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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 Society in a Globalised World

  • Unit Code

    CMM5165

  • Year

    2025

  • Enrolment Period

    1

  • Version

    1

  • Credit Points

    20

  • Full Year Unit

     N

  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online

  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Claire FITZPATRICK

Description

This unit will engage critically with how media discourses construct identities, communities and nationhood. Alongside considering the social dimension of media aesthetics, it will examine different communication strategies, including the use of new media, surrounding recent major global events and their cultural impact on various societies.Workshops will allow students to consider methods of inquiry and how to apply these ideas to a number of case studies.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Critically discuss, analyse and theorise on the social significance of a range of media texts.
  2. Demonstrate cross-cultural awareness in regard to perceptions, values and beliefs, and an ability to reflect on and incorporate cultural perspectives into personal and professional contexts.
  3. Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of global communications and international perspectives in relation to journalism, advertising, public relations and cultural studies.
  4. Demonstrate knowledge of research methods of inquiry used to investigate, execute and report on professional projects.
  5. Research the impact and evaluate the significance of key cultural changes in contemporary society through integrated, creative, critical and reflective thinking.

Unit Content

  1. Key global events that have influenced cultural and societal developments.
  2. The media impact on daily life.
  3. The social dimension of media aesthetics in producing meaning.
  4. Theories and issues of representation.

Additional Learning Experience Information

Seminars.

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
Annotated Bibliography ^Research proposal and annotated bibliography 20%
Presentation ^Oral presentation and peer review 40%
Research Paper ^Final research paper40%
ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
Annotated Bibliography ^Research proposal and annotated bibliography 20%
Presentation ^Video presentation and peer review40%
Research Paper ^Final research paper40%

^ Mandatory to Pass

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.

Assessment

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. Informal vivas may be conducted as part of an assessment task, where staff require further information to confirm the learning outcomes have been met. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant School Progression Panel.

Academic Integrity

Integrity is a core value at Edith Cowan University, and it is expected that ECU students complete their assessment tasks honestly and with acknowledgement of other people's work as well as any generative artificial intelligence tools that may have been used. This means that assessment tasks must be completed individually (unless it is an authorised group assessment task) and any sources used must be referenced.

Breaches of academic integrity can include:

  • Plagiarism: Copying the words, ideas or creative works of other people or generative artificial intelligence tools, without referencing in accordance with stated University requirements. Students need to seek approval from the Unit Coordinator within the first week of study if they intend to use some of their previous work in an assessment task (self-plagiarism).
  • Unauthorised collaboration (collusion): Working with other students and submitting the same or substantially similar work or portions of work when an individual submission was required. This includes students knowingly providing others with copies of their own work to use in the same or similar assessment task(s).
  • Contract cheating: Organising a friend, a family member, another student or an external person or organisation (e.g. through an online website) to complete or substantially edit or refine part or all of an assessment task(s) on their behalf.
  • Cheating in an exam: Using or having access to unauthorised materials in an exam or test.

Serious outcomes may be imposed if a student is found to have committed one of these breaches, up to and including expulsion from the University for repeated or serious acts.

ECU's policies and more information about academic integrity can be found on the student academic integrity website.

All commencing ECU students are required to complete the Academic Integrity Module.

Assessment Extension

In some circumstances, Students may apply to their Unit Coordinator to extend the due date of their Assessment Task(s) in accordance with ECU's Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000001386.

Special Consideration

Students may apply for Special Consideration in respect of a final unit grade, where their achievement was affected by Exceptional Circumstances as set out in the Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000003318.

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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 Society in a Globalised World

  • Unit Code

    CMM5165

  • Year

    2025

  • Enrolment Period

    2

  • Version

    1

  • Credit Points

    20

  • Full Year Unit

     N

  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online

  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Claire FITZPATRICK

Description

This unit will engage critically with how media discourses construct identities, communities and nationhood. Alongside considering the social dimension of media aesthetics, it will examine different communication strategies, including the use of new media, surrounding recent major global events and their cultural impact on various societies.Workshops will allow students to consider methods of inquiry and how to apply these ideas to a number of case studies.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Critically discuss, analyse and theorise on the social significance of a range of media texts.
  2. Demonstrate cross-cultural awareness in regard to perceptions, values and beliefs, and an ability to reflect on and incorporate cultural perspectives into personal and professional contexts.
  3. Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of global communications and international perspectives in relation to journalism, advertising, public relations and cultural studies.
  4. Demonstrate knowledge of research methods of inquiry used to investigate, execute and report on professional projects.
  5. Research the impact and evaluate the significance of key cultural changes in contemporary society through integrated, creative, critical and reflective thinking.

Unit Content

  1. Key global events that have influenced cultural and societal developments.
  2. The media impact on daily life.
  3. The social dimension of media aesthetics in producing meaning.
  4. Theories and issues of representation.

Additional Learning Experience Information

Seminars.

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
Annotated Bibliography ^Research proposal and annotated bibliography 20%
Presentation ^Oral presentation and peer review 40%
Research Paper ^Final research paper40%
ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
Annotated Bibliography ^Research proposal and annotated bibliography 20%
Presentation ^Video presentation and peer review40%
Research Paper ^Final research paper40%

^ Mandatory to Pass

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.

Assessment

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. Informal vivas may be conducted as part of an assessment task, where staff require further information to confirm the learning outcomes have been met. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant School Progression Panel.

Academic Integrity

Integrity is a core value at Edith Cowan University, and it is expected that ECU students complete their assessment tasks honestly and with acknowledgement of other people's work as well as any generative artificial intelligence tools that may have been used. This means that assessment tasks must be completed individually (unless it is an authorised group assessment task) and any sources used must be referenced.

Breaches of academic integrity can include:

  • Plagiarism: Copying the words, ideas or creative works of other people or generative artificial intelligence tools, without referencing in accordance with stated University requirements. Students need to seek approval from the Unit Coordinator within the first week of study if they intend to use some of their previous work in an assessment task (self-plagiarism).
  • Unauthorised collaboration (collusion): Working with other students and submitting the same or substantially similar work or portions of work when an individual submission was required. This includes students knowingly providing others with copies of their own work to use in the same or similar assessment task(s).
  • Contract cheating: Organising a friend, a family member, another student or an external person or organisation (e.g. through an online website) to complete or substantially edit or refine part or all of an assessment task(s) on their behalf.
  • Cheating in an exam: Using or having access to unauthorised materials in an exam or test.

Serious outcomes may be imposed if a student is found to have committed one of these breaches, up to and including expulsion from the University for repeated or serious acts.

ECU's policies and more information about academic integrity can be found on the student academic integrity website.

All commencing ECU students are required to complete the Academic Integrity Module.

Assessment Extension

In some circumstances, Students may apply to their Unit Coordinator to extend the due date of their Assessment Task(s) in accordance with ECU's Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000001386.

Special Consideration

Students may apply for Special Consideration in respect of a final unit grade, where their achievement was affected by Exceptional Circumstances as set out in the Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000003318.

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