Screen and media

Choose a major in Screen and Media

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Screen and media provides you with a chance to study screen-based media such as film, television and digital technologies, including social media, gaming and 3D visualisation. You’ll explore how commercial and aesthetic factors, cultural and social forces, and historical and theoretical perspectives shape media and contribute to our understandings and interactions with them. Try your hand at video, production, directing, scriptwriting, post-production, interactive design and graphic design in one of many practical topics.

Why study Screen and Media?

Study the aesthetics, histories and theories associated with a wide range of media
Enhance your critical thinking skills through your study of media objects, industries, and practices
Learn about the important roles media takes up in society and culture
Become a critical and creative consumer
Acquire the skills employers value: clear communication, critical thinking, and collaboration

What you will study

Television, film, social media and gaming
Popular genres and non-fiction
Media industries in global and local contexts
Australian/Indigenous media
Narrative and storytelling
Interactive design, virtual reality and technologies of visualisation
Gender and cross-cultural media
Media policy and ethics
Children’s media

Add Screen and Media to your degree

Bachelor of Arts

Bachelor of Education (Early Childhood), Bachelor of Arts

Bachelor of Arts, Master of Teaching (Early Childhood)

Bachelor of Arts (Enhanced Program for High Achievers)

Bachelor of Education (Primary R-7), Bachelor of Arts

Bachelor of Arts, Master of Teaching (Primary R-7)

Bachelor of Applied Geographical Information Systems

Bachelor of Arts and Science

How many units?

A major in Screen and Media is made up of 36 units, including:

two Year 1 topics (9 units)
two Year 2 topics (9 units)
two Year 3 topics (9 units)
plus two additional topics (9 units) from the Year 2 or Year 3 topics.

Screen and Media can also be taken as a minor. Your 22.5 units will include:

two Year 1 topics (9 units)
two Year 2 topics (9 units)
plus an additional topic (4.5 units) from the Year 2 or Year 3 topics.

You may complete an extended major by completing the prescribed Screen and Media major topics (36 units), plus an additional two topics (9 units) from Year 2 or Year 3.

Add a year of Honours

Kickstart your career or future in research with one extra year.

By adding just one year full-time to your undergraduate degree, you can graduate with Honours. Enhance your career prospects, delve deeper into knowledge or launch yourself into the world of research.

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