APG5454 · Screen and social justice

Overview

This unit will consider how screen texts, creators and cultures interface with histories and practices of social justice. It will explore the central function that screens play in enabling and shaping attitudes, processes and messaging that seeks to bring about social and political change. The unit will take a case study approach, with possible areas of focus including the environment, anti-racism, Indigenous rights, linguistic justice, gender equity and anti-capitalism.

Offerings

Assessment

The Handbook does not list a final examination among the assessment items. That is not a guarantee there is none.

Within semester assessment: 100%

Assessment details may change. Please refer to the assessment information in Moodle closer to the start of the teaching period.

Requisites

The Handbook lists no prerequisite, corequisite or prohibition for this unit.

Learning outcomes

1. Investigate historical and current ways in which screen media and social justice intersect;
2. Apply relevant key concepts in the interpretation of screen and social justice issues;
3. Analyse film and media as a global cultural form in relationship to social justice issues;
4. Apply research skills to a case study in screen and social justice.

Workload

Minimum total expected workload to achieve the learning outcomes for this unit is 144 hours per semester typically comprising a mixture of scheduled learning activities and independent study. A unit requires on average three/four hours of scheduled activities per week. Scheduled activities may include a combination of teacher directed learning, peer directed learning and online engagement.

Student experience, not official rules. Nothing here changes what the Handbook says.