- Program summary
- Program overview
- Admission requirements
- Program objectives
- Program structure
- Program requirements and notes
- Enquiries
Program summary
Program title: Graduate Diploma in Communication
Award abbreviation: GDComn
Degree type: coursework
Mode of study: on campus
Duration: 1 year minimum full-time, 4 years maximum part-time.
Commence: Semester 1 or Semester 2
Fee type 2010: postgraduate coursework places, international fee-paying places
Total courses: 8
USC program code: AR641
CRICOS code: 058564G
Program overview
The Graduate Diploma in Communication offers students an opportunity to develop skills and conceptual understandings in contemporary communication. It will provide an attractive opportunity to gain a qualification that has relevance, currency and credibility. The Diploma 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 or a relevant Graduate Certificate. To be eligible to undertake this award, students must not have undertaken a previous undergraduate degree or a major or minor in communication studies. 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 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
- 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 communication studies
Program structure
2 required courses:
CMN102 Online Journalism
CMN574 Communication Theory and Practice #
Plus select 1 course from:
CMN116 Research Design: Methodology and Literature Review
CMN120 Introduction to Creative Writing
CMN130 Public Relations Strategies and Tactics
CMN140 Introduction to Journalism
Plus select 5 courses from: (provided prerequisite equivalency has been approved by the course coordinator)
CMN213 Introduction to Creative Advertising
CMN214 Editing for the Communications Professional
CMN216 Computer-Assisted Reporting
CMN218 Crisis and Issues Management
CMN224 Media and Community Relations
CMN226 Advertising Campaigns
CMN227 Advertising: Copy and Image
CMN228 News Rounds
CMN229 The Writer and the Law
CMN231 Media and Promotion: Tourism and Hospitality
CMN235 Communication Campaign Planning
CMN237 News Writing: Print and Broadcast
CMN238 Online Journalism
CMN240 Creative Writing D: Paperback Hero
CMN243 Digital Photojournalism and Feature Writing #
CMN246 Public Relations Events Project
CMN247 Creative Writing for Children and Young Adults
CMN248 Creative Writing for the Illustrated Book
CMN249 Creative Advertising
CMN251 Advanced News Reporting
CMN256 International Communication
CMN260 Research into Journalism
CMN266 Creative Writing B: Novel Ideas
CMN267 Creativity and Literature: Chaucer to Romantics
EGL201 Creativity and Literature: Victorians to Moderns
EGL285 Reality Bites: An Exploration of Non-Fiction
ENP240 Wonderworlds: An Exploration of English Literature
INT270 Environment, Heritage and Tourism
Requirements and notes
- The Graduate Diploma in Communication is a 96-unit program.
- The courses that constitute the Graduate Diploma in Communication will be existing undergraduate courses but will be assessed at a postgraduate level.
- The Graduate Diploma articulates into the Master of Communication. Students who undertake courses in the Graduate Diploma can apply for up to 8 courses advanced standing into the coursework components only of the Master of Communication.
- 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
Anna Potter
Tel: +61 7 5430 2846
Email: apotter@usc.edu.au