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Last updated: 4 June 2021
Trimester 2: Burwood (Melbourne), Waurn Ponds (Geelong), Cloud (online), CBD*
ASL205
Nil
Students must complete 4 credit points at any level
Students will on average spend 150-hours over the teaching period undertaking the teaching, learning and assessment activities for this unit.
1 x 1-hour class per week, 1 x 1-hour seminar per week
1 x 1-hour class per week (recordings provided), 1 x 1-hour online seminar per week
*CBD refers to the National Indigenous Knowledges, Education, Research and Innovation (NIKERI) Institute; Community Based Delivery
This unit engages with core issues shaping popular perceptions and representations of crime. Crime is literally everywhere in the media. It occupies the majority of prime-time television. It fills the majority of newspapers. But to what extent can we equate what we read, hear or view with the realities of crime? The unit engages with core issues shaping criminology as we unravel the complex relationship between crime, media and justice.
Critically analyse media texts and processes which interact with crime and popular culture in order to evaluate media representations of crime in contrast to the realities of crime
GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities
GLO3: Digital literacy
GLO4: Critical thinking
GLO8: Global citizenship
ULO2
Critically analyse the crime-media nexus across a range of media sources and in relation to actual case studies of crime, including licit and illicit drugs in Australian society, through digital platforms, individually and in team projects
GLO2: Communication
GLO5: Problem solving
GLO7: Teamwork
ULO3
Evaluate the role and relevance of media in influencing official responses to crimes in light of the politics of crime, governing and governance, social justice, citizenship, human rights and a diverse social context
GLO6: Self-management
ULO4
Evaluate the crime-media nexus, including how to create positive change in popular conceptions of crime, and policy responses to crime
These Unit Learning Outcomes are applicable for all teaching periods throughout the year
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 ACR204 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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