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HMKW University of Applied Sciences for Communication, Media and Management

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About the Program......................................................................................................3 Program Overview ......................................................................................................5 2.1 Entry requirements..........................................................................................................................................................6 2.2 Ideal Candidates...............................................................................................................................................................6 2.3 Tuition Fees..........................................................................................................................................................................6 2.4 Technical Facilities...........................................................................................................................................................7 Program Structure.......................................................................................................7 Course Examples.......................................................................................................10 Distance Learning......................................................................................................12

1. CANVAS LMS ............................................................................................................................................................... 13 2. Video-Conference Software............................................................................................................................. 13 3. Virtual classrooms.................................................................................................................................................... 14

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About the Program

The Distance Learning M.A. Visual and Media Anthropology was originally developed and offered successfully at Freie Universit?t Berlin from 2008-2019. From the winter semester 2019/20, the program is being offered at HMKW Berlin, University of Applied Sciences for Media, Communication and Management. This contemporary Master's program equips students with in-depth knowledge of visual and media anthropological themes in order to prepare them to become future leaders in the fields of digital media, artificial intelligence, the film industry, and governmental and non-governmental organizations. Distance Learning is offered via LMS Canvas and daily live-streams of classes with lectures, presentations and discussions. Additionally, the distance learning program offers two on-campus workshops in documentary filmmaking for ethnographic fieldwork. The program aims to develop and shape leading voices in the cultural industries, including museums and galleries, film festivals, news and social media, and other institutions involved in the production of art and culture. The program is highly international with students coming from numerous continents and countries. The professors and lecturers of the VMA program are visual anthropologists, media anthropologists and professional documentary filmmakers from diverse universities worldwide. The aim of the program is to overcome the Eurocentric, non-scientifically grounded, audio-visual documentations about non-European countries that often give the local or indigenous communities of "least," or better to say alternatively

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developed countries, no voice and ignore other important ethical guidelines in documenting and interpreting cultures. Furthermore, the role of new media, especially social networks in political processes, resistance, transnational migration, questions of gender, environmental activism and community building in indigenous communities, are important research areas of Media Anthropology.

Another idea of the program is to widen the traditional concept of ethnographic research in terms of integrating ideas of sensual, artistic and fictional ethnographic filmmaking and photography and herewith cross the boundaries from a mere distant scientific interpretation of cultures to a participation in trans-regional cultural processes.

We offer three forms of Online courses:

1.) Synchronal real-time webinar (courses) in Zoom via webcam and voicechat. Students can login from wherever they are in the world via a desktop computer, laptop or mobile phone.

2.) A-synchronal self-learning courses via LMS Canvas with content, video lectures, films, readings and assignments which allow a wider flexibility for students.

3) Life courses with Avatars on the virtual Campus of HMKW in Open Sim

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Program Overview

Type

Degree Location Language

Distance learning (flexible e-learning in virtual classrooms, webinars and LMS Canvas) and optional on-campus periods (two-week workshops in Berlin) Master of Arts (M.A.) Berlin English

Tuition fees

Duration

4020,- per semester (16.080,- in total for the two year's program) 4 semester (2 years)

Start

Winter term (October)

The program is a combination of E-learning and in-house learning with five main units:

1. The distance-e-learning modules 2. Four in-house workshops (lasting from two to three weeks long) 3. An internship in a TV production company, film festival, Ethnological Museum, film archive or other related fields 4. A short film or media project 5. The Master's thesis and/ or the film/media project

This Master's program is educating both researchers with a background in anthropology and media professionals. The Master's Program focuses on the relationships between culture and media in a number of areas, such as: virtual cultures; problems in representation of culture and gender through media, the significance of ethnographic films and photography for Social and Cultural Anthropology, the development of media in Indigenous, Diaspora, and non-Western communities. The language of instruction is English. The program is highly international. For our real-time online-classes (via avatars and voice-chat) with students coming from countries all over the world we use a world-clock meeting planner.

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