1997 QUT Handbook

terviewing” public record data bases.
Courses: AT24
Credit Points: 12 Contact Hours: 3 per week
■ MJP111 MEDIA WRITING
Should be combined with MJB111. Introduction to writing for
the electronic media. The major requirements for writing practice
within a variety of electronic media industry contexts, and
the implications for writers of those diverse contexts and audiences.
Film, television, radio and multimedia, including drama,
documentary, comedy, educational and corporate.
Courses: MJ20, MJ23, AT24
Credit Points: 12 Contact Hours: 3 per week
■ MJP147 FILM & TELEVISION GENRES
This unit explores the concept of genre in films and television
programs. It investigates the conventions and iconography of
particular film and television genres. It also examines the relationships
between film genres and television genres, between
genre and history/ideology, between genre and the film and
television industries, and between the generic texts produced
by these industries.
Courses: ED50, MJ20 Prerequisites: MJB130 or equivalent
Credit Points: 12 Contact Hours: 3 per week
■ MJP155 MEDIA PRODUCTION
Should be combined with MJB155. Basic design for Informational,
Creative, Corporate, Documentary and Drama Productions.
Exploration of the history and theory of design for
media production. Training in the design of project management
strategies, art and screen direction, images, sounds and
sequences of audio visual montage at an introductory level.
Practice in project management; performance and screen direction;
image capture and lighting design; sonic capture and
audio design; visual montage and image mixing.
Courses: MJ20, MJ23, AT24
Credit Points: 12
■ MJP185 INFORMATIONAL PRODUCTION
Should be combined with MJB185. Forms of training and
educational materials development as they apply to informational
multimedia. Exploration of the historical and theoretical
underpinnings of informational multimedia. Training in
management, direction, camera, sound and editing as they
apply to informational moving image media at an introductory
level. Practice in project management, performance and
art direction; image capture and lighting design; sonic capture
and audio design; visual montage and image mixing.
Courses: MJ20, MJ23, AT24 Prerequisites: MJB155
Corequisites: MJB229
Credit Points: 12 Contact Hours: 3 per week
■ MJP209 AUSTRALIAN TELEVISION
Should be combined with MJB209. This unit deals with the
role of television in the construction of Australia’s cultural
identity. Particular attention is paid to the part played by a
number of historical mini series and documentary films in
this process. The unit examines how issues such as war, religion,
race, ethnicity, foreign relations and sport are dealt with
in a number of texts.
Courses: ED50, MJ20
Prerequisites: 96 credit points of undergraduate study
Credit Points: 12 Contact Hours: 3 per week
Incompatible with: Pre 1996 MJB109
■ MJP224 FEATURE WRITING
Should be combined with MJB224. Students use the principles
of reporting to produce newspaper and magazine articles
that profile personalities, or that treat processes, events and
places to exploit their human-interest news value.
Courses: BS50, MJ20, MJ23
Prerequisites: MJB121 or MJP100
Credit Points: 12
Incompatible with: Pre 1996 MJB124
■ MJP229 FILM & TELEVISION SCRIPTWRITING
Should be combined with MJB229. Scriptwriting for Informational,
Creative, Corporate and Drama Productions. Ex-
ploration of the theoretical underpinnings of language in the
media. The rhetoric of moving image media. Practice in writing
scripts for moving image media productions.
Courses: MJ20, MJ23, AT24
Credit Points: 12 Contact Hours: 3 per week
■ MJP233 TELEVISION CULTURES
Should be combined with MJB233. The aim of the course is
to provide students with some ways to think about and to begin
to account for the processes by which people make sense
of and take pleasure from their encounters with television. It
allows students to understand better the nature of television
as a form of communication. The subject draws on the insights
provided by a range of media studies approaches: semiotics
and structuralism, British cultural studies, narrative theory,
reception theory, ideological analysis, feminist criticism, and
psychoanalysis. It examines television production as ‘texts’,
and analyses the factors determining their construction and
their possible meanings for audiences.
Courses: MJ20
Prerequisites: MJB130 or equivalent
Credit Points: 12 Contact Hours: 3 per week
■ MJP250 LANGUAGE & LITERATURE
Should be combined with MJB250. This unit develops advanced
critical and analytical skills in dealing with a variety
of textual forms. Students acquire an understanding of various
forms of literacy or creative language forms. Students are
introduced to literary theory as well as key language theory.
Courses: BS50, MJ20
Credit Points: 12 Contact Hours: 3 per week
Incompatible with: Pre 1996 COB144
■ MJP303 NEWS PRODUCTION
Should be combined with MJB303. Media industries and
media firms; social responsibilities; managing deadlines; planning
and decision-making in the newsroom; leadership and
motivation; news practice; radio, television, newspapers; case
studies.
Courses: BS50, MJ20
Prerequisites: MJB322, MJB338 (none for MBA students)
Credit Points: 12 Contact Hours: 3 per week
Incompatible with: Pre 1996 MJB103
■ MJP307 FEMINIST MEDIA STUDIES
Should be combined with MJB307. This subject is designed
to examine critically the issue of gender, sexuality and the
media within cultures. A range of media texts will be investigated.
Cultural discourses such as masculinity, femininity,
romance, the body, sexuality and violence will be discussed.
Issues such as cross-culturalism, new technologies, spatial
politics, celebrities and political correctness will also be addressed
from a feminist media studies perspective.
Courses: ED50, MJ20
Prerequisites: 96 credit points of undergraduate study
Credit Points: 12 Contact Hours: 3 per week
Incompatible with: Pre 1996 MJB114
■ MJP310 ASIAN & LATIN AMERICAN CINEMA
Should be combined with MJB310. This subject provides an
introduction to the study of the national cinemas of China and
Cuba. China here will be taken to include reference to the
cinemas of Hong Kong and Taiwan. The films will be placed
within their political, cultural and historical contexts. Thus
Chinese cinema will be studied from the perspective of the
new cinema which emerged from the film makers Chen Kaige,
Wu Tianming, Zhang Yimou and Tian Zhuangzhuang, and
Cuban cinema will be dealt with in the context of the Cuban
revolution.
Courses: ED50, MJ20
Prerequisites: 96 credit points of undergraduate study
Credit Points: 12 Contact Hours: 3 per week
Incompatible with: Pre 1996 MJB114
■ MJP336 NEW MEDIA TECHNOLOGIES
Should be combined with MJB336. The implications of new
media technologies, and associated industrial and cultural
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