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COMM120 Media Studies: An Introduction

Updated: 12 November 2009
Credit Points 6
Offering
Responsible Campus Teaching Period Mode of Study Online Level
Armidale Semester 1 On line E - Wholly online unit
Armidale Semester 1 On Campus D - Comp/internet essential
Intensive School(s) None
Supervised Exam There is no UNE Supervised Examination.
Pre-requisites None
Co-requisites None
Restrictions COMM220 or COMM320
Notes None
Combined Units None
Coordinator(s) Paul Adams (padams3@une.edu.au)
Unit Description

This unit is an introduction to Media and Communication Studies. Our most pervasive media (including television, print and the Internet) are considered using a variety of contemporary approaches including formal analysis, textual analysis, gender, representation, semiotics and cultural analysis. The unit focuses on communications media modes and formats, theories and techniques, and considers many cultural and social aspects, practices, contexts and issues.

Materials Text information will be published prior to commencement of the teaching period.
Disclaimer Offer of some subjects is subject to viability. Information in these unit descriptions is subject to change prior to commencement of semester.
   

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