302004 (v.3) Media and Information 702 - DCA Professional Praxis II

Area:

Department of Media and Information

Credits:

50.0

Contact Hours:

6.0

** The tuition pattern below provides details of the types of classes and their duration. This is to be used as a guide only. For more precise information please check your unit outline. **

Individual Study:

1 x 6 Hours Weekly

Prerequisite(s):

302003 (v.3) Media and Information 701 - DCA Professional Praxis I or any previous version

Syllabus:

Participating in scholarly and professional conferences or seminars and contributing to scholarly and professional journals. Selection of a topic within a relevant field, conduct appropriate research and prepare an abstract for the peer-review process of a conference committee and/or that of an editorial committee. Students then develop and workshop the paper in two fashions - for delivery at a conference and for submission to a journal, preparing the appropriate audio-visual and supporting material forthe one form and learning the appropriate citation, formatting and bibliographic skills for the other. Students are guided in these preparations by their supervisors and their peers and lecturers in the unit. On presentation of the paper at a conference or seminar, external or internal, and/or publication of the paper, students submit a report analysing current industry, scholarly and professional trends as revealed at the conference and/or through the process of journal submission.

** To ensure that the most up-to-date information about unit references, texts and outcomes appears, they will be provided in your unit outline prior to commencement. **

Field of Education:

100700 Communication and Media Studies (Narrow Grouping)

Funding Cluster:

07 - Foreign Languages, Visual and Performing Arts

SOLT (Online) Definitions*:

Informational
*Extent to which this unit or thesis utilises online information

Result Type:

Grade/Mark

Availability

Year	Location	Period	Internal	Partially Online Internal	Area External	Central External	Fully Online
2006	Bentley Campus	Semester 1	Y		Y	Y
2006	Bentley Campus	Semester 2	Y		Y	Y

Area External	refers to external course/units run by the School or Department or offered by research.
Central External	refers to external and online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area
Partially Online Internal	refers to some (a portion of) learning provided by interacting with or downloading pre-packaged material from the Internet but with regular and ongoing participation with a face-to-face component retained. Excludes partially online internal course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External
Fully Online	refers to the main (larger portion of) mode of learning provided via Internet interaction (including the downloading of pre-packaged material on the Internet). Excludes online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External