ACM101 Still Images
This unit provides students with an introduction to photographic practice and camera handling techniques using 35mm format. Students will study the work of Australian and International photographers with consideration to both historical and contemporary practice. The prescribed assignments will allow students to reflect the skills, concepts and ideas discussed in lectures, tutorials, gallery visits and readings and as well as providing the opportunity for students to develop and express their own views and concepts.
Assessment: 100% semester assignments

ACM132 Introduction to Animation
This unit surveys the history of analogue and digital animation. The aim is to critically assess the suitability of these techniques and strategies for contemporary settings such as advertising, film titles, trailers, short films and web sites.
Assessment: 20% reviews; 40% developmental projects; 40% major essay

ACM133 Animation Basics
This unit aims to introduce students to the basic mechanics behind the craft of animation, with equal emphasis on creative and conceptual development within the context of building a foundation for technical and visual problem-solving skills. Students work with a range of technologies, both digital and conventional. Aspects covered will include 2D animation techniques, recording and manipulating sound and video footage and rotoscoping.
Assessment: 20% exercises, 25% reviews, 20% journal, 35% project

ALC101 Contemporary Communication: Making Sense Of Text, Image And Meaning
This unit examines contemporary concepts and the various approaches available to the study of communication and to some critical ‘tools' with which to examine a variety of communication texts and practices. These ‘tools' include models of communication, non-verbal communication, semiotics, narrative, discourse, culture, leadership, collaboration, audience, pre and post production, the digital media and globalisation. The unit examines the links between communication and power, paying particular attention to issues of gender, race, ethnicity and crosscultural communication.
Assessment: 100% semester assignments and class participation.

ALC102 Contemporary Communication: Making Sense Of New Media
This unit introduces students to the study of contemporary communication in new media. It offers a critical vocabulary with which to analyse the various discourses, cultures and technologies associated with the new media. The unit examines some moral, legal and ethical implications of the new media and links them with contemporary political, social and cultural concerns such as new literacy, power relations, gender, race, ethnicity and multiculturalism.
Assessment: 100% semester assignments and class participation.

ALJ111 Contemporary Journalism
This unit, through the use of practical work and self-experience, troduces students to the ways in which journalists work. Emphasis is placed on Australian journalists and the issues of bias, lack of good taste, trivialisation, sensationalism, invasion of privacy and
dishonest methods of gaining information.
Assessment: 50% assignment and tutorial articipation, 50% final examination.

ALJ112 Comparative Journalism Studies
Students in this unit develop their creative skills in feature writing and focus on interview techniques for journalists. Students are invited to compare journalism in other countries with the Australian system. Other countries to come under study include the United Kingdom, the United States, Indonesia and Malaysia.
Assessment: 40% semester assignment, 60% final examination

ALR103 Principles And Practice Of Public Relations
The unit provides an introduction to the field of public relations. Students learn about what public relations people do, and how they do it. Topics include planning, media relations, employee relations, community relations, international public relations, ethics and public relations law.
Assessment: 50% semester assignments, 50% final examination.

ALW117 Writing For Professional Practice
This unit enables students to strengthen their skills in writing, research and presenting. Students will explore the power of language and the characteristics of effective and ineffective writing; the relationships between written and spoken language; strategies for developing arguments and the requirements of a range of types of writing including reports, letters, resumes, academic essays, summaries, media releases and persuasive writing. The unit will support students in their written and oral tasks in other subject areas, as well as providing them with workplace-oriented skills that well enhance their performance in professional fields.
Assessment: 30% writing tasks and folio, 30% essay, 10% participation, 30% final examination.

ASC160 Introduction To University Study
This unit helps students to develop the skills required for successful university study. They include: a range of organisational skills, including: time management, getting the most from lectures and tutorials, and maximising the chances of doing well in exams; written communication skills, including: essay planning and structure, abstracts and reviews, academic writing conventions, general writing practices, and working with diagrams and tables; and information retrieval skills, including efficient searching of: the library catalogue, journal databases, and World Wide Web pages.
Assessment: 60% semester assessment, 40% final examination.

MMK277 Marketing Management
This unit studies the nature of marketing management from a marketing strategy approach with emphasis on the links between producers and receivers of goods and services. Particular emphasis is placed on the formulation of marketing strategies and the use of marketing mix tactics.
Assessment: 50% assessment, 50% final examination.

MMM132 Management
This unit aims to provide students with a solid understanding of the intellectual foundations of the study of management. The unit also explores influences of the impact of the external environment on management practices, with particular consideration given to globalization, ethics, social responsibility, and the social and cultural context of management.
Assessment: 40% assessment, 60% final examination - studnets must achieve a score of at least 40% on the final examination before being considered for a pass grade or better.

SIT104 Introduction to Web Development
This unit focuses on developing the skills required for Web programming with markup languages, such as building quality Web pages, designing and maintaining a Web site, as well as presenting the skills required to set up a Web server and investigate associated security issues. It introduces the concepts and technologies of the Web, the Internet and data networks, addresses how to use basic Internet services and tools and discusses the potential future of Web/Internet applications, such as digital libraries, teamwork, electronic commerce and in education. On completion of this unit, students will know how to design, develop and maintain Web pages and Web sites, and understand interaction between Web client (browser) and Web server for accessing various kinds of remote resources (e.g. a database).
Assessment: semester assignments 40%, final examination 60%.

SIT151 Game Fundamentals
This unit forms a background to the study of Computer Games through the study of game concepts, gameplay, environment design and software tools for game implementation. Students will develop an understanding of components that contribute to the design of a game; the need for formal planning in the design process; the importance of narrative to game structure and the integral role it plays in game play; the interface design process; concepts such as network gaming, artificial intelligence in gaming and virtual world design and be able to develop a game from the conceptual stages to the initial design stage.
Assessment: 40% assignments (reports & presentations); 60% examination

SIT161 Principles Of Interactive Media
Multimedia is one of the most rapidly developing areas in the computer industry. This unit will provide students with a theoretical and practical introduction to the field of multimedia and examine the basic requirements for the creation of assets and delivery of interactive multimedia. It forms the theoretical basis for subsequent practical, organisational and theoretical inquiry into multimedia.
Assessment: 60% semester assignments, 40% final examination

SIT162 Design Of Interactive Media Systems
Multimedia is the combination of the digital forms of text, images, sounds, video and animation. This unit aims to provide students with a theoretical and practical introduction to design criteria and the design process of information delivered by multimedia. The unit will cover client and user needs analysis; selection of suitable technology; re-purposing of content; and the use of relevant software tools.
Assessment: 60% semester assignments, final examination 40%

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