Screen and Cultural Studies (B-ARTS_MAJOR_7)

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 sexuality; 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: 2 October 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	Culture, 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	Consumer Culture, Media and Lifestyle	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	Not available in 2024	12.5
CULS30006	Global Cultures	Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville)	12.5
SCRN30001	Art Cinema and the Love Story	Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville)	12.5
SCRN30005	The Environmental Screenscape	Semester 2 (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: 2 October 2024

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