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2021 unit offering information will be available in September 2020
Unit description
Students undertake a major media project, individually or in a team, and a critical evaluation of the outcome. The production will be designed for a professional media context, whether as a print, online, radio or audiovisual product. Students will undertake weekly workshops with team members and relevant staff and experts.
Unit content
Thematic material examining contemporary issues in media and technology will be made available to students in an online study guide. Skills in project management, concept development and critical thinking will be developed alongside ethical frameworks for media producers.
Learning outcomes
Unit Learning Outcomes express learning achievement in terms of what a student should know, understand and be able to do on completion of a unit. These outcomes are aligned with the graduate attributes. The unit learning outcomes and graduate attributes are also the basis of evaluating prior learning.
| On completion of this unit, students should be able to: | GA1 | GA2 | GA3 | GA4 | GA5 | GA6 | GA7 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | demonstrate project management skills in planning, research, monitoring and devising tasks towards timely completion of a project | Intellectual rigour | Knowledge of a discipline | |||||
| 2 | operate professionally in a media environment in relation to collaborators, clients, supervisors or community partners | Knowledge of a discipline | Communication and social skills | |||||
| 3 | present work-in-progress reports to an audience of peers, in a professional manner and to a high standard | Knowledge of a discipline | ||||||
| 4 | demonstrate a capacity to respond to critical feedback | Intellectual rigour | Knowledge of a discipline | |||||
| 5 | produce a substantial media project demonstrating advanced media production skills appropriate to a publishable major product. | Intellectual rigour | Knowledge of a discipline | Communication and social skills | ||||
On completion of this unit, students should be able to:
- demonstrate project management skills in planning, research, monitoring and devising tasks towards timely completion of a project
- GA1: Intellectual rigour
- GA4: Knowledge of a discipline
- operate professionally in a media environment in relation to collaborators, clients, supervisors or community partners
- GA4: Knowledge of a discipline
- GA6: Communication and social skills
- present work-in-progress reports to an audience of peers, in a professional manner and to a high standard
- GA4: Knowledge of a discipline
- demonstrate a capacity to respond to critical feedback
- GA1: Intellectual rigour
- GA4: Knowledge of a discipline
- produce a substantial media project demonstrating advanced media production skills appropriate to a publishable major product.
- GA1: Intellectual rigour
- GA4: Knowledge of a discipline
- GA6: Communication and social skills
Teaching and assessment
Fee information
Domestic
Commonwealth Supported courses
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Commencing 2021 Commonwealth Supported only. Student contribution band: 1
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