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2024 unit information
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Students will on average spend 150-hours over the teaching period undertaking the teaching, learning and assessment activities for this unit.
This will include educator guided online learning activities within the unit site.
1 x 2-hour seminar per week
Online independent and collaborative learning activities including 2 (two) scheduled online seminars
This unit provides students with an opportunity to contribute in critical and creative ways to contemporary understandings of the celebrity industries. The unit will explore the construction and marketing of celebrity images; parasocial desire and identity making; celebrity gossip; political celebrity; stardom; and online fan cultures.
Critically define and analyse celebrity and celebrity culture, and evaluate the ways they impact on social and economic life
GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities
GLO4: Critical thinking
Communicate in written, creative, and aural forms how and why celebrity is produced, and what types of pleasures and identities they offer audiences
GLO2: Communication
GLO3: Digital literacy
Critically explore celebrity in a national and global context from both artistic/public and commercial perspectives
GLO8: Global citizenship
Apply in a creative and collaborative context a shared understanding of at least one celebrity/celebrity industry studied on the unit
GLO7: Teamwork
Demonstrate high levels of personal motivation and a developed capacity for independent thought
GLO6: Self-management
The assessment due weeks provided may change. The Unit Chair will clarify the exact assessment requirements, including the due date, at the start of the teaching period.
The texts and reading list for the unit can be found on the University Library via the link below: ACF304
Note: Select the relevant trimester reading list. Please note that a future teaching period's reading list may not be available until a month prior to the start of that teaching period so you may wish to use the relevant trimester's prior year reading list as a guide only.
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