Screens mediate interpersonal relationships, they shape our understanding of national identities and provide a means of border crossing. The Screen Studies major focuses on transmedia and multimodal storytelling and provides students with the tools to analyse how screens of all types shape our daily lives. The major prompts students to explore transnational understandings of cinematic, televisual and new media textual productions. This will include analysis of the relationship between cultural, gendered, linguistic and national identities in the context of globalisation. Students will examine the interplay between traditional screen media and emerging digital platforms.
Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion, students will have the knowledge and skills to:
- evaluate and compare diverse historical, textual and critical approaches to cinematic, televisual and new media texts;
- analyse screen texts across a range of genres and frameworks;
- apply research skills and methods relevant to the study of screen cultures in national and transnational contexts; and
- articulate knowledge and understanding of the social and cultural contexts in which screen texts are produced.
Relevant Degrees
Requirements
The major requires the completion of 48 units, which must consist of:
A maximum of 12 units of courses at 1000 level
A minimum of 12 units of courses at 3000 level
6 units from completion of the following compulsory course
SCRN1001 Introduction to Screen Studies
A maximum of 6 units from completion of courses on the following list:
ARTV1103 Animation and Video: The Digital Workspace
ARTV1104 Animation and Video: Digital Equipment and Studios
GEND1002 Reading Popular Culture: An Introduction to Cultural Studies
A Minimum of 12 units from the following list:
SCRN3001 Transnational Screens: Crossing Borders and Identities
SCRN3002 Screening the Real
SCRN3003 Screen Studies Capstone Project
A minimum of 12 units from the following list:
ARTV2059 Introduction to Virtual Reality
ENGL2055 Shakespeare and Film
ENGL2067 Novel into Film
ENGL2116 Televisual: Investigating Narrative Television
MUSI2227 Music, Sound and the Moving Image
SCRN2001 Moving Pictures: Genre and Theory in Screen Studies
SCRN2002 Australian Cinema: The Kelly Gang to Baz Luhrmann's Australia
SCRN2003 U.S. Cinema: Hollywood and Beyond
SCRN2020 Italy on Screen
SCRN2107 Cinema from the Spanish-Speaking World
SCRN2108 Imagining the French Empire: French Colonialism on Film
SCRN2113 German Film Since the Wall: Identity, History and Belonging
SOCY2170 Sociology of Emergent Media
A Maximum of 18 units from the following list:
ANCH2021 Ancient World in Film
ANIP3005 Australian National Internship B
ARCH2052 Archaeology in Film and Fiction
ARTH2043 Modernism and Postmodernism in Art and Design: 1850-2000
ARTH2162 Cyberculture
ARTH2165 Theories of the Image
ARTV2609 Animation and Video: Visual Storytelling
ARTV2610 Animation and Video: Character development
ARTV2615 Animation: Creative Possibilities
ARTV2617 Video: Creative Possibilities
ASIA2058 Japanese Popular Culture: Manga, Anime, Film & the Visual Arts
ENGL2077 Creative writing 2: Story to Script
ENGL2081 Australian Crimes: Crime narratives on page, stage and screen
ENGL2086 Literature in the Digital Age: Theories, Texts, Methods
FREN3012 Global Paris: Culture, History and Identity in the French Capital
GEND2021 Trauma, Memory and Culture
HUMN2021 Global Rome: Culture and Identity in the Italian Capital
