Availabilities:
| Location | Domestic | International |
|---|---|---|
| Online |
Unit description
Introduces students to skills in critical thinking and analysis through engaging with ideas and debates relevant to everyday digital devices and networked culture. Students will identify and critically engage with debates in the media and understand their philosophical, social and cultural contexts.
Unit content
- Evaluating knowledge and reasoning
- Speech and debate online
- Digital identities
- Privacy in cyberspace
- Ethics of data and artificial intelligence
- Digital divides
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: | |
|---|---|
| 1 | critically analyse everyday digital practices with reference to relevant ideas and debates |
| 2 | relate issues and debates in digital practices to their philosophical, social and cultural contexts |
| 3 | critically engage with issues in the media relevant to everyday digital practices |
| 4 | clearly and concisely articulate different critical positions and arguments in writing |
| 5 | engage in constructive discussion about issues and debates relating to digital practices |
On completion of this unit, students should be able to:
- critically analyse everyday digital practices with reference to relevant ideas and debates
- relate issues and debates in digital practices to their philosophical, social and cultural contexts
- critically engage with issues in the media relevant to everyday digital practices
- clearly and concisely articulate different critical positions and arguments in writing
- engage in constructive discussion about issues and debates relating to digital practices
Prescribed texts
- No prescribed texts.
Teaching and assessment
| Teaching method |
| Lecture online 1 hours (12 weeks) |
| Structured online learning 1 hour (12 weeks) |
| Tutorial online 1 hour (12 weeks) |
| Assessment | |
| Participation | 20% |
| Response paper | 30% |
| Essay | 50% |
Fee information
Domestic
Commonwealth Supported courses
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Fee paying courses
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International
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