Overview
This specialisation is for students commencing from 2023.
Choosing a minor in Communication and Journalism will equip you with a selection of knowledge, skills, and experience you need to succeed in journalism and communication.
You’ll be able to acquire practical skills and critical perspectives on the fast-changing world of digital … For more content click the Read More button below.
Ethics and justice are inseparable from how we teach, so you will leave UNSW with a strong understanding of how diversity, difference, and power play out in journalism and other media industries.
Learning Outcomes
1.
Demonstrate creativity, rigour, adaptability, independence, and cultural reflexivity in the application of communication and journalism skills and the production of media texts.
- Scholars
- Leaders
- Professionals
2.
Critically analyse the evolving communication and journalism landscape in relation to historical, social, political, material, and theoretical contexts, including settler colonialism.
3.
Engage in communication and journalism practices that take cultural difference as crucial to audiences, industries, and contexts.
- Global citizens
- Leaders
4.
Situate and engage with diverse First Nations knowledges and communication and journalism practices, and the historical, cultural, social, and political contexts that produce them.
- Scholars
- Global citizens
5.
Deploy a critically informed approach to ethics, justice, and social engagement in media practices, industries, and contexts.
- Professionals
- Global citizens
- Leaders
6.
Evaluate and apply research methods appropriate to distinct media forms, practices, industries, and audiences.
- Professionals
- Leaders
- Scholars
7.
Collaborate effectively with local and international communities of practitioners across media contexts.
- Global citizens
Available in Program(s) Single degree program(s) in which this specialisation is available:
Bachelor of Social Sciences - BSocSci3325 - Social Sciences
Bachelor of Media - BMedia3341 - Media
Bachelor of Arts - BA3409 - Arts
Bachelor of Advanced Science (Honours) - BAdvSci(Hons)3962 - Advanced Science (Honours)
Bachelor of Science - BSc3970 - Science
Bachelor of Design - BDes4825 - Design
Bachelor of Fine Arts - BFA4830 - Fine Arts
Specialisation Structure
You must complete 36 UOC.
You must take 6 UOC at level 1 and 30 UOC at levels 2 and 3, including at least 6 UOC at level 2 and at least 12 UOC at level 3.
Level 1 Prescribed Electives6 Units of Credit:
Level 2 and 3 Prescribed Electives30 Units of Credit:
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