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The University of Canberra offers a coursework masters, delivered online, in new media. <BR>
One of the units is called 'Reading Media' and, due to ill health, we need someone (in possession of a masters or PhD) to teach it this coming semester. <BR>
It would involve about 3 hours a week, taught from anywhere you like (since it's online delivery) and the teaching materials are all prepared. <BR>
If you think you might be both interested and available, do contact. Failing that, if you know anyone who might be both interested and suitable, please pass it on. I would need to know by later this week, since semester starts on July 17.<BR>
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Best, Jen<BR>
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Syllabus<BR>
This subject develops advanced media literacy in a variety of media representations and products - films, photographs, television programs, multimedia works, sound programs, web pages - and focuses in particular on the ability to offer critical comment and analysis of a single work. Several strategies are employed to investigate how media products work. Key formal and aesthetic issues are examined in relation to a mix of media forms. The issues are approached not only at the analytical and theoretical levels, but also historically via the development of genres and other conventional structures. The question of style - what it is and how it affects both quality and comprehension - is also central.<BR>
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Learning Outcomes<BR>
On completion of this subject students will have: an historical understanding of the development of different media forms; the capacity to critically analyse and evaluate media products in terms of their formal structure, generic conventions and stylistic characteristics; an understanding of the place of media in the broad framework of communication and cultural studies.<BR>
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Assoc Prof Jen Webb<BR>
Director, Communication Research Group<BR>
School of Creative Communication<BR>
University of Canberra<BR>
ACT 2601<BR>
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telephone: +61 (0)2 6201 2321<BR>
fax: +61 (0)2 6201 5300<BR>
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Australian Government Higher Education (CRICOS) <BR>
Registered Provider number: #00212K <BR>
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