Undergraduate students at Murdoch University who subsequently wish to continue with research in screen production at Murdoch University are encouraged to enrol internally in Screen & Sound (B.Media) which will become available in 2006 in the School of Media Communication & Culture, Division of Arts. Information associated with admissions is available at www.murdoch.edu.au.
With an appropriate selection of units Screen & Sound (B.Media) major will enable your to specialize in:
Scriptwriting
Directing
Producing
Cinematography
Digital Photography
Sound
Music
Editing
New Media Effects
Set Design
Performance
Hypertextual Design
Experimental Design
Interactive Design
2-3 D Animation
Game Design
Exhibiting
Screen & Sound (B.Media) major can accommodate all production genres: documentary, drama, comedy, broadcast television, Interactive Media, animation (2&3D), installations, Visual Design, Virtual Design, Community Media.etc.
The main units in this programme are as follows:
MED116 Introduction to Screen and Sound Studies — 3 pts
MUL101 Introduction to Digital Media — 3 pts
MED102 Photography — 3 pts
MED107 Screen Production I (TV Studio) — 3 pts
MED117 Introduction to Sound and Radio — 3 pts
MED216 Image Literacy — 4 pts
MED226 Screen Production II — 4 pts
MED244 Radio Presenting and Producing — 4 pts
MED333 Documentary — 4 pts
MED232 Screen Texts — 4 pts
MED312 Writing for the Screen — 4 pts
MED214 Sound — 4 pts
MED3xx Media Projects — 4 pts (available 2006)
JOU327 TV News — 4 pts
MED301 Professional Development in Screen Production — 4 pts
MED3xx Digital Studio — 4 pts (available 2006)
MED302 Advanced Screen Production — 4 pts
MED325 Professional Placement in Mass Communication and Media Studies — 4 pts
Students wishing to undertake undergraduate studies in NASS related programmes at Murdoch University should be aware the potential available to them to arrange the programme they desire through the use of Double Major and Minor programmes of study as well as through the use of Double Degree programmes options. Consult the Undergraduate Studies section of Murdoch Handbook and Enrolment in Majors in particular.
Screen & Sound (B.Media) major can be linked with other majors and programmes at Murdoch, including:
Media Analysis (B.Media) (available 2006)
Radio (B.Media) (available 2006)
Mass Communication (Public Relations and Journalism) (BA)
Multimedia (BMMedia)
English (BA) (Creative Arts, Creative writing, Theatre and Drama)
Games Technology
Computer Science
Australian Indigenous Studies (BA)
Communication and Cultural Studies (BA)
Marketing and the Media (BMM)
Media Law
Media Education
Media in Asia
ISTP
Etc.
Here is a sample of Part 1 and Part 2 units you could also consider when arranging your programme either as a additional units double major, double degree or a minor programme of study:
Part 1 units:
BUS169 Principles of Marketing — 3 pts
BUS165 Principles of Commercial Law — 3 pts
EGL114 Introduction to Creative Arts — 3 pts
EGL150 Writing for Professional Purposes — 3 pts
EGL122 Creative Writing: Text and Practice I — 3 pts
EGL121 Introduction to Literature — 3 pts
EGL106 Introduction to Drama — 3 pts
EGL104 Literature, Language, Image — 3 pts
COM102 Cultural Studies, Creativity and Change — 3 pts
ICT108 Introduction to Multimedia and the Internet — 3 pts
ICT102 Introduction to Computer Science — 3 pts
MED1xx Creative Industries (available 2006) — 3 pts
MSC110 Media Research Methods — 3 pts
MSC120 Writing for the Media — 3 pts
MSC134 Media Industries — 3 pts
Part 2: MEDIA ANALYSIS
MED232 Screen Texts — 4 pts
MED231 Australian Cinema — 4 pts
COM211 Television and Popular Culture — 4 pts
MED2xx Sonic Media — 4 pts (available 2007)
