The Graduate Diploma of Arts at the University of Melbourne builds a solid foundation for your further studies and research. Develop the analytical and critical capacities you need to apply to contemporary contexts, and understand the important issues and conceptual frameworks relating to your area of study. Examine contemporary modules like anthropology, gender studies, and creative writing, or opt to major or minor in languages such as Arabic, Chinese, Indonesian, or French. Tailor your study through a range of electives and benefit from flexible study options, including evening classes.<br><br>Screen and Cultural Studies embraces a range of theories, methodologies and areas formerly taught by Cinema Studies and Cultural Studies. The combined program covers the fields of film and popular media, screen histories, Australian, Hollywood, Art House and Asian cinemas, everyday life, television and entertainment, ethnographic and documentary cinema, computer games, the internet and representation of global cultures. Theories include film and screen aesthetics, identity and gender, sexuality and spectatorship, narrative structures and class ideologies. Students encounter a variety of screen media, net-based and popular cultures in order to consider 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 interpreting and analysing contemporary screen media and culture. Academic staff in the discipline are specialists in screen cultures and media histories, entertainment cultures, gender and sexuality, postcolonialism, European and Asian cinemas, cultural policy, and media archaeology.