Bachelor of Arts in Screen and Cultural Studies

The University of Melbourne

A Bachelor of Arts (BA) offers a flexible approach to studying the humanities, social sciences and languages at Australia’s number one university. Build interdisciplinary knowledge, community leadership and cultural awareness. And, you’ll graduate with the skills necessary to succeed in the rapidly changing, global workplace.Screen and Cultural Studies is a combined program and students can specialise in either area. The combined program covers the fields of film and popular media screen histories Australian, Hollywood, European and Asian cinemas everyday life television and entertainment film genres including avant garde and documentary computer games the Internet and the representation of global cultures. The major introduces students to the development and history of film and cultural studies. Theories include film and screen aesthetics identity and gender sexuality and spectatorship media globalization narrative structures and class ideologies. Students encounter a variety of screen media, net-based and popular cultures engage cultural texts, sites and practices from a range of interpretive angles, including lifestyle and consumer studies, subcultural studies, and critical studies of sexuality, race and cultural globalization, and explore their histories, significance and theories that help make sense of how they relate to power, commerce and lived culture today. Through innovative teaching, students in Screen and Cultural Studies encounter new ways of analysing contemporary screen media and culture. Academic staff in the discipline are specialists in screen cultures and media histories entertainment cultures gender, race and sexulaity postcolonialism and migration European and Asian cinemas cultural policy, and media archaeology.

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