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CMM1113 Media and Social Context
SCHOOL OF COMMUNICATIONS AND ARTS
Credit Points: 15
Prerequisites:
Nil
 
Description:
Introduces students to the main theories and methodologies for understanding and analysing a range of communications media in their social and cultural contexts. The unit considers theories and issues of representation in how media discourses construct ways of understanding the world and our place in it, within modernist, postmodernist and globalised contexts.

This Unit is part of the following Courses / Unit Sets
G24Bachelor of Arts (Education)/Bachelor of Communications
B37Bachelor of Communications
M35Bachelor of Communications
SMCMASMass Communication 8 Unit Supporting Major
MIMASSMass Communication Minor
SMCMEDMedia and Cultural Studies 8 Unit Supporting Major
MIMEDMedia and Cultural Studies Minor
 
 
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Last Updated - Higher Education: 18/11/2004