12881 (v.7) MCCA 103 - Making Meanings

Area:	School of Media, Culture and Creative Arts
Credits:	25.0
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:	The broad goal of this unit is to improve students' ability to engage critically with the culture in which they live via a wide variety of written and audio-visual materials, texts and sources, understanding how meaning is constructed through a system ofsigns and the rules of their combinations; and the interaction of the producers ("authors") of texts, the consumers or readers of those texts and the texts themselves (and, remember, anything meaningful can be a text).
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*:	Fully Online *Extent to which this unit or thesis utilises online information
Result Type:	Grade/Mark

Availability

Year	Location	Period	Internal	Central External
2009	Bentley Campus	Semester 1		Y
2009	Bentley Campus	Semester 1	Y
2009	Miri Sarawak Campus	Study Period 1	Y
2009	Miri Sarawak Campus	Semester 1	Y
2009	Miri Sarawak 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