Art in public spaces
In this course students will have the chance to study the relationship between artworks and their environment. Starting from the observation of historic and contemporary works – ranging from monuments to street art- we will question the different forms of dialogue between art and public space, including their urban, cultural and political context. Students are […]
Comedy in American Film and Media (1900 – 1950)
We will study the history of comedy in the United States from a perspective that is at once aesthetic, cultural, and institutional. Examples of early cinema, slapstick comedy, and musicals will help to examine the role of gag, character, and narrative in both short and feature films. The circulation of jokes, performers, and comic routines […]
Advertising Academy @ NBU
Advertising Academy is a tripartite project of New Bulgarian University, the Bulgarian Association of Advertisers and the Bulgarian Association of Communication Agencies with participation of more than 300 students (both bachelor and master level) who work in teams under the mentorship of representatives of advertisers and advertising agencies from over 50 brands from Bulgaria and […]
Subject module course 4 – Workshop in Planned Subject Specific Communication: track: Digital Media and Video
Each semester, subject module course 4 is offered, consisting of a number of different media workshops, which the student can choose between. The workshops involve work with production forms and methods within a delimited area of the media. The student works both theoretically and practically with the relevant media area, including completing a small production. […]
Subject module course 3 – Print Media
Each semester, subject module course 4 is offered, consisting of a number of different media workshops, which the student can choose between. The workshops involve work with production forms and methods within a delimited area of the media. The student works both theoretically and practically with the relevant media area, including completing a small production. […]
Subject module course 2 – Participants, Processes and Contexts
The subject module course will provide students with basic insights into different forms of communication, in relation to relevant participants, contexts, and processes. Emphasis will be placed on introducing theories and methodologies in relation to target group analysis and reception analysis and on the processing and analysis of empirical material in connection with communication and […]
Subject module course 3: Developmental, Personality and Social Psychology
The course provides a thematic overview to three main areas of psychology: developmental psychology, personality social psychology. The course introduces theoretical and methodological issues associated with these areas and relation to particular social contexts. As part of the overall social psychological perspective, the course will explore social science perspectives where concepts such as ‘community’, ‘inclusion- […]
Subject module course 2: Cultural and social dimensions of psychology – theoretical perspectives and themes
Psychology is a broad discipline engaging with knowledge and methods from across the natural, humanistic and social science traditions. The particular emphasis in this course is on a social psychological perspective where the social and cultural world is internally connected with the formation of human life. As such, the theoretical perspectives presented in the course […]
International Communication
Organizational unit: Centre for Transferable Skills Background Today’s working world has become diverse in terms of colleagues and clients. Although quite exciting, interaction in increasingly diverse environments can also be quite challenging in terms of working style, differing values and attitudes towards, and communication in a lingua franca that is not one’s own language. In […]
Gender Binaries and Linguistic Practices
Organizational unit: Department of Literature, Art and Media Studies The course is about the study of the relationship between language and society. It would highlight the various functions that a language performs in a society which results in disparity of genders. Therefore, this course aims at exploring the role of gender as a sociolinguistic variable […]