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Unit of Study COM00447 - The Rebirth of Frankenstein: Media and New Technologies Studies (2014)

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  • Pre-requisites

    72 credit points in any SCU units

  • Enrolment information

    N/A

Unit description

Introduces students to the central role of new media technologies in the emerging globalised, convergent media environment, and explores key new media phenomena including user-generated content services, cross-media production and gameplay. It emphasises the changing relationships between new and established media forms, as well as the political, economic and cultural significance of these transformations.

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Location Domestic International
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Learning outcomes and graduate attributes

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:

GA1: Intellectual rigour, GA2: Creativity, GA3: Ethical practice, GA4: Knowledge of a discipline, GA5: Lifelong learning, GA6: Communication and social skills, GA7: Cultural competence
Learning outcome count Learning outcome description GA1 GA2 GA3 GA4 GA5 GA6 GA7
1 Examine the relationship between a variety of traditional and new media forms, and demonstrate understanding of the impact of new technologies upon culture, bodies and lived experience
2 Critically discuss the relationships between new communication technologies, cultural transformations and psycho-social as well as politico-economic processes.
3 Critically and practically engage with new media technologies in the production of an electronic project.

On completion of this unit, students should be able to:

  1. Examine the relationship between a variety of traditional and new media forms, and demonstrate understanding of the impact of new technologies upon culture, bodies and lived experience
    • GA1:
    • GA7:
  2. Critically discuss the relationships between new communication technologies, cultural transformations and psycho-social as well as politico-economic processes.
    • GA1:
    • GA7:
  3. Critically and practically engage with new media technologies in the production of an electronic project.
    • GA1:
    • GA2:
    • GA7:

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