Bachelor of Arts (Communication)/Bachelor of Science

• General information
• Course structure
  • Communications compulsory sequence
  • Science major and minor sequences
  • Arts minor sequences

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.

Course structure

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 96 points from each of the Faculty of Science and the School of Humanities, Communications and Social Sciences
(b) complete the prescribed communications sequence (54 points) and an arts minor sequence (24 points) offered by the School of Humanities, Communications and Social Sciences
(c) complete the following six-point science core units: SCI2010 (How science works), SCI1020 (The design of science):

• a science major sequence (excluding computing) of at least 48 points, structured as follows:

• a science minor sequence in a second discipline, consisting of 12 points at level 1 and 12 points at level 2
• at least one level-1 unit from the following groups: physical processes, life processes, earth process (this unit is to be drawn from a different group from those which include the two chosen science discipline sequences above)

(d) 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.

Communications compulsory sequence

• GSC1901 Introduction to communication studies
• GSC1402 Media studies
• GSC1602 Introduction to methods of social research
• GSC2407/GSC3407 Authorship and writing
• GSC2410 Public relations theory and processes
• GSC2411 Media, culture, power: theories of mass communications
• GSC3402 Media, audiences, citizens
• GSC3409 Narratives and representations
• GSC3413 Communication industries and policies (subject to approval)

Science major and minor sequences

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

Arts minor sequences

The arts minor may be chosen from community studies, gender studies, history --politics, Indonesian, journalism, Australian Indigenous studies, sociology, psychology or writing (details on each discipline are provided under the entry for the School of Humanities, Communications and Social Sciences).

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