- Program summary
- Program overview
- Admission requirements
- Program objectives
- Program structure
- Program requirements and notes
- Enquiries
Program summary
Program title: Graduate Diploma in Journalism
Award abbreviation: GDJourn
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: AR643
CRICOS code: 058566E
Program overview
The Graduate Diploma 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 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 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
4 required courses:
CMN130 Visual Literacy: Design Principles and Practice
CMN213 Introduction to Design
CMN228 Typography
CMN235 Introduction to Journalism
Plus select 4 courses from:
CMN214 Editing for the Communications Professional
CMN227 The Writer and the Law
CMN237 News Writing: Print and Broadcast
CMN240 Computer-Assisted Reporting
CMN249 News Rounds
CMN256 Online Journalism
CMN272 Digital Photojournalism and Feature Writing
CMN574 Advanced News Reporting #
INT270 Research into Journalism
Program requirements and notes
- The Graduate Diploma in Journalism is a 96 unit program.
- The courses that constitute the Graduate Diploma in Journalism 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 may apply for up to 8 courses advanced standing into the coursework components only of the Master of Communication.
Please note: To gain the maximum of 8 courses advanced standing, students must complete CMN574 in the list above. - 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
# Students are required to seek approval from the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences prior to enrolling in this course.