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12881 (v.5) Media, Communication and Information 112 - The Critical Attitude


Area:

Department of Media and Information

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. **
 

Tutorial:

1 x 2 Hours Weekly

Lecture:

1 x 1 Hours Weekly

Prerequisite(s):

12194 (v.5) Media, Communication and Information 111 - The Information Age or any previous version
AND
301065 (v.3) Media, Communication and Information 101 - Research and Presentation Skills or any previous version
 

Syllabus:

Two modules, A World of Meanings and Unravelling Meanings. The first module introduces and explores the post-structuralist view of language, while the second module introduces and explores postmodern epistemology and the challenges that it poses for media and information professionals. The role of the self in this work on meaning and knowledge is considered. The self is both the locus of the critical attitude - the practitioner, the doer of critical reading and evaluation - but is, conceptually 'undone' or destabilised by the post-structuralist and postmodern approaches we take. Your critical attitude will be sharpened and refined and be tempered by a recognition of the problem of being a knowing subject, especially in professional employment in the fields of media/meaning and knowledge/information to which you are headed.
 
** 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)

HECS Band (if applicable):

1

Extent to which this unit or thesis
utilises online information:

Not Online

Result Type:

Grade/Mark

Availability

Year Location Period Internal Area External Central External
2004 Bentley Campus Semester 1 Y   Y
2004 Bentley Campus Semester 2 Y   Y
2004 Joondalup Campus Semester 1 Y    
2004 Joondalup Campus Semester 2 Y    
2004 BPI Intern'l Group S'pore Quarter 3 Y    
2004 Lim Kok Wing Uni Malaysia Semester 1 Y    
2004 Lim Kok Wing Uni Malaysia Semester 2 Y    
Area
External
refers to external course/units run by the School or Department, offered online or through Web CT, or offered by research.
Central
External
refers to external course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area

 
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