MED216 Image Literacy — 4 pts
MED333 Documentary — 4 pts
MED350 Issues in Screen Analysis: World Cinema — 4 pts
MED321/MED521 Children and the Media — 4 pts
MED287/MED487 Media in Asia — 4 pts
COM337 Cultural and Media Policy — 4 pts
Part 2: BROADCAST JOURNALISM
JOU220 Principles of Journalism — 4 pts
JOU345 Media Law and Ethics — 4 pts
JOU343 Radio News — 4 pts
MED244 Radio Presenting and Producing — 4 pts
JOU327 TV News — 4 pts
JOU323 Print News — 4 pts
JOU301 Specialty Journalism — 4 pts
JOU225 Literary Journalism — 4 pts
Part 2: SCRIPTWRITING AND CREATIVE WRITING
EGL269 Creative Writing: Text and Practice II — 4 pts
EGL260 Project in Creative Writing — 4 pts
EGL210 Writing for the Stage — 4 pts
MSC235 Public Relations: Principles and Writing Practice — 4 pts
MED312 Writing for the Screen — 4 pts
EGL354 Literary Theory — 4 pts
EGL237 Narrative: Fiction and Film — 4 pts
EGL328 Understanding Poetry — 4 pts
EGL209 Aboriginal Writing Today — 4 pts
EGL284/EGL484 Australian Literature and Film — 4 pts
EGL290 Popular Literature, Science Fiction and Cyberculture — 4 pts
Part 2: THEATRE, DRAMA PERFORMANCE
EGL308 Shakespeare — 4 pts
EGL311 Global Drama — 4 pts
EGL294 Production — 4 pts
EGL200 Performance — 4 pts
EGL212 Acting — 4 pts
EGL216 Advanced Production — 4 pts
EGL213 Children's Theatre — 4 pts
EGL291 Special Topics in English — 4 pts
Part 2: GAMES, ANIMATION AND NEW MEDIA
MUL217 Interactive Multimedia I — 4 pts
MUL241 Multimedia Design I — 4 pts
MUL338 Advanced Multimedia Workshop — 4 pts
MUL339 Multimedia Project — 4 pts
ICT325 Human–Computer Interaction — 4 pts
MUL242 Multimedia Design II — 4 pts
COM335 Industrial Image-Making — 4 pts
MED216 Image Literacy — 4 pts
ICT211 Web Computing — 4 pts
ICT217 Digital Images, Graphics and Audio — 4 pts
Part 2: MASS COMMUNICATION
MSC234/MSC434 Media, Politics and Public Life — 4 pts
MSC334/MSC534 Globalisation and Media Technologies — 4 pts
MSC236/MSC436 Media Audiences — 4 pts
MSC235 Public Relations: Principles and Writing Practice — 4 pts
MSC345/MSC545 Communication and Conflict Management — 4 pts
MSC246 Technical and Report Writing — 4 pts
MSC307 Media Planning and Promotion — 4 pts
BUS273 Consumer Behaviour — 4 pts
COM337/COM537 Cultural and Media Policy — 4 pts
COM335/COM535 Industrial Image-Making — 4 pts
Part 2: MARKETING
BUS214 Marketing Development and Planning — 4 pts
BUS273 Consumer Behaviour — 4 pts
BUS336 Integrated Marketing Communications — 4 pts
BUS209 Marketing and Advertising Law — 4 pts
BUS339 Advertising Production — 4 pts
BUS324 Services Marketing — 4 pts
BUS321 International Marketing — 4 pts
BUS305 Electronic Marketing — 4 pts
Part 2: COMMUNICATION AND POPULAR CULTURE
AIS274 Aboriginal Cultures — 4 pts
AST330 Contemporary Asia: Nations, Narratives, Cultures — 4 pts
AST212 Anthropology and Its Others — 4 pts
AST256 Perceptions of South-East Asian Society — 4 pts
COM211 Television and Popular Culture — 4 pts
COM235 Culture and Everyday Life — 4 pts
COM267 Cultural Difference and Diversity — 4 pts
COM335 Industrial Image-Making — 4 pts
COM337 Cultural and Media Policy — 4 pts
COM347 Technocultures — 4 pts
COM356 Sexuality and Culture — 4 pts
COM310 Communication: Qualitative Methods — 4 pts
COM207 Special Topics in Communication and Cultural Studies — 4 pts
EGL298 Representation and Gender — 4 pts
EGL238 European Mythologies — 4 pts
MUL232 Cyberpraxis — 4 pts
PHL217 Meaning and Interpretation — 4 pts
PHL218 Critical Metaphysics — 4 pts
WOM205 Methods for Social and Cultural Change — 4 pts
WOM269 Bodies, Identity and Difference — 4 pts
Please note that admission to Murdoch undergraduate programmes does not automatically provide access to the NASS and its resources.
