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Media Practice
Postgraduate Coursework 2010 Overview

 

Overview

 
Media Practice focuses on media industry practice, including the areas of writing for media, media liaison, broadcast and online journalism skills, ethical and legal issues in the media, and theories of mass communication. Students will develop their written and spoken communication skills and their production skills in print and broadcast media contexts. They will develop a sophisticated understanding of media production and reception.

Career Opportunities

 
Career opportunities exist for all aspects of journalism, particularly content production for print, radio, television, online and convergent media.

Suggested Pathways

 

Pathways are a strategy for organising a program of study directed towards a specific area of interest or future employment. The pathway examples shown below are suggestions only. Students can design their own pathway in consultation with the Program Coordinator.

 

NB: 2010 Units of Study will be finalised in late September 2009 and available to view on this site in October. Any links below to the online Handbook are to 2009 listings and should be treated as a guide only.
Core
MECO 6900
News Writing
MECO 6901
Dealing with the Media
MECO 6902
Legal and Ethical Issues in Media Practice
MECO 6926
International
Media Practice
 
Elective

Online Journalism and Internet Publishing

These are elective unit suggestions for students wishing to work in online media as content producers, providing production skills together with some knowledge of the broadcast media that have converged online, as well as knowledge of the internet context and its cultural implications.

MECO 6924
Broadcast Journalism
MECO 6925
Online Journalism
ARIN 6902
Internet Cultures and Governance
ARIN 6914
Remixable Media
 

Newspaper and Magazine Journalism

These are elective unit suggestions for students wishing to work in print media as content producers, editors and designers, providing the production skills together with broad knowledge of the print media industry, the cultural and economic implications of convergence, and the challenges and opportunities it presents.

MECO 6906
Literary Journalism: History and Theory
MECO 6914
Making Magazines
MECO 6915
Writing Features: Narrative Journalism
MECO 6923
Political
Journalism
 

Media Relations

These are elective unit suggestions for students wishing to work in media relations and as communications directors within and between organizations or representing organizations to the media and external stakeholders.

MECO 6908
Strategy Selection in Corporate PR
MECO 6909
PR Management and Conflict Resolution
MECO 6912
Political Public Relations
MECO 6927
Organisational Communication
 

Broadcast Journalism

These are elective unit suggestions for students wishing to work in television and radio as reporters, producers, researchers and editors. These electives provide the fundamental production skills of broadcast journalism together with broad knowledge of the broadcast media industry, its relation to the internet and the challenges and opportunities of convergence.

ARIN 6914
Remixable Media
ARHT 6940
Editing the Moving Image
MECO 6924
Broadcast Journalism
MECO 6925
Online Journalism

Higher Degree Research Pathway

If you are interested in the option of continuing your coursework studies into research, as an M.Phil or Ph.D candidate, and have not completed an honours degree, you may qualify by enrolling in the two dissertation units listed below (MECO 6904 and MECO 6905). These require a 12,000 word dissertation completed across two semesters and are subject to the availability of a supervisor. Students seeking entry into higher degree research also need to have achieved a distinction minimum in all subjects. You may also enrol in the dissertation units if you are interested in doing a longer research project, without any intention of continuing as a research candidate.
MECO 6904
Dissertation Part 1
MECO 6905
Dissertation Part 2
WMST 6903
Gender, Media and Consumer Societies
ENGL 6912
Issues in Mass Communication
 
ARTS 7000
Academic Communication for Postgraduates
Highly recommended that this unit of study be completed during first semester of study by all non-English speaking background postgraduate students.
General information on this Unit of Study.