| Assessment |
| Title |
Exam Length |
Weight |
Mode |
No. Words |
| Assignment 1 |
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40%
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On/Off Campus
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1500 |
| Assessment Notes |
| Media Analysis Exercise |
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| Relates to Learning Outcomes (LO) and
Graduate Attributes (GA) |
| LO: 1-6
GA: 1-7 |
| Assignment 2 |
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60%
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On/Off Campus
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2500 |
| Assessment Notes |
| Written assignment based on common unit topics |
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| Relates to Learning Outcomes (LO) and
Graduate Attributes (GA) |
| LO: 1-6
GA: 1-7 |
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| Learning Outcomes (LO) |
Upon completion of this unit, students will be able to:
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identify and comprehend today's information sources, as well as contemporary media technologies, forms, practices and genres;
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describe contemporary theoretical approaches to media and communications, and grasp the tools necessary to critically interpret and analyse a wide range of communications and cultural texts;
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communicate using skills that have been developed by examining, discussing, and writing about communications theories and techniques. These communications skills will extend beyond traditional literacies to those of contemporary screen media;
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appreciate diverse expressions of culture and identity;
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prepare for socially responsible professional and personal lives; and
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understand and effectively respond in a world of dynamic technological innovation, especially in the fields of media and communications.
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| Graduate Attributes (GA) |
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Attribute |
Taught |
Assessed |
Practised |
| 1 |
Knowledge of a Discipline
COMM120 enhances knowledge of communication and media studies, particularly in the study of media content and practises, in their cultural and historical contexts.
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Communication Skills
This is a text-based unit. It is an introduction to many elements of communications studies including communications theories and techniques, media modes and formats, and the consideration of cultural contexts, practices and issues. Communication skills will be explicitly studied, practised and assessed.
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Global Perspectives
This unit engages with a broad spectrum of commercial cultural products. It critically examines global organisations, infrastructures and communications, at the same time as considering local, gendered and inter-cultural texts. Many aspects of global phenomena, especially communications, will be explicitly taught and assessed, and may be practised.
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Information Literacy
This unit connects with and interprets communications texts from the written word through the broadcast and narrowcast to daily data structures. Critical comprehension of many different kinds of information derived from a variety of sources is a priority, and that literacy is explicitly examined.
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Life-Long Learning
Through the systematic dismantling and challenging of some of the most familiar things in our everyday lives, notably media products such as films and television programs. This unit aims to inspire and nourish the students' faculty of critical and innovative reasoning. These reasoning skills are taught, practised and assessed. At the same time, the study of successive media techniques and technologies should help open their perspectives to future communications developments.
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Problem Solving
This unit applies logical, critical and creative thinking to a wide range of communications and cultural products. These modes of thought are explicitly taught and their application is demanded in the students' assessments.
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Social Responsibility
This unit emphasises the critical understanding of media and other communications. The unit's critique focuses on both efficacity and ethics. Social responsibility is an ostensible and an implied constant in the unit. In the materials provided to them, and in their assessment exercises, students will be faced with questions concerning how, why, and what is and should be communicated. In these ways social responsibility will be taught, questioned, practised and assessed.
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Team Work
Students undertaking this unit will regularly undertake team work tasks. Students will divide into groups (either in tutorials or online) for the analysis and discussion of media products and other communications texts, then report the group's findings to the seminar as a whole.
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