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CMS3008 Communication and Media Industries

Semester 2, 2020 Online
Short Description: Communication&Media Industries
Units : 1
Faculty or Section : Faculty of Business, Education, Law and Arts
School or Department : School of Humanities & Communication
Student contribution band : Band 1
ASCED code : 100700 - Communication & Media Studies
Grading basis : Graded

Staffing

Examiner:

Other requisites

Students will require access to e-mail and have internet access to UConnect for this course.

Rationale

This course requires students to undertake a comprehensive survey of a selected communications, media or cultural industries by charting its history and ongoing prevalence. Students will be specifically encouraged to consider the skillsets and capacities they will require as a professional within this selected industry.

Synopsis

This course will equip students with a comprehensive knowledge of the history and ongoing prevalence of a selected communications, media or cultural industry. Using an approach based on exploring the history and contemporary placement of the selected communications, media or cultural industry, students will chart the economics, professional dimensions, and industry dynamics of the selected industry as a site of employment and professional practice.

Objectives

On completion of this course students should be able to:

  1. discuss the history and contemporary status of a selected communications, media or cultural industry;
  2. identify and critically discuss the key professional markers of the selected communications, media or cultural industry;
  3. use key disciplinary terms and/or approaches in discussing the history, contemporary status and professional markers of the selected communications, media or cultural industry.

Topics

Description Weighting(%)
1. Industry Histories 30.00
2. Industry Futures 30.00
3. Professionalism and Industry 40.00

Text and materials required to be purchased or accessed

ALL textbooks and materials available to be purchased can be sourced from (unless otherwise stated). (https://omnia.usq.edu.au/textbooks/?year=2020&sem=02&subject1=CMS3008)

Please for alternative purchase options from USQ Bookshop. (https://omnia.usq.edu.au/info/contact/)

All study materials must be downloaded or accessed from the 精东传媒app Desk for this course.

Reference materials

Reference materials are materials that, if accessed by students, may improve their knowledge and understanding of the material in the course and enrich their learning experience.
Cunningham, S & Turner, G 2014, The media & communications in Australia, 4th edn, Allen & Unwin, Crows Nest, New South Wales.
Flew, T 2014, New media: an introduction, 4th edn, Oxford 精东传媒app Press, South Melbourne, Victoria.
Jenkins, H 2008, Convergence culture: where old and new media collide, revised edn, New York 精东传媒app Press, New York.
Livingstone, S 2005, Audiences and publics, Intellect Books, Bristol, England.
Wardrip-Fruin, N & Montfort, N 2003, The new media reader, MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass.

Student workload expectations

Activity Hours
Directed 精东传媒app 39.00
Private 精东传媒app 126.00

Assessment details

Description Marks out of Wtg (%) Due Date Notes
PROJECT PROPOSAL 100 40 19 Aug 2020
PROJECT 100 60 21 Oct 2020

Important assessment information

  1. Attendance requirements:
    It is the students' responsibility to attend and participate appropriately in all activities scheduled for them, and to study all material provided to them or required to be accessed by them, to maximise their chance of meeting the objectives of the course and to be informed of course-related activities and administration.

  2. Requirements for students to complete each assessment item satisfactorily:
    To satisfactorily complete an individual assessment item a student must achieve at least 50% of the marks for that item.

  3. Penalties for late submission of required work:
    Students should refer to the Assessment Procedure (point 4.2.4)

  4. Requirements for student to be awarded a passing grade in the course:
    To be assured of receiving a passing grade a student must achieve at least 50% of the total weighted marks available for each assessment item in the course.

  5. Method used to combine assessment results to attain final grade:
    The final grades for students will be assigned on the basis of the aggregate of the weighted marks obtained for each of the summative items for the course.

  6. Examination information:
    There is no examination in this course.

  7. Examination period when Deferred/Supplementary examinations will be held:
    There is no examination in this course, there will be no deferred or supplementary examinations.

  8. 精东传媒app Student Policies:
    Students should read the USQ policies: Definitions, Assessment and Student Academic Misconduct to avoid actions which might contravene 精东传媒app policies and practices. These policies can be found at .

Assessment notes

  1. Referencing in assignments must comply with the Harvard (AGPS) referencing system. This system should be used by students to format details of the information sources they have cited in their work. The Harvard (APGS) style to be used is defined by the USQ library鈥檚 referencing guide. This guide can be found at .

Other requirements

  1. Students can expect that questions in assessment items in this course may draw upon knowledge and skills that they can reasonably be expected to have acquired before enrolling in the course. This includes knowledge contained in pre-requisite courses and appropriate communication, information literacy, analytical, critical thinking, problem solving or numeracy skills. Students who do not possess such knowledge and skills should not expect to achieve the same grades as those students who do possess them.

Date printed 6 November 2020