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

Bachelor of Science/Bachelor of Arts (Journalism)

General information
Entry requirements
Course structure and sequence

General information

Course code: 2131
This double degree is to provide students with the knowledge, understanding and skills relevant to the practice of science journalism, the role of science and media society, modern multimedia technology appropriate to journalism and science communication.
The importance of science in our society will continue to develop rapidly and will require people with specialised and flexible communication skills able to make science accessible to the general community. there is also 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 the industry and the community in general.

Entry requirements

Applicants should have met the appropriate entry criteria for both the Bachelor of Science and the Bachelor of Arts (Journalism). 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 (Journalism):
(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 journalism sequence (sixty points) 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 SCI1010, for 1999 only.
(d) Complete the following:
(ii) a science major sequence (excluding computing) of at least forty-eight points, structured 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/three
(iii) at least one level-one subject from the following groups: physical processes, life processes, earth processes. (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 degrees.

Journalism compulsory sequence

GSC1902 Newsroom practice and theory*_
GSC1903 News feature writing*_
GSC2905 Radio journalism*_
GSC2906 Television journalism*
GSC2907 Radio/television journalism_
GSC3903 Media, law and ethics*_
GSC2903 Journalism technology and information society*_
GSC3901 Comparative journalism*_
GSC3902 Journalism applied research project*_

* ON-CAMPUS SEQUENCE.

_ DISTANCE EDUCATION SEQUENCE.

Arts minor sequences

The arts minor may be chosen from community studies, gender studies, history-politics, Indonesian, Koorie studies (subject to approval), mass communication or writing.

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 management and computing (minor only). Details are provided in the Science handbook.

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.