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Digital Studies

Graduate Certificate in ArtsSpecialisation (formal)Year: 2024

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Overview

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 specialisation, 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: 8 November 2024

Structure

50 credit points

Duration: 6 months full-time / 1 year part-time

Program Requirements -

1 core subject (12.5 points)

1 graduate elective subject (12.5 points)

2 undergraduate elective subjects (25 points)


Total 50 points

Please note: students can only take 12.5 points of elective subjects at first-year level

Subject Options

Core Subjects 

12.5 points 

Code Name Study period Credit Points
ARTS10003 Our Digital Worlds
Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville)
 12.5
ARTS20001 Digital Tools and Methods
Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville)
 12.5
ARTS30003 Digital Humanities and Social Sciences
Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville)
 12.5

Graduate Elective Subjects 

12.5 points 

Code Name Study period Credit Points
CUMC90022 Digital Protocols
June (On Campus - Parkville)
 12.5
 
Code Name Study period Credit Points
COMP90059 Introduction to Programming
Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville)
Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville)
 12.5
 
Code Name Study period Credit Points
INFO90002 Database Systems & Information Modelling
Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville)
Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville)
 12.5
 
Code Name Study period Credit Points
MECM90037 Online Community Management
July (On Campus - Parkville)
 12.5
 
Code Name Study period Credit Points
MECM90002 Global Data Policy & Governance
Semester 1 (Dual-Delivery - Parkville)
 12.5
 
Code Name Study period Credit Points
MECM90016 Digital Politics
Semester 2 (Dual-Delivery - Parkville)
 12.5
 
Code Name Study period Credit Points
JOUR90004 New Media Storytelling
Semester 1 (Dual-Delivery - Parkville)
 12.5
 
Code Name Study period Credit Points
LAWS90203 Science & AI: Legal & Ethical Challenges
July (On Campus - Parkville)
 12.5

Undergraduate Elective Subjects

25 points

Please note: students can only take 12.5 points of elective subjects at first-year level 

Code Name Study period Credit Points
LAWS10009 AI, Ethics and the Law
Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville)
 12.5
 
Code Name Study period Credit Points
COMP10001 Foundations of Computing
Summer Term (On Campus - Parkville)
Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville)
Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville)
 12.5
 
Code Name Study period Credit Points
ASIA20008 Digital Asia
Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville)
 12.5
 
Code Name Study period Credit Points
LING30015 Corpus Linguistics Not available in 2024 12.5
 
Code Name Study period Credit Points
MECM20003 Internet Communication
Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville)
 12.5
 
Code Name Study period Credit Points
MECM20014 Visual Communication and Digital Media
Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville)
 12.5
 
Code Name Study period Credit Points
CULS20017 Gender and Contemporary Culture
Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville)
 12.5
 
Code Name Study period Credit Points
HPSC20009 Technology & Contemporary Life
Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville)
 12.5
 
Code Name Study period Credit Points
CRIM20007 Cybercrime and Digital Criminology
Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville)
 12.5
 
Code Name Study period Credit Points
GEOG20017 Spatial Analysis in Geography
Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville)
 12.5
 
Code Name Study period Credit Points
MECM30016 Digital Media Research
Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville)
 12.5
 
Code Name Study period Credit Points
MECM30017 Digital and Mobile Journalism
Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville)
 12.5
 
Code Name Study period Credit Points
MECM30013 Marketing Communications
Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville)
 12.5
 
Code Name Study period Credit Points
SCRN30005 The Environmental Screenscape
Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville)
 12.5
 
Code Name Study period Credit Points
SOCI30012 Digital Technology and Social Change Not available in 2024 12.5
 
Code Name Study period Credit Points
ANTH30019 Innovation, Design, and Society Not available in 2024 12.5
 
Code Name Study period Credit Points
HPSC30038 Exploring Digital Realities
Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville)
 12.5

 

Last updated: 8 November 2024