Undergraduate courses and subjects 2000 - Bachelor of Arts (Communication)/Bachelor of Computing

Bachelor of Arts (Communication)/Bachelor of Computing

General information
Entry requirements
Course structure

General information

Course code: 1866 · Gippsland campus · Director of studies: Ms Kim Styles/Ms Marianne Robinson
This double-degree course caters for the demand within the information technology industry for people with both professional computing and professional communication skills. There is also a demand for graduates with computing expertise in a range of areas that require professional communication skills, including journalism and media-related occupations, including multimedia development. The course is directed towards those intending students who have relevant career goals and who combine ability with high motivation. Potential employers include mainstream and alternative media organisations and a wide variety of public and private organisations.
Students in the double-degree course complete three subject sequences - in system development or business systems, in communication, and in arts. The program is of four years duration if taken full-time. For more information about the course structure and application procedures, refer to the Arts section.

Entry requirements

Applicants should have met the appropriate entry criteria for both the Bachelor of Arts (Communication) and the Bachelor of Computing. All applicants should be willing to undertake a normal workload of 48 points per year full-time or 24 points to 32 per year part-time or by distance education. Students who have good academic results from the first year of the Bachelor of Arts (Communication) or the Bachelor of Computing may be admitted to the second year of the double degree with full credit for appropriate first-year studies.

Course structure

The double degree offers students a structured sequence of study which combines studies in most aspects of computing and communication studies.
A candidate for the double degree must fulfil the following requirements to receive the awards of Bachelor of Arts (Communication)/Bachelor of Computing:
(a) complete a total of 192 but not more than 216 points
(b) complete the prescribed sequence in communication studies (58 points), an arts minor of four subjects (28 points) and an arts first-level sequence of two subjects (12 points)
(c) complete the prescribed 16-subject computing sequence in either systems development or business systems (96 points).

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, audiences, futures
· GSC3407 Authorship and writing
· GSC3409 Narratives and representations

Arts minor sequences

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

Systems development sequence

· GCO1811 Computer programming 1
· GCO1812 Computer programming 2
· GCO1813 Information systems 1
· GCO1815 Computer technology
· MAT1077 Discrete mathematics
· GCO2811 Commercial programming
· GCO2812 Computer organisation
· GCO2813 Information systems 2
· GCO2814 Operating systems
· GCO2815 Database management systems
· GCO2816 Object-oriented analysis and design
· GCO3811 Software engineering
· GCO3819 Computing project (students may opt to take the 12-point subject GCO3800 in place of GCO3819)

plus three elective subjects to be chosen from:

· GCO3812 Data communications and networks 1
· GCO3813 Systems programming
· GCO3814 Human-computer interaction
· GCO3815 Artificial intelligence
· GCO3816 Information systems management
· GCO3817 Computer graphics
· GCO3821 Object-oriented programming
· GCO3822 Multimedia concepts and applications
· GCO3823 Client-server and www database applications
· GCO3824 Data communications and networks 2

Business systems sequence

· BEG1601 Introduction to electronic commerce or AFG1003 Business information
· GCO1811 Computer programming 1
· GCO1813 Information systems 1
· GCO1815 Computer technology
· GAS1751 Quantitative methods 1
· GCO2802 Computer models for business decisions
· GCO2811 Commercial programming
· GCO2812 Computer organisation
· GCO2813 Information systems 2
· GCO2815 Database management systems
· GCO2816 Object-oriented analysis and design
· GCO3807 Project management
· GCO3816 Information systems management
· GCO3819 Computing project (students may opt to take the 12-point subject GCO3900 in place of GCO3819)

plus two elective subjects from:

· GCO3601 Infrastructure and electronic commerce
· GCO3803 Inventory management systems
· GCO3806 General operations management
· GCO3812 Data communications and networks 1
· GCO3811 Software engineering
· GCO3814 Human-computer interaction
· GCO3822 Multimedia concepts and applications
· GCO3823 Client-server and www database applications
· GCO3824 Data communications and networks 2