Bachelor of Screen Media (Arts and Production)

Western Sydney University

About

The Bachelor of Screen Media (Arts and Production) offers studies in a range of screen media skills and production practice fields.

These include media, communications and arts as well as practical studies in media arts production, digital journalism, with study options also including sound technology and web and motion design.

Teaching includes both theory and practice with reference to real world contexts highlighting future career opportunities in a convergent digital media world.

Students undertake a major in Media Arts Production that covers a variety of digital platform production practices including short film, documentary, experimental, transmedia and TV.

The interdisciplinary submajor in cultural and social analysis offers contemporary debates and methodologies in cultural studies and social theory.

Topics include popular culture, cinema studies, everyday urban life, cultural and social impacts of scientific theories and new technologies and multiculturalism.

Structure

Qualification for this award requires the successful completion of 240 credit points including the units listed in the recommended sequence below.

Students must enrol in and complete the Media Arts Production major and the Cultural and Social Analysis sub-major.

Code	Name
M1094	Media Arts Production

The Media Arts Production major requires the completion of eight units which are included in the recommended sequence listed below.

Code	Name
SM1070	Cultural and Social Analysis

The Cultural and Social Analysis sub-major requires the completion of two Level 1 units, 101979 - Understanding Visual Culture and 100897 - Everyday Life, which are included in the recommended sequence listed below. Students must also choose two Cultural and Social Analysis sub-major Level 2 or Level 3 units in Year 2 and Year 3 Spring session to meet the requirements of this sub-major.

Recommended Sequence

Code	Name
100556	Introduction to Journalism

Code	Name
101926	Media Cultures and Industries

Code	Name
101920	Writing Ecologies

Code	Name
101979	Understanding Visual Culture

Code	Name
102421	Data, Mediation, Power

Code	Name
101921	Visual Storytelling

Code	Name
101927	Foundations of Media Arts and Production

Code	Name
100897	Everyday Life

Code	Name
101928	Media Law and Ethics

Code	Name
102406	Screen and Sound Practices 1

Code	Name
101935	Documentary Media

Choose one of

Code	Name
102061	Feature Writing

Code	Name
102558	Music Production

Code	Name
102062	News Reporting

Code	Name
102697	Pitch: Podcasting Essentials

Code	Name
102266	Researching the Visual

Code	Name
102407	Screen and Sound Practices 2

Code	Name
102317	Visual Effects

One Cultural and Social Analysis sub-major Level 2 or 3 unit

Choose one of

Code	Name
102705	Communicating for Sustainability

Code	Name
102017	Journalism: Research and Investigation

Code	Name
100953	Photo Journalism

Code	Name
102759	Sound Design and New Electronic Media

Code	Name
101922	Web and Time-based Design

Code	Name
102057	Digital Journalism Production

Code	Name
102408	TV Production 1

Choose one of

Code	Name
101173	Internship

Code	Name
101938	Media Arts Project

Code	Name
102780	Personal Branding Strategies: Build and Manage Your Career Profile

Code	Name
101931	Media Memory

Code	Name
102409	TV Production 2

One Cultural and Social Analysis sub-major Level 2 or 3 unit

Choose one of

Code	Name
101173	Internship

Code	Name
101939	Transmedia Production

Code	Name
102780	Personal Branding Strategies: Build and Manage Your Career Profile

Media Arts Production Major

Code	Name
M1094	Media Arts Production

Cultural and Social Analysis sub-major

Code	Name
SM1070	Cultural and Social Analysis

The units listed below count towards completion of this course for students who passed these units in 2019 or earlier.

101526 - Introduction to Sound Technologies

101538 - Sound Synthesis and the Sound Enviroment

Institution