Handbook

This program structure applies to students commencing from 2019. If you commenced prior to 2019 please consult the Handbook for the year in which you started.

The Bachelor of Media (Communication and Journalism) equips you to become an effective and ethical communicator within today’s media industry. You will learn multi-platform storytelling techniques, developing diverse professional skills, from creating digital communication strategies to producing audio-visual news stories. Not simply skilled up as a writer, you are also encouraged to become an influential, entrepreneurial and strategic communicator able to take a leadership role, tackle complex issues, and participate in a global industry. During the program, you will be immersed in the professional cultures of contemporary production and engage with emerging communication practices. This program will also encourage you to look for novel and agile ways to produce and evaluate media texts in these domains. You will reflect critically upon how vocational skills operate within, and are mediated by, political, economic, mediatised and social discourses and the dynamics of industry, governments, markets, consumer cultures, valuing regimes and society. When you graduate you will be a creative producer and analyst of a wide range of current and emerging communication and journalism practices.

The UNSW BMedia (C&J) can be completed full-time in Single mode (normally 3 years), or in Dual mode (the equivalent of two years full-time study) or part-time. It has a depth component and a breadth component. If you are enrolled in Single mode you do both the depth and breadth component while in Dual mode you only complete the depth component.