Course Title: Locating knowledges

Part A: Course Overview

Course Title: Locating knowledges

Credit Points: 12.00

Terms

Course Code

Campus

Career

School

Learning Mode

Teaching Period(s)

COMM2907

City Campus

Undergraduate

345H Media and Communication

Face-to-Face

 Sem 1 2024

Course Coordinator: Linda Daley

Course Coordinator Phone: +61 3 9925 2824

Course Coordinator Email: linda.daley@rmit.edu.au

Course Coordinator Location: 009.04.028

Course Coordinator Availability: By Appointment


Pre-requisite Courses and Assumed Knowledge and Capabilities

None.


Course Description

In this course you will explore the connections between knowledge and place from a range of cultural perspectives as foundational to your university learning, and foundational to knowledge making and sharing.  

Locating yourself as a university student is an experience of discovery and orientation in your relation to stories and their histories, which can be viewed as situated and practiced knowledge encounters.  

You will explore the social relations that form from knowledge encounters as well as the ethical navigations required among differently situated groups and across differently located settings.  

You will examine these knowledge encounters through a variety of media objects, communication practices and crafted art forms relevant to your discipline. 


Objectives/Learning Outcomes/Capability Development

Program Learning Outcomes 

This course contributes to the following BP354 Bachelor of Professional Communication Program Learning Outcomes: 

  • PLO1: Practise professional communication in diverse contexts while actively contributing to a more sustainable world and engaging with locally and globally inclusive perspectives. 
  • PLO6: Employ intellectual independence and judgement to engage critically with information, make sound evidence-based decisions, actively challenge assumptions, and undertake research that is ethical, creative and reflective. 


Course Learning Outcomes 

Upon successful completion of this course, you will be able to: 

  1. Examine and discuss the relation between knowledge and place. 
  2. Explain the contested and collaborative stories of place and how this awareness may be applied in academic disciplines and in industry contexts.  
  3. Find and share different kinds of knowledge appropriate to different contexts and disciplines.  
  4. Explain and apply the cultural and academic protocols of finding and sharing knowledge appropriate to different contexts and disciplines.


Overview of Learning Activities

You will be actively engaged in a range of learning activities which may include project work, lectures, tutorials, class discussion, individual and group activities. 


Overview of Learning Resources

RMIT will provide you with resources and tools for learning in this course through our online systems. 

There are services and resources available to support your learning through the University Library. The Library provides guides on academic referencing and subject specialist help as well as a range of study support services. For further information, please visit the Library page on the RMIT University website and the RMIT student website.


Overview of Assessment

You will be assessed on how well you meet the course’s learning outcomes and on your development against the program learning outcomes. 

Assessment Tasks 
Assessment Task 1: Learning Reflection (20%) Individual CLO 1 
Assessment Task 2: Oral Presentation (40%) Group CLO 2, 3, 4 
Assessment Task 3: Knowledge Artefact (40%) Individual CLO 1, 2, 3, 4.  

Feedback will be given on all assessment tasks. 

If you have a long term medical condition and/or disability it may be possible to negotiate to vary aspects of the learning or assessment methods. You can contact the program coordinator or Equitable Learning Services if you would like to find out more. 

Your course assessment conforms to RMIT assessment principles, regulations, policies, procedures and instructions.