Bachelor of Arts (Journalism)/Bachelor of Education


General information

Course code: 1804
This double degree provides students with appropriate skills and knowledge relevant to educational journalism and teaching. Career flexibility and adaptability are significant assets in modern society and this double degree offers students such flexibility with majors in journalism, a second arts discipline, education and professional preparation for both primary and secondary teaching.

Entry requirements

Applicants should have met the appropriate entry criteria for both the Bachelor of Arts (Journalism) and the Bachelor of Education. 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 a year part-time. Most studies must be taken on-campus but a few may be available 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 Arts (Journalism)/Bachelor of Education:
(a) complete a total of 208 but not more than 216 points;
(b) complete the prescribed journalism sequence (fifty-two points) and an arts major (fifty-two points) offered by the School of Humanities and Social Sciences;
(c) complete a major sequence in education studies (fifty-two points) and a major sequence in teaching and curriculum studies (fifty-two points) offered by the Faculty of Education (Gippsland).

Journalism sequence
Second level

Select two of the following

Third level
Arts major sequence

The arts major sequence may be chosen from history-politics, Indonesian, or sociology, or as approved by the course adviser (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 and normally cannot extend beyond ten years.