Bachelor of Arts

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Media Studies

Unit Set Code

MJ-AU00008 (major)

MN-AU00008 (minor)


Campuses

Burwood (Melbourne), Cloud (Online)


Overview

This is an area of rapid and continuous technological, political, economic and social change. Much of the recent explosion in the stock of human knowledge is linked with developments in media. This course of study enables you to graduate with a unique ‘multiskilled’ qualification appropriate for many careers and job markets.


Career outcomes

Graduates can expect to gain employment in a wide range of organisations, including the education sector, the entertainment industry, marketing consultancies, multimedia businesses, newspaper and magazine publishers, public relations agencies and radio and television companies.


Units

  • To complete a Major sequence in Media Studies select eight (8) credit points as outlined below;
  • To complete a Minor sequence in Media Studies select any four (4) units from below, including a minimum of one (1) credit point at level one, and no more than one (1) credit point at level 3

Complete the following 2 units from level 1:

ALC104Media Genres: Negotiating Textual Forms and Pleasures

ACF104Screening History (previously ALC106)

Complete the following 2 units from level 2:

ALM215Global Media (previously ALC215)

ACF206Contemporary Topics in Screen Cultures (previously ALC216)

Complete the following 4 units from level 3:

ACF304The Celebrity Industries: Star Images, Fan Cultures and Performance (previously ALM304)

ALM305Media Ecologies (previously ALC305)

ACC302Advertising: Desire, Consumption and the Attention Economy

ACF320The Australian Moving Image


 

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