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2024 unit information
Trimester 1: Burwood (Melbourne), Waurn Ponds (Geelong), Online, Community Based Delivery (CBD)*
Trimester 2: Burwood (Melbourne), Waurn Ponds (Geelong), Online, Community Based Delivery (CBD)*
Trimester 3: Burwood (Melbourne), Online
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ALC101
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 x 2-hours per week. This will include a range of activities including recordings, and synchronous and asynchronous participation in practical experiences (workshops)
*Community Based Delivery (CBD) is for National Indigenous Knowledges, Education, Research and Innovation NIKERI Institute students only.
Discover the complex, competing and intersecting linkages between the different communications disciplines. Gutenberg to Zuckerberg: Communication in Everyday Life explores the power of media in shaping publics and public interests, and the opportunities and challenges created in the network society. You will explore the rise of mass society and consumption, the convergence of media, the ongoing fragmentation of audiences and the changing political economy of the communications industries. Along the way, you will investigate and the analyse core concepts, themes, theories and methods that will enable you to navigate the communication disciplines.
Critically engage with key concepts of communication theory and apply them to the relevant discipline
GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities
GLO4: Critical thinking
Write and present communication concepts and theories clearly and effectively in a variety of contexts and for different audiences
GLO2: Communication
Work collaboratively and with self-direction as a part of a team to access and utilise relevant resources with the aim of organising and sharing information
GLO6: Self-management
GLO7: Teamwork
Apply critical, analytical and problem solving skills to resolve challenges across a range of communication processes and in multiple contexts
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 ACC100 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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