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 100-100 Introduction to Media and Communications

Note

Special entry conditions apply. Students must consult the Department of English.

Credit Points

12.5

HECS Band

1

Coordinator

To be advised

Semester

2 (view timetable)

Contact

A 1-hour lecture and 2 hours of tutorials per week

Subject Description

This subject introduces students to the academic study of media and communications, with an emphasis on the Asian Pacific region. [It is aimed at preparing students for the more narrowly focussed later-year subjects in the Media and Communications program.] It will ask students to understand the media as a set of institutions using a variety of technologies. It will also introduce students to the role the media play in shaping societies and cultures across the region. To do so, it will familiarise students with the main theories and methods of media and communications studies, past and current. And it will inform students about the basic questions facing regional media in the future.

Assessment

Written work totalling 4000 words.

Prescribed Texts
  • S Cunningham & G Turner (eds), The Media in Australia: Industries, Texts, Audiences.
  • G Branston & R Stafford, The Media Student's Handbook. Routledge.
  • A Mattelart & M Mattelart, Theories of Communication: A Short Introduction. Sage.
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