- Program summary
- Program overview
- Admission requirements
- Program objectives
- Program structure
- Program requirements and notes
- Enquiries
Program summary
Program title: Graduate Certificate in Journalism
Award abbreviation: GCJourn
Degree type: coursework
Mode of study: on campus
Duration: 6 months minimum full-time, 2 years maximum part-time
Commence: Semester 1 or Semester 2
Fee type 2010: postgraduate coursework places
Total courses: 4
USC program code: AR543
CRICOS code: Not available to international students on a Student Visa
Program overview
The Graduate Certificate in Journalism offers students an opportunity to further develop skills and conceptual understandings in contemporary journalism. This includes research, writing, editing, production and general communications required of journalists as well as the different media, print, broadcast and the internet. It will therefore provide an attractive opportunity to gain a qualification that has relevance, currency and credibility.
The Certificate will be attractive to professionals within the corporate and government sectors who wish to upgrade their qualifications and expertise within a short time frame. In many of these job markets the ability to write and communicate well is becoming increasingly important. Employers are looking for people with the ability to write and communicate in an effective, efficient and lucid fashion. The program does not just impart knowledge and skills pertinent to professional and business writing, but also ones pertinent to written communication more generally.
Admission requirements
Candidates for this award are normally required to hold a Bachelor's degree. To be eligible to undertake this award, students must not have undertaken a previous undergraduate degree or a major or minor in journalism. Students cannot undertake any course in this degree that they have completed previously at an undergraduate level. Entry by non-graduates who have extensive relevant industry experience may be considered on a case-by-case basis by the Dean, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
Program objectives
On completion of this program students should be able to:
- demonstrate proficiency in areas of journalism and professional writing
- identify and evaluate a particular audience, and develop the styles of written communication and modes of delivery accordingly
- identify the generic conventions of different forms of written communication
- discuss contemporary culture and social outcomes/reactions of trends in popular fiction
- analyse written and oral communications in order to identify and implement proper drafting, revising, and editing techniques
- graduate and pursue further vocational studies and apply theoretically advanced approaches to journalism
Program structure
1 required course:
CMN130 Introduction to Journalism
Plus select 3 courses from:
CMN213 Editing for the Communications Professional
CMN228 The Writer and the Law
CMN235 News Writing: Print and Broadcast
CMN237 Online Journalism
Program requirements and notes
- The Graduate Certificate in Journalism is a 48-unit program.
- The courses that constitute the Graduate Certificate in Journalism will be existing undergraduate courses but will be assessed at a postgraduate level.
- The Graduate Certificate articulates into the Graduate Diploma. Students who undertake 48 units in the Graduate Certificate, may apply those units to the Graduate Diploma.
- Refer to the Academic Rules.
- International students need to refer to the University's English language proficiency requirements.
- Only a full-time study option is available to international students on a Student Visa.
Enquiries
How to apply
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
Tel: +61 7 5430 1259
Program Leader
Associate Professor Stephen Lamble
Tel: +61 7 5459 4478
Email: slamble@usc.edu.au