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Bachelor of Arts - Media

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Faculty:
Faculty of Arts
Award:
Bachelor of Arts - Media (BA-Media)
General requirements:
Minimum number of credit points required for the degree 69
Minimum number of credit points at 200 level or above 39
Minimum number of credit points at 300 level or above 18
Completion of a designated People unit
Completion of a designated Planet unit
Completion of a designated Participation unit
Completion of other specific minimum requirements as set out below
Note:
Students must complete one designated People unit and one designated Planet unit. One of those units must be taken outside the Department administering the program of study which the student is admitted to, and the other unit must be taken outside the Faculty administering the program of study which the student is admitted to. Units which are already a required unit of the student's program of study will not satisfy the People unit requirement or Planet unit requirement.

In order to graduate students must ensure that they have satisfied all of the general requirements of the award: see the general requirements listed above.

Specific minimum requirements:

Credit points

100 level

Required
3
Australian Media (3)
 
Required
3
Media Cultures (3)
 
Required
3
Introduction to Digital Media (3)
 
Required
3
Academic Cultures (3)
 

200 level

Required
3
News and Current Affairs (3)
 
Required
6cp from
 
Australian Film and Television (3)
 
 
Visual Countercultures: Graffiti, Kitsch and Conceptual Art (3)
 
 
Performance and Popular Media (3)
 
 
Literary Journalism (3)
 
 
International Television and Beyond (3)
 
 
Introduction to the Cinema (3)
 
 
Free Cultures (3)
 
 
Theories of Writing for the Media (3)
 
 
Narrative Journalism (3)
 
 
Documentary Media: Forms, Histories, Futures (3)
 
 
Photographic Cultures (3)
 
6
Sound Cultures (3)
 
Required
9cp from
 
Screenwriting: An Introduction (3)
 
 
Narrative Journalism (3)
 
 
Radio Production (3)
 
 
Radio Broadcasting (3)
 
 
Non Fiction Writing: Travel Writing (3)
 
 
Non Fiction Writing: Music and Arts Journalism (3)
 
 
Screen Production 1 (3)
 
 
Screen Production 2 (3)
 
 
Cybercultures (3)
 
 
Interactive Web Design (3)
 
 
Music and Arts Journalism (3)
 
 
Documentary Media: Forms, Histories, Futures (3)
 
 
Contemporary Music Production 1 (3)
 
9
Contemporary Music Production 2 (3)
 

300 level

Required
either
or
 
Media Futures (3)
C
3
Media Ethics (3)
C
Required
3cp from
 
Media Identities (3)
 
 
Screens, Images, Ideas (3)
 
 
Culture and Technology (3)
 
 
Modernism, Postmodernism and Beyond (3)
 
 
Public Relations Theories (3)
 
 
Critical Games Studies (3)
 
 
Forensic Media (3)
 
3
Music, Sound and Moving Image (3)
 
Required
6cp from
 
Non Fiction Writing: Telling True Stories (3)
 
 
Non Fiction Writing: Memoir and the Personal (3)
 
 
Advanced Screen Production 1 (3)
 
 
Advanced Screen Production 2 (3)
 
 
Screenwriting: Images, Ideas, Stories (3)
 
 
Advanced Radio Production and Broadcasting (3)
 
 
Advanced Interactivity (3)
 
 
Advanced Digital Production (3)
 
 
Media Internship (3)
 
 
Public Relations Practice (3)
 
 
Telling True Stories 1 (3)
 
 
Telling True Stories 2 (3)
 
 
Modelling and Animation (3)
 
 
Movement, Screen and Digital Culture (3)
 
 
Advanced Audio and Sound Design (3)
 
 
Advanced Virtual Studio Production (3)
 
6
Sound, Image and Interactive Media (3)
 

Balance of credit points required:

 
 
27
Electives

TOTAL CREDIT POINTS REQUIRED FOR THIS PROGRAM

69
Note:
Units marked with a C are Capstone units.