About Communications and Media Studies
Communication and Media Studies (CMS) is a dynamic research and teaching program in the School of English, Communications and Performance Studies. It is located in the Arts Faculty at Monash University.
Undergraduate Program
The undergraduate teaching program introduces students to contemporary communication technology and digital media, the social and cultural aspects of communication, and the world of creative, cultural and media industries. Students study a diverse range of communication mediums, genres, and arts. They look at the role of publics, audiences, producers, and policies.
Undergraduate study in Communications and Media Studies begins with a broad-based first year of study. Students do more specialized study at second and third year. A research-focused fourth year Honours program is also available.
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Graduate Program
Research at the graduate level in Communications and Media Studies is focused on a number of key areas. These include communication technology, medium theory and analysis, the social, economic and cultural aspects of communication, and the study of creative, cultural and media industries. There is also strong interest in media and communication theory, and in socio-cultural and socio-aesthetic theory and analysis.
Communications and Media Studies provides supervision for Masters and PhD students, and from 2010 will offers a coursework Master of Creative Arts degree.
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Research
Communications and Media Studies staff members are actively involved in a wide range of research projects. Specific areas that staff members are currently working in include:
- British cultural identity and its expression in literary and cultural texts;
- The social and political dimensions of everyday media texts and technologies;
- The book and its interface with other media forms;
- Communication and media theory;
- Socio-cultural and socio-aesthetic studies;
- Audience research;
- Popular music performance studies.
- Military-Media relations.
Communications and Media Studies staff members generally have a strong interest in work at the boundary of social inquiry and media-aesthetic-cultural inquiry. Much of their work is interdisciplinary. It draws on both humanities and social-scientific traditions. It commonly blends aesthetic, media and cultural investigation with classical social science and social theoretical motifs and methodologies.
Communications and Media Studies staff members both in their own research and the research PhD topics they supervise regularly draw on both traditional disciplines such as literature and political science and newer disciplines such as cultural studies and media studies.
Empirical, analytical, and theoretical research programs are all undertaken in Communications and Media Studies.
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Professional
Communications and Media Studies staff members have participated in a variety of public, professional and industry activities. They have been involved in publishing and new media industries, in public education, official report writing, and media and public commentary.
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