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Specialist Reporting Area of Specialisation 
SPAACO 
G78 GRADUATE DIPLOMA OF COMMUNICATIONS 
 

The Graduate Diploma of Communications (Specialist Reporting) will enable students to develop their existing skill set in specialist reporting.  Specialist Reporting will provide students with advanced journalism and reporting skills and abilities in their specialist field.  The Graduate Diploma will develop students’ abilities to freelance and source topics and stories and to produce publishable materials as specialist reporters and writers. There is currently a dearth of specialist writers for the press and electronic publications in specialist fields.  While most journalists write stories of a general nature, increasing demand is being shown for specialist writers who are well-versed in particular fields. 

 

The six areas of professional focus are:

  • Politics
  • Finance
  • Tourism
  • Contemporary Arts
  • Performing Arts
  • Digital Media
 
UNIT SET LOCATION
This unit set is available on Mt Lawley Campus.
 
MODE OF DELIVERY
This unit set is available in the following mode of delivery - On-campus.
 
 
 
Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)
For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes, Graduate Attributes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Student Equity, Diversity and Disability Service website:
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Students must study the following core units:
CMM4123 Media and Social Context 15
JOU4101 Print Journalism 15
JOU4111 Journalism Project 15
JOU4201 Print Journalism 2 15
 
If choosing Politics:
POL1103 Modern Political Thought 15
POL1104 Foundations of Politics and Government 15
 
Plus two units selected from:
POL3123 Debate and Decision in Australian Politics 15
POL3125 Public Sector Policy 15
POL3128 South East Asian Politics 15
POL3130 Themes in Global Politics 15
 
If choosing Finance:
ECF4100 Economics IV 15
ECF4220 Principles of Finance IV 15
ECF4222 Capital Markets IV 15
 
Plus one unit selected from:
ECF4320 Managerial Finance IV 15
ECF4324 International Economics and Finance IV 15
 
If choosing Tourism:
GEO1111 Human Geography: Diverse Worlds 15
TSM1101 Introduction to Tourism I 15
 
Plus two units selected from:
GEO3126 Geography of Tourism and Recreation 15
IAS4104 Indigenous Tourism 15
TSM3106 Cultural Tourism III 15
TSM3107 Ecotourism III 15
 
If choosing Contemporary Arts:
VIS1126 Cultural History and Theory 1 15
VIS1227 Cultural History and Theory 2 15
VIS2226 Cultural History and Theory 3 15
VIS2227 Cultural History and Theory 4 15
 
If choosing Performing Arts:
SOA4104 Performance Criticism: Theory and Context 15
SOA4304 Performance Criticism and the Modern Theatre 15
 
And two units selected from:
ADM4100 International Arts Environment 15
ADM4101 Arts Management 15
ADM4250 History of the Arts 15
ADM4350 The Process of the Performing Arts 15
ADM4450 The Arts in Contemporary Society 15
FAV4112 Film and Cinema Studies 15
 
If choosing Digital Media:
CMM4209 Cyberculture Studies 15
IMM4120 Introduction to Digital Technologies and Multimedia 15
 
Plus two units selected from:
CMM4208 Communications and Digital Technology 15
IMM4121 Digital Photomedia 15
IMM4122 Publishing on the World Wide Web 15
IMM4123 Interactive Multimedia Authoring 1 15
 

Last Updated - Higher Education: 9/30/2006 VET: 9/30/2006