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ATS2457

Faculty of Arts

18 September 2017 24 April 2024

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This unit entry is for students who completed this unit in 2016 only. For students planning to study the unit, please refer to the unit indexes in the the current edition of the Handbook. If you have any queries contact the managing faculty for your course or area of study.

Monash University

6 points, SCA Band 1, 0.125 EFTSL

Undergraduate - Unit

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Faculty

Arts

Organisational Unit

Criminology

Coordinator(s)

Mr Mark Wood

Offered

Caulfield

  • Second semester 2016 (Day)

Clayton

  • Second semester 2016 (Day)

Synopsis

Crime, Media and Culture examines the representation of crime in the media and its relationship to wider understandings of, and reactions to, crime and criminal justice. This subject uses key critical criminological, sociological and media theories to interpret the representation of crime in the media. Key areas covered include representations of class, gender and race in relation to crime, the symbiotic relationship between journalists and key actors within the criminal justice system, the relationship between the media and policy formulation and the importance of fictional representations in reflecting, reinforcing and shaping popular understandings of criminal justice and criminality.

Outcomes

Upon completion of this subject students will demonstrate the ability to:

  1. identify key criminological approaches to the study of media representation;
  2. formulate a well-structured and organised response to a question in writing;
  3. organise and manage the collection of contemporary scholarship and data to inform written discussions;
  4. communicate an evidence based analysis of dominant approaches to analysing the relationship between media representations and crime;
  5. identify and synthesise the foundational and contemporary debates regarding the relationship between crime and the media.

Assessment

Within semester assessment: 60%
Exam: 40%

Workload requirements

Minimum total expected workload to achieve the learning outcomes for this unit is 144 hours per semester typically comprising a mixture of scheduled learning activities and independent study. A unit requires on average two/three hours of scheduled activities per week. Scheduled activities may include a combination of teacher directed learning, peer directed learning and online engagement.

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Chief examiner(s)

Mr Mark Wood

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

Criminology
Communications and media studies

Prerequisites

Twelve credit points of first-year Arts units. It is highly recommended that students only take this unit after they have completed two gateway units in Criminology.

Prohibitions

ATS3457