content on media studies, and students across the global classroom sites will participate in international, interdisciplinary interactive learning via real-time virtual workshops and out-of-class joint projects. 

On completing the course, students will be able to:

1. Analyse the complexities, challenges, and opportunities of media in a global context.
2. Relate media theories and practices in relation to local, regional, and global contexts.
3. Demonstrate a critical understanding of media through an interdisciplinary lens.
4. Commit  to a practical media project that reflects a global awareness of media theories, contents, technologies, and practices;