The course consists of 24 units/144 credit points, comprised of at least 8 and no more than 12 level 1 units.

Public Relations

Available units
Students must complete the following compulsory units:
COMM11108	Communicating for Social Change
COMM11110	Introduction to Strategic Communication
COMM12018	Advanced Public Relations
COMM12022	Communication and Global Technologies
COMM13119	Organisational Communication
JOUR13001	Working with the Media

Communication Practice

Available units
Students must complete the following compulsory units:
COMM11003	Career Communications
COMM11007	Media Writing
COMM12033	Speech and Script
JOUR12010	Feature Writing
DGTL12004	Print Design
DGTL12005	Contemporary Photomedia

Communication Project

Available units
Students must complete the following compulsory units:
COMM13110	Journalism Project

By completing the digital media production major, you will be able to apply technology management knowledge and demonstrate advanced technological skill to support communication practice.

Level 1

Available units
Students must complete the following compulsory units:
DGTL11005	Web Design
MMST11003	Visual Design Fundamentals
MMST11009	Digital Video and Audio
MMST11010	Illustration and Visualisation

Advanced

Available units
Students must complete the following compulsory units:
DGTL12006	Visual Communication Design
DGTL12007	Digital Communications Management
DGTL12014	Documentary Filmmaking
MMST13017	Business of Digital Innovation

By completing this major, you will apply knowledge of issues associated with human resource management with communication skills acquired throughout the course core to work effectively to support people and foster a positive culture within an organisational setting.

Level 1

Available units
Students must complete the following compulsory units:
HRMT11010	Organisational Behaviour
HRMT11011	Human Resource Management
OCHS11027	OHS Fundamentals

Advanced

Available units
Students must complete the following compulsory units:
HRMT19012	Performance Management
HRMT19013	Human Resource Training and Development
HRMT19014	Human Resources Planning, Recruitment & Selection
HRMT19016	Contemporary HRM Issues
HRMT19020	Perspectives on Organisational Change

The journalism major, in addition to completion of core professional communication units, will prepare you for a career in journalism and/or media relations. You will be introduced to journalism within the broader contextual framework of media industries, and will engage in debates about journalistic practice. You will learn to write news and narrative in a range of journalism genres, employing the associated requirements of research and analysis. You will apply legal and ethical frameworks associated with journalistic practice.

Level 1

Available units
Students must complete the following compulsory units:
JOUR11005	Introduction to Journalism
WRIT11025	Creative Nonfiction
MMST11009	Digital Video and Audio

Advanced

Available units
Students must complete the following compulsory units:
JOUR12039	News Writing and Reporting
COMM12016	Media Industries
DGTL12014	Documentary Filmmaking
DGTL12007	Digital Communications Management
COMM13111	Strategic Communication Project

By completing the management major, you will be able to apply general principles of management, including finance, law, human resources, and information systems, in organisational settings. Your ability to manage effectively will be complemented by core communication skills acquired upon completion of the course's core units.

Level 1

Available units
Students must complete the following compulsory units:
MGMT11109	Introduction to Business
HRMT11011	Human Resource Management

Advanced

Available units
Students must complete the following compulsory units:
COIS12073	Enterprise Systems
HRMT19021	Principles of Employment Relations
MGMT19105	Quality Management
MGMT19126	Operations Management
HRMT19020	Perspectives on Organisational Change
MGMT13151	Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Start-ups

Marketing is an integrated communication discipline closely related to public relations. By completing this major, you will demonstrate the ability to implement marketing strategy in a way that complements public relations practice and vice-versa.

Level 1

Available units
Students must complete the following compulsory units:
MRKT11028	Digital Marketing
MRKT11029	Marketing Fundamentals

Advanced

Available units
Students must complete the following compulsory units:
MRKT19030	Marketing Communications
MRKT19036	Marketing of Service Products
MRKT19037	International Marketing
MRKT19031	Consumer Behaviour
MRKT13014	New Product Development and Branding
MRKT19040	Strategic Marketing and Planning

In Social Enquiry, you will examine everyday social life through the systemic study of social structures and interactions. You will adopt both sociological and Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander perspectives. Sociology is the study of society with a focus on industrialised societies of the type that emerged out of the French and Industrial revolutions using variables such as race, class and gender. You will develop skills in applying investigative and interpretive tools for the analysis and evaluation of identity, crime and deviance, rural sociology and health. Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander studies explains and critiques the contemporary life of Indigenous Australians through an understanding of pre-colonisation, colonisation, resistance and adaption, government policy, identity and the struggle for recognition and autonomy. You will examine a range of contemporary issues including land rights and country, racism, constitutional preambles, and community. You will apply this knowledge to the professional communication discipline.

Available units
Students must complete the following compulsory units:
SOCL11055	Sociology of Australian Society
SOCL11060	Being Bad
INDG11006	Education and Learning: Colonisation and Decolonisation in the Cultural Interface
INDG11013	First Nation and Non-Indigenous History: The Interface
INDG19015	Aboriginal Cultures and Country
INDG19016	Contemporary Indigenous Issues
SOCL19065	Rural Communities and Health
SOCL19069	Social Research Methods

3 general electives

Maximum number of Level 1 units permitted for this course is 12.