Overview
THIS STREAM IS FOR STUDENTS COMMENCING FROM 2019.
The aim of this major stream is to provide you with a progressive, interdisciplinary understanding of the social, cultural and experiential impacts of media and communication technologies in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The major stream starts with an accessible introduction to … For more content click the Read More button below.
In terms of learning skills, the major stream develops conceptual frameworks and modes of analysis through which you can understand and explain not only changes in the media, but also reasons for those changes and their social and affective consequences.
Learning Outcomes
1.
Explain the networked nature of media and the complexity of the relationships between local and global media.
- Global citizens
- Scholars
2.
Recognise the dynamics of intermedia and emerging media forms.
- Professionals
- Scholars
3.
Identify different systems of representation and aesthetic practices and communicate the role of diverse audiences and users in these processes
- Professionals
- Scholars
4.
Undertake rigorous and engaged scholarly enquiry and analysis
- Scholars
- Professionals
5.
Collaborate effectively with others.
- Leaders
- Professionals
6.
Communicate and debate complex ideas in a range of different contexts using a variety of suitable media
- Leaders
- Scholars
- Professionals
7.
Exhibit initiative and self-direction
- Leaders
- Professionals
8.
Critically and creatively employ disciplinary bodies of knowledge and appraise disciplinary perspectives in professional practice and/or scholarship.
- Scholars
- Professionals
9.
Justify a position in relation to foundational aspects of society, culture and/or the arts
- Professionals
- Global citizens
- Scholars
10.
Engage proactively with complex problems in professional practice and/or scholarship.
- Professionals
- Scholars
11.
Continuously acquire knowledge and skills and reflect on existing knowledge and skills for personal and career fulfilment.
- Professionals
- Leaders
- Scholars
12.
Act ethically, respectfully and responsibly
- Global citizens
- Professionals
- Scholars
13.
Explain key concepts in media theory.
- Scholars
14.
Describe the social, political and cultural dynamics of media and the impact that they have on everyday life and experience.
- Scholars
Available in Program(s) Single degree program(s) in which this specialisation is available:
Bachelor of Social Science - BSocSci3321 - Social Science
Bachelor of Arts - BA3409 - Arts
Bachelor of Social Research and Policy - BSRP3420 - Social Research and Policy
Bachelor of Arts and Business - BArts (Bus)3444 - Arts and Business
Specialisation Structure
Students must complete 60 UOC.
Arts/Education (Secondary) Students
Media/Arts Students
Level 1 Core Courses12 Units of Credit:
Level 3 Core Courses6 Units of Credit:
Level 2 and 3 Prescribed Electives42 Units of Credit:
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You are responsible for ensuring that you enrol in courses according to your program requirements and by following the advice of your Program Authority. myUNSW enrolment checks that you have met enrolment requirements such as pre-requisites for individual courses but not that you are enrolling in courses that will count towards your program requirements.
Pre-2019 Handbook Editions
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