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Understanding Media & Communications (MECM90039)
Graduate courseworkPoints: 25Dual-Delivery (Parkville)
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- Eligibility and requirements
- Assessment
- Dates and times
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Semester 1
Semester 2
Overview
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This subject provides students with foundational case studies and conceptual frameworks for understanding the history of media technologies, institutions, practices, and products. Students will develop a critical understanding of the issues and debates surrounding the complex transformation of media spaces and practices from the broadcast era to the contemporary digital communications landscape. Students will explore the impact of digital technologies on the production, distribution, and consumption of mediated communications with an emphasis on the dynamic consequences of these shifts for global communications and networked publics. Students will develop academic skills of critical thinking to engage with and evaluate literature, and to write argumentatively.
Intended learning outcomes
Students who successfully complete this subject should be able to:
- Demonstrate an awareness and critical understanding of key theoretical and historical approaches to the study of media and communications in globally networked digital cultures
- Apply analytic approaches to the understanding of different media texts, industries, and practices
- Clearly communicate different perspectives, arguments, and approaches to understanding media and communications through the use of academic conventions and scholarly standards including: identifying appropriate resources in the preparation of a research essay; critically reading and engaging with scholarly literature; marshalling logic and evidence in the construction of an argument; engaging in communal scholarship through participation in class discussion; developing a range of critical and reflective writing skills
Generic skills
Upon successful completion of this subject, graduates should be able to:
- Reflect on their own use of media and relate this to broader theoretical issues
- Critically analyse the role of contemporary communications lanscape
- Prepare and present their ideas in both verbal and written mode at an intermediate level and in conformity to conventions of academic presentation; and
- Participate in discussion and group activities and be sensitive to the participation of others
Last updated: 31 January 2024
Eligibility and requirements
Prerequisites
Admission into the MC-GMCOM Master of Global Media Communication
OR
Head of Program approval is required for enrolment by Community Access Program (CAP), Inbound Exchange/Study Abroad or Incoming Cross-institutional students.
Corequisites
None
Non-allowed subjects
None
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: 31 January 2024
Assessment
Description | Timing | Percentage |
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Blog Post on LMS
| Week 4 | 20% |
Critical reading/Reflective Readers Report
| Week 6 | 20% |
Presentation: Critical Case Study
| Week 6 | 20% |
Argumentative critical research essay
| Week 12 | 40% |
Hurdle requirement: This subject has a minimum requirement of (or at least) 80% attendance at tutorials, seminars, or workshops. There is an expectation that students attend lectures, in person or via online delivery. All pieces of assessment must be submitted to pass this subject. For the purposes of meeting this hurdle requirement, each submitted assessment must be complete and constitute a genuine attempt to address the requirements of the task. (Complete not less than 50% of word count | N/A |
Additional details
Assessment submitted late without an approved extension will be penalised at 2% per working day. In-class tasks missed without approval will not be marked.
Last updated: 31 January 2024
Dates & times
- Semester 1
Coordinator Rusaila Bazlamit Mode of delivery Dual-Delivery (Parkville) Contact hours 1 x 1 hour lecture and 1 x 2 hour seminar, taught weekly Total time commitment 340 hours Teaching period 27 February 2023 to 28 May 2023 Last self-enrol date 10 March 2023 Census date 31 March 2023 Last date to withdraw without fail 5 May 2023 Assessment period ends 23 June 2023 Semester 1 contact information
- Semester 2
Coordinator Rusaila Bazlamit Mode of delivery Dual-Delivery (Parkville) Contact hours 1 x 1 hour Lecture and 1 x 2 hour seminar, taught weekly Total time commitment 340 hours Teaching period 24 July 2023 to 22 October 2023 Last self-enrol date 4 August 2023 Census date 31 August 2023 Last date to withdraw without fail 22 September 2023 Assessment period ends 17 November 2023 Semester 2 contact information
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Last updated: 31 January 2024
Further information
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Last updated: 31 January 2024