COM5206 - Communication Arts and Literacies

Leader: TBA

Offered

Not offered in 2007

Synopsis

As for COM4206

Objectives

On successful completion of this unit, students will be able to demonstrate:

1. Knowledge, skills and attributes necessary for understanding the convergence of visual, haptic, aural, written, verbal, and bodily communication, and the generic principles of good communication;
2. Increased understanding of the various communication arts, their general principles, and their interrelationship;
3. Increased understanding of the contribution of communication arts to communication processes, to large-scale and long-term social development, and to creative and knowledge economies;
4. Increased knowledge, skills, and attributes necessary for independent research, enhanced capacity to formulate and research communication arts issues, to analyse and evaluate arguments, and to understand critical approaches to communication arts;
5. Enhanced intellectual independence, and greater self-reliance and critical distance in intellectual and professional activity;
6. Significantly increased capacity to understand, lead, and manage the personnel and processes of emergent communication-arts intensive knowledge and creative industries;
7. In comparison with Level 4 students, greater depth and wider understanding of communicative forms and media, and greater ease of use and familiarity with digital tools and communication art techniques.

Assessment

Assignment 1 Research Essay (5000 words): 60%;
Assignment 2 Research Essay (4000 words): 40%

Contact hours

2 hours (1 x 2 hour seminar) per week.

Off Campus Attendance Requirements

Students will be expected to participate for a minimum of one hour per fortnight in on-line discussion.

Prohibitions

COM4206