| Credit |
6 points |
| Availability |
Semester 1 (see Timetable) |
| Old unit code |
040.112 |
| Outcomes |
Students are able to (1) identify, describe and analyse key structural and communicative differences between print, cinematic, televisual and computer-mediated texts; (2) evaluate the specific strengths and limitations of the website as a discursive medium; (3) recognise the operation of screen conventions in cinematic, televisual and computer-mediated texts; (4) identify and evaluate the way cultural texts use forms of narrative to construct and understand imagined lives; (5) identify and analyse the contrasting ways texts deploy notions of identity, memory and cultural knowledge; (6) identify and comparatively evaluate the kinds of community presupposed in cultural texts; (7) recognise and critique the operation of conflicting ideologies in cultural texts; (8) understand and deploy interpretative concepts, including agency, causality, discourse, displacement, embodiment, interface, and the symbolic, in the analysis of narrative and other cultural texts; (9) express research findings and ideas coherently and logically within their group and in their website; (10) develop teamwork and organisational skills in an academic environment; and (11) develop practical skills in web authoring (Dreamweaver) and video editing (QuickTime Player). |
| Content |
Print media, television, cinema, hypertext: what connects and distinguishes these forms of meaning? This unit takes as its focus a comparison of diverse narrative forms—print narrative (prose fiction), film narrative (movies) and screen narrative (television and the Web). It examines the exciting ways in which each kind of text can be 'read' and also considers the aesthetic and cultural links between different forms of communication. The unit reads contemporary media critically and analyses how issues of culture and power—including concepts such as identity, sexuality and the 'locations' of meaning—are encoded in both traditional and new forms and practices. Texts include examples of contemporary prose fiction, movies, television and website material. |
| Assessment |
This comprises an exercise, group website and critical reflection, and a two-hour examination.
Supplementary assessment is not available in this unit except in the case of a bachelor's pass degree student who has obtained a mark of 45 to 49 and is currently enrolled in this unit, and it is the only remaining unit that the student must pass in order to complete their course. |
| Unit Co-ordinator(s) |
Assistant Professor Tony Hughes-d'Aeth |
| Location |
UWA (Crawley), Albany |
| Mode |
on-campus |
| Unit Rules |
Contact hours—lectures/tutorials: 3 hrs per week
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| Unit Outline | http://www.arts.uwa.edu.au/students/outlines/english |
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- The availability of units in Semester 1, 2, etc. was correct at the time of going to press but may be subject to change.
- Assistance with study skills, including English language skills, is available free of charge from Student Services for all enrolled students (see http://www.studentservices.uwa.edu.au/ss/learning). Student Services location: Second Floor, South Wing, Guild Village; telephone: 6488 2423.
- Books and other materials wherever listed may be subject to change. Book lists relating to 'Preliminary Reading', 'Recommended Reading' and 'Textbooks' are, in most cases, available at the University Co-operative Bookshop (from early January) and appropriate administrative offices for students to consult. For first-year units the Bookshop will endeavour to make available photocopies of book lists for individual units. Books marked with an asterisk (*) are available in paperback.
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