COM3413 - Cultural and Communications Policy

Leader: Philip Dearman

Offered

Gippsland First semester 2007 (Day)
Gippsland First semester 2007 (Off-campus)
Malaysia First semester 2007 (Day)
Singapore First semester 2007 (Off-campus)

Synopsis

As for COM2413.

Objectives

On successful completion of this unit students will have:

1. understanding of the policy approach to communications and culture;
2. ability to identify the key rhetorics informing media regulation and the ways in which they function within and through particular policy;
3. knowledge of the historical development of the general communications sector;
4. understanding of the significance of globalisation, convergence and deregulation as challenges facing cultural and communications policy;
5. developed understanding of the historical rise of the nation-state and of the implications of that history for the development of communications policy;
6. a strong grasp of the complex inter-relationship of communications industries with political, economic, technical, cultural and social forces at national, regional and international levels;
7. ability to conduct independent research.

Assessment

Essay (2500 words): 50%
Examination (2 hours): 50%
Students taking the unit at 3rd level will be required to demonstrate, in both assessment tasks, a stronger awareness of the historical development and significance of the nation-state in the formation of communications policy.

Contact hours

2 hours (1 x 1 hour lecture and 1 x 1 hour tutorial) per week

Prerequisites

COM1010 and COM1020 or equivalents

Prohibitions

GSC3413, COM2413