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Visual Media and Communications
Undergraduate | MAQ-MMCX1000 | 2020
Previously MAQ-MECX121
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Eye off ways in which visual culture influences and is influenced by the way everyday people act. Look for examples of visual representation across all types of media. Tackle technology and film ethics. Highlight issues of race, gender and class.
- Study method
- 100% online
- Assessments
- 100% online
- Entry requirements
- Prior study needed
- Duration
- 18 weeks
HECS-HELP and FEE-HELP available
Visual Media and Communications
About this subject
On successful completion of this unit, you will be able to:
- recognise and define different areas of visual cultural studies and communication theory, and apply them through them through a variety of activities.
- explain the politicised aspects of visual media and concepts in terms of both production and content (as discourse, texts, lived realities)
- present work in a manner conforming to accepted academic standards in both written and spoken form.
critically review, analyse and synthesise findings.
appraise issues and debates specific to cultural and social communications practices and their associated philosophical and political underpinnings.
- A week-by-week guide to the topics you will explore in this subject will be provided in your study materials.
This subject was previously known as CLT120, MECX121 Seeing Culture: Vision, Visuality and the Senses.
This unit brings together theories, practices and texts that explore the relationship between visual media and the way people act in their everyday lives. This unit introduces critical concepts to analyse visual texts, technologies, and communication practices. From film, television, photography and advertising, to social media applications and sites, we look at the ways media and communication shape (and are shaped by) our social worlds, our bodies and identities, changing technologies and online communities. We focus on visual communication and normalising practices, contemporary politics, events, embodiment, digital cultures, globalisation and social networking. Within these frameworks, we explore the (re)production, performance and use of identity and subjectivity, and canvass notions of genre, discourse, power and textuality through the application and testing of methods of visual analysis. Finally, we place visual communication within the personal, the sensory and the everyday through the practical exploration of social media use.- Participatory task (30%)
- Final Essay (40%)
- Visual Analysis (30%)
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Entry requirements
Equivalent subjects
You should not enrol in this subject if you have successfully completed any of the following subject(s) because they are considered academically equivalent:
MAQ-CLT120 (Not currently available)
MAQ-MECX121-Seeing Culture: Politics of Visual Representation (no longer available)
Others
If you have no prior university experience, you should complete BAR100 Academic Learning Skills or COM10006 Academic Literacies: Learning and Communication Practice before starting this subject.
Additional requirements
- Other requirements -
Students who have an Academic Standing of Suspension or Exclusion under Macquarie University's Academic Progression Policy are not permitted to enrol in OUA units offered by Macquarie University. Students with an Academic Standing of Suspension or Exclusion who have enrolled in units through OUA will be withdrawn.
Study load
- 0.125 EFTSL
- This is in the range of 10 to 12 hours of study each week.
Equivalent full time study load (EFTSL) is one way to calculate your study load. One (1.0) EFTSL is equivalent to a full-time study load for one year.
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What to study next?
Once you’ve completed this subject it can be credited towards one of the following courses
UndergraduateMAQ-ART-DEG
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