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Media, Identity and Everyday Life (CULS10005)
Undergraduate level 1Points: 12.5On Campus (Parkville)
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Semester 2
Overview
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Media saturate almost every aspect of our experience, and provide a powerful lens through which we come to understand our selves, other people, and the world around us. This subject offers an introduction to cultural studies by focusing on the media and their impacts in everyday life. Case studies are drawn from a range of popular transnational media including advertising, television, film, Internet cultures and social media. We focus on approaches to representation and social practice; and consider how people interact with media in everyday life, especially how our identities are constructed through our media practices. The subject provides students with a reflexive understanding of the media’s cultural significance today, and advanced critical skills in evaluating media discourses and texts. It offers students a deeper understanding of many naturalised aspects of their own everyday media experience, and a grasp of the complex relationships between formations of social power and audience pleasures.
Intended learning outcomes
On successful completion of the subject, students should have:
- developed a critical appreciation of the significance of popular media forms in contemporary cultural and social life, in all its diversity;
- demonstrated an introductory knowledge and understanding of contemporary theories of culture, media, identity, and everyday life;
- mastered relevant research skills including use of the library, e-research skills, and appropriate referencing and presentation of written work that are applied with intellectual honesty and a respect for ethical values;
- a general understanding of selected texts, sites and practices of everyday media in selected non-Western contexts, and an appreciation of the global diversity of popular media forms and cultures;
- an appreication for national and international debates on specific contemporary issues and complex problems connected with culture, media, identity and everyday life and be able to apply this knowledge and experience to a broad range of professional and disciplinary contexts; and
- demonstrated the ability to effectively apply flexible reading strategies and writing practices in analysing contemporary media cultures.
Generic skills
At the completion of this subject, students should gain the following generic skills:
- develop social, ethical and cultural understanding of self and others;
- acquire critical analysis and synthesis;
- have an effective written and oral communication;
- develop information management and information literacy;
- develop teamwork, flexibility and tolerance; and
- develop time management and planning.
Last updated: 27 April 2024
Eligibility and requirements
Prerequisites
None
Corequisites
None
Non-allowed subjects
CICU10002 Culture, Media and Everyday Life; 106-101 Culture, Media and everyday Life
Inherent requirements (core participation requirements)
The University of Melbourne is committed to providing students with reasonable adjustments to assessment and participation under the Disability Standards for Education (2005), and the Assessment and Results Policy (MPF1326). Students are expected to meet the core participation requirements for their course. These can be viewed under Entry and Participation Requirements for the course outlines in the Handbook.
Further details on how to seek academic adjustments can be found on the Student Equity and Disability Support website: http://services.unimelb.edu.au/student-equity/home
Last updated: 27 April 2024
Assessment
Additional details
- An online multimedia blog equivalent to 1,000 words (30%)
- An essay of 1,500 words (35%), due mid-semester
- A second essay of 1,500 words (35%), due in the examination period
- This subject has a minimum hurdle requirement of 80% attendance and regular participation in tutorials. Assessment submitted late without an approved extension will be penalised at 10% per day. In-class tasks missed without approval will not be marked. All pieces of written work must be submitted to pass this subject.
Last updated: 27 April 2024
Dates & times
- Semester 2
Principal coordinator Gilbert Caluya Mode of delivery On Campus (Parkville) Contact hours Total 36 hours: 2 x 1-hour lectures and a 1-hour tutorial per week. Total time commitment 170 hours Teaching period 24 July 2017 to 22 October 2017 Last self-enrol date 4 August 2017 Census date 31 August 2017 Last date to withdraw without fail 22 September 2017 Assessment period ends 17 November 2017 Semester 2 contact information
Time commitment details
170 hours
Last updated: 27 April 2024
Further information
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A Subject Reader and additional online resources will be available.
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This subject contributes to the following:
Type Name Informal specialisation Graduate Certificate in Arts - Screen and Cultural Studies Informal specialisation Graduate Diploma in Arts - Screen and Cultural Studies Major Screen and Cultural Studies - Breadth options
This subject is available as breadth in the following courses:
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- Available through the Community Access Program
About the Community Access Program (CAP)
This subject is available through the Community Access Program (also called Single Subject Studies) which allows you to enrol in single subjects offered by the University of Melbourne, without the commitment required to complete a whole degree.
Entry requirements including prerequisites may apply. Please refer to the CAP applications page for further information.
- Available to Study Abroad and/or Study Exchange Students
This subject is available to students studying at the University from eligible overseas institutions on exchange and study abroad. Students are required to satisfy any listed requirements, such as pre- and co-requisites, for enrolment in the subject.
Last updated: 27 April 2024