This unit is used by the faculty to enrol students undertaking outbound exchange studies at a host institution. Students will not be able to enrol in this unit via WES. The faculty will manage the enrolment of students undertaking an outbound exchange program to ensure fees and credit are processed accurately.

This unit is used by the faculty to enrol students undertaking outbound exchange studies at a host institution. Students will not be able to enrol in this unit via WES. The faculty will manage the enrolment of students undertaking an outbound exchange program to ensure fees and credit are processed accurately.

This unit is used by the faculty to enrol students undertaking outbound exchange studies at a host institution. Students will not be able to enrol in this unit via WES. The faculty will manage the enrolment of students undertaking an outbound exchange program to ensure fees and credit are processed accurately.

This unit is used by the faculty to enrol students undertaking outbound exchange studies at a host institution. Students will not be able to enrol in this unit via WES. The faculty will manage the enrolment of students undertaking an outbound exchange program to ensure fees and credit are processed accurately.

This unit is used by the faculty to enrol students undertaking outbound exchange studies at a host institution. Students will not be able to enrol in this unit via WES. The faculty will manage the enrolment of students undertaking an outbound exchange program to ensure fees and credit are processed accurately.

This unit is used by the faculty to enrol students undertaking outbound exchange studies at a host institution. Students will not be able to enrol in this unit via WES. The faculty will manage the enrolment of students undertaking an outbound exchange program to ensure fees and credit are processed accurately.

This unit is used by the faculty to enrol students undertaking outbound exchange studies at a host institution. Students will not be able to enrol in this unit via WES. The faculty will manage the enrolment of students undertaking an outbound exchange program to ensure fees and credit are processed accurately.

This unit is used by the faculty to enrol students undertaking outbound exchange studies at a host institution. Students will not be able to enrol in this unit via WES. The faculty will manage the enrolment of students undertaking an outbound exchange program to ensure fees and credit are processed accurately.

This unit is used by the faculty to enrol students undertaking outbound exchange studies at a host institution. Students will not be able to enrol in this unit via WES. The faculty will manage the enrolment of students undertaking an outbound exchange program to ensure fees and credit are processed accurately.

This unit is used by the faculty to enrol students undertaking outbound exchange studies at a host institution. Students will not be able to enrol in this unit via WES. The faculty will manage the enrolment of students undertaking an outbound exchange program to ensure fees and credit are processed accurately.

This unit is used by the faculty to enrol students undertaking outbound exchange studies at a host institution. Students will not be able to enrol in this unit via WES. The faculty will manage the enrolment of students undertaking an outbound exchange program to ensure fees and credit are processed accurately.

This unit is used by the faculty to enrol students undertaking outbound exchange studies at a host institution. Students will not be able to enrol in this unit via WES. The faculty will manage the enrolment of students undertaking an outbound exchange program to ensure fees and credit are processed accurately.

This unit is used by the faculty to enrol students undertaking outbound exchange studies at a host institution. Students will not be able to enrol in this unit via WES. The faculty will manage the enrolment of students undertaking an outbound exchange program to ensure fees and credit are processed accurately.

This unit is used by the faculty to enrol students undertaking outbound exchange studies at a host institution. Students will not be able to enrol in this unit via WES. The faculty will manage the enrolment of students undertaking an outbound exchange program to ensure fees and credit are processed accurately.

This unit is used by the faculty to enrol students undertaking outbound exchange studies at a host institution. Students will not be able to enrol in this unit via WES. The faculty will manage the enrolment of students undertaking an outbound exchange program to ensure fees and credit are processed accurately.

This unit is used by the faculty to enrol students undertaking outbound exchange studies at a host institution. Students will not be able to enrol in this unit via WES. The faculty will manage the enrolment of students undertaking an outbound exchange program to ensure fees and credit are processed accurately.

This unit is used by the faculty to enrol students undertaking outbound exchange studies at a host institution. Students will not be able to enrol in this unit via WES. The faculty will manage the enrolment of students undertaking an outbound exchange program to ensure fees and credit are processed accurately.

This unit is used by the faculty to enrol students undertaking outbound exchange studies at a host institution. Students will not be able to enrol in this unit via WES. The faculty will manage the enrolment of students undertaking an outbound exchange program to ensure fees and credit are processed accurately.

This unit is used by the faculty to enrol students undertaking outbound exchange studies at a host institution. Students will not be able to enrol in this unit via WES. The faculty will manage the enrolment of students undertaking an outbound exchange program to ensure fees and credit are processed accurately.

This unit is used by the faculty to enrol students undertaking outbound exchange studies at a host institution. Students will not be able to enrol in this unit via WES. The faculty will manage the enrolment of students undertaking an outbound exchange program to ensure fees and credit are processed accurately.

This unit is used by the faculty to enrol students undertaking outbound exchange studies at a host institution. Students will not be able to enrol in this unit via WES. The faculty will manage the enrolment of students undertaking an outbound exchange program to ensure fees and credit are processed accurately.

This unit is used by the faculty to enrol students undertaking outbound exchange studies at a host institution. Students will not be able to enrol in this unit via WES. The faculty will manage the enrolment of students undertaking an outbound exchange program to ensure fees and credit are processed accurately.

This unit is used by the faculty to enrol students undertaking outbound exchange studies at a host institution. Students will not be able to enrol in this unit via WES. The faculty will manage the enrolment of students undertaking an outbound exchange program to ensure fees and credit are processed accurately.

This unit is used by the faculty to enrol students undertaking outbound exchange studies at a host institution. Students will not be able to enrol in this unit via WES. The faculty will manage the enrolment of students undertaking an outbound exchange program to ensure fees and credit are processed accurately.

This unit is used by the faculty to enrol students undertaking outbound exchange studies at a host institution. Students will not be able to enrol in this unit via WES. The faculty will manage the enrolment of students undertaking an outbound exchange program to ensure fees and credit are processed accurately.

This unit is used by the faculty to enrol students undertaking outbound exchange studies at a host institution. Students will not be able to enrol in this unit via WES. The faculty will manage the enrolment of students undertaking an outbound exchange program to ensure fees and credit are processed accurately.

This unit is used by the faculty to enrol students undertaking outbound exchange studies at a host institution. Students will not be able to enrol in this unit via WES. The faculty will manage the enrolment of students undertaking an outbound exchange program to ensure fees and credit are processed accurately.

This unit is used by the faculty to enrol students undertaking outbound exchange studies at a host institution. Students will not be able to enrol in this unit via WES. The faculty will manage the enrolment of students undertaking an outbound exchange program to ensure fees and credit are processed accurately.

This unit is used by the faculty to enrol students undertaking outbound exchange studies at a host institution. Students will not be able to enrol in this unit via WES. The faculty will manage the enrolment of students undertaking an outbound exchange program to ensure fees and credit are processed accurately.

This unit draws from various disciplines to contextualise students' development of discipline-specific skills and approaches to knowledge construction and interrogation essential for successful study at university. It examines and develops reading, writing, thinking, communication and research skills through discipline-specific perspectives in the sciences, humanities and social sciences. Through an exploration of basic rhetorical principles and developmental patterns of a range of academic literacy forms, emphasis is given to the discourse practices and research skills necessary for disciplinary expertise. Underpinning the development of these key skills is the recognition that students need to be enabled to participate in academic discourses as active contributors to knowledge construction, contestation, application and communication, and not mere recipients. Lectures will focus on key areas of academic literacies while exploring differences or similarities between perspectives and genres in the various disciplines. By engaging in the rigorous academic process of critical reading, writing, revision, presentation, and discussion together with academic support and feedback, tutorials enable students to gradually participate in the construction, debate and interrogation of academic knowledge.

Upon successful completion of the unit, students should be able to:

1. Demonstrate the ability to access, evaluate, interpret and use information appropriately from a variety of sources, especially within their disciplines;
2. Employ skills and strategies for reading a variety of discipline-specific texts: textbooks, reports, research articles and others;
3. Engage in critical and reflective thinking to respond to and construct academic discourses;
4. Manage group dynamics and work effectively in teams to solve problems and generate desired outcomes;
5. Make appropriate choices regarding context, purpose, rhetoric structure, strategies, form and style to communicate effectively for different audiences and academic communities;
6. Revise and refine work in line with academic conventions, clarity and correctness;
7. Demonstrate a degree of independence and integration of skills to produce a research paper in their discipline area.

Within semester assessment: 100%

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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This unit is designed to introduce students to the practices, requirements and expectations of university study and so prepare them to participate in the academic learning environment. It seeks to equip students with the academic skills, tertiary literacies and attitudes essential for successful university study. The coverage of a range of key skills ranging from academic writing to critical reading is unified thematically by a consideration of what makes university study different, the benefits of a university education and the development of graduate attributes. Throughout the unit, there will be an emphasis on the utility and transferability of these academic skills and competencies for employability, lifelong learning, and to other subjects undertaken so that students can navigate their own learning. Contextualised within themes and topics, lectures will situate skills development within current research, and highlight salient principles and practices. Tutorials will involve participation in a variety of tasks, focusing on discussion, assessment, application, practice and analysis of skills development in context.

Upon successful completion of the unit, students should be able to:

1. Demonstrate an appreciation of the centrality of skills development in academic excellence;
2. Access and evaluate information needed appropriately;
3. Use strategies and skills for effective, efficient and critical reading of academic texts;
4. Produce essays that present a well-developed, coherent viewpoint and adhere to the conventions of academic writing;
5. Effectively prepare for and deliver oral presentations;
6. Maximise their learning from lectures, tutorials, reading materials and assessment tasks;
7. Employ a range of skills, including academic reading, thinking and writing to academic tasks in this and other units;
8. Apply teamwork, leadership and independent learning skills through various learning opportunities.

Within semester assessment: 100%

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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This unit introduces the study of media in terms of the relationships between industry, texts and audiences. Areas of study include news production, textual analysis, media ownership and diversity, film and sport.

Upon successful completion of the unit, students should be able to:

1. identify and discuss the various economic, political and cultural forces which shape the practical work of media production;
2. explain the historical development of media industries;
3. recognise and use available frameworks for making sense of media texts;
4. analyse and evaluate the contribution of these frameworks to the production of dominant, or common sense, understandings of the world;
5. produce a digital artefact informed by the theories and concepts learnt in this unit.

Within semester assessment: 100%

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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Communication

Communication, media and screen studies

Global studies in communication and media

This unit introduces the study of communications technologies by focusing on analyses of audiences, effects and technology. Students explore the social uses and practices associated with traditional and new communication technologies. Areas of study include telephony, screen, radio, print, photography and digital communication technology, with a particular focus on aspects of historical development, sociocultural adaptations, and contemporary technological convergence. Unit readings and assessment tasks expect students to discuss these matters in relation to different sociocultural contexts, drawing upon material and case studies from Australia, Southeast Asia, and other relevant areas.

Upon successful completion of the unit, students will be able to:

1. describe and explain the development of communication technologies using theoretical frameworks and conceptual tools;

2. identify and explain the social and political uses of communications technologies;

3. recognise and discuss communication as an active production and negotiation of meanings, not just the transmission of information;

4. identify and analyse relations between media texts and technologies, the identities and capacities of producers and audiences, and the

   aspirations of governments and other powerful social actors;

5. use reading and note taking skills to develop critical perspectives on communication.

Within semester assessment: 70%

Exam: 30%

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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Communication

Communication, media and screen studies

Global studies in communication and media

Television Studies: Forms and Approaches gives students an overview of the discipline of television studies. In the course of the semester students will use close textual analysis and key theoretical approaches to examine a variety of TV shows and popular TV genres, such as the Sitcom, Reality Television and Children's TV. Students will explore the main formal features that these shows possess, the reasons for their popularity and the ways in which they impact upon the broader social world. In addition, the unit looks at recent developments in television, such as the move towards viewing content online. As well as studying traditional television programming, students will engage with other forms of "small screen media", such as music videos and YouTube clips.

Upon successful completion of the unit, students should be able to:

1. Critically analyse TV shows by drawing upon skills in textual analysis;
2. Identify the main features of particular TV genres;
3. Apply theories developed in Television Studies to the analysis of TV shows;
4. Evaluate critical debates on television and on particular TV shows;
5. Plan and conduct written work on how meaning is created in TV shows.

Within semester assessment: 100%

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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Communication, media and screen studies

Film, television and screen studies

Film studies: Forms and approaches gives students an overview of the discipline of Film studies. Weeks are devoted to the close analysis of film, with topics focusing on key formal and stylistic elements, such as narrative, mise en scene, camerawork, editing and sound. In addition, students will become familiar with some of the main theoretical approaches used in Film Studies, such as authorship, genre and national cinema. Throughout the unit emphasis is placed on situating films within their broader social, political and historical contexts, and in doing so students will engage with the ideological significance of cinema - how films offer particular, politically-loaded visions of life. Exploration of these issues is supported through weekly screenings, with a variety of films being shown, spanning a range of historical periods, genres and countries.

Upon successful completion of the unit, students should be able to:

1. Analyse films with particular attention to their main formal and stylistic features;
2. Identify techniques used to create meaning in films;
3. Apply theories from Film Studies to facilitate the analysis of films;
4. Evaluate critical debates on cinema and on particular films;
5. Plan and conduct written work on how meaning is created in cinema.

Within semester assessment: 100%

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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Communication, media and screen studies

Film, television and screen studies

This unit shows how sexuality is the primary analytical category across multidisciplinary fields of study in Asian and global contexts, e.g. culture or the Arts, media and communications, business or economy, education or pedagogy, sociology, politics, psychology or sports, sciences or health and religion or theology. In this unit, key areas of inquiry within Sexuality Studies are wide-ranging and include: sexual cultures, sexual communities, sexual labour or commerce or tourism, sexual education, sexual regulation or bias, sexual politics, sexual citizenship, sexual activism and rights, sexual deviance, sexual disability, sexual health and sexual ethics. The topics in this unit are highly sensitive even controversial as they set out to challenge assumptions, biases even prejudices that students have in making visible how constructed rather than naturalised gendered and sexual identities are, beginning with one's own.

