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:
- understanding of the policy approach to communications and culture;
- ability to identify the key rhetorics informing media regulation and the ways in which they function within and through particular policy;
- knowledge of the historical development of the general communications sector;
- understanding of the significance of globalisation, convergence and deregulation as challenges facing cultural and communications policy;
- developed understanding of the historical rise of the nation-state and of the implications of that history for the development of communications policy;
- 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;
- 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
