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Courses Handbook 2012

This handbook contains information for courses and units at Curtin in 2012.
Information for current year courses and units is available at Courses Handbook 2011.

10084 (v.7) Screen Actualities 301

Area: Department of Film and Television
Credits: 25.0
Contact Hours: 5.0
Tuition Patterns: The tuition pattern provides details of the types of classes and their duration. This is to be used as a guide only. Precise information is included in the unit outline.
Lecture: 1 x 1 Hours Weekly
Other: 1 x 2 Hours Weekly
Tutorial: 1 x 2 Hours Weekly
Prerequisite(s): 1531 (v.9) Screen Arts 111 or any previous version
Syllabus: This unit explores those program types that have their content located in the real, or socio-political world, commencing with the first films, through the development of news reels, documentaries, and then television formats such as news and current affairs. The unit follows the historic development of production technologies and how they have impacted on the way program makers have sought to represent the real world on cinema, television and computer screens. The various theoretical approaches to the analysis and criticism of actuality program formats, including modernist and postmodernist approaches are introduced to students and within that framework, the relationship between filmmaker, subject and audience is explored.
Unit references, texts, outcomes and assessment details The most up-to-date information about unit references, texts and outcomes, will be provided in the unit outline.
Field of Education: 100701 Audio Visual Studies
Result Type: Grade/Mark

Availability

Year Location Period Internal Partially Online Internal Area External Central External Fully Online
2012 Bentley Campus Semester 1 Y        
2012 Lim Kok Wing Uni Malaysia Semester 1 Y        
2012 Lim Kok Wing Uni Malaysia 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