 Task One a:Produce a booklet or leaflet which explains Non-verbal Communication to a KS 4 audience. (GCSE students.) The booklet/leaflet must teach the basics of NVC, such as Gesture, Expression, Touch, Posture and Proxemics as well as showing how we communicate via clothing and colour codes. There should be a built-in home-learning assignment in the booklet. The following site offers a succinct summary of the cultural significance of key colours: Colour Symbolism by Culture See the following example of an excellent NVC leaflet: FRONT and BACK.
Here's another excellent example - this one is George's! Well done: FRONT and BACK. Task One b:Discuss how Paralanguage and other forms of Non-Verbal Communication, Support, Substitute For or Contradict the Verbal Message.
Task Two:Discuss the Pros and Cons of the Various Decision Making Process Open to Group Leaders.The following sites should help you to answer this question: Styles of Leadership and Methods of Group Decision Making. Here's the winninig tower in the group task: Well done, everyone!
 
Task Three: Undertake a detailed Semiotic Analysis of a video or dvd cover. For notes on the Semiotic Approach and some excellent examples of Video Cover analysis, visit the Following Page.
You should also study Peirce's Three Categories of Sign: Index, Icon, Symbol from Mick Underwood's Site.
Here's one I prepared earlier, to give you the idea! "Bhaji on the Beach" - a semiotic analysis of the video cover.
And there's another one - this time applying Barthes, Peirce and Saussure to a Team America Poster.
Task Four:Undertake a detailed analysis of a greeting card/ad of your choice, using Barthes theory of Denotation, Connotation, Myth and Ideology.
Revise the following information: Transactional Analysis: From Mick Underwood's CCMS site Transactional Analysis: Wikipedia - online Internet Encyclopedia entry
The Features of Human Language - Charles Hockett
Task One: 
Essay Title: What do gated communities communicate about the societies in which they exist? You may use the following Gated Communities Essay Plan to structure your essay.
The following notes on Los Angeles will help:City as Text: LA.
Running Wild: Extract from JG Ballard's dark tale set in a Gated Community. See also this article: Rise in Gated Estates Set to Divide Society
OPTIONAL FUN TASK: Have a go at deconstructing a building/edifice: Apply WHO, WHAT, WHERE, WHEN, WHY AND HOW to the constructed environment. Here's my analysis of THE WHITE HOUSE.
Task Two:Using the five definitions of Globalization found HERE, provide examples from your own research which show the relationship between the internet and the globalization process.
Task Four:Using the five definitions of Globalization found HERE, provide examples from your own research which show the relationship between the internet and the globalization process.
The following notes from Anne Pauwels' lecture will be useful. You could also use any evidence you have found of gender bias in language itself - focusing on the theories of Korzibski's 'map and territory', and the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis.
Task Seven:Undertake a detailed analysis of three or four stills from the post-colonial films we have been studying: Birth of a Nation; Rabbit-proof Fence and The Mission.
 Use the following Stills Analysis Prompt Sheet to help structure your analysis. Follow this link to the Birth of a Nation Stills. Follow this link to the Rabbit Proof Fence Stills. Follow this link to the The Mission Stills.
Follow this link to the Bend it Like Beckham Stills
To answer this question, you should refer to constructions of ethnicity evident in the films/extracts we have studied: The Aborigine in 'Rabbit-Proof Fence'; The South American Indian in 'The Mission' and the Black Man and Woman in "The Birth of a Nation". The following sites may be useful: A Beginners Guide to Poco Terminology Rabbit-Proof Fence: Colonial Racism and Postcolonial Resistence The Mission: Postcolonialism in Film D.W. Griffith's Birth of a Nation -some thought-provoking questions. Look at number five, in particular!
Here's the first page of an ESSAY I wrote on the above question. Please don't copy it directly!
RGW ASSIGNMENTS Task One: Take an area local to you and write an account of cultural transmission based on its constructed environment. Students need to be aware they may have to do some research into the history of the area – internet, local libraries, talk to local inhabitants could be sources of information. For Wed Feb 11th Task Two: Apply Wardman's model to aspects of pop music, showing in detail how culture is transmitted and how at least one out of the four main cultural theories (Feminism; Marxism; Post-Colonialism; Post-modernism) can be applied to them.
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