Screen Studies
ENGLISH FACULTY
| 🎓 Course Type | Elective |
|---|---|
| 🧩 Units | 1 - 2 |
| 🗓 Timing | Year 9 and/or Year 10 |
| ⏱ Hours per week | 3 |
| 📚 Prior Experience | Not required |
| ✏️ Selection | Up to 2 units of English electives may be studied across Years 9 and 10. Students may choose Screen Studies twice across Years 9 and 10 |
| 🧭 Future Pathways | TCE Level 2 or 3, or IBDP |
Screen Studies options are for students who love film and/or television shows - watching them, thinking about them, discussing and writing about them - and who may also be thinking of a career in film and television, or as a reviewer or critic in the entertainment industry.
Screen Studies consists of two courses: Screen Studies 1: Film and Screen Studies 2: Television. These vary in content each semester and so allow students to study this elective more than once across Years 9 and 10.
Screen Studies provides students with the opportunity to better understand and appreciate: the technical aspects of film/television language; the elements that define particular genres; the styles of iconic writers and directors; and, how film and television is a reflection and product of society and culture, and shapes the way in which we see the world.
A range of modern and classic films and television shows are studied in sets or units and each unit has a particular focus. Students may find themselves studying a particular director, writer, genre, theme, region or era.
The film selections range from big-budget Hollywood to cult classics and indie films, home-grown Australian cinema to the canon of European tradition, and from ‘coming of age’ narratives to the mind-bending concepts of Science Fiction. The television shows students may encounter throughout their coursework include: procedural dramas, drama series, dramedies, docu-dramas, sit-coms, mockumentaries, reality tv, non-fiction shows and animated series.
Students maintain a journal throughout the course and respond to films and television shows in analytical and reflective ways, through a flexible combination of writing, formal and informal discussions and the creation of multimodal texts.
Students will leave this course better equipped for the film and media components of the pre-tertiary English courses, more knowledgeable of the seminal films and television shows of our culture, and perfectly placed to engage in critical evaluation.
View why the 9/10 Screen Studies is for you, in the presentation below.