Bachelor of Media Arts

Not offered in 2021

The Bachelor of Media Arts requires three years of full-time study (or the equivalent part-time). The course is offered by the College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences.

• Admission requirements  
• Course aims
• Learning outcomes
• Program of study

Admission requirements

The minimum requirements for consideration for entry to all undergraduate courses are specified in detail in the University Entry Requirements.

Course aims

This course aims to:

• provide students with a broad knowledge and appreciation of the development and current role of media – especially digital media – nationally and internationally;
• allow students to develop and use transferable skills in media production;
• provide students with an appropriate theoretical underpinning for their knowledge and skills;
• equip students with a wider knowledge base by combining the study of media with study of a complementary discipline, thereby enabling them to apply their skills to a wider area of human activity;
• provide students with the ability to work productively in a team in a media environment.

Learning outcomes

At the completion of this course students are expected to:

• have developed skills in the production of media (especially digital media);
• be able to apply a range of technical and design options contributing to high quality media presentation;
• be able to discuss media theory and its practical application with a high level of competency;
• demonstrate fluency in the vocabulary of media, which is necessary to gain and maintain employment in media-related industries;
• have developed the ability to work productively as a team member in the production of media;
• demonstrate a high level of knowledge and understanding of a complementary discipline of study;
• be capable of producing media utilising their knowledge of the complementary discipline.

Program of study

To qualify for the Bachelor of Media Arts, a student must complete 108 units with a grade of P or NGP or better in each topic, according to the program of study below.

No more than 45 units of Year 1 level topics and no less than 27 units of Year 3 level topics may be included in the 108 units for the degree.

Students who want to continue on to Honours must contact the Course Coordinator for program advice on appropriate topic choices.

Not all topics necessarily are available in a given year.

Core - Year 1 topics

27 units comprising:

COMS1001 Academic and Professional Communication (4.5 units)
SCME1000 Film Form & Analysis (4.5 units)
SCME1001 Media and Society (4.5 units)
SCME1002 Convergence Cultures (4.5 units)
SCME1060 Screen Production Techniques A (4.5 units)
VEED1003 Essential Multimedia (4.5 units)

Stream – Year 1 topics

Complete 9 units of topics from one of the listed Streams

Core - Year 2 topics

13.5 units comprising:

SCME2003 Truth and Lies: Documentary Media (4.5 units)
SCME2060 Screen Production Techniques B (4.5 units)
SCME2061 Screen and Media Production - Research and Writing (4.5 units)

Plus 13.5 units from:

SCME2000 The Hollywood Industry  (4.5 units)
SCME2001 Television Studies (4.5 units)
SCME2071 Introduction to Screenwriting (4.5 units)
SCME2101 Australian/Indigenous Media  (4.5 units)
SCME2102 Gender, Media and Technology (4.5 units)
VEED2004 Introduction to Digital Graphic Design (4.5 units)
VEED2201 Interaction Design (4.5 units)

Stream – Year 2 topics

9 units of topics from the Stream chosen in Year 1

Core - Year 3 topics

4.5 units comprising:

SCME3060 Screen Production Techniques C (4.5 units)

Plus 22.5 units from:

SCME2000 The Hollywood Industry  (4.5 units)
SCME2001 Television Studies (4.5 units)
SCME2071 Introduction to Screenwriting (4.5 units)
SCME2072 Screen Production Techniques 5 (4.5 units)
SCME2101 Australian/Indigenous Media  (4.5 units)
SCME2102 Gender, Media, and Technology (4.5 units)
SCME3071 Screen Production Techniques 8 (4.5 units)
SCME3074 Applied Screenwriting (4.5 units)
SCME3100 Screen and Media Practicum (4.5 units)
CREA3456 Cultural Policy and the Arts (4.5 units)
VEED2004 Introduction to Digital Graphic Design (4.5 units)
VEED2108 Multimedia Production Part 1 (4.5 units)
VEED2201 Interaction Design (4.5 units)
VEED3014 VFX Histories and Theories (4.5 units)

Stream – Year 3 topics

4.5 units of topics from the Stream chosen in Year 1

Electives – Year 3 topics

Choose 4.5 units of elective topics. Elective topics may be selected from any offered by the University, provided topic prerequisites are met.  

Streams

Students must choose at least 22.5 units from one of the following streams. Students may choose an additional 4.5 units from one of these streams by substituting an elective topic.

