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 COMMUNICATIONS AND MEDIA
Communications is ideally suited to being studied in combination with such programs as Marketing and Public Relations, Education, Law, Politics and International Relations, Theatre Studies and English Literature. While our Media and Communications program aims to produce ‘job-ready’ graduates, our Bachelor of Communications degree is also an ideal pathway to further study in such institutions as WA’s Academy of Performing Arts and/or Screen Academy, the Australian Film Television and Radio School in NSW and other advanced media academies in Europe, USA and Asia. COMMUNICATIONS AND MEDIA UNITS Our extensive range of Communications units are run in a two-year rotation cycle (see below for what’s on offer in 2009 and 2010) and provide both practical and theoretical learning. The following units can be counted towards a Bachelor of Communication or a Communications major or minor.
Other units if available and as approved by the Dean, to a maximum of 50 credit points per major, and 75 credit points per degree:
Please note that not all units may be available on each campus. UNIT DESCRIPTIONS AND AVAILABILITY, 2009 - 2010 To see what units are on offer when, please click here. For a full list of all unit descriptions in Communications and other School of Arts and Sciences disciplines, please click here. To review the content of a Bachelor of Arts, Behavioural Science, Communications, Counselling or Science, or to download the official course planner for your degree, please click here. Students of a range of Arts majors, including Politics, History, Communications, Legal Studies and Theatre Studies, may be eligible to conduct an Internship as part of their degree. Offered in Semester Two each year, the Internship takes the place of one unit and places the student on location within government or private industry. Students can hope to acquire helpful professional skills as part of the Internship, apply the learning they have so far gained in their discipline area at University, and develop personal and professional networks which may assist them in future employment. It is recommended that you take an internship in a workplace environment suited to your major or minor. Contact the Internships coordinator in your school for more information. The Study Abroad program allows Notre Dame’s Communications and Media students to spend one semester of their degree at an overseas university in North America, the United Kingdom, Europe or Asia while gaining full credit in their degree at home. Some students may be eligible for a Student Exchange Scholarship to help reduce the cost of airfares, accommodation and other expenses. Media and Communications students may be particularly interested in the world-class media program provided at Spokane University in Washington State. For more information please contact Notre Dame’s Study Abroad office. A variety of opportunities for extended scholarly and service learning exist for those students conducting a degree in Notre Dame’s School of Arts and Sciences. Participation in these programs can provide students with additional professional and life skills that will not only enrich their learning experience at University, but will make their degree more marketable and attractive on completion. East Kimberley Community Immersion This program is available to students of Fremantle, Sydney and Broome. For more information, please contact the School of Arts and Sciences in Fremantle. Caritas Australia development program We believe that university education should be about more than training for a profession. Rather, we want Notre Dame students to be ready to change the world. Students of Arts and Sciences at Notre Dame are eligible to participate in an overseas program we conduct each year in partnership with the aid organisation, Caritas Australia. Teams of Notre Dame staff and students visit an overseas location such as Cambodia, Uganda or India. In an immersion experience of up to four weeks, the team explores the development work conducted by Caritas and studies, among other things, the intersection of poverty, development, politics and globalisation. The Caritas program may be available as an elective within a degree program and may, on approval of the Dean, be counted towards a major or minor. Students who have completed an Arts, Behavioural Science, Communications or Science degree, with at least a distinction average in their major, may be eligible to undertake a fourth year in the School’s Honours program. Honours in Communications and Media provides a professional finish to your undergraduate degree and should make your educational qualifications more competitive in the industry in which you hope to build your career. Because of the unique nature of Notre Dame’s School of Arts and Sciences, students completing an Honours degree in Communications have the opportunity to develop an inter-disciplinary research project which may combine their work in Communciations with such other disciplines as Politics, Behavioural Science, Social Justice and English Literature. Students completing an Honours program in Communications and Media will undertake a major research project under supervision, complete coursework in related units, participate in a regular interdisciplinary seminar series and contribute to a conference program regarding their research activities. For further information on Honours please speak with any academic member of staff or contact the Honours coordinators in your School. Communications combines well with the study of other degrees at Notre Dame. A Bachelor of Arts, Arts (Politics and Journalism), Behavioural Science or Communications is often studied in combination with such professional degrees as Law, Education or Business. Adding a Communications major, or other Arts and Sciences discipline areas, to your professional degree can add to your graduate employment opportunities, increase your learning experience at university and provide you with enhanced writing and research skills.
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