200-level

COMS201
Media Audiences
Description
How does our media consumption shape our opinions, actions, identities and lives? How do audiences influence the production and circulation of media? How do we create our own media presence online, and act as an audience for each other? This course examines the relationship between audiences and media. We discuss theory and research that represents audiences as passive consumers of media products, active decoders of media texts, producers of our own representations online, and participants in interactive media production. The course looks at a broad range of media forms and content to reflect and build on your own experiences of being media audience members. "Media Audiences" will encourage you to reflect on your own relationship with media, and to consider the broader contexts that shape your listening, viewing, reading, and interaction. This course has on-campus and distance options. It has a one hour lecture and a two-hour workshop each week. The course includes group work in classes and for assessments, and requires active in-class engagement. You will advance core skills in reading and carrying out research, with reflection, collaborative work, networking, creativity, writing and presentation.
Occurrences
Semester Two 2024
Semester Two 2024 (Distance)
Points
15 points
Prerequisites
Any 15 points at 100 level from COMS or CULT, or any 60 points at 100 level from the Schedule V of the BA.
Restrictions
CULT201
CINE224
Children's Classics: Popular Children's Texts and their Representation on Film
Description
Children's Classics teaches the genre-specific nature of children's literature, its socio-historical contexts, and the significance of its re-readings as film. It introduces a selection of enduring children's texts, illustrating the importance to literary production of changing cultural context, demonstrating the importance of intertextuality in children's literature and how texts change when filmed, and promotes the skills of reading and writing.
Occurrences
Semester Two 2024
Points
15 points
Prerequisites
Any 15 points at 100 level from CINE or ENGL, or any 60 points at 100 level from the Schedule V of the BA.
Restrictions
ENGL213

Not Offered Courses in 2024

200-level

CINE202
Film and Theory
Description
The class sets the foundations for a working knowledge of the major debates that have informed Cinema Studies. Students will gain the necessary tools to use and understand the language of film theory and criticism.
Occurrences
Not offered 2024, offered in 2014 , 2015 , 2019 , 2020 , 2021
For further information see CINE202 course details
Points
15 points
CINE225
The Cinema of Contagion
Description
This course asks how a ‘cinema of contagion’ might offer a lens through which we can better understand our precarious place in this world. It considers contagion in a literal sense, by exploring how a variety of international films from the 20th and 21st centuries represent illness, viral outbreaks, plagues, parasitic invasions, and social controls such as quarantine measures. It analyses how filmmakers use contagion metaphorically or allegorically, including as an aesthetic strategy. It also explores how questions of embodiment, subjectivity and mortality are explored through different genres and national cinemas.
Occurrences
Not offered 2024, offered in 2020 , 2023
For further information see CINE225 course details
Points
15 points