ATS3970 - Performing film and television criticism with new technologies - 2018

6 points, SCA Band 1, 0.125 EFTSL

Undergraduate - Unit

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Faculty

Arts

Organisational Unit

Film and Screen Studies

Chief examiner(s)

Associate Professor Deane Williams

Coordinator(s)

Dr Roberto Letizi
Associate Professor Deane Williams

Unit guides

Offered

Caulfield

  • First semester 2018 (On-campus)

Clayton

  • First semester 2018 (On-campus)

Prerequisites

Twelve credit points of second-year Arts units. As this is a third-year level unit, it is recommended that students only take this unit after they have completed at least one second-year level unit in Film and screen studies.

Synopsis

This unit will provide students an opportunity to apply disciplinary ways of performing film and television theory, criticism and history. These will include a major practical project in film reviewing, audio-visual criticism, video-production OR a relevant internship. It will also involve a scholarly reflective essay on practical project/work experience as it relates to contemporary theories on criticism and screen-based media.

Outcomes

Upon completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Perform a range of critical practices of film and television
  2. Understand the complex relationship between film and television critical practice and theory
  3. Demonstrate an ability to conduct research and develop and present a critical work utilising web-based applications in manner appropriate to third-year study.
  4. Engage confidently in discussion of texts, theories and arguments in seminar environments both in the classroom and on-line.

Assessment

Within semester assessment: 100%

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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