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Overview

This specialisation is for students commencing from 2023. Specialising in Screen Production as part of your Bachelor of Media at UNSW equips you with the skills, knowledge, and capabilities to pursue a creative career in media production. Choose between courses in digital film production, media performance, sound design, screen writing, … For more content click the Read More button below. Along the way you will develop a sophisticated understanding of the audio-visual media landscape, becoming a thoughtful and resourceful professional capable of tackling complex issues through your integrated practical and theoretical expertise. Justice and ethics are embedded in our courses, which means you’ll gain a deep understanding of diversity and difference in media production and media industries. When you graduate you will be skilled at interpreting and reflecting on emerging audio-visual practices and be able to take leading, imaginative, and inventive roles in the creative industries.

Learning Outcomes

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Demonstrate creativity, rigour, adaptability, independence, and cultural reflexivity in the application of screen production skills and the production of audio-visual texts.
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Critically analyse the evolving film and media landscape in relation to historical, social, political, material, and theoretical contexts, including settler colonialism.
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Engage in screen production practices that take cultural difference as crucial to audiences, industries, and contexts.
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Engage and situate diverse First Nations knowledges and audio-visual practices, and the historical, cultural, social, and political contexts that produced them.
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Deploy a critically informed approach to ethics, justice, and social engagement in media practices, industries, and contexts.
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Evaluate and apply research methods appropriate to distinct media forms, practices, industries, and audiences.
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Collaborate effectively with local and international communities of practitioners across media contexts.
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Available in Program(s)
Single degree program(s) in which this specialisation is available:

Bachelor of Media - BMedia3341 - Media

Specialisation Structure

Students must complete 48 UOC.

  1. Level 2 courses (12 UOC)
  2. Level 3 courses (12 UOC)
  3. Level 2 or 3 courses (18 UOC) 
  4. Any level courses (6 UOC)

For the Specialisation Courses (48 UOC), a minimum of 42 UOC must be at level 2 or 3; of these, at least 12 UOC must be taken at level 2 AND at least 12 UOC from level 3. There is the option to take a further 6 UOC at level 1 beyond the Foundation requirement.

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