The unit therefore aims to enable students to realise how relevant, contemporary and intersectional the study of sexualities is across disciplines, social-cultural contexts and their own lived realities. The unit also aims to impress upon students how integral gendered and queer perspectives in sexuality matters are to understanding and transforming human relations and micro-macro structures towards realising a more sustainable, just and equitable existence for all.

1. Identify relevant resources and key issues;
2. Relate key issues to different disciplinary contexts;
3. Discuss key areas of inquiry within Sexuality Studies across disciplines;
4. Examine the extent to which sexuality as a primary analytical category is useful;
5. Formulate and structure a logical and coherent argument that is well supported by relevant evidence;
6. Communicate perceptively, effectively and with cultural sensitivity;
7. Demonstrate ethical values, cross-cultural competency as a responsible and effective global citizen.

Within semester assessment: 100%

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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Gender studies

This unit shows how gender is the primary analytical category across multidisciplinary fields of study in Asian and global contexts. These fields of study include but are not limited to: culture or the Arts, media and communications, business or economy, education or pedagogy, sociology, politics, psychology or sports, sciences or health and religion or theology. Gender Studies as a specialised discipline as such, foregrounds or privileges a gendered perspective and analysis across these multiple sites of study. Other analytical categories such as class, ethnicity, nationality and sexualities that intersect with gender are also considered.

The topics in this unit are highly revelatory, gender-sensitised and often, thought-provoking, as they set out to challenge assumptions, biases even prejudices that students have in making visible how constructed rather than naturalised gendered and sexual identities are, beginning with one's own.

The unit aims to enable students to realise how relevant, contemporary and intersectional the study of gender is across disciplines, social-cultural contexts and their own lived realities. The unit also aims to impress upon students how integral a gendered perspective is to understanding and transforming human relations and micro-macro structures towards realising a more sustainable, just and equitable existence for all.

1. Identify relevant resources and key issues;
2. Relate key issues to different disciplinary contexts;
3. Discuss key debates from a gendered perspective within and across disciplines;
4. Examine the extent to which gender as a primary analytical category is useful;
5. Formulate and structure a logical and coherent argument that is well supported by relevant evidence;
6. Communicate perceptively, effectively and with cultural sensitivity;
7. Demonstrate ethical values, cross-cultural competency as a responsible and effective global citizen.

Within semester assessment: 100%

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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Gender studies

The unit introduces students to a broad range of creative writing and what pursuing a major in writing academically entails. The first objective is to provide students with an understanding of the functions that different types of creative writing play, and as such, the importance of forms and techniques when writing to ensure the effectiveness of their functions. Based on these learning points, more focus is given to reading creative writing at this stage, although assignments will revolve around the practise of creative writing. The second objective is to show the interrelatedness between reading and writing. The unit aims to help students understand the importance of close reading in order to fully appreciate good writing by cultivating in them interpretative skills.

Upon the completion of the unit, students will be able to:

1. identify the different types of creative writing and their related forms and techniques;
2. recognise form and techniques in the practice of creative writing to convey the meaning of a text;
3. identify the specific function of each creative writing type, and techniques unique to it (I.e. poetry);
4. utilise close reading skills to develop writing skills;
5. work independently and collaboratively (via peer reviewing) on short pieces of creative writing;
6. utilise technical aspects to enhance the quality of their creative writing.

Within semester assessment: 100%

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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Writing

The unit covers a range of compositional techniques used in prose fiction. The weekly topics are organised around exercises designed to develop skills in effective use of creative detail, in conscious crafting of formal elements or writing techniques (e.g. building character, developing storyline, describing place, cultivating writing style or voice, identifying a narrative structure, etc.), and in preparation and editing of copy for publication. Various samples of reading materials (esp. short stories, excerpts from novels, graphic novels, fan-fiction etc.) will also be introduced to demonstrate how effectively different writers deploy these techniques.

Upon successful completion of the unit, students will be able to:

1. identify and use a range of practices and techniques in contemporary writing through reading, analysis and practice;
2. communicate in a range literary and other forms and for a variety of audiences;
3. edit, proof and prepare copy for publication;
4. review and critique the work of peers as a member of an online writing group.

Within semester assessment: 100%

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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Writing

This unit emphasises the study of major political events and historical developments of the twentieth century as one route to understanding current world issues. Through lectures, class discussion and written work, students will explore how rivalry and conflict between states and peoples in the twentieth century have been closely intertwined with the rise of ideologies such as imperialism, nationalism, communism, liberal democracy and religious ideas. A close reading of particular events as they unfolded in selected parts of the world demonstrate also how external developments and local factors interact to shape local as well as international dynamics, with implications also for current world affairs.

Upon successful completion of the unit, students should be able to:

1. Describe the major historical events and political conflicts of the twentieth century as studied in the unit;
2. Identify and locate historical places on maps;
3. Describe the main ideologies of the twentieth century;
4. Explain the role played by these ideologies in the events and conflicts studied in the unit;
5. Analyse the causes and consequences of major events and political conflicts of the twentieth century;
6. Interpret primary and secondary documents through developing critical reading skills;
7. Communicate ideas and arguments in verbal form;
8. Write research reports and essays.

Within semester assessment: 70% + Exam: 30%

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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Global studies

Global studies in communication and media

The unit introduces students to the topic of globalisation and its impact on the state. Unit is divided into three parts. The first segment provides a broad conceptual introduction to globalisation. In the second, students examine the impact of globalisation on the state. In the third, students evaluate the major criticisms of globalisation.

Upon successful completion of the unit, students should be able to:

1. Identify the most important debates about globalization and its likely development;
2. Explain the concept of the (nation)-state and evaluate the impact of globalization on the state;
3. Explain why globalization has produced such a diverse group of opponents;
4. Evaluate the causes and impacts of current global trends;
5. Communicate ideas and arguments in verbal form;
6. Write research reports and essays.

Within semester assessment: 60% + Exam: 40%

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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Global studies

Global studies in communication and media

The unit provides a critical introduction to the development of key journalistic concepts, research and practices in the production of original news stories in the print and online formats. This includes the social, professional and legal contexts for journalism production; the technical production and conventional narrative styles of news production for print and online journalism. The unit also examines two different formats of news production and the various factors that can affect the optimal choice of medium for reporting. Students will produce a critical evaluation of their own performance and provide constructive feedback for their peers.

Upon successful completion of the unit, students will be able to:

1. demonstrate an ability to identify and research a news story, conduct interviews and gather appropriate evidence in the print and online media;
2. demonstrate an ability to select an advantageous medium for presentation, and report in a clear, concise and factual way using news conventions in at least two media;
3. identify, observe key ethical and legal obligations associated with print and online journalism, and reflect critically on their own and others' performance in this regard;
4. work independently and collaboratively in learning and production processes, including online forums, to produce print and online journalism;
5. demonstrate an ability to set and meet deadlines, and report under pressure;
6. demonstrate an awareness of local, national and international people and events relevant to current affairs and media issues;
7. demonstrate a critical awareness of the capacities, limitations and socio-professional implications of journalistic practices in different media.

Students may be required to go on at least one domestic fieldtrip

Within semester assessment: 100%

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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Journalism studies

The unit provides a critical introduction to the development of key journalistic concepts, research and practices in the production of original news stories in the audio-visual formats. This includes the social, professional and legal contexts for journalism production; the technical production and conventional narrative styles of news production for radio and video journalism. The unit also examines two different formats of news production and the various factors that can affect the optimal choice of medium for reporting. Students will produce a critical evaluation of their own journalistic performance and provide constructive feedback for their peers.

Upon successful completion of the unit, students will be able to:

1. demonstrate an ability to identify and research a news story, conduct interviews and gather appropriate evidence in the audio-visual media;
2. demonstrate an ability to select an advantageous medium for presentation, and report in a clear, concise and factual way using news conventions in at least two media;
3. identify, observe key ethical and legal obligations associated with radio and video journalism, and reflect critically on their own and others' performance in this regard;
4. work independently and collaboratively in learning and production processes, to produce radio and video journalism;
5. demonstrate an ability to set and meet deadlines, and report under pressure;
6. demonstrate an awareness of local, national and international people and events relevant to current affairs and media issues;
7. demonstrate a critical awareness of the capacities, limitations and socio-professional implications of journalistic practices in different media.

Students may be required to go on at least one domestic fieldtrip

Within semester assessment: 100%

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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Journalism studies

Media industries are increasingly dominated by digital processes of production that have significant economic and social implications. This unit provides students with an introduction to digital graphic and motion graphic editing. It encourages creative approaches, and students will be given opportunities to create media products with a selection of industry-relevant software. They will also be given an overview of the role of innovation in digital media production in changing local and global industry contexts.

Upon completion of the unit, students should be able to:

1. create, manipulate and edit digital images and video using industry-relevant software;
2. explain relevant copyright legislation and proper use practices;
3. analyse and communicate the relevance of digital image and video processes to changing local and global industry contexts.

Within semester assessment: 100%

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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What difference is the internet making to society?. Answering this question requires a multidisciplinary approach that analyses the historical development of media and information technology and media, the continuities and breaks with the past, and the empirical analysis of ongoing socioeconomic, cultural and political changes associated with the internet.

The unit focuses on the internet and digital media, and covers topics such as: the expansion of user generated content and the changing role of the audience; the implications in terms of privacy and security; the impact on political processes; the development of new business models; and the expansion of global, regional, local and interpersonal networked communication.

Upon completion of the unit, students will be able to:

1. situate the historical development of the internet and describe the fundamental features that distinguish the internet and digital media from earlier forms of media technology;
2. use examples to demonstrate the relevance of the internet and digital media to emerging local and global socioeconomic, cultural and political contexts;
3. explain and apply theories and concepts used to discuss the internet and digital media in society;
4. critically evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of common scholarly explanations of the emergence and diffusion of the internet and digital media within society;
5. use the practical skills of reading, note taking and writing to formulate and structure a logical and coherent argument that is well supported by relevant evidence.

Within semester assessment: 100%

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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This unit examines the interaction between politics and the economy. Students will be introduced to both classic texts and recent research dealing with the impact of political forces and processes on economic policies and outcomes. No background in economics is required and economic concepts will be explained and discussed with the minimum use of jargon and mathematics.

Through lecture, online discussion, and tutorial participation, students will explore both political science and economic theories with an explicit focus on the practical trade-offs that exist when resolving competing values such as fairness, equality, and maximizing human welfare. These issues tend to be highly polarising and current trends in media and technology are reducing the ability of people to discuss and resolve these competing values. One explicit goal of this unit is for students to develop the skills necessary to identify the competing values associated with a particular economic policy and use empirically grounded theories to find practical solutions that best intermediate those values. These skills are incredibly valuable for society and unfortunately tend to be tragically under-developed.

Upon successful completion of this unit, students should be able to:

1. Apply key political economic theories to current issues and problems;
2. Explain the difference between the dangers posed by market failures and government failures;
3. Identify actors that are positively and negatively impacted by different types of economic redistribution;
4. Communicate ideas effectively in both face-to-face and online environments;
5. Assess the strengths and weaknesses in own and peer's writing;
6. Collaborate with peers on a major project using effective teamwork and online collaborative technologies;
7. Connect the theories covered in class to ongoing research by unit instructors and expert bloggers;
8. Identify and resolve divergent values in pursuing a particular economic goal.

Within semester assessment: 100%

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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Global studies

Media industries are increasingly dominated by the internet and digital media, and their implications in terms of production and distribution of media content. This unit provides students with an introduction to online digital media production and distribution. It encourages creative approaches, and students will be given opportunities to create online content with a selection of industry-relevant software. They will also be given an overview of the role of the internet and digital media in changing local and global industry contexts.

Upon successful completion of the unit, students will be able to:

1. create, manipulate and edit a website and social media site using industry-relevant software;
2. explain and use online analytics of user traffic and behaviour;
3. analyse the relevance of the internet and digital media to local and global industry contexts.

Within semester assessment: 100%

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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How is the rise of the internet and digital media affecting the nature of screen culture?. New digital technologies are shaping production methods and creating new ways for audiences to engage with moving images ] while cinema and television continue to be popular, screen content is increasingly being consumed on computers, tablets and mobile phones. This unit explores these developments through the analysis of a variety of screen content, ranging from television shows to online videos. It examines the technological, industrial and economic contexts of digital screen culture, the creation of new styles, genres and approaches to narrative, and the emergence of new participatory audiences and modes of spectatorship. The social and ideological significance of these developments is also explored through case studies that focus on representational issues, global and local examples, and the new forms of celebrity that are emerging as a result of these changes.

Through drawing on theories derived from screen studies, digital culture and new media studies, and conducting textual analysis of selected key examples, students explore the current state of screen culture and what it can tell us about our changing world.

Upon successful completion of the unit, students will be able to:

1. describe and explain the main features that distinguish digital screen media from earlier types of screen production;
2. identify and describe the different genres of digital screen media;
3. apply theoretical frameworks to explain the historical, textual and critical significance of digital screen technologies;
4. critically evaluate scholarly perspectives of the impact of digital screens on moving image aesthetics, the media industries and society;
5. formulate and structure a logical and coherent argument that is well supported by relevant evidence.

Within semester assessment: 100%

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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Film, television and screen studies

The unit approaches creative writing in terms of its status as a product of processes of experimentation (as distinct from personal expression). Students will explore a range of strategies for experimenting with forms and with themes through a series of reading materials (short stories, excerpts from longer works, poetry, etc.) and writing exercises that are contextualised in varied social-political and cultural contexts. The major composition that is built on weekly exercises has a thematic focus that is student-driven and demonstrates the processes of researching, drafting and editing creative texts. The unit is oriented towards practical and critical application of advanced experimental strategies in creative writing so that students can better appreciate the extent of originality of style and content of their work in relation to that of published authors. Equally important is the appreciation of what these strategies aim to achieve both aesthetically and ideologically, and the pros and cons of their engagement. Finally, the unit is also oriented towards the production of effective and experimental writing, and the importance of reflecting on creative work through the critical techniques of exegesis.

Upon successful completion of the unit, students will be able to:

1. identify and assess a range of writing structures and techniques;
2. evaluate a range of experimental writing strategies;
3. utilise research and critical reflection skills in the exegetical stages of the creative writing process;
4. edit, proof and prepare copy for publication;
5. review and critique the work of peers as a member of an online writing group.

