Culture to Cultures

The focus of Culture to Cultures is around culture, media, and communication. For all of us, they are dynamic and important aspects of contemporary life - they shape our lives as individuals as well as our collective understandings of the world. A critical understanding of culture, media, and communication is also crucial for careers in communications, media, creative arts, design, marketing and advertising, PR, and many others. These three concepts intersect and interact in different ways – something we’ll explore this semester.

Our approach will adopt a critical intercultural communication perspective and use its theories to think about topics around culture, communication and representation, like identity, the construction of difference, the nation, colonisation, globalisation, new media, and multiculturalism. Our intellectual roots also draw from critical media studies and cultural studies.

Introduction to Journalism - Writing

Introduction to Screen Creativity

Introduction to classical and contemporary screen genres and methods of screen appreciation, including fiction and non-fiction modes of film making. This course combines critical studies and creative practice through action/reflection and production/analysis tasks.

Web Communications

CMDP2020 Academic and Professional Communications

Engaging Media

Introduction to Journalism - Broadcast

Introduction to Journalism - Broadcast provides detailed information about program formats in both radio and television, and teaches students how to identify potential news stories, gather the information and bring a news story to completion within a tight deadline. Students will also learn to become news consumers and be able to take a more detailed and critical look at the world around us, and how it is presented to us by the mainstream media.

Different funding models observed by the public, community and commercial media have resulted in diverse newsroom cultures. This unit will take a close look at each sector and go behind the scenes to examine the news transmission technologies available to journalists and the power of journalists in setting agendas and influencing the direction and tone of public discourse. This unit will also introduce students to the many faces of talkback, new forms of foreign reporting, and legal and ethical rules that impact on broadcast journalism practice.

To help the students engage in reflective journalism practice those enrolled in this unit will also have the opportunity for to journalists talk about the latest trends in television reporting and sports reporting. New developments in broadcast journalism have challenged the traditional role of journalism in society. This unit will explore what has gone before, what lies ahead, and what core skills are required to be a journalist.

Introduction to Screen Industries

Introduction to Digital Technologies and Design

Introduction to Journalism

CMDP1070 Introduction to Media and Communication Studies

Introduction to Screen Production

Introduction to Visual Culture

Travel Writing and Photography