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COMMS 302

: Visual Communication
2020 Semester One (1203)
Provides students the tools for communicating with various kinds of visual images and objects. These may include brands, logos, graphics, photographs, advertisements, promos, paintings, cartoons, maps, architecture and architectural diagrams. Students will interrogate their culturally specific visual competencies and refine their skills in visual literacy while addressing issues of textuality, identity, ethnicity, nation, class, gender, and communicative inter-relationships more generally.
Subject: Communication
Prerequisite: ARTHIST 115 and 30 points from BA courses, or 15 points from COMMS 200-208 and 15 points from BA courses
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COMMS 303

: Sports Media
2023 Semester One (1233)
Examines the relationship between sport and the media. Topics include sports journalism; industry practice; the mediated game event; online communities of fandom; commentary; issues of race and gender; and sports law. Students may have the opportunity to experience televised studio production at the University’s television studio.
Subject: Communication
Prerequisite: 15 points from COMMS 200-208 and 15 points in BA courses
Restriction: FTVMS 313
1453

COMMS 303

: Sports Media
2022 Semester One (1223)
Examines the relationship between sport and the media. Topics include sports journalism; industry practice; the mediated game event; online communities of fandom; commentary; issues of race and gender; and sports law. Students have the opportunity to experience outside broadcast of televised sport and use the university television studio to engage with key media sport professionals.
Subject: Communication
Prerequisite: 15 points from COMMS 200-208 and 15 points in BA courses
Restriction: FTVMS 313
1454

COMMS 303

: Sports Media
2021 Semester One (1213)
Examines the relationship between sport and the media. Topics include sports journalism; industry practice; the mediated game event; online communities of fandom; commentary; issues of race and gender; and sports law. Students have the opportunity to experience outside broadcast of televised sport and use the university television studio to engage with key media sport professionals.
Subject: Communication
Prerequisite: 15 points from COMMS 200-208 and 15 points in BA courses
Restriction: FTVMS 313
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COMMS 303

: Sports Media
2020 Semester One (1203)
Examines the relationship between sport and the media. Topics include sports journalism; industry practice; the mediated game event; online communities of fandom; commentary; issues of race and gender; and sports law. Students have the opportunity to experience outside broadcast of televised sport and use the university television studio to engage with key media sport professionals.
Subject: Communication
Prerequisite: 15 points from COMMS 200-208 and 15 points in BA courses
Restriction: FTVMS 313
1456

COMMS 304

: Gender, Politics and the Media
2020 Semester One (1203)
Addresses the theory, practice and representation of politics in the media from a gendered perspective. Analyses the relationship between the media and women and men in the public sphere.
Subject: Communication
Prerequisite: 15 points from COMMS 200-208, GENDER 208, and 15 points in BA courses
Restriction: FTVMS 213, 324
1457

COMMS 307

: Communication Internship
2025 Semester One (1253)
Provides experiential learning opportunities in media, public relations, advertising, and corporate communication industries.
Subject: Communication
Prerequisite: Approval of Academic Head or nominee
Restriction: ARTSGEN 301, CAREER 300
1458

COMMS 307

: Communication Internship
2024 Semester One (1243)
Provides experiential learning opportunities in media, public relations, advertising, and corporate communication industries.
Subject: Communication
Prerequisite: Approval of Academic Head or nominee
Restriction: ARTSGEN 301, CAREER 300
1459

COMMS 307

: Communication Internship
2023 Semester One (1233)
Provides experiential learning opportunities in media, public relations, advertising, and corporate communication industries.
Subject: Communication
Prerequisite: Approval of Academic Head or nominee
Restriction: ARTSGEN 301, CAREER 300
1460

COMMS 307

: Communication Internship
2022 Semester One (1223)
Provides experiential learning opportunities in media, public relations, advertising, and corporate communication industries.
Subject: Communication
Prerequisite: Approval of Academic Head or nominee
Restriction: ARTSGEN 301, CAREER 300
1461

COMMS 307

: Communication Internship
2021 Semester One (1213)
Provides experiential learning opportunities in media, public relations, advertising, and corporate communication industries.
Subject: Communication
Prerequisite: Approval of Academic Head or nominee
Restriction: ARTSGEN 301, CAREER 300
1462

COMMS 307

: Communication Internship
2020 Semester One (1203)
Provides experiential learning opportunities in media, public relations, advertising, and corporate communication industries.
Subject: Communication
Prerequisite: Approval of Academic Head or nominee
Restriction: ARTSGEN 301, CAREER 300
1463

COMMS 309

: Communication, Writing and Design
2022 Semester One (1223)
Examines principles and practices of written communication in domains of culture and work. With an emphasis on signs, writing tools and systems, the course considers the relations between text, images and design in persuasive and provocative graphic works. Through project-based assignments, the course develops writing and design skills in common communication contexts, including PR, advertising and content for social media.
Subject: Communication
Prerequisite: 15 points from COMMS 200-208 and 15 points in BA courses
Restriction: COMMS 305
1464