Within semester assessment: 100%

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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Writing

This unit examines the relation between youth and mobile media, based on an analysis and discussion of media effects. Media effects are explored with regards to direct, social, and cultural effects. These effects are understood in terms of a reshaping of public and private space, flows of power, economic opportunities, and personal agency.

This unit covers topics such as: the impact of mobile media on political protests; gender and body image; the commercialisation of online public space; and, convergence between television and mobile media. It draws upon material and case studies from the USA, Southeast Asia, and other relevant areas.

Upon successful completion of the unit, students will be able to:

1. Explain and demonstrate how the media influence society and culture;
2. Explain and demonstrate the particular impacts of mobile media on youth;
3. Critically evaluate and analyse academic sources in relation to relevant theories, concepts, and case studies;
4. Independently identify, evaluate, and critically assess non-academic sources in relation to relevant theories, concepts, and case studies;
5. Contextualise and explain how mobile media relate to diverse global cultural, social, political, and economic contexts.

Within semester assessment: 60% + Exam: 40%

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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Communication

Communication, media and screen studies

Global studies in communication and media

This unit introduces learners to a wide variety of film genres. They include traditional genres such as the western, melodrama, noir, the musical and horror, as well as newer ones like the biopic and the martial arts film. Learners will consider the socio-cultural and historical influences on genres, and in some cases, understand significant differences between Western and non-Western works within a particular genre. Theoretical concepts related to the study of genres, such as intertextuality and hybridity, will also be emphasized.

Upon successful completion of the unit, students should be able to:

1. Identify the conventions associated with film genres;
2. Evaluate the differences between Western and non-Western works classified under a particular genre;
3. Interpret genre using concepts like intertextuality and hybridity, and how they are part of what constitute a genre;
4. Write a detailed research into a specific genre;
5. Explain the ways in that genres are socio-culturally and historically determined and often ambiguous and tend to encompass divergent, even contradictory;
6. Evaluate the ambiguous nature of genres in terms of their apparently contradiction; i.e. being bound by certain conventions while simultaneously transgressing them.

Within semester assessment: 100%

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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Communication, media and screen studies

Global asia

Screen studies

Writing

The unit introduces students to key moments in film history from the earliest days of cinema up to the present day. It covers aesthetic, technological and industrial developments, while also exploring the relationship between the cinema and the changing historical contexts of its production, distribution and exhibition. It also examines different types of cinema from across the world, covering a range of filmmaking nations, genres and styles. In discussing the main periods in film history, students will engage with issues of historiography as well as the critical approaches and debates that have shaped understandings of the cinema and its evolving relationships with culture and society.

Upon successful completion of the unit, students will be able to:

1. discuss film form and style across a range of national contexts and in different periods of film history;
2. explain the main developments in the technological evolution of the cinematic apparatus and how this has shaped cinema's aesthetic and institutional agendas;
3. evaluate the key factors in shaping the evolution of cinema as a technology, as a business and as an art;
4. assess the impact of cinema's changing industrial structure on its cinematic output;
5. identify and explain the main ways in which cinema has been shaped by its changing social and political contexts from the late 19th to the early 21st centuries.

Within semester assessment: 100%

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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Screen studies

The unit examines various competing theories that have been developed to analyse changing media technologies and societal change. Topics include idealist and materialist notions of culture, agency and structure, identity formation and power.

Upon successful completion of the unit, students will be able to:

1. recognise, identify and describe the assumptions and arguments making up the theoretical approaches introduced in the unit;
2. evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of different approaches to media and communication theory;
3. analyse different media and media industries by applying different theoretical approaches.

Within semester assessment: 70%

Exam: 30%

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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Communication

Communication, media and screen studies

Global studies in communication and media

The unit introduces critical and practical approaches to research in the social sciences, presenting first a critical overview of the rationale for research practice in industry and academia, and then an outline of various traditions of inquiry. This material is followed by a series of lectures on specific quantitative and qualitative research methodologies. The material is framed within an ongoing review of key ethical and critical concepts.

On successful completion of the unit, students will be able to:

1. Understand the uses of quantitative and qualitative research methodologies in academic and industry contexts;
2. Understand the uses of quantitative and qualitative research methodologies in science and non-science environments;
3. Understand the nature and use of a theoretical framework in a research project;
4. Define and formulate a research project, including hypotheses, research problems and questions, goals, ethical considerations, literature reviews,theoretical frameworks, and data collection, analysis and interpretation methods;
5. Demonstrate sound awareness of ethical principles in research practices;
6. Reflect on relationships between local and global frameworks in developing approaches to research.

Within semester assessment: 100%

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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Communication

Communication, media and screen studies

Gender studies

Global studies in communication and media

The unit aims to connect students with a range of issues and topics under the purview of the arts and social sciences in the Malaysian context. In the process students will be required to intellectually engage with, and critically reflect on, a wide variety of 'real world' problems that fall under the umbrella of any of the following categories: society, politics, culture, development, identity and environment.

Upon successful completion of the unit, students will be able to:

1. recognise and analyse the intersections of various issues (e.g. society and politics, culture and development, identity and environment etc.) in the Malaysian context;
2. evaluate the impact of various factors on the exacerbation of, and solution to, identified case-studies;
3. develop skills, tools, and mindsets for conducting research in the Arts and Social Sciences;
4. apply theoretical knowledge in engaging with 'real world' problems.

Within semester assessment: 100%

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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The unit analyses of range of contemporary texts that address issues of postmodernism, discourse, memorialisation and trauma. In particular, the unit explores the relationship between memory and narrative and how the present is connected to the past in inscription. The texts are drawn from a range of traditions (US, French, British, for example) and a range of media (novel, graphic novel and film).

Upon successful completion of the unit, students will have:

1. Demonstrated an ability to analyse textual representations in terms of, including narrative form, aspects of literary theory (authorship, postmodernism, psychoanalysis);
2. Understand literature's relation to historical and social contexts;
3. Develop an understanding of a range of critical and theoretical approaches to literary studies and their place in the wider field of cultural studies.

Within semester assessment: 70% + Exam: 30%

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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Writing

This unit explores the political, economic and social determinants of national migration policies and the impact that these policies have on a wide variety of migrants around the world. We will investigate the roles that states, intergovernmental organizations, nongovernmental organizations, and human traffickers play in facilitating or preventing the ever increasing movement of peoples across borders.

Upon successful completion of the unit, students should be able to:

1. Identify the diverse factors that motivate people to cross borders;
2. Evaluate alternatives to current migration policies;
3. Identify the political factors that determine a country's migration policies;
4. Explain the relationship between host country migration policies and acculturation strategies among immigrants;
5. Analyse the role of international organizations in resolving refugee crises;
6. Interpret primary and secondary documents through developing critical reading skills;
7. Communicate ideas and arguments in verbal form;
8. Write research reports and essays.

Within semester assessment: 100%

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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Global studies

Global studies in communication and media

The unit provides an overview of the salient features constituting contemporary Malaysian society. It also provides a critical understanding of some of the significant innovations, dilemmas, and challenges unfolding in Malaysia in relation to regional and global trends.

Topics covered include domestic politics, economics, social policy & development, literature & the arts, and international relations & security.

Upon successful completion of the unit, students will be able to:

1. articulate the salient socio - cultural, economic and political features of contemporary Malaysian society;
2. analyse some of the significant innovations, dilemmas and challenges unfolding in Malaysia;
3. evaluate the above issues and debates in the context of regional and global trends;
4. Communicate research findings conducted in collaboration with peers via a variety of formats (oral, video, pictures etc.).

Within semester assessment: 100%

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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Global asia

Global studies

The unit provides learning opportunities for students to become experientially and intellectually literate with the varied contemporary social, cultural, political, economic, and environmental realities of various countries in the Asia-Pacific region.

The specific focus for the study trip will vary each year. They will cover topics in environment and human development, everyday identities and identity politics, media and popular culture, and democracy and social movements. The overall pedagogical stress is on critically mapping and understanding various kinds of social transformations in the Asia-Pacific region.

Each year, one or two countries would form the focus/foci of study.

The unit comprises a mix of pre-study trip preparatory lectures (including film screenings), a series of lectures, talks and immersion activities facilitated by various institutes and civil society groups during the study trip proper, and the submission of a post-study trip portfolio.

Upon successful completion of the unit, students will be able to:

1. recognise and explain the key socio-cultural, economic, political, developmental and environmental challenges facing the country/countries visited in relation to the wider Asia-Pacific region;
2. evaluate a range of social responses to these challenges in the Asia-Pacific region;
3. critically reflect on the application of their theoretical knowledge to real-world issues;
4. communicate effectively in both written, digital and oral formats;
5. work collaboratively;
6. identify and utilise skills in intercultural competency.

Within semester assessment: 100%

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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Communications and media studies

Gender studies

Global Asia

Global studies

Journalism studies

Screen studies

Writing

The unit provides further development of the students' skills in critical evaluation in the production of online journalism. By producing a series of multimedia stories, students will further develop the key performance practices of researching, interviewing, writing stories, photography, recording in various media, voice presentation and online presentation. Students will also critically consider the impact and implications of different modes of audience engagement for online journalists, including the ethical and editorial issues with regards to online news production.

Upon successful completion of the unit, students will be able to:

1. demonstrate an ability to identify and research a news story, conduct interviews and determine the best storytelling platforms to articulate their ideas;
2. demonstrate an ability to report in a clear, concise, accurate and engaging way in at least two media;
3. identify, observe key ethical and legal obligations associated with news reporting, and reflect critically on their own and others' performance in this regard;
4. work independently and collaboratively in learning and production processes, including online forums, to produce news reports;
5. demonstrate an ability to set and meet deadlines, and report under pressure;
6. demonstrate an awareness of local, national and international people and events relevant to current affairs and media issues;
7. demonstrate a critical awareness of the capacities, limitations and socio-professional implications of journalistic practices in different media.

Students may be required to go on at least one domestic fieldtrip.

Within semester assessment: 100%

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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Communication, media and screen studies

Global studies in communication and media

Journalism studies

Writing

In this unit, students will explore the practical side of developing a project for community improvement. Students will develop a project proposal, a funding application, and a public relations campaign for the selected social issue.

Upon successful completion of the unit, students should be able to:

1. Understand community engagement, the rationale for this engagement, the tactics and strategies for community program development and evaluation;
2. Identify and apply appropriate theoretical concepts to the development of an effective public relations campaign;
3. Develop suitable and measurable objectives for public relations campaigns; critically evaluate techniques for campaign effectiveness;
4. Creatively design and implement a public relations campaign for a not for profit or government organisation taking into account intercultural, pressure group lobbying and broader perspectives;
5. Demonstrate effective group/team work by contributing to the planning, research, analysis, and reporting components of a group project, and supporting and encouraging other group members;
6. Evaluate of the historical and cultural circumstances that shape the issues of pertinence in a given society and the methods by which change is advanced, including legal, electoral, and international mechanisms;
7. Write a grant proposal for a community transformation project.

Within semester assessment: 100%

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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Global studies in communication and media

This unit introduces contemporary debates surrounding the concept of post-colonialism and its attending notions including orientalism, diaspora, hybridity, cosmopolitanism, nationalism and third-world sexuality. This unit is introduced in line with the aim of globalising of the University's curriculum and in making learning relevant to the learners. The objectives, apart from creating an awareness among students with regards to their postcolonial subjectivities, also opens up a critical space with which they can engage, debate, interpret and realign. Through interaction with literature, it is hoped that students will translate what they read to how they experience their subjectivities.

Upon successful completion of the unit, students should be able to:

1. Critically appreciate their post-colonial subjectivities through an involved interaction with literature and contemporary theories of post-colonialism; this will be evidenced from their participation during tutorial sessions;
2. Understand and critically interrogate vital concepts of subjectivity such as hybridity, diaspora, exile, orientalism and post-colonialism through their engagement with text and theory so as to vitalise their awareness of the contemporary and globalised world within which they live;
3. Make informed notions of, and debate on the vicissitudes of post-colonialism and its complementary concepts in both their tutorial interactions and their assignments and exams.

Within semester assessment: 100%

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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Global asia

Writing

This unit explores the intersections of genders, sexualities and religions within the political, social-cultural context of Southeast Asia. This focus is based on the premise that the impact of religions and by extension, ethnicities are significant to how genders and sexualities are understood and lived out in this region. Within the larger framework of Gender and Sexuality Studies, the privileging of contemporary debates, issues and concerns arising from this geographical region demonstrates realities that are situated and grounded. Within an inter-disciplinary framework, feminist and queer theories are critically applied to topics covered that include: pluralisms or fluidity of genders and sexualities in religion, narratives of becoming in the family, faith community and cyberspace, sexual citizenship in the national imaginary, construction of masculinities and femininities of those who inhabit border zones of being socially excluded/included, such as youth, migrants, sex workers and ascetics; and agency in revisiting the impasse of the universality versus cultural relativism of rights. The unit aims to enable students to reflexively engage with questions of identity, agency and praxis on the distinctiveness/'Asianness' of doing genders and sexualities in this region, and the value and limits of using an intersectional analysis on genders, sexualities and religions.

Upon successful completion of the unit, students should be able to:

1. Identify key issues of genders, sexualities and religions in the context of Southeast Asia;
2. Discuss the intersection of genders, sexualities and religions specific to the context of Southeast Asia;
3. Construct a framework of analysis that involves identifying a research topic, literature review, key concepts as theoretical tools and media texts (for textual analysis);
4. Analyse media texts based on key concepts or ideas learned;
5. Generate research findings that are well supported by primary and secondary sources and references;
6. Formulate arguments that demonstrate a clear understanding of how integral it is to negotiate genders, sexualities with religions in the context of Southeast Asia;
7. Communicate perceptively, effectively and with cultural sensitivity and develop collaborative skills;
8. Demonstrate ethical values, cross-cultural competency as a responsible and effective global citizen.

