Purpose is to

• understand the complex effects of media culture for the school and for the life of the students and to be able to take them into account in learning and teaching
• be familiar with the essential ways of interpretation and the production in media and to be able to guide students to work analytically and critically with media texts
• be able to interpret and produce a variety of media texts oneself
• be aware of one’s own relationship with the media and its presence in teaching
• know the key areas of media education and how to apply them in primary school teaching
• be able to develop language and literature cross-media learning environments.