301052 (v.3) Internet Studies 103 - Socio-Technological Introduction

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. **

Tutorial:

1 x 1 Hours Weekly

Laboratory:

1 x 1 Hours Weekly

Syllabus:

Exploration of the broad impacts, changes and effects of the Internet and analysis as a social technology. This journey through cyberspace examines the social, cultural, economic and political aspects of the Internet and its application. What the Internet is and what it does.

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Field of Education:

100700 Communication and Media Studies (Narrow Grouping)

Funding Cluster:

07 - Foreign Languages, Visual and Performing Arts

SOLT (Online) Definitions*:

Fully 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
2006	Bentley Campus	Semester 1	Y			Y
2006	Bentley Campus	Semester 2	Y			Y
2006	De Chazal Du Mee Bus Mauritius	Semester 1	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