Within semester assessment: 100%

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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Gender studies

Global asia

This unit explores key debates, issues and concerns related to Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights in global contexts, with a focus on Asia-Pacific. Key international documents that SRHR concepts are drawn from include gender-specific texts such as: the International Conference on Population and Development, Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women, Beijing Platform for Action, UN Millennium Development Goals and The Yogyakarta Principles (The Application of Human Rights Law, in relation to Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity). The unit covers topics across multidisciplinary fields of study and diverse social-cultural contexts, such as: bodily integrity, gender-based violence, genders and sexualities, HIV and AIDS and reproductive justice. The unit also explores the cross-cutting nature of SRHR in less researched areas of concern, such as, poverty, food sovereignty, security and disaster, climate justice, labour and migration and political and religious fundamentalisms.

The unit aims to enable students to critically engage with highly contemporary debates on SRHR, particularly on how it impacts youth and adolescents and to make informed and reflexive decisions on SRHR matters in their own lives. It also enables students to understand broader implications of SRHR in terms of synergising local practices and global visions.

1, Identify key issues of sexual and reproductive health and rights in global contexts, with a focus on Asia-Pacific;

1. Relate key issues of sexual and reproductive health and rights to your lived reality;
2. Apply key concepts learned to produce a solution to a problem related to sexual and reproductive health and rights;
3. Examine debates on sexual and reproductive health and rights and differentiate approaches to realising the aims of SRHR in local contexts;
4. Devise a role play that synthesises your understanding and assessment of SRHR;
5. Communicate perceptively, effectively and with cultural sensitivity and develop collaborative skills;
6. Demonstrate ethical values, cross-cultural competency as a responsible and effective global citizen.

Within semester assessment: 100%

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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Global Asia

International studies

This unit engages with two key critical modes of inquiry: feminist and queer which are distinctive methodologies for Gender Studies and Sexuality Studies. These modes of inquiry underline the full cycle of a research process: from identifying a research topic, mapping research design, generating and analysing data to writing-up and disseminating research findings. Feminist and queer methodologies or theoretical frameworks underpinning research would critically consider aspects such as: identifying research gaps with a view to giving voice to the narratives of marginalised communities (e.g. gender and sexual minorities); grounding research in their lived realities and in specific social-cultural contexts; and practising reflexivity when faced with ethical dilemmas, engaging and representing the 'other' and interpreting, writing up and disseminating data.

In addressing the 'so what' criterion of research, a feminist and queer ethos also find full expression in taking action as a primary outcome of the research process hence action research (e.g. change mindsets, review policy, formulate framework for activism, etc.). The transformative ends of such research potentially realise feminist and queer praxis and in doing so, apply learning towards effecting social justice. The unit also aims to prepare students for the capstone experience - engaging with the workplace and community.

1. Identify key aspects of queer and feminist modes of inquiry;
2. Discuss the application of queer and feminist modes of inquiry across a range of case studies;
3. Compare the appropriateness and cogency of queer and feminist modes of inquiry for action research;
4. Design a research project that engages with a queer and/or feminist mode of inquiry for action research;
5. Assess the relevance of a queer and/or feminist mode of inquiry to the challenges of action research;
6. Communicate perceptively, effectively and with cultural sensitivity;
7. Demonstrate ethical values, cross-cultural competency as a responsible and effective global citizen.

Within semester assessment: 100%

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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Gender studies

The unit examines the various ways in which civil society brings about political change. The unit is divided into three parts. First, students are provided with a broad conceptual introduction to civil society and social movements and must investigate why social movements evolved and what role they play as agents of change. In part two, students examine various case studies dealing with traditional and new social movements. During part three, students look at the international level and evaluate the degree to which NGOs and transnational movements act as agents of change.

Students successfully completing this unit should be able to:

• Evaluate the key debates regarding the origins and impacts of social movements
• Identify the different explanations for the emergence of social movements
• Evaluate the effectiveness of globalized social movements
• Have sound oral and written communication skills and be able to utilize these in debates
• Understand the importance of critical analysis and be comfortable in challenging ideas and arguments.

Within semester assessment: 100%

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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Global studies

Since the early 20th century film stars have been a central feature of cinema and have attained a prominent place within broader culture and society. They appear in magazines, on billboards, on television programmes, and now have a strong presence on the internet. The importance of stars stems from their economic function within cinema, their contributions to the meanings and affects of films, and their ideological role in defining and shaping popular conceptions of identity in societies at particular points in time. This course will offer a thorough interrogation of the star phenomenon, combining theoretical work derived from the field of 'star studies' with empirical analyses of specific films and stars. A host of extra-filmic materials, such as magazine articles, interviews, film reviews and promotional materials will also be analysed as students seek to identity the defining features of a number of star personas. Topics covered will include the history of stardom from the silent 'gods and goddesses' to modern day television stars and celebrity culture; the ideological role of stars in circulating and revealing dominant attitudes to class, gender, sexuality and race/ethnicity; and the cultural and national specificities of stardom through case studies of American, French, Indian and Southeast Asian stars. In doing so, there will be emphasis on the contribution stars make to the pleasures of cinema, while remaining attentive to the political implications of these hugely popular and highly influential representations of selfhood.

Upon successful completion of the unit, students should be able to:

1. Analyse the 'star persona' of stars from different periods and national contexts;
2. Explain the significance of specific stars to the films they appear in as well as to the broader social contexts from which they emerge;
3. Identify the main developments in the history of stardom, from the silent cinema to present day celebrity culture and explain the key cultural, political and technological reasons for such changes;
4. Apply to specific case studies theories developed in star studies, such as Richard Dyer's notion of the 'star persona', James Naremore's ideas relating to 'star performance', and a range of concepts focusing on the ideological role of stars and stardom;
5. Evaluate the political and ideological significance of stardom in general and of specific stars in particular;
6. Plan and conduct research into an area of film stardom.

Within semester assessment: 100%

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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Communication, media and screen studies

Gender studies

Global asia

Screen studies

This unit looks at the influence of social media in the 21st century, and focuses on how key technologies require new literacies. It will explore the continuities with, and divergences from, previous media forms in terms of everyday practices, entertainment, politics, and market-related contexts.

The unit covers topics such as interactions of technology and society, the commercialisation of the internet, internet and politics, everyday uses of the internet, and the future of the internet. It draws upon material and case studies from the USA, Southeast Asia, and other relevant areas.

Upon successful completion of the unit, students should be able to:

1. Explain and demonstrate how social media influence human interactions;
2. Use different software for explaining and expressing ideas, concepts and arguments;
3. Work in a team to plan and execute a social media oriented research project;
4. Use relevant theories and concepts to critically assess the place of social media in society;
5. Contextualise and explain how mobile media relate to diverse global cultural, social, political, and economic contexts.

Within semester assessment: 100%

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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Communication

Communication, media and screen studies

Global asia

Global studies in communication and media

This unit introduces students to key issues and debates about media regulation, freedom and control. Topics addressed include issues of media ownership, convergence, censorship and classification, globalisation and resistance, as well as democracy and the public sphere. Students will explore examples of policy frameworks that respond to these issues, as well as their implications and effects. The unit examines these policies in different sociocultural contexts, drawing upon material and case studies from the USA, Southeast Asia, and other relevant areas.

Upon successful completion of the unit, students will be able to:

1. identify and explain the key rhetoric's informing media regulation and the ways in which they function within and through particular policy debates;
2. analyse the historical development and contemporary application of regulatory procedures;
3. discuss and evalute policy issues of ownership, globalisation, convergence, censorship and resistance;
4. analyse media industries and their policy frameworks;
5. conduct independent research using relevant academic and non-academic sources.

Within semester assessment: 100%

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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Communication

Communication, media and screen studies

Global asia

Global studies in communication and media

This unit explores the various twentieth century theories on authorship and their relationship to the practices of reading. Topics range from the Romantic notion of authorship, to the authorship of autobiographies and films.

On successful completion of this unit students should:

1. Be able to critically evaluate the range of practices employed in authorial criticism;
2. Understand how theories of authorship have changed in the movement from Romanticism to structuralism;
3. Comprehend the difference between the subject writing and the empirical author;
4. Have a working knowledge of the relationship between film style and authorial expression;
5. Be able to identify the key features of auteur theory and understand how it is used as a means of classification in film theory.

Within semester assessment: 100%

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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Communication

Writing

This unit as a whole explores what constitutes feminist knowledges and practices in Asia. As feminisms are historically 'western-centred', the unit considers the ways in which these resonate with lived realities in Asia. As such, feminist knowledges and practices of 'women of colour' (e.g. feminist-postcolonial thought) are privileged in this unit. Highly interdisciplinary in its concerns, the unit examines fluid and contextual characteristics of a 'who is a feminist'; how feminisms are practised vis--vis transformations in and through the body, dress (e.g. veiling) or fashion, gender-based violence and gender justice; what constitutes feminist knowledge (i.e. standpoint epistemologies) and who owns or produces such knowledge (e.g. those who inhabit the margins such as queers, masculinities, diaspora, cyborgs, etc.). The unit aims to enable students to reflexively engage with the relevance of feminist theorising and practice by critically applying concepts and questions of identity, agency and feminist praxis to contemporary debates, issues or concerns. Feminisms have relevance when it potentially questions assumptions or biases even prejudices, reviews existing practices, particularly those that lead to gender-based discrimination and violence, opens-up possibilities for providing solutions to a particular problem or redress to a social injustice or spaces of negotiation to a controversy or impasse.

Students successfully completing this unit should be able to:

1. Identify contemporary issues related to feminisms in an Asian context;
2. Relate key feminist concepts to your lived reality;
3. Apply key concept learned - often Western-based and centred - to show its relevance to a contemporary debate, issue or concern in Asia;
4. Examine and compare feminist debates in Asian and global contexts;
5. Appraise the complexities, possibilities, and limitations of linking feminist theories and practices;
6. Compose responses to questions based on weekly requisite readings that demonstrate a clear understanding of how feminisms operate in Asia and the broader Western context;
7. Communicate perceptively, effectively and with cultural sensitivity and develop collaborative skills;
8. Demonstrate ethical values, cross-cultural competency as a responsible and effective global citizen.

Within semester assessment: 100%

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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Gender studies

Global asia

What are the defining features of Southeast Asian cinema and what can they tell us about the culture, society and politics within the region?. This unit examines the cinema from several Southeast Asian countries through the close analysis of key films, the use of a range of critical approaches, and by situating the cinema within the historical contexts of its production and reception. Here the unit investigates the changing nature of cinema in the region, while also exploring the relationships between films and key moments in Southeast Asian history. The unit examines the region's cinema from a variety of perspectives, taking into account critically acclaimed film movements and directors, many of whom have performed well at film festivals across the world, while also discussing the genres and conventions that make up the region's popular filmmaking traditions.

Upon successful completion of the unit, students will be able to:

1. identify and explain the core issues that define Southeast Asian cinemas;
2. recognise and evaluate the value of competing critical perspectives on Southeast Asian cinema;
3. contrast the similarities and differences in the formal features used in a wide range of Southeast Asian films from across generic and national contexts;
4. assess some of the key historical developments in Southeast Asia and how these are articulated in its cinema;
5. apply relevant theories of the moving image to a variety of case studies.

Within semester assessment: 100%

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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Screen studies

Global Asia

This unit introduces students to key concepts and theories in the discipline of International relations with the aim of exploring how these help explain events and developments in world politics. Students will examine how material power and interests as well as norms, culture, and ideas/theories shape outcomes in the international system, considering theoretically their role in inter-state conflict and war, prospects for peace and cooperation, as well as broader governance questions pertaining to human rights, development and the environment. Drawing also on cases, developments, events and skills encountered in other International Studies subjects, a key aim of this unit is to consider whether it is possible to secure broader normative and humanitarian goals in a state-centric international system that still appears to take seriously the preservation of state sovereignty.

Upon successful completion of the unit, students will be able to:

1. Identify key concepts and theoretical perspectives in International Relations and explain the differences between these theoretical models;
2. Compare how different theoretical perspectives in International Relations explain events, the behaviour of key actors and structural developments in the international system;
3. Apply the various theoretical perspectives and conceptual tools studied in this unit to analyse contemporary issues in world politics;
4. Evaluate key debates in International Relations, especially as they apply to contemporary world issues and conflicts; and
5. Present and defend verbal/written arguments on contemporary issues in International Relations, including by reflecting on key sources and references used to develop these positions.

Within semester assessment: 100%

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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Global studies

Global studies in communication and media

The unit aims at assisting students towards an informed understanding of how masculinities are understood and enacted in Asia (Singapore, Malaysia, Sri Lanka, India, Bangladesh, South Korea, Japan), Africa (Uganda, Sub-Saharan Africa, Ethiopia), and in the United States. Scholars note that a more holistic approach to Gender Studies must take into serious consideration the meanings and relationalities between femininities and masculinities, particularly in the ways in which these synergies manifest diversely around the globe. Inspired by the insights of the celebrated masculinities scholar Raewyn Connell, this unit challenges flattened impressions of masculinity as universal, singular manifestations, and invites students to consider the unstable constructions of masculinities in relation to femininities and other intersecting issues. This eye-opening unit covers topics such as patriarchy and violence, military, spiritualities, non-heteronormative sexualities, disease, marriage, cooking, racism and female masculinities. Through a close examination of highly diverse and exciting resources, students will engage with and understand the complex and shifting performances of masculinities that impact men (and women) in Asia, Africa and the United States.

Upon successful completion of the unit, students will be able to:

1. analyse and explain key theoretical concepts of masculinities;
2. critique the various constructions of masculinity with their attendant (de)valorisations in Asia, Africa and the United States;
3. analyse the various understandings and enactments of masculinities as they are lived out in Asia, Africa and the United States;
4. apply key aspects of masculinity theory to critically examine relevant contemporary issues.

Within semester assessment: 100%

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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Gender studies

This multidisciplinary capstone unit is designed to be a culminating experience for students in the School of Arts and Social Sciences. Students from Communications, Writing, Global Studies, and Gender Studies majors will work in groups on a policy report and recommendation on a specific issue of contemporary concern. Students will bring their disciplinary expertise to bear in identifying the key challenges inherent to the issue and proposing solutions to these challenges. The report and policy recommendations will be presented to an external expert in the specific issue area.

