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Last updated: 4 June 2021
Trimester 2: Burwood (Melbourne), Waurn Ponds (Geelong), Cloud (online)
Note: Enrolment into this unit must be completed by the end of week 1 of trimester due to early assessment deadlines
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ALC105
Students will on average spend 150-hours over the teaching period undertaking the teaching, learning and assessment activities for this unit.
1 x 2-hour seminar per week and extensive online interactions via social media equivalent to 1 x 1-hour class per week
This unit enables students to critically and creatively engage with present day digital media culture, with a particular emphasis on making videos. Highlighting the crucial importance of creating audio-visual content for different purposes and audiences, the unit guides students through various video-making practices and strategies. Emphasising the benefits of making videos in a wide range of industry settings, the unit allows students to develop their portfolios and learn how to use video to strategically build a dynamic online identity.
Describe and analyse users, behaviours and debates relevant to a range of contemporary digital media contexts.
GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities
GLO4: Critical thinking
Apply real-world social media technologies to develop your online identity and portfolio by creating digital content that showcases video-making conventions and techniques.
GLO3: Digital literacy
Utilise industry-relevant digital literacies by conforming to legal and ethical standards of media-making and contribute to an online learning community using social media platforms as a global digital citizen.
GLO8: Global Citizenship
Apply communication skills in written and audio-visual formats to create and share digital content using social media for a range of purposes and audiences.
GLO2: Communication
Reflect on and justify the reasons and decisions behind your video-making in relation to form, purpose, and audience.
GLO6: Self-management
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.
There is no prescribed text. Unit materials are provided via the unit site. This includes unit topic readings and references to further information.
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