School: Arts and Humanities

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

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

    Global Communications
  • Unit Code

    CMM3115
  • Year

    2020
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    2
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
  • Unit Coordinator

    Mr James Leslie HALL

Description

This unit investigates current trends in global communication with reference to a number of major issues, such as the global/local nexus, feminism, and cross-cultural developments. These issues are investigated with reference to case-studies of historical and emerging issues that impact and influence our world.

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded PRN3104

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Identify the major communication systems in both the developed and developing worlds.
  2. Appraise and assess the main trends in global communication and popular culture such as globalisation, environmentalism and trans-border communication.
  3. Outline the issues and theory relevant to Indigenous, inter-cultural and cross-cultural communication.
  4. Evaluate contemporary and emerging issues within global media and synthesise research findings into a critical report focused on global issues.

Unit Content

  1. Views from guest experts and the community about activities related to global communication and cultural issues.
  2. Public Relations communication techniques.
  3. Global media events and their sustainability.
  4. An analysis of the implications of globalisation and cultural paradigms in relation to the press, radio, television, film and the Internet.
  5. The identification and critique of recent trends in transnational communication with an emphasis on issues related to political movements and environmental issues.
  6. An exploration of the programming practices within transnational communication systems in relation to popular culture.

Learning Experience

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

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 2Not Offered13 x 1 hour lectureNot Offered
Semester 2Not Offered13 x 2 hour tutorialNot Offered

For more information see the Semester Timetable

Additional Learning Experience Information

Guest lecturers are invited to deliver a one-off session during semester to provide particular case-studies and specific research and industry understandings of the significance of global communication.

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.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
Case StudyCritical written analysis30%
Research PaperQualitative communications research40%
ReportFeature article 30%

Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Academic Misconduct

Edith Cowan University has firm rules governing academic misconduct and there are substantial penalties that can be applied to students who are found in breach of these rules. Academic misconduct includes, but is not limited to:

  • plagiarism;
  • unauthorised collaboration;
  • cheating in examinations;
  • theft of other students' work;

Additionally, any material submitted for assessment purposes must be work that has not been submitted previously, by any person, for any other unit at ECU or elsewhere.

The ECU rules and policies governing all academic activities, including misconduct, can be accessed through the ECU website.

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School: Arts and Humanities

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

Please note that given the circumstances of COVID-19, there may be some modifications to the assessment schedule promoted in Handbook for this unit. All assessment changes will be published by 27 July 2020. All students are reminded to check handbook at the beginning of semester to ensure they have the correct outline.

  • Unit Title

    Global Communications
  • Unit Code

    CMM3115
  • Year

    2020
  • Enrolment Period

    2
  • Version

    2
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
  • Unit Coordinator

    Mr James Leslie HALL

Description

This unit investigates current trends in global communication with reference to a number of major issues, such as the global/local nexus, feminism, and cross-cultural developments. These issues are investigated with reference to case-studies of historical and emerging issues that impact and influence our world.

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded PRN3104

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Identify the major communication systems in both the developed and developing worlds.
  2. Appraise and assess the main trends in global communication and popular culture such as globalisation, environmentalism and trans-border communication.
  3. Outline the issues and theory relevant to Indigenous, inter-cultural and cross-cultural communication.
  4. Evaluate contemporary and emerging issues within global media and synthesise research findings into a critical report focused on global issues.

Unit Content

  1. Views from guest experts and the community about activities related to global communication and cultural issues.
  2. Public Relations communication techniques.
  3. Global media events and their sustainability.
  4. An analysis of the implications of globalisation and cultural paradigms in relation to the press, radio, television, film and the Internet.
  5. The identification and critique of recent trends in transnational communication with an emphasis on issues related to political movements and environmental issues.
  6. An exploration of the programming practices within transnational communication systems in relation to popular culture.

Learning Experience

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

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 2Not Offered13 x 1 hour lectureNot Offered
Semester 2Not Offered13 x 2 hour tutorialNot Offered

For more information see the Semester Timetable

Additional Learning Experience Information

Guest lecturers are invited to deliver a one-off session during semester to provide particular case-studies and specific research and industry understandings of the significance of global communication.

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.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
Case StudyCritical written analysis30%
Research PaperQualitative communications research40%
ReportFeature article 30%

Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Academic Misconduct

Edith Cowan University has firm rules governing academic misconduct and there are substantial penalties that can be applied to students who are found in breach of these rules. Academic misconduct includes, but is not limited to:

  • plagiarism;
  • unauthorised collaboration;
  • cheating in examinations;
  • theft of other students' work;

Additionally, any material submitted for assessment purposes must be work that has not been submitted previously, by any person, for any other unit at ECU or elsewhere.

The ECU rules and policies governing all academic activities, including misconduct, can be accessed through the ECU website.

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