Upon successful completion of the unit students will be able to:

1. identify various state and non-state actors and their roles in contributing to and resolving an international policy issue;
2. critically analyse the goals and motivations of various actors involved with an international policy issue;
3. collaborate effectively with peers in a small group environment;
4. interpret primary and secondary documents through developing critical reading skills;
5. communicate ideas and arguments in verbal form;
6. write and present policy briefs.

Within semester assessment: 100%

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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Communication

Gender studies

Global asia

Global studies

Writing

How are the internet and digital media making a difference to society, and how can we communicate awareness of these changes to society?.

The unit builds upon the previous units in the Bachelor of Digital Media Studies to bring together digital literacy skills and academic analysis of the dynamics of socioeconomic, cultural, and political impacts of the internet and digital media.

It will focus on the implications of networked communication technologies in interpersonal, local and global contexts by drawing upon relevant theories and case studies. It will ask students to create digital content aimed at spreading awareness of social, cultural and/or political issues related to the use of the internet and digital media.

Upon successful completion of the unit, students should be able to:

1. explain and demonstrate how the internet and digital media influence emerging socioeconomic, cultural, and political practices;
2. contextualise and explain how the internet and digital media relate to diverse interpersonal, local and global contexts;
3. critically evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of common scholarly explanations of the emergence and diffusion of the internet and digital media within society;
4. work in a team to plan and execute a project related to awareness of internet and digital media related social issues;
5. use different digital tools for explaining and expressing ideas, concepts and arguments.

Within semester assessment: 100%

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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Communication

Communication, media and screen studies

Global studies in communication and media

This unit introduces students to the global economy and its governance. It enables students to critically examine conflicts among states, firms, international organizations, NGOs and other groups over how the global economy is governed. Key questions to be explored are:

1. How do different political and economic ideas influence global economic governance, including in trade and finance, and whose interests are privileged as a result?
2. How have groups such as women and labour and issues such as the environment fared under neoliberal approaches to governance?
3. Should we govern the global economy to achieve stability and efficiency, or should we also attempt to achieve justice?

On successful completion of this unit, students will be able to:

1. Identify and interpret the changes that have occurred in how the world economy has been governed since the end of the Second World War;
2. Understand how different political and economic ideas that underpin distinct approaches to global economic governance privilege some actors and normative values at the expense of others;
3. Explain why conflicts occur among states, firms, international organizations, NGOs and other groups over how the global economy is governed;
4. Engage with and evaluate key normative debates on how the global economy should be governed.

   Students will meet the objectives of the unit by:

   1. Participating actively in tutorial discussions;
   2. Reading critically about the topics covered in lectures;
   3. Writing and submitting an essay that presents a well-researched and carefully argued analysis of the material covered in the unit;
   4. Demonstrating in the examination knowledge and understanding of key concepts and theoretical debates on global economic governance and their application to different case studies.

Within semester assessment: 60%

Exam: 40%

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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Global studies

International crises are complex phenomena driven by states and a variety of non-state actors including media conglomerates, epistemic communities and intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations. This unit examines a number of interrelated themes dealing with the development and resolution of various types of global crises.

Students will be assigned specific roles and participate in an extended online and face-to-face crisis simulation. This theoretically grounded simulation requires students to work strategically with classmates to resolve the crisis according to role-specific objectives. Students will explore a number of factors that may prevent or accelerate the escalation of international crises, including: intervention by the international community, international agreements, the increasing concentration of media power, the emergence of social media, and transnational movements.

Upon successful completion of the unit, students should be able to:

1. Identify trends in coverage of international crises by the global news media;
2. Identify various state and non-state actors and their roles in a crisis;
3. Critically analyse the goals and motivations of various actors during a crisis;
4. Collaborate effectively with peers in a small group environment;
5. Analyse the role of international organizations in resolving international crises;
6. Interpret primary and secondary documents through developing critical reading skills;
7. Communicate ideas and arguments in verbal form;
8. Write research briefs and persuasive press statements.

Within semester assessment: 100%

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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Communication

Communication, media and screen studies

Global asia

Global studies

Global studies in communication and media

Journalism studies

The internship provides students with the opportunity to integrate theory with practice, and to gain first-hand experience in working in the area of specialty in which they want to pursue after graduation. The work placement is aimed at consolidating and extending what they have learnt from core units and other Degree units, through experiential learning. The unit develops their understanding of the application of academically obtained knowledge and skills in a workplace environment, and facilitates their acquisition of work-based networks for potential employment opportunities. Separate internship programs are drawn up for each student.

As a capstone unit for those who intend to major in Gender Studies, this unit serves as the practicum for Gender and Sexuality Studies. The capstone experience enables these students to reflexively engage with the application of feminist and queer theories to the workplace. Work placements in non-governmental organisations in global contexts are strongly encouraged as these settings led themselves more adequately to such critical engagement of synergising the learning in the classroom and learning within the community. Feminist praxis that is aimed at realising social justice potentially finds expression through student- assessment of the relevance of a transformative education that potentially leads to exciting career prospects.

Upon completion of the unit, students will be able to:

1. Identity the significance of the workplace of your choice in terms of its organisational structure, goals and philosophy in relation to your field(s) of study;
2. Apply relevant theoretical concepts and skills learned in the classroom through intersectional analyses to workplace tasks, duties or responsibilities assigned;
3. Evaluate learning at the workplace to consider broader political, social and cultural implications;
4. Generate independent learning and working skills in a corporate or activist environment;
5. Communicate perceptively, effectively and with cultural sensitivity and develop collaborative skills;
6. Demonstrate professional ethical values, cross-cultural competency as a responsible and effective global citizen.

Within semester assessment: 100%

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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Communication, media and screen studies

Gender studies

Global asia

Global studies in communication and media

Writing

This unit provides a detailed exploration of the research and reporting practices for business, industrial and economic reporting. It canvasses the main documentary sources, geographical locations, key personalities and institutions, and contemporary issues in this field. It places contemporary practices in their larger historical and geographical contexts, and critically considers the professional and social implications and accountabilities of reporting in this specialized field. Please be aware that access to certain technology/equipment will be required for this unit. Contact the unit coordinator for details.

Upon successful completion of the unit, students should be able to:

1. Demonstrate an ability to identify and research a business / industrial / economic story, conduct interviews and gather appropriate evidence in the appropriate medium;
2. Demonstrate an ability to select an advantageous medium for presentation, and report in a clear, concise and factual way using news conventions in at least two media;
3. Identify, observe key ethical and legal obligations associated with business / industrial / economic journalism, and reflect critically on their own and others' performance in this regard;
4. Work independently and collaboratively in learning and production processes, including online forums, to produce business / industrial/ economic reports;
5. Demonstrate an ability to set and meet deadlines, and report under pressure;
6. Demonstrate an awareness of local, national and international people and events relevant to current affairs and media issues;
7. Demonstrate a critical awareness of the capacities, limitations and socio-professional implications of journalistic practices in in the field of business, industry and economics.

Within semester assessment: 100%

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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Communication, media and screen studies

Global studies in communication and media

Journalism studies

Writing

The unit covers a range of compositional techniques used in prose fiction. The weekly topics are organised around exercises designed to develop skills in effective use of creative detail, in conscious crafting of formal elements or writing techniques (e.g. building character, developing storyline, describing place, cultivating writing style or voice, identifying a narrative structure, etc.), and in preparation and editing of copy for publication.

On successful completion of this unit students will have:

1. An understanding of a range of practices and techniques in contemporary writing through reading, analysis and practice;
2. Refined and extended communication and writing skills across a number of literary and other forms and for a variety of audiences;
3. Skills in editing, proofing and preparation of copy for publication;
4. Advanced writing and reading skills as a member of an Internet writing group;
5. A dossier of research, ideas for writing and examples of drafts and finished work at the end of the unit.

Within semester assessment: 100%

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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Communication, media and screen studies

Writing

This unit approaches creative writing in terms of its status as a product of processes of experimentation (as distinct from personal expression). Students will explore a range of strategies for experimenting with forms and with themes through weekly exercises, investigations into theories from inter-disciplinary fields of study (e.g. communication, literary, film, gender/queer studies, etc.), and contextualised in varied social-political and cultural contexts. The major composition that is built on weekly exercises has a thematic focus that is student-driven and demonstrates the processes of researching, drafting and editing creative texts. The unit is oriented towards practical and critical application of advanced experimental strategies and thus emphasises the importance of research into literary, non-literary, fictional, non-fictional texts so that students can better appreciate the extent of originality of style and content of their work in relation to that of published authors. The unit is also oriented towards the production of effective and experimental writing, and the importance of reflecting on creative work through the critical techniques of exegesis.

On successful completion of the unit students will have:

1. An ability to experiment with a range of writing structures and techniques, and to assess these writing strategies in terms of their effectiveness and creativeness;
2. Skills in researching and critically reflecting on writing projects, and an appreciation of the importance of the research and exegetical stages in the creative writing processes;
3. Skills in editing, proofing and preparation of copy for publication; advanced writing and reading skills as a member of an Internet writing group; and
4. A dossier of research, ideas for writing and examples of drafts and finished work at the end of the unit.

Within semester assessment: 100%

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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Writing

The primary objective of the unit is to help students compile a collection of

their writing samples across genres to serve as a portfolio for job seeking

purposes upon graduation. Students will bring to bear the breadth of their

learning in their first and second year units to engage in a series of creative

and non-creative writing exercises. Emphasis for this unit will be more on

the latter, and will focus especially on genres frequently associated with the

workplace such as writing reviews, writing a short argumentative piece on a

given topic, writing speeches, writing advertising materials, lifestyle writing,

and so forth. One of the assignments is tagged to the Commonwealth Young

Writerfs Prize, and students have the option to do a creative writing

assignment to be submitted as an entry if he/she wishes. The unit will also

feature various guest speakers including professionals involved in the

publishing industry, and well known writers and journalists, to expose

students in this unit to the complexities of publishing onefs work successfully.

Upon successful completion of the unit, students will be:

1. aware of the fundamental elements in various genres of writing commonly associated with the work place, including writing a review, an

   argumentative piece, a speech, a publicity material, etc;

2. knowledgeable about the local publishing industry and the pros and cons of being a professional writer;

3. equipped with a portfolio accommodating a sample of their writings across genres that they can use when applying for jobs upon graduation;

4. alert to writing fundamentals and editing issues through consistent peer-reviewing, and providing feedback to, each other with regards to their composition exercises.

Within semester assessment: 100%

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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Writing

Under the supervision of an academic staff member, students will develop, and commence the implementation and reporting of, a research project on an approved topic of their own devising. This unit is followed by Arts honours dissertation 1 (AMU4719), under which the project and thesis will be completed.

Students will:

1. Commence planning, conducting and reporting on research in their Honours discipline;
2. Demonstrate satisfactory progress in the planning, implementation and reporting of their research;
3. Demonstrate satisfactory progress in their command of the research literature relating to their research project.

Satisfactory progress towards a 15,000 - 18,000 words research dissertation: 100%

Minimum total expected workload to achieve the learning outcomes for this unit is 288 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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Anthropology

Communications and media studies

International studies

Under the supervision of an academic staff member, students will implement and report on a research project commenced in the unit Arts honours dissertation 1 (AMU4718) on an approved topic of their own devising.

Students will:

1. Plan, conduct and report on research in their Honours discipline;
2. Demonstrate a practical understanding of the ethical issues associated with conducting research, where relevant;
3. Demonstrate a command of the research literature relating to their research project.

Completed research thesis (15,000 to 18,000 words): 100%

Minimum total expected workload to achieve the learning outcomes for this unit is 288 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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Anthropology

Communications and media studies

International studies

This unit provides training in research methodologies and theoretical frameworks, including approaches to ethics and intellectual property management. Study is developed around a research project based on identified industry needs. The project is to be designed, developed and budgeted to proposal stage and becomes the basis for assessment in the unit. The unit provides the opportunity to explore vocational interests in a chosen aspect of the communications and media industry while maintaining a critical approach to research.

Upon successful completion of the unit, students will be able to:

1. develop critical awareness of theoretical, ethical and intellectual property issues relevant to research in academic and industry settings, and to do so in the context of developing a comprehensive research proposal;
2. be trained in social sciences & humanities research methodologies and theoretical frameworks for research, including approaches to ethics and intellectual property management;
3. learn to design, develop and budget a research project;
4. explore vocational interests in a chosen aspect of various industries (like media & communication) while maintaining a critical approach to research.

Within semester assessment: 100%

Minimum total expected workload to achieve the learning outcomes for this unit is 288 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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Communications and media studies

International studies

The unit is a reading course that grounds students in contemporary debates on a range of social and cultural theory at an advanced level through a mixture of lecture inputs and seminars. Students will acquire interdisciplinary skills in critically evaluating key theoretical debates and situating them in the context of their thesis research projects.

Upon completion of the unit, students should have acquired:

1. Critical familiarity and competence with major debates in contemporary social and cultural theory;
2. Interdisciplinary proficiency in discussing and debating, in writing and orally, advanced theoretical concepts;
3. Critical relevance of the theoretical debates in connection with their own thesis research projects.

Within semester assessment: 100%

Minimum total expected workload to achieve the learning outcomes for this unit is 288 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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Communications and media studies

International studies

The unit involves an international field trip to Monash Malaysia and provides students with formal and applied training in qualitative and ethnographic field research methods. The unit consists of a two week (16 day) stay in Malaysia. This includes a field site visit, in which students will work with the Australian-based unit coordinator, local staff members from the School of Arts and Social Sciences (Monash Malaysia) and the Southeast Asian Community Observatory (SEACO) to conduct small-scale research projects, gather data in the field, analyse, and present their findings. Students also spend time at Monash Malaysia Sunway campus at the start and end of the field trip, with briefings and introductory presentations by academic staff, and data analysis and debriefing workshops at the end. In this briefing, students also learn about the socioeconomic and development context of Malaysia and the districts in which they will conduct their research. They will engage with the ethical issues of field research in regional Malaysia. Students also learn about the aims, objectives and research methods of the research platform in which their field project is situated.

