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COMM425 Popular Television Genres

Updated: 10 February 2010
Credit Points 6
Offering
Responsible Campus Teaching Period Mode of Study Online Level
Armidale Semester 1 Off Campus C - Internet access required
Armidale Semester 1 On Campus C - Internet access required
Intensive School(s) None
Supervised Exam There is no UNE Supervised Examination.
Pre-requisites candidature in a postgraduate award
Co-requisites None
Restrictions COMM225 or COMM325
Notes

Offered in even numbered years
Combined Units COMM325 - Popular Television Genres
Coordinator(s) Tom Apperley (thomas.apperley@une.edu.au)
Unit Description

The unit studies popular television genres in their shifting industrial contexts and relations with audiences. It focuses on changes in television drama, including soap opera, and the rise of multiple 'reality television' formats that absorb aspects of drama and other genres. The unit investigates how television operates as a major form of cultural communication. It explores the ways in which its genres draw on, and create, wider cultural meanings and ideas of identity, and continue to evolve in a rapidly changing technological and cultural environment.
Materials No text required
Disclaimer Unit information may be subject to change prior to commencement of the teaching period.
Assessment
Title Exam Length Weight Mode No. Words
Assignment 1 20% Off Campus 1000
Assessment Notes
Narrative analysis
Relates to Learning Outcomes (LO) and Graduate Attributes (GA)
LO: 1-5 GA: 1-4, 6, 8
Assignment 2: Essay 30% On/Off Campus 2000
Relates to Learning Outcomes (LO) and Graduate Attributes (GA)
LO: 1-5 GA: 1-4, 6, 8
Assignment 3: Essay 50% On/Off Campus 3000
Relates to Learning Outcomes (LO) and Graduate Attributes (GA)
LO: 1-5 GA: 1-4, 6, 8
Tutorial presentation 20% On Campus 1000
Relates to Learning Outcomes (LO) and Graduate Attributes (GA)
LO: 1-5 GA: 1-4, 6-8

Learning Outcomes (LO) Upon completion of this unit, students will be able to:
  1. apply a range of critical and analytical skills to television drama and related forms;
  2. understand the relevance of methodologies of genre and narrative analysis to a range of television forms;
  3. identify cultural themes and issues that traverse and shape cultural content;
  4. analyse connections and differences between the industrial and social circumstances in which various kinds of television programs are produced and circulated;
  5. understand how television operates as a textual and cultural form of communication.

Graduate Attributes (GA)
Attribute Taught Assessed Practised
1 Knowledge of a Discipline
Students will be able to apply a range of critical and analytical skills to television dramatic genres and programs. 		True True True
2 Communication Skills
The skills of written communication and formal argument are both taught and assessed in this unit. In addition to the writing guides supplied and recommended, students receive written feedback on their reasoning and writing skills. 		True True True
3 Global Perspectives
The approaches utilized, supported by the range of television drama studied, provide global perspectives and develops intercultural knowledge and competencies. 		True True True
4 Information Literacy
As part of this unit students critically evaluate information relating to television drama through print-based and electronic research tools. 		True True True
5 Life-Long Learning
This unit allows students to practise a wide range of academic skills: research, analysis and facilitates learning independently. 		True True
6 Problem Solving
Students identify and explore critical issues in the discipline using a variety of research skills. 		True True True
7 Social Responsibility
Students will recognise social justice issues relevant to the discipline and professional area. 		True True True
8 Team Work
Students will negotiate, assert their own values and respect the values and contributions of others. 		True True True
   

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