Bachelor of Arts (Honours) (Media and Communications)

Comments about Bachelor of Arts (Honours) (Media and Communications) - On Campus - Parkville - Victoria

• Objectives
  Media and Communications is concerned with interpretative, theoretical and historical approaches to the media and its communication technologies, in close combination with the development of practical communication skills. An exciting range of subjects enables students to develop a comprehensive overview of the media’s places in today’s society, economy and culture, with an emphasis on the Asia-Pacific region. Students also learn to think across media, and to achieve an understanding of the effects and impact of new communication technologies on emerging global media environment.
  
  The Media and Communications program has as its objectives that graduates:
  
  * are enabled to develop a comprehensive overview of the media's place in today's society, economy and culture, with an emphasis on the Asia-Pacific region;
  * are provided with the fundamental written communication skills required by successful journalists and other media professionals;
  * will achieve an understanding of new communication technologies and their impact on the fast changing global media environment;
  * are trained to think across media- a skill of increasing importance for the next generation of media professionals and media researchers;
  * will appreciate the value of an international and interdisciplinary approach to the study of Media and Communications.
• Academic title
  Bachelor of Arts (Honours) (Media and Communications)
• Course description
  Students undertaking the pure honours stream complete:
  

  • three fourth-year level Media and Communications core subjects (37.5 points); and
    
  • two optional fourth-year level subjects (25 points); and
    
  • a Media and Communications thesis of 12,000 words (37.5 points).
    

  Double major students may complete one of the following combined honours streams:
  

  • two fourth-year level Media and Communications core subjects (25 points); and
    
  • three fourth-year level subjects in the combining discipline (37.5 points); and
    
  • a Media and Communications thesis of 12,000 words (37.5 points).
    

  or
  

  • three fourth-year level Media and Communications core subjects (37.5 points); and
    
  • two fourth year-level subjects in the combining discipline (25 points); and
    
  • a thesis in the combining discipline (37.5 points).
    

  Please note: students undertaking the second option will graduate with a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) NOT a Bachelor of Arts (Media and Communications Honours).
  For policies that govern this degree, see Academic Services Policy in the University Melbourne Policy Framework . Students also should also refer to information in the Student Policy Directory.