On completion of the unit, students will have:

1. an understanding of some of the key sustainable development issues facing communities in regional and rural Malaysia;
2. an understanding of the ethical dimensions of community-based research in Malaysia, including those issues particular to the research setting or platform of their field project (i.e. SEACO or other research program);
3. formal training in qualitative and ethnographic research methods;
4. field experience of developing a research question, designing appropriate research field methods, gathering data, and analysing that data;
5. experience of working with field interpreters, and working in complex cross-cultural settings;
6. experience of communicating in a presentation and written report the significance, design and findings of a small-scale research project.

Within semester assessment: 100%

Minimum total expected workload to achieve the learning outcomes for this unit is 288 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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16 days intensive study abroad unit in Sunway, Malaysia

International development practice

This unit provides an introduction to spoken and written modern standard Chinese to students with no prior knowledge of Mandarin. An overview of the important sentence structures of modern standard Chinese is begun with equal emphasis on the four skills of reading, writing, listening and speaking. Students will also be

introduced to culture and customs as they relate to everyday life.

Upon successful completion of this unit, students will have acquired:

1. The ability to read around 250 Chinese characters and identify important associated radicals.
2. The ability to write around 250 Chinese characters in simple composition.
3. The ability to use oral/aural skills necessary for communication in a small number of everyday practical situations (approximates to Common European Framework of Reference for Languages A1).
4. The ability to use the pinyin Romanisation system.
5. A basic critical understanding of Chinese culture and customs as they relate to daily life.

Within semester assessment: 45% + Exam: 55%

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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Students choosing the flexible mode can choose to access lecture material solely through Monash University Lectures Online recordings or to attend lectures on-campus.

Online synchronous (real time) tutorial, seminar and computer lab class times will be offered as an alternative to on-campus classes. A minimum attendance rate of 75% is required for these classes to avoid penalty.

Flexible students will be required to come to the Clayton campus in person on a total of 3 occasions during the semester. This includes attendance at one lecture test, one oral presentation and one end of semester oral exam. They will also be required to attend a Monash nominated exam venue for the written exam at the end of semester .

Students choosing the flexible mode must have reliable access to high-speed broadband, have a computer with a minimum of 4MB RAM and an independent graphics card, and a headset with microphone.

Chinese studies

This unit continues the overview of the important sentence structures of modern standard Chinese begun in Chinese Introductory 1. Equal emphasis is placed on the four skills of reading, writing, listening and speaking. Students will continue to be familiarized with Chinese culture and customs as they relate to daily life from a cross-cultural perspective.

Upon successful completion of this unit, students will be able to have acquired:

1. The ability to read around an additional 250 Chinese characters
2. in total) and identify important associated radicals.
3. The ability to write around an additional 250 Chinese characters in simple composition (around 500 in total).

4. The ability to use oral/aural skills necessary for communication in a range of everyday practical situations (approximates to Common European Framework of Reference for Languages A1+).

5. The ability to use the pinyin Romanisation system.
6. A critical understanding of Chinese culture and customs as they relate to daily life from a cross-cultural perspective.

Within semester assessment: 45% + Exam: 55%

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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Students choosing the flexible mode can choose to access lecture material solely through Monash University Lectures Online recordings or to attend lectures on-campus.

Online synchronous (real time) tutorial, seminar and computer lab class times will be offered as an alternative to on-campus classes. A minimum attendance rate of 75% is required for these classes to avoid penalty.

Flexible students will be required to come to the Clayton campus in person on a total of 3 occasions during the semester. This includes attendance at one lecture test, one oral presentation and one end of semester oral exam. They will also be required to attend a Monash nominated exam venue for the written exam at the end of semester .

Students choosing the flexible mode must have reliable access to high-speed broadband, have a computer with a minimum of 4MB RAM and an independent graphics card, and a headset with microphone.

Chinese studies

This unit introduces students to interdisciplinary approaches to addressing the key challenges facing the global community. Students are introduced to historical and contemporary concepts, ideas, and frameworks necessary for critically reflecting on the impact of globalisation across cultures. Key to this reflection will be the development of skills in understanding institutions, cultures and people across a range of local, regional, and global contexts. The unit will enable students to identify, define and describe key global challenges and to apply the interdisciplinary knowledge gained in this unit to critique and construct knowledge in this area.

1. Demonstrate an understanding of key concepts and frameworks.
2. Identify key global issues and relate these to different disciplinary contexts.
3. Synthesize a range of sources and apply to understanding different global contexts.
4. Demonstrate collaborative skills and leadership potential.
5. Communicate interdisciplinary knowledge in multiple formats (written, oral, audio-visual).

Within semester assessment: 100%

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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Bachelor of Global StudiesBachelor of Global Studies (http://www.monash.edu.au/pubs/2018handbooks/courses/A2001.html)

This unit is a general introduction to the study of religions, spirituality, and belief and non-belief, in the contemporary world. In particular, it introduces a range of theoretical and methodological approaches, and examines some of the pressing intellectual questions that are raised by (and for) religions, spirituality, belief and non-belief.

Issues canvassed include: religion and colonisation; religion and environmental degradation; religion, gender and sexuality; religion and spirituality; religious responses to modernity; and religion, secularisation, and non-belief. The future of religions will also be discussed, in the light of the theories and methods introduced in the unit.

1. Students who have completed this unit will have an enhanced ability to critically analyse and evaluate the concepts employed in, and the doctrines accepted by, the world's religions, as well as to put forward ideas and arguments of their own in a clear and coherent way. ("Monash Graduates will be critical and creative scholars who apply research skills to a range of challenges, and communicate perceptively and effectively.")
2. Students who have completed this unit will have an enhanced knowledge of theories of religion, and of key issues in contemporary studies of religion.

Within semester assessment: 70% + Exam: 30%

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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Islamic studies

Religious studies

This unit introduces students to the history, core teachings and central practices of many of the world's religions: indigenous Australian traditions, Indian religions (Hinduism, Sikhism), Buddhism, Chinese and Japanese religions (Taoism, Confucianism, Shintoism), Judaism, Christianity, Islam, and new religious movements.

The unit looks at religions as dynamic, ongoing forces that given meaning and direction to human lives, and that shape the collective experience of human beings in diverse socio-historical settings.

The unit does not aim to make judgments about what is right and wrong, but rather sets out to aid the development of knowledge and understanding of the broad sweep of religious traditions.

1. This unit contributes to the making of responsible and effective global citizens who:
   • engage in an internationalised world,
   • exhibit cross-cultural competence, and
   • demonstrate ethical values. (Cf. Monash Graduate Attributes).

   Having a basic grasp of the world's religions is part of cross-cultural competence (and is a basic requirement for responsible and effective global citizens). And the development of tolerance of diverse religious beliefs is a basic component of ethical maturity.

2. Students who have completed this unit will have a deeper understanding of the history, core teachings and central practices of a wide range of religious traditions. They will be able to identify distinguishing features of these various religious traditions, and to compare points of similarity and difference among them.
3. Students who have completed this unit will also have an enhanced ability to critically analyse and evaluate the concepts employed in, and the doctrines accepted by, the world's religions, as well as to put forward ideas and arguments of their own in a clear and coherent way. ("Monash Graduates will be critical and creative scholars who apply research skills to a range of challenges, and communicate perceptively and effectively.")

Within semester assessment: 70% + Exam: 30%

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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Islamic studies

Religious studies

This unit develops fundamental music technical skills by studying technically-focused repertoire drawn from the literature of the student's principal instrument or voice. The choice of repertoire presented should prepare students to present music performance repertoire in ATS1045 Performance 2.

Upon successful completion of the unit, students will be able to:

1. identify fundamental conventions of instrumental/vocal technique;
2. perform technical work, demonstrating control of rhythm, articulation, timbre and intonation (if applicable);
3. prepare technical work, etudes and instrumental/vocal literature;
4. demonstrate musicianship through the phrasing, dynamic control and general expression in the relevant repertoire;
5. perform competently in a chosen/approved music ensemble;
6. demonstrate music listening skills through verbal critiques.

Within semester assessment: 40% + Exam: 60%

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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Ethnomusicology and musicology

Music performance

This unit develops fundamental music performance skills by studying repertoire drawn from the literature of the student's principal instrument or voice. The choice of repertoire presented should be of greater complexity and difficulty than that studied in ATS1044 Performance 1.

Upon successful completion of the unit, students will be able to:

1. utilise fundamental conventions of instrumental/vocal technique;
2. perform instrumental/vocal repertoire, demonstrating control of rhythm, articulation, timbre and intonation (if applicable);
3. prepare chosen works to demonstrate knowledge of relevant instrumental/vocal repertoire;
4. demonstrate musicianship through phrasing, dynamics control and general expression found in the chosen repertoire;
5. perform competently in a chosen/approved music ensemble;
6. demonstrate music listening skills through verbal critiques.

Within semester assessment: 40% + Exam: 60%

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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Ethnomusicology and musicology

Music performance

The unit introduces fundamental skills composition and music technology and requires students to create short original works. Upon completion of the unit, students will acquire fundamental composition, music technology and self-reflexive skills.

Upon successful completion of the unit, students will be able to:

1. identify fundamental techniques of music composition;
2. demonstrate digital audio workstation skills;
3. create short acoustic and electronic musical works;
4. identify and discuss select composition genres;
5. perform competently in a chosen/approved music ensemble;
6. critique compositions, demonstrating listening skills.

Within semester assessment: 100%

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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Composition and music technology

Ethnomusicology and musicology

The unit requires students to manipulate composition materials and apply music technology skills to create short works. Students will compose original works for small groups of acoustic instruments and manipulate recordings into compositions. In addition, students will learn basic recording skills and approaches to critique music compositions.

Upon successful completion of the unit, students will be able to:

1. apply fundamental techniques of music composition;
2. mix a music recording;
3. create short acoustic and electronic musical works;
4. identify and discuss select composition materials;
5. perform competently in a chosen/approved music ensemble;
6. critique compositions, demonstrating listening skills.

Within semester assessment: 100%

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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Composition and music technology

Ethnomusicology and musicology

This unit provides teaching in the basic language skills (speaking/listening/reading/writing) and an introduction to French society. It is designed for students with little or no knowledge of the language. Students will be encouraged to develop appropriate language learning strategies. Regular assessed homework and tests emphasize the continuous nature of language learning and the need for frequent practice. In the Specialized Culture component, students will explore an aspect of French culture and society and develop competence appropriate to their year level in the theory, practices and discourses involved in analysis of it.

Upon successful completion of the unit, students will be able to:

1. use basic speaking, listening, reading and writing skills (and appropriate vocabulary) to communicate effectively in French in a limited range of situations and on a limited range of topics;
2. locate information in basic texts in French;
3. recognise and use basic structures and sounds of French;
4. identify and use prescribed grammatical items;
5. critique aspects of contemporary French history, values and identity and their evolution;
6. interpret given information and synthesise knowledge into a prescribed format.

Within semester assessment: 60% + Exam: 40%

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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French studies

This unit develops basic language skills (speaking/listening and reading/writing) beyond the level acquired in ATS1061 and provides an introduction to modern French society. It is designed for those with limited knowledge of French. Students will be encouraged to develop appropriate language learning strategies. Regular assessed homework and tests emphasize the continuous nature of language learning and the need for frequent practice. In the Specialized Culture component, students will explore an aspect of French culture and society and develop competence appropriate to their year level in the theory, practices and discourses involved in analysis of it.

Upon successful completion of the unit, students will be able to:

1. use basic speaking, listening, reading and writing skills (and appropriate vocabulary) to communicate effectively in French in a range of past, present and future situations and on a range of topics;
2. locate information in basic texts in French;
3. recognise and use key structures and sounds of French;
4. identify and use prescribed grammatical items;
5. critique aspects of modern and contemporary French history, values and identity and their evolution;
6. interpret several prescribed sources to synthesise knowledge into a standard format.

Within semester assessment: 60% + Exam: 40%

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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French studies

The unit relates the practice of journalism to the study of journalism and how it operates in contemporary Australian society. Students gain a foundational understanding of the changing media landscape, the seismic shifts in technology, the culture of the newsroom, sources and verification, different genres of journalism, objectivity and interviewing. Drawing on scholarship as well as media case studies and a range of practical research techniques, students will examine investigative journalism, literary essays, long-form journalism, 'new journalism', documentaries, television, photojournalism and social media. In addition, the unit locates the Australian experience in its historical and international context.

On successful completion of the unit, students should be able to:

1. develop a capacity to make effective use of the relevant academic literature and interdisciplinary research related to written, visual, documentary and broadcast journalism;
2. demonstrate an ability to research, discuss and analyse issues in a clear, concise and rigorous way;
3. collaborate constructively with fellow students in learning and discussion processes, including group work, tutorial participation and tutorial debates;
4. produce their written work to deadline making effective use of the conventions of scholarly presentation and journalism(references, bibliography, etc.);
5. work independently and in groups to achieve their learning outcomes;
6. engage with different forms of journalism.

Within semester assessment: 100%

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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Journalism

The unit introduces the key practices of research and reporting for news journalism, including the technical production and narrative conventions for print and online media. Students research and produce original news stories to deadline and engage in a critical evaluation of the work of their peers.

Upon successful completion of the unit, students should be able to:

1. conceptualise what a news story could be, and identify and research a news story, conduct interviews and gather appropriate evidence;
2. report in a clear, concise, factual way using news conventions;
3. identify and observe key ethical and legal obligations associated with news reporting, and reflect critically on their own and others' performance in this regard;
4. set and meet deadlines, and report under pressure;
5. demonstrate an awareness of local, national and international people and events relevant to current issues and media issues.

Within semester assessment: 100%

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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Journalism

This unit is for students with little or no knowledge of the language. This unit consists of two components. Component 1: Language. A communicatively oriented German language course designed for all-round development in the language. Component 2: This component will familiarise students with the history, culture and the socio-economic conditions of the German-speaking countries.

1: On completion of this subject and its sequel in semester 2, students should have acquired a basic German vocabulary of about 2000 words; be able to engage in basic German conversations, e.g. introducing oneself and others, asking about someone's nationality, job, age, ordering meals in a restaurant, giving directions, describing things etc.; have acquired a practical knowledge of three of the four grammatical cases of German, of the present and perfect tenses and of the basic sentence forms (statement, question, imperative), including use of modal verbs; be able to write letters and simple descriptions of holidays etc.

