NM1102 - New Media and the Creative Economy

Credit points:	03
Year:	2010
Student Contribution Band:	Band 1
Administered by:	School of Creative Arts

Available to all students

Through research and scholarship, students develop an understanding of New Media within the parameters of global, national and local economies. Students will gain insights into innovation, entrepreneurial art making practices and new visions relative to growth, demand and drivers of current artistic practice. Creative arts careers will be explored in terms of real world contexts and relationships between the artist and consumer.

Learning Outcomes

• insights into successful pathways for creative arts professional practice;
• fundamental research and scholarship skills;
• understanding of New Media within the global, national and local creative arts economies.

Graduate Qualities

• The ability to adapt knowledge to new situations;
• The ability to deploy critically evaluated information to practical ends;
• The ability to find and access information using appropriate media and technologies;
• An understanding of the economic, legal, ethical, social and cultural issues involved in the use of information;
• The acquisition of coherent and disciplined sets of skills, knowledge, values and professional ethics from at least one discipline area;
• The ability to manage future career and personal development;
• The ability to read complex and demanding texts accurately, critically and insightfully;
• The ability to generate, calculate, interpret and communicate numerical information in ways appropriate to a given discipline or discourse;
• The ability to work individually and independently;
• The ability to select and use appropriate tools and technologies;
• The ability to use online technologies effectively and ethically.

Availabilities
Townsville, Internal, Study Period 1
Census Date 25-Mar-2010
Coordinator:	Mr Ron McBurnie
Lecturers:	Ms Anne Lord, Mr Ron McBurnie, Mrs Natalie Stephenson.
Contact hours:	13 hours lectures 26 hours tutorials - Second hour is a lectorial 13 hours workshops/Seminars - Visiting seminar series
Assessment:	other exams (30%); learning journal portfolio (30%); library and research assignment (30%); job map (10%).

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.