DIGI201-17S2 (C) Semester Two 2017

Digital Cultures

This occurrence is not offered in 2017

15 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 17 July 2017
End Date: Sunday, 19 November 2017
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Friday, 28 July 2017
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Friday, 13 October 2017

Description

This course will challenge students to critically assess both digital cultures, and their relationship to them. Students will engage with digital tools they might not have experienced before, and consider how a range of digital tools enable, restrict and/or undermine their role as citizens.

We will study the diverse, pervasive and highly contested topic of digital culture to ask questions such as: how do digital technologies shape culture? What is the relationship between digital media and identity? How do digital cultures understand and represent the body? In what ways is digital culture connected to public life and political discourse? We will engage with key thinkers on the impacts of digital technologies, and will study a range of texts – including fiction, non-fiction, film and games – to understand the effects of digital media on cultural life.

Prerequisites

A B pass in 15 points in DIGI102/PHIL137, COMS103 or ENGL132/CULT132 or 30 points from the Arts Schedule or any 45 points.

Restrictions

Equivalent Courses

Course Coordinator / Lecturer

Christopher Thomson

Lecturer

Erin Harrington

Assessment

TBA.

Course contact consists of 2x 1hr lectures per week, plus 1x 1hr tutorial per week.

It is expected you will spend at least 150 hours in this course, comprised of:
• 36 hours contact time
• 54 hours reading / preparation
• 60 hours working on assessment tasks

Indicative Fees

Domestic fee $732.00

International fee $2,975.00

* All fees are inclusive of NZ GST or any equivalent overseas tax, and do not include any programme level discount or additional course-related expenses.

For further information see Humanities .

All DIGI201 Occurrences

  • DIGI201-17S2 (C) Semester Two 2017 - Not Offered