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Graduate Diploma in ArtsSpecialisation (formal)Year: 2024
Digital Studies
Contact information
Coordinator
Dr Michael Falk
Email: michael.falk@unimelb.edu.au
Currently enrolled students:
Future students:
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: 27 August 2024
Structure
100 credit points
Duration: 1 year full-time / 2 years part-time
The Graduate Diploma in Arts in this area of specialisation requires:
- Compulsory subjects (25 points)
- Graduate elective subjects (25 points)
- Undergraduate elective subjects (50 points)
Total 100 points
Please note: Students can only take 12.5 points of elective subjects at first-year level
Subject Options
Compulsory Subjects
25 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 |
Graduate Elective Subjects
25 points
| Code | Name | Study period | Credit Points |
|---|---|---|---|
| CUMC90022 | Digital Protocols | June (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| COMP90059 | Introduction to Programming |
Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville)
Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville)
|
12.5 |
| INFO90002 | Database Systems & Information Modelling |
Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville)
Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville)
|
12.5 |
| MECM90037 | Online Community Management | July (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| MECM90002 | Global Data Policy & Governance | Semester 1 (Dual-Delivery - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| MECM90016 | Digital Politics | Semester 2 (Dual-Delivery - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| JOUR90004 | New Media Storytelling | Semester 1 (Dual-Delivery - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| LAWS90203 | Science & AI: Legal & Ethical Challenges | July (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
Undergraduate Elective Subjects
50 points
| Code | Name | Study period | Credit Points |
|---|---|---|---|
| ASIA20008 | Digital Asia | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| MECM20003 | Internet Communication | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| MECM20014 | Visual Communication and Digital Media | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| CULS20017 | Gender and Contemporary Culture | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| HPSC20009 | Technology & Contemporary Life | Semester 1 (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 |
| ARTS30003 | Digital Humanities and Social Sciences | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| LING30015 | Corpus Linguistics | Not available in 2024 | 12.5 |
| 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 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| SOCI30012 | Digital Technology and Social Change | Not available in 2024 | 12.5 |
| ANTH30019 | Innovation, Design, and Society | Not available in 2024 | 12.5 |
| HPSC30038 | Exploring Digital Realities | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
Last updated: 27 August 2024