Politics and the Media is the worst subject you can ever choose from from the Politics and International Relations pool. The assignment design is just completely disorganised while seemingly to follow the general guideline. There is a 1,000 word essay which is too short to write anything excellent. There is another 2,000 research essay which seems to be very open-ended, research-centred, but it is not. The subject coordinator or whosoever would only instigate one or a few key words such as Celebrity Politician or Non-democratic regime with a pile of retarded hints there are. Having received an H1 in my year one for the Introduction to Political Ideas, one of the hardcore subject for Politics major, I never thought that I would be marked down so greatly for this particular Politics and the Media subject in my bachelor stage, a H3 is what I ended up with that I would not even fathom this grade in my worst dreams. Just imagine taking this WAM destroyer while learning a significant amount of unture subject matter as well as the essay comments from your marker, you were in Hell and you come back for more. The subject is also different from the other media subjects i suppose since it's so politically biased, towards Australian fucking politics where you still think you are the centre of the universe while in reality you are just nothing but a puppet, weak, racist, neo-Aparthied, perpetually segregatory, xenophobic yet settler-colonial-based, criminal-runned, psychopathic and South African-ish nation in this world. Don't take this subject unless you are also one of those retards who don't care about your WAM. I myself being a solid, year-tested H1 essay writer did not make it. It's just far more discouraging than you would otherwise expect. A grade like this won't even let you get into the most retarded master or graduate program in this university. Needless to evaluate its negative impact on how would honours programs reject you for having a major major subject branded with a grade that's even below average. Now for future improvements, it wouldn't hurt to explicitly listed if you are expecting a post-doctoral-level academic expectation for an undergrad student. If you think it's necessary to use quantitative approaches throughout the whole essay you should then listed it clearly without any ambiguity. Framing an actual research question instead of a set of simple, potentially biased keyword is also important. Having checked out tutors' marking impartiality and their actual academic capability is also underemphasised i think for this subject. The stuff and information that my tutor, at least, handling out nothing but a few words of irrelevant background knowledge-level of hints and mostly beating around the bush. This might be also essential if the research essay is looking for an in-depth analysis or argumentative essay or whatsoever that focuses on one particular subject matter or more or etc. The current instructions clearly did not attempt so. Being specific about the definition of 'in-depth' is also funny sometimes, are you expecting the students to focus on the subject's required readings to cite them and critique them? Or, are you expecting them to be more self-centred in doing research and find up-to-date things of the day? I may not know as much academic jargons in research essays regarding various kinds of approaches and so forth as much as you do but it is definitely needed to be forged out.

Score is given harshly and little knowledge is taught. Tutors are not professional

This was the worst unit I have done so far at uni. The content holds up until about week 4 or 5, then just becomes recycled and touches on the same themes over and over. The assessments are extremely basic so the marking was extremely harsh and feedback made little sense. The new teaching staff that came in halfway through the course acted like they didn't want to be there, and for some weeks gave only a 30 minute lecture for what was supposed to be 2 hours of content. Very unimpressed overall.

Was not a fan of this subject and I would not recommend it for Media and Communications majors. Overall it was politics heavy and I know like, duh, it's a politics subject, but what I mean by that is that it sort of failed to express the media industry incorporated with politics. From the subject description it gave the impression that it would tackle useful subject matters such as contracts, public relations, matters of legal issues presented within the media but we mostly just studied about fake news (so repetitive), partisanship, and democracy.

Loved this subject! Content was highly insightful and straightforward. Assessments were also very comprehensive and easy to understand. Sheilla (tutor) is an absolute gem. I came into this subject having absolutely no idea about how the news regime worked, and I leave with so much knowledge and insight about how it operates. The curriculum is relevant and exciting. If you're questioning whether or not to do this subject, seriously just go for it.

Really enjoyed the content in this subject! I'd recommend doing this if you're interested in discussing current events and/or media and communications. I agree that the lectures could be a little repetitive, but I feel like the tutorial discussions were always really interesting regardless of that.

Interesting and highly relevant content - assessments were quite straightforward but engaging to complete. Lectures could be a little repetitive but were worth my time, I got a lot of insight from Sally (lecturer) and by the end of the course I had a clear understanding of the key theories and issues we covered.