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MMCC1000 – Visual Media and Communications

2020 – Session 1, Weekday attendance, North Ryde

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General Information

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Unit convenor and teaching staff Unit convenor and teaching staff
Anthony Lambert
anthony.lambert@mq.edu.au
Credit points Credit points
10
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Unit description Unit description

This unit brings together theories, practices and texts that explore the relationship between visual media and the way people act in their everyday lives. This unit introduces critical concepts to analyse visual texts, technologies, and communication practices. From film, television, photography and advertising, to social media applications and sites, we look at the ways media and communication shape (and are shaped by) our social worlds, our bodies and identities, changing technologies and online communities. We focus on visual communication and normalising practices, contemporary politics, events, embodiment, digital cultures, globalisation and social networking. Within these frameworks, we explore the (re)production, performance and use of identity and subjectivity, and canvass notions of genre, discourse, power and textuality through the application and testing of methods of visual analysis. Finally, we place visual communication within the personal, the sensory and the everyday through the practical exploration of social media use.

Important Academic Dates

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Learning Outcomes

On successful completion of this unit, you will be able to:

  • ULO1: recognise and define different areas of visual culture studies and communication theory, and apply them through a variety of activities.
  • ULO2: explain the politicised aspects of visual media and concepts in terms of both production and content (as discourses, texts, lived realities).
  • ULO3: critically review, analyse and synthesise findings.
  • ULO4: present work in a manner conforming to accepted academic standards in both written and spoken form.
  • ULO5: appraise issues and debates specific to cultural and social communication practices and their associated philosophical and political underpinnings.

Assessment Tasks

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General Assessment Information

Late Submissions - Guidelines

Unless a Special Consideration request has been submitted and approved:

  1. a penalty for lateness will apply – two (2) marks out of 100 will be deducted per day for assignments submitted after the due date – and
  2. no assignment will be accepted more than seven (7) days (including weekends) after the original submission deadline. No late submissions will be accepted for timed assessments – e.g. quizzes, online tests, online participation.

Delivery and Resources

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Delivery Mode: Internal, Daytime  

This unit will use:    Echo360, iLearn, Turnitin, Leganto 

Lectures and Tutorials 

Lectures: Mondays 11:00 AM in T1, 10 Hadenfeld Avenue. See Echo360 block on iLearn for recorded weekly lectures and sides/notes. Lectures, screenings, readings and appropriate work must be watched/done prior to tutorials.

Tutorials: As per timetable (1 hr per week) TUTORIALS BEGIN IN WEEK ONE

Please note there are no classes in week 7 or week 13.

Readings and Screening

Readings: There are required readings from the first week onward. These are accessed via the Unit Reading option within the library's multi-search function, or by clicking the Leganto link on the iLearn page.

Screening: The link to the week 8 screening is available under the weekly tab or via the library Leganto list/ Kanopy streaming service.

For current updates, classrooms and times please consult the MQU Timetables website: http://www.timetables.mq.edu.au. 

Unit Schedule

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Week 1 Lecture :       Visual Communication

Week 2 Lecture:        Semiotic Communication

Week 3 Lecture:        Global Communication

Week 4 Lecture:        Spectacular Communication

Week 5 Lecture:        Fat Culture

Week 6 Lecture:        Monstrous Culture

Week 7:   Reading Week (No  Classes)

SEMESTER BREAK APRIL 10 - 24

Week 8 Screening:   Identity, Justice and Culture

Week 9 Lecture:        Social Media

Week 10 Lecture:      Social Selfhood

Week 11 Lecture:      Social Sharing

Week 12 Lecture:      Social Change

Week 13:                   Course Review (No Classes)

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Students seeking more policy resources can visit the Student Policy Gateway (https://students.mq.edu.au/support/study/student-policy-gateway). It is your one-stop-shop for the key policies you need to know about throughout your undergraduate student journey.

If you would like to see all the policies relevant to Learning and Teaching visit Policy Central (https://staff.mq.edu.au/work/strategy-planning-and-governance/university-policies-and-procedures/policy-central).

Student Code of Conduct

Macquarie University students have a responsibility to be familiar with the Student Code of Conduct: https://students.mq.edu.au/study/getting-started/student-conduct​

Results

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Students with a disability are encouraged to contact the Disability Service who can provide appropriate help with any issues that arise during their studies.

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