| Semester 3, 2022 Online | |
| Units : | 1 |
| Faculty or Section : | Faculty of Business, Education, Law and Arts |
| School or Department : | School of Humanities & Communication |
| Grading basis : | Graded |
| Course fee schedule : | /current-students/administration/fees/fee-schedules |
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Overview
The disciplines of communication and media studies utilise specialist methods of analysis. This course introduces students to modes of inquiry and analysis used in communication and media studies to enable engagement with and understanding of the ways popular culture and mass media products are produced, disseminated and consumed.
This course will equip students with a comprehensive knowledge of the specialist methods of analysis used in communication and media studies. Using contemporary approaches to textual analysis, discourse analysis and ethnography as well as analytic practices drawn from current developments in communication, media and cultural studies, this course will equip students with the requisite skills to undertake the critique and analysis of popular cultural and mass media texts.
Course learning outcomes
On completion of this course students should be able to:
- discuss the traditions of analysis used in communications and media studies;
- apply selected methods of analysis used in communication and media studies to decode and analyse selected communications and media texts;
- use key disciplinary terms and/or approaches in applying specialist communication and media studies approaches in the analysis of communications and media texts.
Topics
| Description | Weighting(%) | |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | Criticism, critique and communication and media studies | 40.00 |
| 2. | Methods of analysis | 40.00 |
| 3. | Critical practices | 20.00 |
Text and materials required to be purchased or accessed
Student workload expectations
To do well in this subject, students are expected to commit approximately 10 hours per week including class contact hours, independent study, and all assessment tasks. If you are undertaking additional activities, which may include placements and residential schools, the weekly workload hours may vary.
Assessment details
| Description | Group Assessment |
Weighting (%) | Course learning outcomes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Planning document | No | 50 | 1,2,3 |
| Report | No | 50 | 1,2,3 |