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Faculty of Education and Arts

School: Communications and Arts

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.

  • Unit Title

    Media and Transnational Asia

  • Unit Code

    CMM6150

  • Year

    2015

  • Enrolment Period

    1

  • Version

    1

  • Credit Points

    20

  • Full Year Unit

     N

  • Mode of Delivery

Description

This unit provides a transnational perspective of media across Asia.In particular, it will consider the spread of communication channels and contemporary cultural values and practices.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Generate, research, explore ideas with respect to the globalisation of culture, and assess its significance using critical and reflective thinking.
  2. Identify and discuss significant developments in Asian media, demonstrating knowledge and understanding of the key issues and their impact upon national and international developments.
  3. Interpret cross-cultural experience from the perspectives of own and other international views.
  4. Investigate and critically analyse key cultural concepts in relation to transnationalism.

Unit Content

  1. Cross-cultural and contemporary issues related to identity and equity in the media and the community.
  2. The development of the major media forms across Asia.
  3. The social impact of the media in selected Asian countries and its cross-cultural influences.
  4. Transborder communication in relation to globalisation.

Additional Learning Experience Information

Lectures Seminars and Screenings.

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
AssignmentAssignment and Presentation60%
ExaminationExamination40%

Text References

  • Birch, D., Schirato, T., & Srivistava, S. (2001). Asia: Cultural politics in the global age. Sydney, Australia: Allen and Unwin.
  • Gan, S., Gomez, J., & Johannen, U. (2004). Asian cyberactivism: Freedom of expression and media censorship. (Eds.). Bangkok, Thailand: Firedich Nammann Foundation in Association with Journalism and Media Studies Centre.
  • Thomas, A. (2005). Imaginations and borderless television: Media, culture and politics across Asia. New Delhi, India: Sage Publication.
  • Kwok Wah Lau, J. Multiple modernities: Cinemas and popular media in transcultural East Asia. (Ed.). Philadelphia, Penn: Temple University Press.
  • Mankekar, P., & Schein, L. (2012). Media, erotics and transnational Asia. Durham and London, United Kingdom: Duke University Press.
  • James, J. (2010). McDonaldisation, Masala McGospel and Om economics: Televangelism in contemporary India. New Delhi, India: and Los Angeles, CA:

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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Faculty of Education and Arts

School: Communications and Arts

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.

  • Unit Title

    Media and Transnational Asia

  • Unit Code

    CMM6150

  • Year

    2015

  • Enrolment Period

    2

  • Version

    1

  • Credit Points

    20

  • Full Year Unit

     N

  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus

Description

This unit provides a transnational perspective of media across Asia.In particular, it will consider the spread of communication channels and contemporary cultural values and practices.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Generate, research, explore ideas with respect to the globalisation of culture, and assess its significance using critical and reflective thinking.
  2. Identify and discuss significant developments in Asian media, demonstrating knowledge and understanding of the key issues and their impact upon national and international developments.
  3. Interpret cross-cultural experience from the perspectives of own and other international views.
  4. Investigate and critically analyse key cultural concepts in relation to transnationalism.

Unit Content

  1. Cross-cultural and contemporary issues related to identity and equity in the media and the community.
  2. The development of the major media forms across Asia.
  3. The social impact of the media in selected Asian countries and its cross-cultural influences.
  4. Transborder communication in relation to globalisation.

Additional Learning Experience Information

Lectures Seminars and Screenings.

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
AssignmentAssignment and Presentation60%
ExaminationExamination40%

Text References

  • Thomas, A. (2005). Imaginations and borderless television: Media, culture and politics across Asia. New Delhi, India: Sage Publication.
  • Mankekar, P., & Schein, L. (2012). Media, erotics and transnational Asia. Durham and London, United Kingdom: Duke University Press.
  • Birch, D., Schirato, T., & Srivistava, S. (2001). Asia: Cultural politics in the global age. Sydney, Australia: Allen and Unwin.
  • James, J. (2010). McDonaldisation, Masala McGospel and Om economics: Televangelism in contemporary India. New Delhi, India: and Los Angeles, CA:
  • Gan, S., Gomez, J., & Johannen, U. (2004). Asian cyberactivism: Freedom of expression and media censorship. (Eds.). Bangkok, Thailand: Firedich Nammann Foundation in Association with Journalism and Media Studies Centre.
  • Kwok Wah Lau, J. Multiple modernities: Cinemas and popular media in transcultural East Asia. (Ed.). Philadelphia, Penn: Temple University Press.

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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