Bachelor of Arts (Journalism)/Bachelor of Science

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

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 (48 points) 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).
(d) complete the following:

• 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 2/3
• at least one level-1 unit from the following groups: physical processes, life processes, earth processes (this unit is to be drawn from a different group from those which include the two chosen science discipline sequences 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 International journalism*
• GSC3902 Journalism applied research project*
• GSC3413 Communication industries and policies (subject to approval)

or

• GSC3421 Writing 1: techniques

ON-CAMPUS SEQUENCE.
OFF-CAMPUS DISTRIBUTED LEARNING SEQUENCE.

Arts minor sequences

The arts minor may be chosen from community studies, gender studies, history --politics, Indonesian, Australian Indigenous studies, psychology, mass communication or writing.

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).

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