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Screen and Cultural Studies
Bachelor of ArtsMajorYear: 2023
Screen and Cultural Studies
Contact information
Coordinator
Associate Professor Chris Healy
Email: clhealy@unimelb.edu.au
Currently enrolled students:
Future students:
Overview
Screen and Cultural Studies is a combined program and students can specialise in either area. The combined program covers the fields of film and popular media; screen histories; Australian, Hollywood, European and Asian cinemas; everyday life; television and entertainment; film genres including avant garde and documentary; computer games; the Internet and the representation of global cultures. The major introduces students to the development and history of film and cultural studies. Theories include film and screen aesthetics; identity and gender; sexuality and spectatorship; media globalization; narrative structures and class ideologies. Students encounter a variety of screen media, net-based and popular cultures; engage cultural texts, sites and practices from a range of interpretive angles, including lifestyle and consumer studies, subcultural studies, and critical studies of sexuality, race and cultural globalization, and; explore their histories, significance and theories that help make sense of how they relate to power, commerce and lived culture today. Through innovative teaching, students in Screen and Cultural Studies encounter new ways of analysing contemporary screen media and culture. Academic staff in the discipline are specialists in screen cultures and media histories; entertainment cultures; gender, race and sexulaity; postcolonialism and migration; European and Asian cinemas; cultural policy, and; media archaeology.
Intended learning outcomes
On completion of this major, students should be able to:
- apply critical and analytical skills and methods of Screen Studies and Cultural Studies to identify and resolve problems within complex changing social and cultural contexts;
- develop a detailed knowledge and understanding of Screen Studies and Cultural Studies as disciplines;
- apply an independent approach to knowledge that uses rigorous methods of inquiry and appropriate methodologies that are applied with intellectual honesty and a respect for ethical values;
- articulate the relationship between diverse forms of knowledge that are specific to Screen Studies and Cultural Studies to understand the social, historical and cultural contexts that produced them;
- develop a foundation of relevant historical knowledge, methodological capacity and theoretical competency in Screen Studies and Cultural Studies in order to apply this knowledge and experience to a broad range of professional and disciplinary contexts;
- work with independence, self- reflection and creativity to meet goals and challenges in the workplace and personal life;
- appreciate the value of interdisciplinary approaches to knowledge, while also recognizing the significance of the disciplinary skills particular to Screen Studies and Cultural Studies.
Last updated: 3 May 2024
Structure
100 credit points
This major requires the completion of:
- 25 credit points of Level 1 subjects, comprising of either:
-
12.5 credit points of Level 1 electives and 12.5 credit points of Arts Discovery (for a single major)
OR
25 credit points of Level 1 electives (for a double major)
- 37.5 credit points of Level 2 electives
- 12.5 credit points of Level 3 Capstone subjects
- 25 credit points of Level 3 electives
Level 1 subjects must be successfully completed before progressing to Level 2 subjects; Level 2 subjects must be successfully completed before progressing to Level 3 subjects.
*Notes:
Students must undertake the Arts Discovery subject as part of the course requirements and the Arts Discovery can be counted in one major only. For this major, you will need to complete two Level 1 subjects.
If you are completing a single major the correct enrolment for this major at level 1 is: The Arts Discovery subject and One Level 1 elective subject.
If you are completing a double major the correct enrolment for this major at level 1 is: The Arts Discovery subject and One Level 1 Elective subject OR Two Level 1 Elective subjects.
Level 1 electives
Code | Name | Study period | Credit Points |
---|---|---|---|
SCRN10001 | Introduction to Screen Studies | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
CULS10005 | Media, Identity and Everyday Life | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
Level 2 electives
Code | Name | Study period | Credit Points |
---|---|---|---|
CULS20017 | Gender and Contemporary Culture | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
CULS20018 | Popular Culture: From K-pop to Selfies | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
SCRN20011 | Hollywood and Entertainment | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
CULS20014 | Television, Lifestyle & Consumer Culture | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
SCRN20013 | Australian Film and Television | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
SCRN20014 | Ensemble Filmmaking, Art and Industry | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
Level 3 capstone subject
Code | Name | Study period | Credit Points |
---|---|---|---|
CICU30012 | Creating Screen and Cultural Worlds | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
Level 3 electives
Code | Name | Study period | Credit Points |
---|---|---|---|
CULS30004 | Thinking Sex | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
CULS30005 | City Cultures, Urban Ecologies | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
CULS30006 | Global Cultures | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
SCRN30001 | Art Cinema and the Love Story | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
SCRN30005 | The Environmental Screenscape | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
SCRN30004 | Film Noir: History and Sexuality | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
Links
http://www.culture-communication.unimelb.edu.au/study/screen-cultural
Last updated: 3 May 2024