Media, Culture and Technology - MECTA23403
Stream Summary
Faculty: ARTSC - Faculty of Arts&Social Science
School: School of the Arts and Media
Contact: School of the Arts and Media
Program: 3403 - Arts
Award(s):
Bachelor of Arts (Minor)
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Stream Outline
The aim of this minor stream is to provide students with a progressive understanding of the social, cultural and phenomenological impacts of media and communication technologies in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The minor stream starts with an accessible introduction to ways of thinking about the emergence and consequences of two technologies that most students take for granted: television and telephony. Students then progress through a number of pathways and perspectives that move towards the present reality of 'intermedia'; that is, complex global media, information and communication systems and networks that people access through a variety of increasingly digital technologies.
In short, the focus of Media, Culture and Technology minor stream is on media in a period of transition. In terms of learning skills, the minor stream develops conceptual frameworks and modes of analysis through which students can understand and explain not only changes in the media, but also reasons for those changes and their social and affective consequences.
Aims of the Minor Stream
The subject-specific aims of the BA minor stream in Media, Culture and Technology are:
• Student outcomes at the end of Level 1:
• students will have competencies in key concepts in media theory
• the ability to critically analyse the social and cultural dynamics of media technologies and their impacts on everyday life and experience
• skills in basic research and analytical writing
• the ability to reflect on their own media practices and the ways in which their understandings of self and world are formed in relation to media.
Student outcomes by the end of Level 2:
• students will have an understanding of the interdisciplinary nature of media studies
• an ability to reflect on the relationship between media and cultural organizations and political, technological and economic processes
• an understanding of the networked nature of media and the balance between local and global media
• the ability to analyse different systems of representation and aesthetic practices and the role of diverse audiences and users in this process
• skills in reading and using media theory and researching media.
Student outcomes by the end of Level 3:
• students will be able to understand the dynamics of intermedia and emerging media forms as they are played out in relation to questions of aesthetics, politics, technology, transnational media and performance
• they will also have well-developed skills in analytical and critical thinking, independent and in-depth research methods and an appreciation of the pivotal role of media in contemporary social organization.
• be able to research and explore key areas of the media industries they are focussing upon.
Stream Structure
- ARTS1062 Hollywood Film (6 UOC)
- ARTS1091 Media, Society, Politics (6 UOC)
- ARTS1121 Reading Performance (6 UOC)
Media, Culture and Technology Courses:
- ARTS2091 Mobile Cultures (6 UOC)
- ARTS2092 Global Media (6 UOC)
- ARTS2093 Media Uses (6 UOC)
- ARTS2094 Visual Communication (6 UOC)
- ARTS2095 Digital Tech and the Self (6 UOC)
Media, Culture and Technology Courses:
- ARTS3090 MCT Capstone (6 UOC)
- ARTS3091 Advanced Media Issues (6 UOC)
- ARTS3092 Media in Asia-Pacific (6 UOC)
- ARTS3093 Media Power (6 UOC)
- ARTS3096 Media and Climate Change (6 UOC)
- ARTS3049 Animals, Monsters and Machines (6 UOC)
- ARTS3060 Film in the Media Landscape (6 UOC)
- ARTS3063 Cinemas & Cultures (6 UOC)
- ARTS3064 Film Styles and Aesthetics (6 UOC)
- ARTS3125 Multimedia Performance (6 UOC)
- ARTS3872 Media Publics (6 UOC)