Screen and Media

SCME2104 Popular Genres (4.5 units)
SCME2106 Narrative and Storytelling (4.5 units)
SCME2107 Asian Cinema (4.5 units)
SCME3004 History of Film Style (4.5 units)
VEED2202 CGI Fundamentals (4.5 units)
VEED2203 CGI Practices (4.5 units)
VEED3005 Digital Games (4.5 units)
VEED3014 VFX Histories and Theories (4.5 units)

Creative Writing

CRWR2001 Editing and the Industry (4.5 units)
CRWR2002 Love and Death (4.5 units)
CRWR3001 The Epic (4.5 units)
CRWR3002 The Fantastic (4.5 units)
ENGL1101 The Art of Storytelling (4.5 units)
ENGL1102 The Art of Reading (4.5 units)
ENGL3110 Canon to Contemporary (4.5 units)
ENGL3111 Epic Literature: Medieval to Early Modern (4.5 units)
ENGL3211 Telling True Stories (4.5 units)

Drama

CREA2104 Writing for Performance (4.5 units)
DRAM1001 First Stages (4.5 units)
DRAM1002 Contemporary Drama (4.5 units)
DRAM2100 Modern Theatre: The Rise of the Director (4.5 units)
DRAM3102 Live Arts and Performance (4.5 units)

Up to 9 units can be selected from the following topics:

DRAM2105 Song and Dance (4.5 units)
DRAM3100 Time, Space, and the Body in Performance (4.5 units)
DRAM3101 Postmodern Directions (4.5 units)
DRAM3102 Live Arts and Performance (4.5 units)

Students may seek permission from the Director of Studies for Drama to substitute Drama Workshop topics in place of some of the above listed topics. The Workshop topics are only available via audition.

Business

BUSN1011 Accounting For Managers (4.5 units)
BUSN1022 Marketing Principles (4.5 units)
BUSN2020 Consumer Behaviour (4.5 units)
BUSN2026 Entrepreneurship and Small Business (4.5 units)
BUSN2033 Branding and Advertising (4.5 units)
BUSN2048 Social Media Marketing (4.5 units)
BUSN3030 Marketing Applications (4.5 units)
BUSN3052 Leadership in Business and Society (4.5 units)

International Relations

9 units chosen from:

AMST1002 America and the World: The United States in a Global Context (4.5 units)
INTR1006 International Relations: An Introduction (4.5 units)
INTR1101 Discovering Asia (4.5 units)
INTR1102 Modern Asia since 1945 (4.5 units)

Plus 13.5 units from:

AMST2001 Twentieth Century America (4.5 units)
AMST2002 American Politics (4.5 units)
AMST3013 The Alliance and the Re-Emergence of China (4.5 units)
INTR2003 The Asia-Pacific in the 20th Century (4.5 units)
INTR2005 The Next Superpower? The Rise of China in the 21st Century (4.5 units)
INTR2006 Debating Human Rights (4.5 units)
INTR2012 Food Security (4.5 units)
INTR2015 New Security Agenda (4.5 units)
INTR3001 Australian Foreign Policy (4.5 units)
INTR3100 Environment and Development in Asia (4.5 units

Information Technology

COMP1002 Fundamentals of Computational Intelligence (4.5 units)
COMP1102 Computer Programming 1 (4.5 units)
COMP1701 Simulation and Serious Game Design  (4.5 units)
COMP1711  Database Modelling and Knowledge Engineering  (4.5 units)
COMP1712  Software Engineering Principles and Practice  (4.5 units)
COMP2711 Computer Programming 2 (4.5 units)
COMP2741 Application Development (4.5 units)
COMP2772 Web-Based Systems Development (4.5 units)
ENGR1762  Networks and Cybersecurity  (4.5 units)

Up to 4.5 units from#:

COMP3712 Computer Programming 3 (4.5 units)
COMP3751 Interactive Computer Systems (4.5 units)
COMP3752 Computer Game Development (4.5 units)

# Students may replace one of these topics with one core topic, subject to prerequisites, appearing in any of the following courses: Bachelor of Information Technology; Bachelor of Computer Science; or Bachelor of Information Technology (Network Systems)

Public Policy

POLI1003 An Introduction to Democracy and Government (4.5 units)
GOVT1001 Fundamentals of Public Policy (4.5 units)
POLI2002 Government, Business and Society (4.5 units)
POLI2010 Basic Issues in Contemporary Political Theory (4.5 units)
POLI2011 Australian Public Policy: Policy Design (4.5 units)
POLI3010 Advanced Perspectives on Public Policy (4.5 units)
POLI3103 Politics and the Internet (4.5 units)
POLI3068 Environmental Politics (4.5 units)

Tourism

TOUR1101 Introduction to Tourism Studies (4.5 units)
TOUR1102 Interpretation for Tourism (4.5 units)
TOUR1103 Introduction to Events  (4.5 units)
TOUR2101 Place, Culture and Tourism (4.5 units)
TOUR2103 Event Design and Management (4.5 units)
TOUR3101 Contemporary Issues in Tourism and Events (4.5 units)
TOUR3113 Sustainable Tourism Planning and Development (4.5 units)

Visual Arts

(note some topics held at Adelaide College of the Arts)
INDG2002  Indigenous Australian Art  (4.5 units)
VISA1001 Visual Arts: Theories and Traditions (4.5 units)
VISA1003 Studio Fundamentals (4.5 units)
VISA1401 Drawing and Design Fundamentals (4.5 units)
VISA2000 Studio Specialisation A (4.5 units)
VISA2001 Studio Specialisation B (4.5 units)
VISA3404 Visual Thinking and Creativity (4.5 units)