Our Media Studies curriculum aims to create a community of students to become critical thinkers that engage with a plethora of media products including, television, film, radio, newspapers, magazines, advertising, and marketing, online, social, and participatory media, video games and music video. Students are encouraged to develop awareness of how media products attempt to influence and position us through the messages and values they communicate.
The embedding of multiple theoretical studies allows students to explore how media texts are purposefully manipulative, and the strategies that media production teams have utilised and refined over the last century. Students will know how to discern meaning from the presentation of texts, the representation of people, issues, and places, and, finally, will have developed a range of subject-specific terminology to informed arguments, allowing them to have courage to draw conclusions about media issues.
Students also get the opportunity to develop practical skills for creative media production which will prepare students to make informed decisions about further study or employment.