Units

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Sample subject outline - Semester 1 2013

Note: Subject outlines often change before the semester begins. Below is a sample outline.

Rationale

The number of individuals in contemporary societies who use new media technologies to shape, (re)form and sustain their identities is on the rise. From social networking sites like FaceBook and blogs to YouTube, this unit takes you through the critical enquiry of your use of new media in five aspects of everyday life: entertainment, socialisation, information, education and business, health and well-being, and beliefs and politics. This unit also introduces them to theories, issues and deliberations surrounding new media.

Aims

This unit aims to introduce you to contemporary theories, thinking and debates surrounding new media with special reference to everyday life. You will explore how and why the individual use of new media inflect, shape, order and feed into the (re)formation and performance of identities within multiple, overlapping networks of work, education, play, beliefs and socialisation.

Objectives

On completion of this unit you should be able to:
1. Critically evaluate the role new media play in daily life;
2. Deconstruct the concepts, thinking and debates that exist around new media, and apply them to the consideration of how and why the personal use of new media inflect, shape, order and feed into the construction(s) of selves and relationships;
3. Critique the key issues surrounding the personal application of new media;
4. Communicate this understanding of new media in a variety of modes (written, oral and visual).

Content

The unit addresses content such as:
- the use of new media and the performance of self in relation to others
- the consumption, production and practice of new media
- socio-cultural imaginings and technological convergence in new media
- working with and in new media

Approaches to Teaching and Learning

Key concepts will be introduced and discussed in formal lectures. These will be built on further with discussions, student presentations and activities at the tutorials. These will also be directed at supporting student work-in-progress on assessment tasks.

Assessment

LATE ASSIGNMENTS
An assignment submitted after the due date without an approved extension will not be marked. If you are unable to complete your assignment on time, you should submit on time whatever work you have done.

Faculty Assessment Information
To access complete Creative Industries Faculty Assessment Information please refer to the Blackboard site for this unit.

Grading Scale - You will be awarded a final grade on a 1 to 7 scaleFORMATIVE ASSESSMENT
You will receive formative feedback on your progress in this unit during tutorials and discussions throughout the semester.
Weight 0%

Assessment name: Group Presentation & Commentar
Description: (Summative and formative)
Your task is to prepare a group presentation that demonstrates your understanding of your chosen and pre-approved choice of the unit topics.

The presentation should expand upon, rather than simply summarise, the readings and key concepts. You should also generate questions to address to the class afterwards.

Every presentation is to be followed by a written group commentary that critically elaborates on the ideas represented in your presentation and responds to feedback from class.

*Due date is throughout semester, as per schedule agreed.
Relates to objectives: 1, 2, 3, 4
Weight: 50%
Internal or external: Internal
Group or individual: Group
Due date: Throughout semester*

Assessment name: Learning Blog & Reflective Sum
Description: (Summative and formative)
You will write a brief note on the readings for that week, which reflects your understanding of the material discussed and their relation to the intersections between new media and the self.

The reflective summary is due after the final blog entry. You are required to write a reflection, reflecting on the experience of blogging as a learning tool and its effect on your learning style.
Relates to objectives: 1, 2, 3, 4
Weight: 40%
Internal or external: Internal
Group or individual: Individual
Due date: Weekly

Assessment name: Professional
Description: For this assessment you are required to demonstrate that you have read the weekly readings and prepared for tutorials through your active participation in class discussions, providing feedback to your peers and involvement in tutorial activities.
Relates to objectives: 1, 2, 3
Weight: 10%
Internal or external: Internal
Group or individual: Individual
Due date: Ongoing

Academic Honesty

QUT is committed to maintaining high academic standards to protect the value of its qualifications. To assist you in assuring the academic integrity of your assessment you are encouraged to make use of the support materials and services available to help you consider and check your assessment items. Important information about the university's approach to academic integrity of assessment is on your unit Blackboard site.

A breach of academic integrity is regarded as Student Misconduct and can lead to the imposition of penalties.

Resource materials

The unit readings will be held on the unit's CMD, which you can find under 'Learning Resources' on the BB site. Items with a URL can be accessed through their own URLs and not through the CMD.

Risk assessment statement

There are no out of the ordinary risks associated with this unit.

Disclaimer - Offer of some units is subject to viability, and information in these Unit Outlines is subject to change prior to commencement of semester.

Last modified: 26-Sep-2012