Undergraduate courses and subjects 2000 - Bachelor of Science/Bachelor of Arts (Journalism)

Bachelor of Science/Bachelor of Arts (Journalism)

General information
Course structure

General information

Course code: 2131
This double degree aims 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, as well as to grant-awarding bodies and to the industry and the community in general.

Course structure

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 96 points from each of the Faculty of Science and the School of Humanities, Communications and Social Sciences
(b) complete the prescribed journalism sequence (52 to 60 points depending on the mode of study) an arts minor sequence (28 points) offered by the School of Humanities, Communications and Social Sciences
(c) complete the following six-point science core subjects: SCI1010 (How science works), SCI1020 (The design of science).
(d) Complete the following:
(i) a science major sequence (excluding computing) of at least 48 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 12 points at level 1 and 12 points at level 2/3
(iii) at least one level 1 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) above
(e) undertake additional prescribed studies within the Faculty of Science and the School of Humanities, Communications and Social Sciences to complete the 192 points needed for the degrees.

Journalism compulsory sequence

· GSC1902 Newsroom practice and theory*_
· GSC1903 News feature writing*_
· GSC2903 Online journalism*_
· GSC2905 Radio journalism*_
· GSC2906 Television journalism*
· GSC2907 Radio/television journalism_
· GSC3903 Media, law and ethics*_
· 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, mass communication or writing.

Science major and minor sequences

The science discipline sequences may be chosen from biochemistry, chemical sciences, mathematics and modelling, microbiology, psychology, applied statistics, resource and environmental management, and computing (minor only).