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ATS3449

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

Communications and Media Studies

Coordinator(s)

Dr Graham Jones

Offered

Gippsland

  • Second semester 2016 (Online)

Synopsis

As for ATS2449.

Outcomes

On successful completion of this unit students will have:

  1. a strong understanding of a range of theories informing the analysis of media representations
  2. an ability to use these theories to conduct the analysis of media texts in both academic and journalistic contexts
  3. a developed capacity to analyse a range of compositional techniques in terms of how they may be deployed to produce specific social, conceptual and corporeal effects
  4. an awareness of the force of reading protocols and textual histories in directing both everyday and scholarly responses to media texts
  5. an applied understanding of the importance of cultural and communications theory for opening new possibilities in the everyday interpretation of media texts.

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 three/four 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)

Dr Graham Jones

Prerequisites

Twelve credit points of second-year Arts units.

Prohibitions

ATS2449, COM2409, COM3409, GSC2409, GSC2413, GSC3409