2: On completion of this subject and its sequel in semester 2, students should have gained a basic understanding and first insight into basics of modern German history, culture and literature.

Within semester assessment: 30%

Exam: 70%

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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German studies

This unit is for students with little or no knowledge of the language. This unit consists of two components. Component 1: Language. A communicatively oriented German language course designed for all-round development in the language. Component 2: This component will familiarise students with the history, culture and the socio-economic conditions of the German-speaking countries.

1: On completion of this subject and its sequel in semester 2, students should have acquired a basic German vocabulary of about 4000 words; be able to engage in basic German conversations, e.g. introducing oneself and others, asking about someone's nationality, job, age, ordering meals in a restaurant, giving directions, describing things etc.; have acquired a practical knowledge of three of the four grammatical cases of German, of the present and perfect tenses and of the basic sentence forms

(statement, question, imperative), including use of modal verbs; be able to write letters and simple descriptions of holidays etc.2: On completion of this subject and its sequel in semester 2, students should have gained a basic understanding and first insight into basics of modern German history, culture and literature.

Within semester assessment: 25% + Exam: 75%

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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German studies

The primary focus of the unit is to develop fundamental communication skills required for use in interacting with Indonesians. The overarching theme is on biography and the unit draws on the biographies of Indonesians, Australians and others who have had an impact on Indonesia's development and/or its relationship with the world. Cultural lectures explore the lives of Indonesians and the creation of the nation using film and literature as primary media. Tutorials provide language practice and opportunities to express personal experiences and interests in Indonesian while developing knowledge of structure and cultural practice in language use. Students taking this unit are not expected to have any prior knowledge of Indonesian language or culture.

Upon successful completion of the unit students will be able to:

1. apply a practical knowledge of Indonesian language and culture to present information about themselves and others in Indonesian;
2. understand and utilise the Indonesian writing system as it relates to sound and spelling;
3. use an Indonesian dictionary through an awareness and understanding of Indonesian morphology;
4. apply basic research skills to retrieve, synthesise and communicate information related to biographies of prominent Indonesians in English.

Within semester assessment: 70% + Exam: 30%

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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Indonesian studies

The unit aims to consolidate and extend cultural knowledge and communication skills commenced in ATS1111. The primary theme of the unit is focused on journeys or travel as an influence on cultural interaction and personal awareness. The cultural lectures explore journeys in road films and literature through translated text. The tutorials provide opportunities for language practice and presentations related to students own journeys. Students taking this unit are required to have completed ATS1111 or have acquired a basic knowledge of Indonesian language and culture through formal study or in-country experience.

Upon successful completion of the unit students will be able to:

1. apply an extended knowledge of the Indonesian language to present experiences related to journeys or travel;
2. query and discuss common contrasting and shared cultural practices in daily life;
3. discuss, present, and apply frequently used Indonesian grammatical forms related to word formation and sentence structure;
4. apply basic research skills to retrieve, synthesise and communicate information related to significant historical or contemporary journeys made through the Indonesian/Malay Archipelago in English.

Within semester assessment: 75% + Exam: 25%

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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Indonesian studies

Knowledge of the evolving digital "grammar" of video production, broadcasting, news reporting, advertising, and social media is a powerful literacy that is essential for media communication professionals of the future. This "hands on", project-based unit provides you with a collaborative learning space where you can combine analytical skills in digital literacy with practical skills in media production to develop digital fluency. You will work in small groups to create a digital storytelling project that reflects on an aspect of media communication of relevance to the digital age. You will also have opportunities for self-initiated learning and individual assignments.

Upon successful completion of the unit, students will be able to:

1. identify and discuss the communicative role of specific digital media and different uses of digital storytelling;
2. analyse key elements of a variety of digital communication;
3. think critically about the legal and ethical issues of digital communication;
4. work reflectively, independently and collaboratively with peers to develop and demonstrate technical proficiency and digital literacy skills;
5. apply digital literacy skills to create a digital story that critically reflects on the evolving languages of digital communication.

Within semester assessment: 100%

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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Bachelor of Media CommunicationBachelor of Media Communication (http://www.monash.edu.au/pubs/2018handbooks/courses/A2002.html)

What is public relations? Is it simply spin, a professional practice, a global industry, or all of these? How can you be an ethical communicator when representing your client or employer? This unit explores the fundamentals of public relations practice in a dynamic communication environment. You will learn about public relations history and its links with other media industries as well as the contemporary public relations industry in Australia. Working in small teams, you will also learn the basics of campaign strategy development by responding to a real-world issue and develop your public relations writing skills.

Upon successful completion of the unit, students will be able to:

1. define "public relations" from industry and multidisciplinary perspectives;
2. identify and discuss major challenges for contemporary and ethical public relations practice;
3. develop a communication plan in response to a client brief;
4. communicate key messages to diverse audiences across different media platforms, writing genres and through an oral presentation.

Within semester assessment: 100%

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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Public relations

This unit aims to develop knowledge, strategies and skills to interact in Japanese, in situations likely to be encountered in Australia and Japan and to establish a firm foundation of linguistic, sociolinguistic and sociocultural knowledge which can be creatively applied in a variety of situations.

Upon completing Japanese Introductory 1, students will be able to:

1. Understand simple greetings, self-introductions, and simple dialogues, based on routines practiced in class.
2. Read simple and familiar texts written in hiragana, katakana and basic kanji.
3. Participate in interactions, using basic vocabulary and grammar practiced in class.
4. Write/type simple sentences using hiragana, katakana and approximately 60 kanji,.
5. Demonstrate a basic knowledge of some aspects of Japanese society and culture.
6. Apply basic research skills to find relevant information about given topics, organise, synthesise it and communicate it.

Within semester assessment: 60% + Exam: 40%

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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Japanese studies

This unit aims to develop knowledge, strategies and skills needed to interact in Japanese in practical contexts in Australia and Japan and also aims to extend linguistic, sociolinguistic and sociocultural knowledge to develop cross-cultural awareness and facilitate effective interaction.

Upon completing Japanese Introductory 2, students will be able to:

1. understand basic conversations about familiar topics and simple classroom instructions.
2. understand short texts written using basic vocabulary and grammar practiced in class.
3. demonstrate a knowledge about casual speech and writing styles, such as diaries and emails to Friends.
4. talk about familiar topics using vocabulary and expressions learned in class.
5. talk about their experiences and schedule in more detail, based on routines practiced in class.
6. write about personal and familiar topics using vocabulary and grammar practiced in class
7. write/type 150 kanji, including approximately 90 new kanji.
8. further develop basic knowledge of some aspects of Japanese society and culture.
9. apply basic research skills to find relevant information about given topics, organise, synthesise and analyse the information and communicate it in written form.

Within semester assessment: 60% + Exam: 40%

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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Japanese studies

This unit is designed for students with no or little knowledge of the Korean language to build a foundation in their basic knowledge of the Korean language and culture. Students will be introduced to contemporary Korean, with special emphasis on spoken usage for everyday situations. Students will also be introduced to a general overview and understanding of modern Korean history, culture and society.

Upon completing this unit, students should be able to:

1. Participate in simple social conversations in Korean
2. Use basic 'survival' Korean for traveling in Korea
3. Communicate basic information about themselves and family members
4. Read and write simple Korean
5. Demonstrate a basic understanding of Korean culture and society, through theoretical frameworks
6. Develop a critical awareness of various issues arising in the globalised world, including rapid changes in current and future work places

Within semester assessment: 60% + Exam: 40%

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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Korean studies

Building on the foundation established in Korean Introductory 1, students will continue to develop their ability to communicate in routine social situations. They will also be introduced to various learning strategies that aim to help them develop a sense of control over their own learning, leading to a lifetime of learning.

Upon completing this unit, students should be able to:

1. competently participate in simple Korean conversations about everyday life and familiar topics
2. make requests, and express agreement and refusal
3. read and write in defined contexts
4. demonstrate an increased understanding of Korean history, culture and society
5. develop basic learning strategies that will prepare them for life-long learning

Within semester assessment: 60% + Exam: 40%

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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Korean studies

The unit introduces students to developments in 20th Century actor training, focusing on vocal and physical techniques for character building and theatrical embodiment.

Students successfully completing this Unit will develop:

1. basic skills in kinaesthetic awareness in performance contextualised by (readings in) various approaches to contemporary physical performance
2. an embodied understanding of the basic performance elements of movement, dynamic interaction/ensemble work, space, image and composition
3. embodied approaches to character and text
4. skills and capacities in devising short performance works drawing on foundational physical work and improvisation
5. creative and critical reflection upon and articulation of body-based skills and strategies in performance

Within semester assessment: 100%

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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Theatre and performance

The unit builds on the learning begun in ATS1189. Students continue their study of 20th Century actor training, and develop their learning of vocal and physical techniques for character building and theatrical embodiment.

Students successfully completing this Unit will develop:

1. a strong kinaesthetic approach to centering the body, and to centering the voice and breath in the body through practice and theoretical understanding*
2. practical skills in opening up the vocal mechanism to the free flow of sound,
3. a theoretical understanding of the histories and theories of actor training*
4. an understanding applied theatre in theory and application
5. a deep engagement with the connection of voice to meaning in working with text
6. creative and critical reflection upon and articulation of body-based skills and strategies in performance*

Within semester assessment: 100%

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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Theatre and performance

ATS1191 is aimed at students with no previous experience of the Spanish language. It provides an integrated, innovative and communicatively oriented Spanish course which develops all-round competence in the basic structures of the language. In addition, students are introduced to key aspects of Spanish and Latin American cultures and societies.

On completion of this subject, students will be able to:

1. Converse in Spanish for 5 to 10 minutes about present and future activities.
2. Use the following tenses: the present habitual, the present progressive and the informal future.
3. Write compositions of up to 100 words in Spanish, with the help of a Spanish-English dictionary and a reference grammar.
4. Engage in conversations and discussions in Spanish, about themselves, their family and friends
5. Read and comprehend texts in Spanish of up to 500 words;
6. Demonstrate an understanding of key aspects of Hispanic cultures and societies.

Within semester assessment: 70% + Exam: 30%

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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Spanish and Latin American studies

ATS1192 develops language skills acquired in ATS1191 with particular emphasis on oral and written practices. In addition, students are introduced to key aspects of Hispanic cultures and societies.

On completion of this subject, students will be able to:

1. Converse in basic Spanish for 15 to 20 minutes about past, present and future activities.
2. Use the following tenses: the present habitual, the present progressive, the present perfect, preterite and imperfect, and the informal and formal future.
3. Write compositions of up to 300 words in Spanish, with the help of a Spanish-English dictionary and a reference grammar.
4. Engage in conversations and discussions in Spanish, about themselves, their family and friends, Australia and the world at large.
5. Read and comprehend newspaper articles and narrative and descriptive literary texts of up to 1000 words in Spanish.
6. Demonstrate an understanding of key aspects of Hispanic cultures and societies.

Within semester assessment: 75% + Exam: 25%

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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Spanish and Latin American studies

What are the greatest media challenges of our time? How can media professionals of the future be equipped to tackle these challenges as well as those that lie ahead which we cannot yet imagine? In this era of unprecedented levels of media change and power, media challenges cannot be understood through a single, specialist lens. The unit will complement knowledge from your chosen specialisation by providing a collaborative learning space where you will be exposed to a range of critical approaches that will assist you to develop interdisciplinary, strategic thinking skills. In addition to self-guided study, you will work with others in formal and informal teams to link content knowledge and practical skills in an investigation of a global 'real-world' media challenge of our times.

Upon successful completion of the unit, students will be able to:

1. explain a contemporary global media challenge using interdisciplinary approaches;
2. manage, evaluate and interpret sources of information relevant to issues in the media;
3. communicate coherent and persuasive arguments both orally and in professional presentation formats;
4. Utilise strategic and interdisciplinary thinking to analyse media challenges;
5. work independently and collaboratively with peers to investigate, analyse and report on a 'real-world' contemporary media challenge.

Within semester assessment: 100%

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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Bachelor of Media CommunicationBachelor of Media Communication (http://www.monash.edu.au/pubs/2018handbooks/courses/A2002.html)

This unit introduces students to central concepts at the intersection of the digital world and a range of humanistic endeavours. Through case studies based in each of the themes of the major, we examine how technological possibilities have interacted with recent work in scholarship, media and heritage studies allowing exciting new techniques and methods of research and presentation of data. We consider the bases necessary for such work, the data sources and the tools, and also investigate the new communicative possibilities that result. As well as critically engaging with existing applications in the field, students in this unit will produce digital objects presenting their own work. Through exploring the impact of technological change in this field, the unit also will foster a more general understanding of such impacts and of the inter-relation of digital technologies, society and culture.

Upon the successful completion of the unit, students will be able to:

1. recognise and evaluate the developing role of digital technologies in society and culture;
2. analyse the impact of digital technologies on the areas of media, heritage and scholarship;
3. examine and assess examples of the application of digital technologies in the analysis and dissemination of humanities data;
4. identify complex research problems and conceptualise interdisciplinary approaches to them;
5. communicate effectively utilising both traditional and innovative means.

Within semester assessment: 100%

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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Digital humanities

Introduction to Ukrainian for students with little or no knowledge of the language. The unit lays the foundation for the study of the Ukrainian language by enabling the student to acquire practical speaking, comprehension, reading and writing skills. It introduces students to key concepts of Ukrainian culture.

This subject, with its second-semester continuation, ATS1212 Ukrainian Studies 2, is intended for students with no previous knowledge of Ukrainian. On completing these subjects, students should have acquired an elementary Ukrainian vocabulary and knowledge of the basic rules of Ukrainian grammar. Students should be able to read and understand uncomplicated texts, to understand basic dialogue, to conduct a simple conversation and to write simple sentences. They should be familiar with some aspects of Ukrainian culture and some simple texts of Ukrainian literature.

Within semester assessment: 100%

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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Ukrainian studies

Consolidation and extension of the work begun in ATS1211. The unit builds on the foundations laid in ATS1211 by developing speaking, comprehension, reading and writing skills. It introduces students to aspects of Ukrainian culture and to simple literary texts.

