1999 Arts Handbook - Bachelor of Science/Bachelor of Arts (Communication)

Bachelor of Science/Bachelor of Arts (Communication)

General information
Entry requirements
Course structure and sequence

General information

Course code: 2130
This double degree is designed to equip students with the knowledge, skills and understanding of the role of science and communication in society.
There is an increasing need for scientists to be able to communicate their work and its importance to colleagues in other rapidly diverging fields, and to grant-awarding bodies as well as to industry and the community in general. There is also a need for people with specialised and flexible communication skills to make science accessible to the general public.

Entry requirements

Applicants should have met the appropriate entry criteria for both the Bachelor of Science and the Bachelor of Arts (Communication). All applicants should be willing to undertake a normal workload of forty-eight points a year full-time or twenty-four points to thirty-two points a year part-time or by distance education.

Course structure and sequence

A candidate for the double degree must fulfil the following requirements to receive the awards of Bachelor of Science/Bachelor of Arts (Communication):
(a) complete a total of 192 but not more than 216 points, comprising at least ninety-six points from each of the School of Applied Sciences and the School of Humanities and Social Sciences;
(b) complete the prescribed communications sequence (fifty-eight points) and an arts minor sequence (twenty-eight points) offered by the School of Humanities and Social Sciences;
© Complete the following six-point science core subjects: SCI1010 (How science works), SCI1020 (The design of science). Note that ASC1736 (Science, technology and society) is available as a distance education alternative to SCI1011, for 1999 only.
(i) a science major sequence (excluding computing) of at least forty-eight points, stuctured as follows:

	Level 1		Level 2		Level 3		Level 4
	12	+	18	+	24	=	54
or	12	+	12	+	24	=	48
or	12	+	18	+	18	=	48

(ii) a science minor sequence in a second discipline, consisting of twelve points at level one and twelve points at level two;
(iii) at least one, level one subject from the following groups: physical processes, life processes, earth process. (This subject is to be drawn from a different group from those which include the two chosen science discipline sequences in (i) and (ii).
(e) undertake additional prescribed studies within the School of Applied Sciences and the School of Humanities and Social Sciences to complete the 192 points needed for the degree.

Communications compulsory sequence

GSC1901 Introduction to communication studies
GSC1402 Media studies
GSC1602 Introduction to methods of social research
GSC2410 Public relations and mass communication technologies
GSC2411 Media, culture, power: theories of mass communications
GSC3402 Policies, audience, futures
GSC3407 Authorship and writing
GSC3409 Narratives and representations

Science discipline sequences

The science discipline sequences may be chosen from applied biology, applied statistics, chemical and analytical sciences, mathematics and modelling, psychology, resource and environmental mangement and computing (minor only). Details are provided in the Science handbook.

Arts minor sequences

The arts minor may be chosen from community studies, gender studies, history-politics, Indonesian, journalism, Koorie studies (subject to approval), sociology or writing (details are provided under the discipline headings).

Duration

The course of study is normally a minimum of four years full-time or eight years part-time or by distance education, and normally cannot extend beyond ten years.