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Innovation Cultures: Perspectives on Science and Technology

Undergraduate | SWI-MDA10006 | 2019

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Find out how media is influenced by science and technology. Return to the era of the printing press, then fast-forward to today’s screen-based technologies. Get critical with key theoretical concepts to explore shifts in science, technology and culture. 

Study method
100% online
Assessments
100% online
Entry requirements
No ATAR needed,
No prior study
Duration
13 weeks

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Innovation Cultures: Perspectives on Science and Technology

About this subject

  • Student who successfully complete of this subject will be able to:

    1. Examine and identify the role of today’s media and media industries from a socio-historical perspective
    2. Construct and justify logical arguments about the relationship between science, technology and culture
    3. Critique received views through the application of key theoretical concepts
    4. Apply the critical distance and historical perspective necessary to anticipate future shifts in Science, Technology and Culture.

Entry requirements

No 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:

  • SWI-SCI17 (Not currently available)

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0.125 EFTSL
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