Overview
This specialisation is for students commencing from 2023.
Specialising in Media Studies as part of your Bachelor of Media at UNSW will give you the critical skills and knowledge you need to understand, analyse, and respond to the pivotal role of media in contemporary life.
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You will develop critical thinking and writing skills that allow you to make persuasive arguments, engage with challenging issues, and solve new problems. With an array of research methods and analytical techniques in your toolkit, you’ll be able to bring to bear a combination of critical and creative skills and knowledges.
When you graduate, you’ll be ready to work across the media industries of today – and with the critical knowledge and skills you need to adapt to whatever the future brings.
Learning Outcomes
1.
Demonstrate creativity, rigour, adaptability, independence and cultural reflexivity in the application of media studies concepts and methods.
- Leaders
- Professionals
- Scholars
2.
Critically analyse the evolving media landscape in relation to historical, social, political, material, and theoretical contexts, including settler colonialism.
- Global citizens
- Scholars
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Engage in media analysis that takes cultural difference as crucial to media audiences, industries, and contexts.
- Global citizens
- Leaders
4.
Engage and situate diverse First Nations knowledges and media cultures, and the historical, cultural, social, and political contexts that produced them.
- Scholars
- Global citizens
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Deploy a critically informed approach to ethics, justice, and social engagement in media practices, industries, and contexts.
- Global citizens
- Leaders
- Professionals
6.
Evaluate and apply research methods appropriate to distinct media forms, practices, industries, and audiences.
- Scholars
- Professionals
- Leaders
7.
Collaborate effectively with local and international communities of practitioners across media contexts.
- Scholars
- Global citizens
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.
- Level 2 courses (12 UOC)
- Level 3 courses (12 UOC)
- Level 2 or 3 courses (18 UOC)
- 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.
Level 1
Level 2
Level 3
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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.
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