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Unit of Study COMM3003 - Media Project (2024)

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Unit description

Students undertake a major media project, individually or in a team, and a critical evaluation of the outcome. The production will be designed for a professional media context, whether as a print, online, radio or audiovisual product. Students will undertake weekly workshops with team members and relevant staff and experts.

Unit content

  • Project Management
  • Ethics and Community Engagement

Availabilities

Location Domestic International
Online
Tri Term2
Tri Term2

Learning outcomes

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:

demonstrate project management skills in planning, research, monitoring and devising tasks towards timely completion of a project

operate professionally in a media environment in relation to collaborators, clients, supervisors or community partners

demonstrate a capacity to respond to critical feedback

produce a substantial media project demonstrating advanced media production skills appropriate to a publishable major product.

Prescribed learning resources

Prescribed Texts
  • No prescribed texts.
Prescribed Resources/Equipment

  • Readings will be available on myReadings. Required materials specific to the project will be negotiated with supervisor and Unit Assessor (as approved by the Course Coordinator and technical manager). There are also online Study Guide Materials for the first 3 or 4 weeks of the session, accessed via your unit blackboard site.

Prescribed Learning Resources may change in future Teaching Periods.