COM3413 - Cultural and communications policy

Leader(s): Philip Dearman

Offered

Gippsland First semester 2009 (Day)
Gippsland First semester 2009 (Off-campus)
Sunway First semester 2009 (Day)
Singapore First semester 2009 (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

Written work: 100%

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