Handbook : Unit informationEdith Cowan University

School: Arts and Humanities

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• Unit Title

  Media and Nation

• Unit Code

  CMM2124

• Year

  2016

• Enrolment Period

  1

• Version

  2

• Credit Points

  15

• Full Year Unit

  N

• Mode of Delivery

  On Campus
  

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Description

This unit examines the ways in which National Identity is represented and promoted through the media. It uses Benedict Anderson's concept of the Imagined Community (1991) as a foundation and will focus on issues such as: the Public Sphere, Mediasphere and Banal Nationalism; National Myths and Legends; Representations of the Landscape; Advertising and Tourism; Film and Television; Music and Sport; Museums and Commemorations; Difference and Otherness; and 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

Unit was previously coded CMM3102, CMM4124

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

1. Collaborate and contribute to team discussions on the concepts of theory and practice as they relate to the media and the production of National Identity.
2. Collate and evaluate statistical data.
3. Critically appraise and evaluate the role of objects in National Identity.
4. Develop skills in a range of research outcomes, such as case studies and critical essays.
5. Develop the ability to communicate issues and generate ideas concerningthe major aspects of Nationalism and the development of a nation's cultural character.
6. Evaluate the forms of National Identity promoted by these concepts from a cross-cultural and international perspective.
7. Explore the concept of "collective memory" and National Identity in relation to Indigenous Australians.

Unit Content

1. A series of detailed case studies of media representations of Nationalism and their relationship to National Identity.
2. Cultural features of modern media and communication technologies.
3. Guest lectures by representatives working within the national history and the media communities.
4. The concept of National Identity within a nations history and from an international perspective.
5. The social and cultural contexts of the mass media in representations of a Nation.

Additional Learning Experience Information

Lectures, screenings, tutorials and presentations.

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.

Text References

• ^ Anderson, B. (2003) Imagined Communities: reflections on the origins and spread of nationalism.Revised Edition London, New York: Verso
• Hall, J. A. (Ed.). (1998). The state of the nation: Ernest Gellner and the theory of nationalism. Cambridge University Press.
• Billig, M. (2001). Banal nationalism. London: Thousand Oaks/ New Delhi: Sage.
• Balakrishnan, G. (Ed.). (1996). Mapping the nation. London /New York: Verso.
• Lawrence, P. (2005). Nationalism: History and theory. Pearson Longman.
• Gillis, J. R. (Ed.). (1996). Commemorations:The politics of national identity. Princetown, New Jersey: Princetown University Press.

^ Mandatory reference

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