CU5112 - Communication, Technologies and Change

Credit points:	03
Year:	2006
Student Contribution Band:	Band 1
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This subject is a core subject in the BA (Communication). However, it is open to all interested students. It examines the social, economic, political and cultural changes surrounding the use of new modes of communication. Students will explore the impact of communication technologies on the social lives of communities and the prospects for access to information. Special attention will be paid to the implications of information technologies for social and ethnic minorities and low-income communities.

Learning Outcomes

• enhancement of skills in critical reading and written expression;
• knowledge of the impact of new communications on life-ways and culture in differing contemporary contexts;
• understand the practical and ethical issues associated with the application of new communication technologies;
• understanding of major ideas, concepts and theoretical perspectives bearing on the interplay of communication technologies and change.

Graduate Qualities

• The ability to think critically, to analyse and evaluate claims, evidence and arguments;
• The ability to define and to solve problems in at least one discipline area;
• The ability to speak and write logically, clearly and creatively;
• The ability to use and interpret different media;
• A coherent and disciplined body of skills, knowledge, values and professional ethics in at least one discipline area;
• The ability to use a variety of media and methods to retrieve, analyse, evaluate, organise and present information;
• The ability to reflect on and evaluate learning processes and products.

Prerequisites:	Admission to graduate or postgraduate program
Inadmissible Subject Combinations:	CU2112

Availabilities
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Census Date 24-Mar-2006
Coord/Lect:	Assoc. Professor Allison Craven.
Contact hours:	13 hours 26 hours
Assessment:	(40%); (20%); (40%).
, , Study Period 1
Census Date 24-Mar-2006
Coord/Lect:	Assoc. Professor Allison Craven.
Contact hours:	13 hours 26 hours
Assessment:	(40%); (20%); (40%).

Note: Minor variations might occur due to the continuous Subject quality improvement process, and in case of minor variation(s) in assessment details, the Subject Outline represents the latest official information.