Courses Handbook 2006 - [Archived]

308004 (v.1) Introduction to Visual Culture 061

Area:

 Curtin Sarawak

Credits:

 12.5

Contact Hours:

 3.0
 
** 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. **
 

Lecture:

 1 x 1 Hours Weekly

Tutorial:

 1 x 2 Hours Weekly
 

Syllabus:

 Structured to accommodate and foster the theoretical as well as the practical. Conveys a basic understanding of how visual culture is variously produced, circulated and consumed - both within the local and international context. The critical examination and analysis of diverse everyday visual media texts, from television, cinema, newspapers and magazines. Enables the investigation and identification of how powerful meanings and messages are constructed, represented and inscribed in visual texts. Interaction with visual media and practice of communication processes, through the production of visual media texts in particular, is meant to further enhance familiarity with the language of contemporary visual culture.
 
** 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*:

 Not Categorised
*Extent to which this unit or thesis utilises online information

Result Type:

 Grade/Mark

Availability
Availability Information has not been provided by the respective School or Area. Prospective students should contact the School or Area listed above for further information.

 
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