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Digital Studies

Bachelor of ArtsMinorYear: 2023

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Overview

THE DIGITAL STUDIES MINOR HAS BEEN SUSPENDED FOR 2023. NEXT INTAKE WILL BE 2024.

Digital Studies at Melbourne is about how the digital revolution has transformed our world and about how humanities, social science and creative arts knowledges and people have helped shape the digital world. We examine place, power and diversity in the digital age – the ways in which digital transformations have been differently experienced and understood along axes including place, class, gender, sexuality, age, ethnicity and nationality. Digital Studies also teaches some of the skills and tools that a HASS-educated and digitally-skilled workforce will need in our connected and data-rich world – subjects offer introductory training in digital research methods, with no pre-existing understanding of computing or programming needed. Finally, Digital Studies introduces students to some of the ways that digital data analytic methods and the new possibilities of interrogating and analysing vast bodies of digitized texts and images are transforming our knowledge of human society and culture, giving students an enhanced understanding of the scope and ambition of work currently being undertaken in the digital humanities, digital social sciences and creative arts.

Intended learning outcomes

On completion of this minor students should be able to:

  • Identify and critically evaluate the political, cultural and socio-economic contexts in which digitization and data operate and how people have used digital tools to transform society and culture
  • Assess debates in digital studies, digital social sciences and digital humanities and develop an ability to critically evaluate different interpretations of digital transformations and generate their own analyses of them
  • Acquire and apply practical skills with digital tools and methods
  • Appraise the potential of digital tools and methods to transform HASS disciplines
  • Communicate effectively, including by using digital tools and platforms
  • Work individually and in groups with independence, self-reflection and engage in problem solving activities

Last updated: 10 November 2023

Structure

75 credit points

Note:

Students need to submit an Enrolment Variation form if they choose to take this minor, as below:

https://enrolmentvariations.app.unimelb.edu.au/apex/f?p=303:LOGIN_DESKTOP

This minor requires the completion of:

  • 12.5 credit points of Level 1 Core subject

  • 12.5 credit points of Arts Discovery (if not already counted towards a Major) or 12.5 credit points of Other Level 1 Elective subject

  • 12.5 credit points of Level 2 Core subject
  • 12.5 credit points of Level 2 Elective subject
  • 12.5 credit points of Level 3 Core subject
  • 12.5 credit points of Level 3 Elective subject

Level 1 Core subject

Code Name Study period Credit Points
ARTS10003 Our Digital Worlds Not available in 2023 12.5

Level 1 Elective subject

Code Name Study period Credit Points
LAWS10009 AI, Ethics and the Law
Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville)
 12.5
GEOG10002 Landscape Information Systems
Semester 2 (On Campus - Dookie)
 12.5
COMP10001 Foundations of Computing
Summer Term (Dual-Delivery - Parkville)
Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville)
Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville)
 12.5
COMP10002 Foundations of Algorithms
Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville)
Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville)
 12.5
COMP10003 Media Computation
Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville)
 12.5

Note:

The Level 1 LAWS and COMP subjects are required to be taken within the breadth component of the degree.

Level 2 Core subject

Code Name Study period Credit Points
ARTS20001 Digital Tools and Methods Not available in 2023 12.5

Level 2 Elective subjects

Code Name Study period Credit Points
MECM20003 Internet Communication
Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville)
 12.5
MECM20014 Visual Communication and Digital Media
Semester 1 (Dual-Delivery - Parkville)
 12.5
CULS20017 Gender and Contemporary Culture
Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville)
 12.5
HPSC20009 Technology & Contemporary Life
Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville)
 12.5
CRIM20007 Cybercrime and Digital Criminology
Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville)
 12.5
GEOG20017 Spatial Analysis in Geography
Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville)
 12.5
BLAW20002 Regulating Digital Platforms
Summer Term (On Campus - Parkville)
 12.5
ASIA20008 Digital Asia
Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville)
 12.5

Level 3 Core subject

Code Name Study period Credit Points
ARTS30003 Digital Humanities and Social Sciences Not available in 2023 12.5

Level 3 Elective subjects

Code Name Study period Credit Points
MECM30016 Digital Media Research
Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville)
 12.5
MECM30017 Digital and Mobile Journalism
Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville)
 12.5
MECM30013 Marketing Communications
Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville)
 12.5
SCRN30005 The Environmental Screenscape
Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville)
 12.5
SOCI30012 Digital Technology and Social Change
July (On Campus - Parkville)
 12.5
ANTH30019 Innovation, Design, and Society
July (On Campus - Parkville)
 12.5
HPSC30038 Being Online Not available in 2023 12.5
GEOG30028 Mobile Worlds
February (Dual-Delivery - Parkville)
 12.5
LING30015 Corpus Linguistics
Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville)
 12.5

Last updated: 10 November 2023