Courses Handbook 2008 - [ Archived ]

303705 (v.2) Cultural Literacy 501


Area: Department of Media and Information
Credits: 25.0
Contact Hours: 2.0
** 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. **
Workshop: 1 x 2 Hours Weekly
Syllabus: Develops and extends the research and cross-cultural communication skills studied in Cultural Literacy 500 and includes: research skills, critical thinking, writing and editing, study of academic journal writing, analysis of various disciplines' texts and social discourse - particularly oral discourse in Australia and cross-cultural studies. Complements and integrates study undertaken in other disciplines. Preparation of a research proposal, development of a literature review, or writing a chapter of a thesis or project.
** 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)
SOLT (Online) Definitions*: Not Online
*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
2008 Bentley Campus Semester 1 Y        
2008 Bentley Campus Semester 2 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

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