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2025 unit information
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1 x 1-hour on-campus lecture per week
1 x 1-hour on-campus seminar per week
1 x 1-hour online lecture (recordings provided) per week
1 x 1-hour online seminar per week
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.
This unit takes a sociological approach to gender and the media, exploring gender identities, subjectivities, relations and politics relative to transformative shifts in the media landscape. Gender issues will be examined across the three media dimensions of Industry, Content and Users. Students will be introduced to a rich range of theoretical orientations (such as post feminism, intersectionality and theories of affect) to critically analyse the workings of gender in the media. Students will learn how to apply sociological and feminist approaches to critically analyse media issues and developments such as hashtag activism, sexism and sexualisation, media (in)visibility, digital labour, online harassment, influencer culture, and popular feminism. By investigating the links between media power, representation, social inequality and social action, this unit fosters critical thinking at the intersections of gender, race, sexuality and ability.
Alignment to Deakin Graduate Learning Outcomes (GLOs)
Interpret and analyse a variety of contemporary media texts through the application of relevant social theories
GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities
GLO3: Digital literacy
GLO4: Critical thinking
Evaluate local and global media practices using critical gender approaches
GLO8: Global Citizenship
Generate evidence-based solutions to counter sexism in the media, with the aim to advance gender justice/social change
GLO5: Problem Solving
Mobilise digital technologies to generate and communicate evidence-based ideas and arguments
GLO2: Communication
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.
The texts and reading list for ASC300 can be found via the University Library.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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