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CMM1113 Media and Social Context
SCHOOL OF COMMUNICATIONS AND ARTS
Credit Points: 15
 
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.

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This Unit is part of the following Courses / Unit Sets
K33Bachelor of Arts/Bachelor of Communications
Y03Bachelor of Arts/Bachelor of Communications
M35Bachelor of Communications
G79Bachelor of Contemporary Arts
MIMASSMass Communication Minor
MIAADXMedia and Cultural Studies Minor
 
 
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Last Updated - Higher Education: 31/03/2010 VET: 31/03/2010