Handbook : Unit informationEdith Cowan University

School: Arts and Humanities

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Please note that given the circumstances of COVID-19, there may be some modifications to the assessment schedule promoted in Handbook for Semester 1 2020 Units. Students will be notified of all approved modifications by Unit Coordinators via email and Unit Blackboard sites. Where changes have been made, these are designed to ensure that you still meet the unit learning outcomes in the context of our adjusted teaching and learning arrangements.

• Unit Title

  Media and Nation

• Unit Code

  CMM1124

• Year

  2020

• Enrolment Period

  1

• Version

  1

• Credit Points

  15

• Full Year Unit

  N

• Mode of Delivery

  On Campus
  Online

• Unit Coordinator

  Mr James Leslie HALL

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Description

This unit examines the ways in which national identity is represented and promoted through the media. It will focus on issues such as: the public sphere, mediasphere and banal nationalism; first nations; national myths and legends; difference and otherness. It explores the local and the diaspora in order to discover the importance placed on the concept of national identity. The areas of focus are also related historically and thematically to their impact on human interaction and the formation of the individual and the citizen, community and national culture.

Equivalent Rule

Previously coded CMM2124

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

1. Analyse and apply qualitative and quantitative data to media examples.
2. Communicate the major aspects of nationalism and describe the development of a nation's cultural character.
3. Critically appraise the role of objects in national identity and "collective memory" in relation to European and Indigenous Australians, as expressed in the media.
4. Identify types of national identity described by theorists of national identity using an international perspective and the concept of a cross-cultural.

Unit Content

1. Cultural features of modern media and communication technologies.
2. Media representations of Nationalism and their relationship to National Identity.
3. National Identity within a nation's history and from an international perspective.
4. Social and cultural contexts of the mass media in representations of a Nation.

Learning Experience

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECU Blackboard.

For more information see the Semester Timetable

Additional Learning Experience Information

Lectures are used to introduce the central concepts that are relevant in understanding the role of traditional and online media in conveying notions of the nation. The lectures involve a blend of experiences including lectures, interactive presentations, videos and small group discussions.

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant Board of Examiners.

Core Reading(s)

• Anderson, B. (1991). Imagined Communities: reflections on the origins and spread of nationalism. (2nd ed.). Revised Edition London, New York: Verso. Retrieved from https://ecu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/502483423

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