Bachelor of Arts (Journalism)/Bachelor of Education

• General information
• Course structure
  • Compulsory journalism sequence
  • Arts minor sequences

General information

Course code: 1804
This double degree provides students with a major in journalism, a minor in another arts field of study and a sequence of studies in education leading to registration as a primary or secondary teacher. Career flexibility and adaptability are significant assets in modern society and this double degree offers students such flexibility.

Course structure

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 196 but not more than 216 points
(b) complete the prescribed journalism sequence (48 points) and an arts minor (24 points) offered by the School of Humanities, Communications and Social Sciences
(c) complete the prescribed sequence offered by the Faculty of Education (96 points)
(d) undertake additional arts electives to complete the 196 points needed for the degree.

Compulsory journalism sequence

• GSC1902 Newsroom practice and theory
• GSC1903 News and feature writing
• GSC2903 Online journalism
• GSC2905 Radio journalism
• GSC2906 Television journalism
• GSC3901 International journalism
• GSC3902 Journalism applied research project
• GSC3903 Media, law and ethics

Arts minor sequences

The arts minor sequences in the primary stream may be chosen from sociology, history --politics, Australian Indigenous studies, Indonesian, writing, mass communications or psychology*. The arts minor sequences in the secondary stream may be chosen from sociology, history --politics, Australian Indigenous studies, Indonesian (only if studied at VCE level) or psychology*.
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