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Courses Handbook 2015

This handbook contains information on courses and components (majors, minors, streams and units) at Curtin in 2015.
Information for the previous year's courses and units is available at Courses Handbook 2014.

COMS2001 (v.1) Asian Media in Transition

Area: School of Media, Culture and Creative Arts
Credits: 25.0
Contact Hours: 2.0
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.
Seminar: 1 x 2 Hours Weekly
Equivalent(s): 301070 (v.4) Media Studies 216 - Asian Media in Transition or any previous version
Prerequisite(s): 301066 (v.6) Culture to Cultures 102 or any previous version
OR
12194 (v.7) Engaging Media 104 or any previous version
OR
311923 (v.1) Making Meanings 103 or any previous version
OR
311922 (v.2) Academic and Professional Communications 100 or any previous version
OR
311926 (v.3) Communicating with Asia: Languages and Societies 100 or any previous version
OR
COMS1003 (v.1) Culture to Cultures or any previous version
OR
COMS1001 (v.1) Engaging Media or any previous version
OR
COMS1005 (v.1) Making Meanings or any previous version
OR
COMS1010 (v.1) Academic and Professional Communications or any previous version
OR
ASIA1005 (v.1) Communicating with Asia - Languages and Societies or any previous version
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.
Syllabus: Theoretical and methodological issues that need to inform any understanding of Asian media and culture and how these issues can be seen in practice, concentrating on specific case studies.
Field of Education: 100700 Communication and Media Studies (Narrow Grouping)
Result Type: Grade/Mark


Availability

Year Location Period Internal Partially Online Internal Area External Central External Fully Online
2015 Bentley Campus Semester 1 Y        
2015 Bentley Campus Semester 1         Y
2015 Charles Telfair Inst Mauritius Semester 1 Y        
2015 Lim Kok Wing Uni Malaysia Semester 1 Y        
2015 Miri Sarawak Campus Semester 1 Y        
2015 Miri Sarawak Campus Semester 2 Y        
2015 Singapore Campus Trimester 1A 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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