COMMS 312

: Documentary and Social Change
2024 Semester One (1243)
Investigates the close alignment between documentary film and social and political transformation. The course will explore documentaries associated with political movements from anti-fascism to LGBTI issues. Students will produce a ‘mini-documentary’ as part of their coursework.
Subject: Communication
Prerequisite: 60 points at Stage II in BA or BC courses
Restriction: COMMS 306
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COMMS 312

: Documentary and Social Change
2023 Semester One (1233)
Investigates the close alignment between documentary film and social and political transformation. The course will explore documentaries associated with political movements from anti-fascism to LGBTI issues. Students will produce a ‘mini-documentary’ as part of their coursework.
Subject: Communication
Prerequisite: 60 points at Stage II in BA or BC courses
Restriction: COMMS 306
1466

COMMS 318

: Technology Futures
2025 Semester One (1253)
Considers the place of digital technologies in diverse and contested visions of the future, from Silicon Valley futurism to surveillance dystopias, and from ecological critiques of high-technology to projects for building a digital commons.
Subject: Communication
Prerequisite: 60 points passed at Stage II
Restriction: COMMS 300
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COMMS 318

: Technology Futures
2024 Semester One (1243)
Considers the place of digital technologies in diverse and contested visions of the future, from Silicon Valley futurism to surveillance dystopias, and from ecological critiques of high-technology to projects for building a digital commons.
Subject: Communication
Prerequisite: 60 points passed at Stage II
Restriction: COMMS 300
1468

COMMS 321

: News and Journalism in the Digital Age
2025 Semester One (1253)
Examines the changing nature of news and journalism in the digital age. Themes covered include: news values and news cycles; journalistic principles and practices; the interface between journalism and news sources, including public relations industries; journalism’s ‘fourth estate’ role and the evolving relationship between news and public opinion in the digital age; and the political economy of contemporary journalism.
Subject: Communication
Prerequisite: 60 points passed at Stage II
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COMMS 321

: News and Journalism in the Digital Age
2024 Semester One (1243)
Examines the changing nature of news and journalism in the digital age. Themes covered include: news values and news cycles; journalistic principles and practices; the interface between journalism and news sources, including public relations industries; journalism’s ‘fourth estate’ role and the evolving relationship between news and public opinion in the digital age; and the political economy of contemporary journalism.
Subject: Communication
Prerequisite: 60 points passed at Stage II
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COMMS 321

: News and Journalism in the Digital Age
2023 Semester One (1233)
Examines the changing nature of news and journalism in the digital age. Themes covered include: news values and news cycles; journalistic principles and practices; the interface between journalism and news sources, including public relations industries; journalism’s ‘fourth estate’ role and the evolving relationship between news and public opinion in the digital age; and the political economy of contemporary journalism.
Subject: Communication
Prerequisite: 60 points passed at Stage II
1471

COMMS 323

: Digital Communication and Practice
2025 Semester One (1253)
Offers a practical and creative approach to digital communication with critical context. Students navigate the capacities, affordances and limitations of a variety of digital tools and formats by developing skills to create platform-specific outputs, such as GIFs, interactive bots, vlogs, data visualisations, and more.
Subject: Communication
Prerequisite: 60 points at Stage II
Restriction: COMMS 103, 301
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COMMS 700

: Digital Futures
2020 Semester One (1203)
Considers emerging communication and media technologies and potential future consequences for individuals, societies, and the world at large. Key areas of interest include robotics and AI; ubiquitous computing and the Internet of Things (IoT); 3D printing; virtual, augmented and mixed reality technologies. Issues examined include automation; future of employment; surveillance; new modes of experience; transformed human relationships; and ecological consequences.
Subject: Communication
Restriction: MEDIA 717
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COMMS 702

: Communication Excess and Avoidance
2020 Semester One (1203)
Silences and absences make communication possible. Each medium, whether spoken or printed, projected or computed, has peculiar silences ranging from elegant to tragic, comic to painful, fleeting to eternal. Superabundant digital media raise acute questions about communicative excess and possible needs to disconnect. Such questions will be addressed alongside the cultural and technological history of communication excess and absence.
Subject: Communication
Restriction: MEDIA 745
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COMMS 704

: Special Topic: Communication and Culture
2021 Semester One (1213)
Explores the mutually constitutive relationship between communication and culture through analyses of the cultural forms and meanings of social interaction. Acquaints students with classic and contemporary readings and introduces students to ways in which they can adopt a cultural approach toward communication phenomena in interpersonal, organisational, and intercultural settings.
Subject: Communication
No pre-requisites or restrictions
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COMMS 705

: Communication Perspectives
2024 Semester One (1243)
Critical review of key debates and perspectives in the Communication field, with a particular emphasis on social change communication. Balances broad coverage of dominant approaches in the field with the study of under-represented perspectives including through studies of Indigenous scholarship and research from the Global South.
Subject: Communication
No pre-requisites or restrictions