Monash University Handbook 2011 Undergraduate - Unit

Refer to the specific census and withdrawal dates for the semester(s) in which this unit is offered.

Notes

Synopsis

As for ATS2451.

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%

Chief examiner(s)

Rebeka Sullivan

Contact hours

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

This unit applies to the following area(s) of study

Communications

Prerequisites

ATS1277 and ATS1278, or equivalent

Prohibitions

ATS2451, COM2413, COM3413, GSC3413