Ok to make it clear first, this is reagarding education… to be more specific, what I am studying in Monash, which is under the category of mass communication.
You know, whoever that actually said mass comm, is suppose to be easy, seriously never took it. Or more so, never took up what we learn here. When entering uni, us students didn’t really bargain on what we were going to learn. Unlike Lim Kok Wing, One Academy and what not that actually teaches a different type of mass comm altogether. Monash specializes very much so in theories. Which comes the big word of the day THEORIES and just more and more theories, which can destroy and at the same time enhance my brain.
Some would think, of mass comm, is suppose to be the lower class of the education hierarchy, because its an “Arts” subject. And one doesn’t need a degree in order to come out and do mass comm stuff, which is more so media half the time, eg. Tv, Radio broadcasting, Producing and video editing. As much as those seem like fun, we are not doing that here in delightful Monash (which is not all that bad!).
From every subject unit us students take, we have theories shoved into our faces. And all from this wonderful term called post-modernism and post-structuralism. Where we end up learing stuff as, the self is really not really the self, everything we see is just a representation of another thing, we come into the realm of feminism, the pshycoanalytical, cultural studies, sociology. Where we then here not big names of directors and producers such as Steven Spielberg, David Lucas, Alfred Hitchcock, Quentin Tarantino and so on. But you here big names like Althusser, Williams, Marx, Barthes, Foucault and Fraud (uuuughhhh the one i hate the most, because of him i shall forever be scared by his theories of the unconscious.)
We actually have to bother with why a film is done as such (ok fine), we have to bother as to why this person says this and whether his words are tangible, and worst of all, is when the lecturers say “There is no right or wrong, just how you explain it” Sheeeeeeshhh….. all fellow communications say it with me…..”Sheesssshhh”.
So needless to say, mass comm is not all fun and play, there is work and reading that we do…. or as normal students…try to do….cope to do….fail to do? Whatever it be, mass comm is not easy. It is an eye opener, and actually makes one think of things you never would’ve before….I lay down my peace.
