Communication

This course introduces business communication skills. It looks at the standard practices for communicating within and across business sectors. It covers the fundamentals of business writing, including memoranda, email, business letters, and discuss how to be persuasive and engaging in these writings. Additionally, we explore oral presentation as it exists in different professional contexts and settings.

This course examines Australian media with an emphasis on its political nature and issues of policy, regulation, ownership, governance and local content. Students are encouraged to actively, and critically, examine their own media use. Drawing on this, and a range of case studies, students engage with debates about journalism and ethics, the nature of commercial and public media, and the changing shape of news and current affairs. Major topics include advertising and commercial television, alternative media, talkback radio and the "cash for comment" inquiry, and journalism and ethics. Upon completion of the course, students have developed a strong grasp of the major thematic issues influencing Australian media.

Digital media are an essential part of the lives of teenagers, as they are crucial elements of the social environment in which children grow up. Undoubtedly, adolescents play a key role in the popularity of various digital media sources and have a great influence on media trends, topics, and forms of expression. The complexity of the development and socialization of adolescents can be better understood when it comes to the influence of digital media, such as television and film, social networks, gaming, and music. This bachelor course approaches “youth” by exploring both how it relates to age and child development, but also how this implicitly evokes specific qualities in terms of gender, sexuality, class, race, ethnicity, nationality, and ability. The course examines digital media through the various types of content and technologies available, and critically examines who produces and consumes such media. The course asks questions about what media young people engage with and why, what media content they produce, how media impacts them, and what responsibility content creators and tech companies have in this regard. The course focuses on helping students develop a better understanding of how youth and other identities, such as gender or sexuality, are socially and culturally constructed, and assess the ways in which they are performed in a variety of youth cultures and subcultures. Each week the students engage with different media content and related digital platforms, and learn to critically examine how we can situate the concept of intersectionality in these. This in turn allows them to have a deep understanding of the roles that youth play politically, economically, and culturally.

This course introduces the field of communication through the study of its basic concepts, theories, history, and specific, relevant issues. Furthermore, it acquaintsstudents to various forms of communication including journalism, visual communication, interpersonal, and telecommunication.

This course explores the concept and different degrees of “interpretation” in journalistic terms, the logical continuity between information and interpretation, as well as techniques for the development of journalistic messages of an informative–interpretative nature. Students are expected to have completed previous coursework in media theory and journalism.