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

    Media and Social Context
  • Unit Code

    CMM1113
  • Year

    2019
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    2
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Mr James Leslie HALL

Description

Introduces students to the main theories and methodologies for understanding and analysing a range of communications media in their social and cultural contexts. The unit considers theories and issues of representation in how media discourses construct ways of understanding the world and our place in it, within modernist, postmodernist and globalised contexts.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Analyse the role of the media in postmodernist and globalised contexts.
  2. Discuss a range of theories informing contemporary media studies.
  3. Discuss the concepts of the individual, ideology and the social subject.
  4. Discuss the interactions between media and their social and cultural contexts.

Unit Content

  1. Essay writing skills.
  2. Ideology as a textual process.
  3. Postmodernist and globalised contexts structuring media discourses.
  4. Subjectivity, audiences and spectatorship
  5. The social power of the media.
  6. Theories of representation.
  7. This unit includes:

Learning Experience

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECU Blackboard.

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 1Not Offered13 x 1 hour lectureNot Offered
Semester 1Not Offered13 x 2 hour tutorialNot Offered
Semester 2Not Offered13 x 1 hour lectureNot Offered
Semester 2Not Offered13 x 2 hour tutorialNot Offered

For more information see the Semester Timetable

Additional Learning Experience Information

Lectures and tutorials.

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
AssignmentBlogs and Presentation60%
ExaminationExamination40%
ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
AssignmentBlogs and Presentation60%
ExaminationExamination40%

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

    Media and Social Context
  • Unit Code

    CMM1113
  • Year

    2019
  • Enrolment Period

    2
  • Version

    2
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Mr James Leslie HALL

Description

Introduces students to the main theories and methodologies for understanding and analysing a range of communications media in their social and cultural contexts. The unit considers theories and issues of representation in how media discourses construct ways of understanding the world and our place in it, within modernist, postmodernist and globalised contexts.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Analyse the role of the media in postmodernist and globalised contexts.
  2. Discuss a range of theories informing contemporary media studies.
  3. Discuss the concepts of the individual, ideology and the social subject.
  4. Discuss the interactions between media and their social and cultural contexts.

Unit Content

  1. Essay writing skills.
  2. Ideology as a textual process.
  3. Postmodernist and globalised contexts structuring media discourses.
  4. Subjectivity, audiences and spectatorship
  5. The social power of the media.
  6. Theories of representation.
  7. This unit includes:

Learning Experience

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECU Blackboard.

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 1Not Offered13 x 1 hour lectureNot Offered
Semester 1Not Offered13 x 2 hour tutorialNot Offered
Semester 2Not Offered13 x 1 hour lectureNot Offered
Semester 2Not Offered13 x 2 hour tutorialNot Offered

For more information see the Semester Timetable

Additional Learning Experience Information

Lectures and tutorials.

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
AssignmentBlogs and Presentation60%
ExaminationExamination40%
ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
AssignmentBlogs and Presentation60%
ExaminationExamination40%

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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