Core units

COM10007 Professional Communication Practice

This unit introduces students to the vital part communication plays in professional life. In covering ideas and skills fundamental to professional communication success, it aims to build not only competence but also students’ confidence in functioning as ethical communicators, able to use a range of techniques to achieve desired communication outcomes.

MDA10008 Global Media Industries

This unit explores worldwide trends in a range of media industries and provides students with the skills and knowledge to work internationally in fields such as design, marketing, media regulation, content creation and management, telecommunications and journalism.

JOU10007 Media Content Creation

This unit introduces students to digital non-fiction story development skills for professional media purposes and social media dissemination across a range of platforms. Students will establish and develop an online portfolio and learn how to establish a related professional social media identity in order to promote their work.

MDA10001 Introduction to Media Studies

This unit introduces students to the fundamentals of media studies, with a focus on texts, contexts, and the history of media and media studies. This enables students to understand the significant contribution that the media make to the formation of society and culture.

Social Media Major

MDA100006 Innovation Cultures: Perspectives on Science and Technology

This unit examines the relationship between science, technology and culture with a particular emphasis on communications and screen-based technology. Students will learn about key theoretical paradigms such as disruptive innovation, Actor Network Theory, and participatory media etc.

MDA20009 Digital Communities

This unit examines the growing dominance of social media as a factor of our social, political, financial and cultural life. Students will develop a critical approach to social media by exploring a range of platforms and contexts, uses and practices. Students will use this knowledge and critical understanding to explore strategic, creative and productive use of social media tools.

MDA20025 National Media in a Globalised World

This unit will analyse a selection of local media industry sectors and current and long-standing media public policy issues, including ownership and control; censorship and classification; measurement of media use; and public and community media institutions.

MDA20003 Networked Selves

This unit focuses on how people use social media to construct their individual identity. It explores key issues relating to networked media technologies and how they shape identity and personal experiences. The unit looks at how the self is increasingly performed, through a range of media platforms, in ways that blur the boundaries between public and private.

MDA20011 Sports / Advertising / Media

This unit explores the nexus between sports, advertising and media. Students will gain an understanding of how sport and advertising function, how they operate in the broader context of television and social media, and the ways in which they impact on ideas of race, nation, audience and merchandising.

MDA30017 Media Analytics and Visualisation

This unit focuses on the strategic and business value of media analytics and visualisation. Students will learn about evidence-based decision making, data analytics and visualisation, and tools and techniques required to collect, clean, analyse and visualise qualitative, quantitative and social network data, and will have the opportunity to apply their learning in real world settings.

MDA30007 Media and Communication Project B

Students undertaking a media project are supervised in both the design and implementation of a product of their choice or can choose to undertake work experience. This unit is designed to extend the skills acquired by students in their major studies and to provide an opportunity for students to gain experience in the workplace and to work independently as freelance practitioners.

MDA30012 Researching Social Media Publics

Social media applications and platforms are increasingly defining the way we communicate. This unit introduces research methodologies for analysing such sites of social media practice. It is part of the social media major and minor and also works as a pathway to postgraduate study.

Social Media Minor Units

• MDA100006 Innovation Cultures: Perspectives on Science and Technology
• MDA20009 Digital Communities
• MDA20003 Networked Selves
• MDA30012 Researching Social Media Publics

Component units

Students are required to undertake 12 components units from Communication Design, Motion Design, Marketing, Management, International Business, Entrepreneurship and Digital Marketing.