CRITICAL INQUIRY

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Overview

Students develop and enhance their critical thinking skills and critical literacy through the analysis of a diverse range of media and popular cultural texts. In the context of contemporary issues and arguments, students learn to identify a range of persuasive techniques and representational strategies and to recognise that all media is socially constructed. Students are encouraged to engage with differing view points, challenge received knowledge and to question issues of voice, identity, access and power. Through a range of learning tasks, students develop capacity for textual analysis, collaborative group work, reasoning and reflection.

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Subject coordinator

Sean Dyde

Subject type

Undergraduate

Year level

Year Level 0 - Enabling Program

AQF level

Level 5 - Diploma

Available as elective

Available to study abroad / exchange students

Capstone subject
Capstones provide students with a way of integrating and applying knowledge and skills gained throughout their course.

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Career ready

Work based learning (placement):No

Graduate capabilities

COMMUNICATION - Communicating and Influencing

COMMUNICATION - Cultural Intelligence and Global Perspective

INQUIRY AND ANALYSIS - Creativity and Innovation

INQUIRY AND ANALYSIS - Critical Thinking and Problem Solving

INQUIRY AND ANALYSIS - Research and Evidence-Based Inquiry

PERSONAL AND PROFESSIONAL - Adaptability and Self-Management

PERSONAL AND PROFESSIONAL - Ethical and Social Responsibility

PERSONAL AND PROFESSIONAL - Leadership and Teamwork

Subject intended learning outcomes

On successful completion you will be able to:

Explain why popular culture media representations should be subject to critical analysis

Identify and give examples of specific representational strategies and persuasive techniques

Analyse the way that media representation directly and indirectly impacts structures of power and received knowledge

Create a persuasive text using digital media

Learning activities

Media diet analysis and digital journal entry. Identification of representational strategies of persuasion in advertising interactive learning task. Diversity in cinema and television comparative learning task. Digital journal entry comparing the representation of public figures in different media publication. Designing and storyboarding an advertisement collaborative assessment

Requisite rules

Prerequisite: Students must be admitted into one of the following courses: EDPLO, ETPPO, PAA001O, PAI001O, TPA001O, TPF001O, TPI001O

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