School: Arts and Humanities

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

  • Unit Title

    Contemporary Issues in Culture
  • Unit Code

    CMM3129
  • Year

    2017
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Debbie RODAN

Description

This unit involves the exploration of contemporary research in communications. Topics to be covered could include landscape representations, culture and the environment, critiques of communication and communication technologies, cross-cultural communication, discourses of the human body, popular music and culture, visual culture and subversive ideas, Asian cinema, or the issues of immediate relevance.

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded CMM2101, CMM3101, CMM3118, CMM3119, CMM4119

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Critically engage with the theoretical issues associated with the topic.
  2. Describe the historical background associated with the topic.
  3. Engage with current research on cross-cultural and international outlooks associated with the topic.
  4. Generate ideas and present research findings which demonstrate creative delivery as well as data collection and critical analysis.
  5. Outline the cultural and community issues surrounding the topic.

Unit Content

  1. Analysis of theory associated with to the topic.
  2. Cultural and international issues surrounding the topic.
  3. Historical background to the topic issues.
  4. Views from guest experts from the community.

Additional Learning Experience Information

Lectures, Tutorials and Screenings.

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant Board of Examiners.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
AssignmentAssignment 140%
AssignmentAssignment 260%

Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Academic Misconduct

Edith Cowan University has firm rules governing academic misconduct and there are substantial penalties that can be applied to students who are found in breach of these rules. Academic misconduct includes, but is not limited to:

  • plagiarism;
  • unauthorised collaboration;
  • cheating in examinations;
  • theft of other students' work;

Additionally, any material submitted for assessment purposes must be work that has not been submitted previously, by any person, for any other unit at ECU or elsewhere.

The ECU rules and policies governing all academic activities, including misconduct, can be accessed through the ECU website.

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School: Arts and Humanities

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

  • Unit Title

    Contemporary Issues in Culture
  • Unit Code

    CMM3129
  • Year

    2017
  • Enrolment Period

    2
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    A/Prof Debbie RODAN

Description

This unit involves the exploration of contemporary research in communications. Topics to be covered could include landscape representations, culture and the environment, critiques of communication and communication technologies, cross-cultural communication, discourses of the human body, popular music and culture, visual culture and subversive ideas, Asian cinema, or the issues of immediate relevance.

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded CMM2101, CMM3101, CMM3118, CMM3119, CMM4119

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Critically engage with the theoretical issues associated with the topic.
  2. Describe the historical background associated with the topic.
  3. Engage with current research on cross-cultural and international outlooks associated with the topic.
  4. Generate ideas and present research findings which demonstrate creative delivery as well as data collection and critical analysis.
  5. Outline the cultural and community issues surrounding the topic.

Unit Content

  1. Analysis of theory associated with to the topic.
  2. Cultural and international issues surrounding the topic.
  3. Historical background to the topic issues.
  4. Views from guest experts from the community.

Additional Learning Experience Information

Lectures, Tutorials and Screenings.

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant Board of Examiners.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
AssignmentAssignment 140%
AssignmentAssignment 260%

Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Academic Misconduct

Edith Cowan University has firm rules governing academic misconduct and there are substantial penalties that can be applied to students who are found in breach of these rules. Academic misconduct includes, but is not limited to:

  • plagiarism;
  • unauthorised collaboration;
  • cheating in examinations;
  • theft of other students' work;

Additionally, any material submitted for assessment purposes must be work that has not been submitted previously, by any person, for any other unit at ECU or elsewhere.

The ECU rules and policies governing all academic activities, including misconduct, can be accessed through the ECU website.

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