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Monash College Handbook

MEDIA STUDIES (MCD6020)

Purpose

Media Studies reviews techniques for describing and critically analysing aspects of the production, distribution and reception of media texts. This subject focuses on relationships that operate between industry owners and producers, media texts and media audiences. Further, this subject offers tools for analysing and understanding various aspects of media industries and texts in relation to the dimensions of class, race and gender, and related inequalities in social and political life.

Prerequisites

Nil

Learning outcomes

On completion of this subject students should be able to:

  1. Recognise and be able to apply available strategies for critically analysing media texts as tools for making meaning.
  2. Demonstrate an understanding of the various economic, political and cultural forces that shape the practical work of media production.
  3. Demonstrate an appreciation of the historical development of media industries.
  4. Demonstrate an appreciation of the ways that available frameworks for making sense of media texts contribute to the production of dominant or 'common sense' understandings of the world.

Assessment

Participation – 10%
Tutorial presentation - 10%
Tutorial presentation summary – 15%
Essay – 25%
MUSO Postings – 10%
Exam – 30%

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