Overview
This specialisation is for students commencing from 2023.
Choosing to pursue a minor in Media Studies will equip you with a range of 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.
Learning Outcomes
1.
Demonstrate creativity, rigour, adaptability, independence and cultural reflexivity in the application of media studies concepts and methods.
- Scholars
- Professionals
- Leaders
2.
Critically analyse the evolving media landscape in relation to historical, social, political, material, and theoretical contexts, including settler colonialism.
- Global citizens
- Scholars
3.
Engage in media analysis that takes cultural difference as crucial to media audiences, industries, and contexts.
- Leaders
- Global citizens
4.
Engage and situate diverse First Nations knowledges and media cultures, and the historical, cultural, social, and political contexts that produced them.
- Global citizens
- Scholars
5.
Deploy a critically informed approach to ethics, justice, and social engagement in media practices, industries, and contexts.
- Professionals
- Global citizens
- Leaders
6.
Evaluate and apply research methods appropriate to distinct media forms, practices, industries, and audiences.
- Scholars
- Leaders
- Professionals
7.
Collaborate effectively with local and international communities of practitioners across media contexts.
- Global citizens
- Scholars
Available in Program(s) Single degree program(s) in which this specialisation is available:
Bachelor of Media - BMedia3341 - Media
Bachelor of Design - BDes4825 - Design
Bachelor of Fine Arts - BFA4830 - Fine Arts
Specialisation Structure
You must complete 36 UOC.
You must take 6 UOC at level 1 and 30 UOC at levels 2 and 3, including at least 6 UOC at level 2 and at least 12 UOC at level 3.
Level 1 Prescribed Electives6 Units of Credit:
Level 2 and 3 Prescribed Electives30 Units of Credit:
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