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COM3413 - Cultural and communications policy

6 points, SCA Band 1, 0.125 EFTSL

Undergraduate Faculty of Arts

Leader: Philip Dearman

Offered

Gippsland First semester 2008 (Day)
Gippsland First semester 2008 (Off-campus)
Sunway First semester 2008 (Day)
Singapore First semester 2008 (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;

  1. ability to identify the key rhetorics informing media regulation and the ways in which they function within and through particular policy;

  1. knowledge of the historical development of the general communications sector;

  1. understanding of the significance of globalisation, convergence and deregulation as challenges facing cultural and communications policy;

  1. developed understanding of the historical rise of the nation-state and of the implications of that history for the development of communications policy;

  1. 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;

  1. 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

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