On completing this unit, students should have acquired an elementary Ukrainian vocabulary and knowledge of the basic rules of Ukrainian grammar. Students should be able to read and understand uncomplicated texts, to understand basic dialogue, to conduct a simple conversation and to write simple sentences. They should be familiar with some aspects of Ukrainian culture and some simple texts of Ukrainian literature.

Within semester assessment: 100%

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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Ukrainian studies

The unit consists of two sections: language and culture.

Language: The unit provides an introduction to the basic language skills - listening, speaking, reading and writing (Level A1 of the European language framework).

Culture: An overview of contemporary Italian social and political history and culture with a focus on national identity and deconstruction of myths and stereotypes.

This unit is specifically designed for those students who have little or no knowledge of the language.

Upon successful completion of the unit, students should be able to:

1. listen, speak, read and write basic Italian with reference to present, past and future events in a range of everyday situations;
2. read basic authentic texts for gist or for specific information;
3. identify the basic structural aspects of Italian;
4. recognise and utilise language learning and communication strategies;
5. critically analyse issues relating to Italy's collective national imagination;
6. search, identify, evaluate and utilise reliable digital and social-media resources for the study of Italian history, culture and society.

Within semester assessment: 70% + Exam: 30%

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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Italian studies

The unit consolidates and extends listening, speaking, reading and writing skills at level A1 of the European language framework.

It also provides a deeper knowledge of contemporary Italy, through a focus on key economic and cultural sectors, such as cinema and TV, music, food, fashion and design, tourism, and football.

Upon successful completion of the unit, students should be able to:

1. interact in simple discussions and talk about aspects of daily life;
2. utilise their knowledge of all areas of Italian grammar, with some fluency in speaking, listening, reading and writing;
3. critically analyse specific issues connected to national identity and gender in contemporary Italy;
4. research, evaluate and utilise digital resources and social-media texts about Italian history, culture and society.

Within semester assessment: 70% + Exam: 30%

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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Italian studies

This unit aims to provide a basic foundation in the basic language skills: listening, speaking, reading and writing Italian, and a brief introduction to contemporary Italian social and political history and culture. It is specifically designed for those students who have little or no knowledge of the language.

Upon successful completion of this unit, learners should be able to:

1. understand, speak and write basic Italian with reference to present, past and future events in a range of everyday situations
2. read elementary but authentic Italian texts
3. understand basic structural aspects of Italian
4. have an enhanced understanding of language learning and communication strategies, and
5. understand key aspects of contemporary Italian culture and society.

Within semester assessment: 60% + Exam: 40%

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. + Additional requirements + This unit is taught intensively at Prato

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Bachelor of Global StudiesBachelor of Global Studies (http://www.monash.edu.au/pubs/2018handbooks/courses/A2001.html)

Italian Studies

International studies

This unit aims to consolidate the foundation provided by level 1 Italian in the basic language skills - listening, speaking, reading and writing Italian, and to continue the introduction to contemporary Italian social and political history and culture provided by ATS1221 or its equivalent

Upon successful completion of this unit, learners should be able to:

1. understand, speak and write basic Italian with reference to present, past and future events in a range of everyday situations
2. read elementary but authentic Italian texts
3. understand basic structural aspects of Italian
4. have an enhanced understanding of language learning and communication strategies, and
5. understand key aspects of contemporary Italian culture and society.

Within semester assessment: 60% + Exam: 40%

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. + Additional requirements + This unit is taught intensively at Prato

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Bachelor of Global StudiesBachelor of Global Studies (http://www.monash.edu.au/pubs/2018handbooks/courses/A2001.html)

International studies

Italian studies

Archaeology is the study of the material culture (the things) that remain from past communities. In this unit we show you how we recover those remains through archaeological research, and how we can use them to understand the past and its relevance to the present. We examine the cultures of the Mediterranean world (Egypt, Mesopotamia, Anatolia, Iran, and Greece) Asia and Australasia and focus on the period before 1000 BCE. We study the remains of houses, palaces, temples, pottery, tools, weapons, statues, and paintings, and we think about what they can tell us about the way communities organized their societies. We also incorporate the information we learn from written texts as well as from oral histories. Topics include human evolution, origins of farming, the growth of cities, the development of writing, the pyramids of Egypt, the complex societies of the Indus Valley, the Mycenaean kingdoms, and the fall of Troy. Hands-on tutorials explore the archaeological methods used to reconstruct ancient societies.

Upon successful completion of this unit students will:

1. Recognize the range of archaeological material available for use in the reconstruction of ancient societies.
2. Understand the advantages and limitations of the different methods employed in reconstructing the past.
3. Know the major culture/historical periods of the Mediterranean and Australia before 1000 BCE.
4. Identify the different political, social, economic and religious systems of each of the ancient cultures studied.
5. Be aware of the significance of the cultural exchange that operated between regions.
6. Be able to use artifacts, architecture, and text to critically appraise arguments about past communities.

Within semester assessment: 70% + Exam: 30%

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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Archaeology and ancient history

This unit examines how archaeological and historical evidence can be used to study territorial and cultural expansion in the past. We focus on the development of the first empires in the Mediterranean including Assyria, Babylon, Persia, Athens, Macedonia of Alexander the Great, and Rome as well as the original spread of settlements in Australia and the Pacific. We explore how archaeological remains and historical texts can be used to study the movement of people and ideas and to identify the tactics states use to expand, strengthen, and celebrate their power, including military conquest, colonisation, trade, art, and literature. We examine the military ideology of the Assyrians, the internationalism of the Persians, the culture of classical Athens that built the Parthenon, the sweeping conquests of Alexander the Great, the hybrid culture of Kleopatra's Egypt, and the economic-military power of Rome under Caesar and Augustus. Hands-on tutorials explore the archaeological and historical methods used to reconstruct complex ancient societies.

Upon successful completion of the unit, students will:

1. recognize the range of archaeological material available for use in the reconstruction of complex societies and empires;
2. understand the advantages and limitations of the different methods employed in reconstructing past societies and cultural contacts;
3. know the major cultures and historical periods of the Mediterranean from 1000 BCE to the fall of Rome, as well as key points in the settlement of Australia and the South Pacific;
4. identify the different tactics used by empires to incorporate, influence, and appropriate the territory and culture of surrounding regions;
5. analyse the structure and significance of the cultural exchange that operated between regions;
6. critically appraise arguments about past communities through the use of archaeological and historical evidence.

Within semester assessment: 70% + Exam: 30%

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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Archaeology and ancient history

The unit introduces students to ideas of social justice and Indigenous rights, focusing on the role of the state and its obligations to the international community, and Aboriginal human and civil rights and self-determination. Students will gain an appreciation of issues of Aboriginal sovereignty, land rights and native title. The unit considers histories of ideas of social justice and their relationship to colonisation in Australia.

The unit focuses on theories and practical applications of social justice and provides students with foundational knowledge required to undertake further Indigenous Studies.

On successful completion of the unit, students will:

1. have gained an understanding of the theoretical ideas that have shaped understandings of social justice and Indigenous rights;
2. have gained a broad understanding of particular social justice and human rights issues for Indigenous people, including sovereignty, questions of land and native title, service provision, and the historical treatment of Indigenous people;
3. have developed an ability to reflect on their own relationship to questions of social justice;
4. have developed an ability to critically analyse contemporary public discourse on issues of social justice and human rights;
5. have engaged in assessment which reflects these understandings as well as an awareness of the value of interdisciplinary approaches to a study of this kind.

Within semester assessment: 100%

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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Bachelor of Global StudiesBachelor of Global Studies (http://www.monash.edu.au/pubs/2018handbooks/courses/A2001.html)

Cultural competence

Indigenous cultures and histories

Anthropology is the study of the diversity of human expression through space and time, which not only focuses on differences and similarities between societies and cultures, but also on connections and contestations between them. This unit will explore these aspects through focussing on the ongoing relationship between Indigenous and Settler Australians. This unit explores points of contestation and how this has shaped the position of Indigenous and Non-Indigenous Australians in contemporary society. Key periods in Indigenous Australia are discussed and the way in which Anthropology has been involved in the process of understanding Indigenous relationships to each other and to the land.

Students in this subject can expect to learn:

1. to formulate and critically evaluate concepts for understanding differences, similarities, connections and contestations between cultures,
2. to perceive the ways in which knowledge about cultural comparisons enables us to be critically aware of our own cultural practices;
3. to appreciate some of the important features of a number of Indigenous cultures in Australia;
4. to discuss some of the key contemporary issues which exist in the relationship between Indigenous and Non-Indigenous cultures in Australia and
5. to write clear and well-supported responses to various questions posed through exercises and essays.

Within semester assessment: 100%

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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Bachelor of Global StudiesBachelor of Global Studies (http://www.monash.edu.au/pubs/2018handbooks/courses/A2001.html)

Cultural competence

Indigenous cultures and histories

Monash Intercultural lab

Anthropologists seek understanding of how differences shape the world. They look beyond everyday explanations for realities of life and culture, and use their perceptions to create better futures for humans and their collectives. Students will explore case studies in: globalisation, mobility, poverty, development, resistance, indigeneity, technology and online worlds, gender and sexuality, sex and reproduction, magic, spirituality and religion. Through these, students will be introduced to key concepts of ethnography and anthropology.

Upon completion of the unit, students will be able to

1. identify and explain basic anthropological concepts and methods;
2. articulate key concepts and methods for understanding cultural difference;
3. recognise contemporary global issues and how understandings differ globally depending on perception;
4. recognise the significance of culture and difference in the development of solutions to problems affecting individuals, collectives and environments;
5. read, think and write reflectively and critically about basic anthropological concepts and issues;
6. use prescribed academic research skills to locate, analyse and communicate information.

Within semester assessment: 100%

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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Anthropology

Bachelor of Global StudiesBachelor of Global Studies (http://www.monash.edu.au/pubs/2018handbooks/courses/A2001.html)

The unit introduces students to cognitive-behavioural, psychodynamic and social understandings of human behaviour. This multi-disciplinary orientation, including studies of the human mind, consciousness, emotion, and normal and abnormal behaviours, provides students with a broad and detailed introduction to understanding human behaviour.

Upon successful completion of this unit students will be able to demonstrate:

1. an appropriate level of understanding of a range of theoretical orientations to human behaviour
2. the ability to discriminate between evidence, interpretation, opinion and fact in evaluating these theories and concepts
3. an ability to communicate, orally and in a written form, their understanding of these theories and concepts.

Within semester assessment: 100%

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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Behavioural studies

This unit introduces students to range of key issues regarding human behaviour in its social context. Contemporary understandings of health, quality of life, social inclusion, and resilience are explored, while introducing students to concepts and theories relating to the self and social interactions. The unit takes an interdisciplinary approach, drawing from a range of subfields in psychology (e.g. social, cross-cultural and health psychology) as well as other disciplines within the social sciences (e.g. sociology and anthropology).

Upon successful completion of this unit students will be able to demonstrate:

1. An understanding of some of the contemporary issues regarding human behaviour in the social context.
2. A broad appreciation of the psychological and socio-cultural mechanisms underpinning understandings of the self and interactions with others.
3. The ability to differentiate between evidence, interpretation, opinion and fact in evaluating these theories and concepts.
4. The ability to communicate their understanding of these theories and concepts in relation to current social issues.

Within semester assessment: 70% + Exam: 30%

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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Behavioural studies

This unit investigates ethical issues raised by current and likely future developments in biotechnology and genetics. The unit examines ethical controversy surrounding the following topics, outlining the latest research in each case: genetic engineering and 'enhancement' of human traits; preimplantation and prenatal genetic diagnosis and selection; therapeutic and reproductive cloning; stem cell research; genetic modification of organisms; synthetic biology; and biological weapons.

On successfully completing this unit, students will have: a familiarity with contemporary and historical debates about new technologies in bioethics; skills that enable them to think critically about some key ethical issues raised by current and future developments in biotechnology and genetics; and the ability to make informed judgements about those ethical issues.

Within semester assessment: 65% + Exam: 35%

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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Bioethics

http://www.arts.monash.edu.au/bioethics/ugrad/chb1010.php

The unit investigates how the law and public policy should respond to advances in medicine and biotechnology, and the role of justice in these contexts. Examples of possible topics covered include: whether employers and insurance companies should be permitted to discriminate among applicants on the basis of genetic profile; whether it is discriminatory to select against sex or disability in future children; whether the law should protect individuals' genetic privacy or whether we have a duty to share our genetic knowledge; whether the law should act paternalistically to prevent people from harming themselves or making bad health decisions; whether people who are responsible for their own bad health should receive lower medical priority, and whether advances in knowledge in the biological/genetic bases for behaviour give us reason to doubt individual responsibility.

On successfully completing this unit, students will have:

1. familiarity with the key philosophical approaches to discrimination, autonomy, responsibility and equality as they apply to debates within bioethics;
2. skills enabling them to think critically about key ethical, policy and legal issues raised by recent advances in medicine and biotechnology;
3. the ability to make informed judgements about those ethical, policy and legal issues.

Within semester assessment: 65% + Exam: 35%

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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Bioethics

http://www.arts.monash.edu.au/bioethics/ugrad/chb1020.php

This unit introduces students with little or no previous knowledge to classical Latin. Students steadily acquire a good grammatical overview of Latin, reinforced by the reading of adapted Latin texts, weekly grammar exercises and vocabulary tests. More broadly, students encounter the Latin language within the context of classical Roman society and culture, and emphasis is given to Latin's grammatical legacy to English and other modern languages. Although there is no formal oral component to this unit, students are encouraged to become familiar with the pronunciation of Classical Latin.

On completion of this unit, students will have achieved:

1. A good knowledge of Latin grammar;
2. An active vocabulary in Classical Latin;
3. Reading skills in Classical Latin;
4. A learning technique in relation to Latin that will allow them to become autonomous learners of the language;
5. An understanding of the structure of Roman societies and the evolution of Roman culture in the Republican period.

Within semester assessment: 40% + Exam: 60%

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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Archaeology and ancient history