Course code: 2130 + Gippsland, off-campus learning + Administered by the Faculty of Arts
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.
Applicants should have met the appropriate entry criteria for both the Bachelor of Arts (Communication) and the Bachelor of Science.
For details on the Bachelor of Arts (Communication), refer to `Entry requirements' under `Arts regulations and definitions' earlier in this section.
A candidate for the double degree must fulfil the following
requirements to receive the awards Bachelor of Arts (Communication)/Bachelor of
Science, including 96 points from each of the Faculty of Science and the School
of Humanities, Communications and Social Sciences:
(a) a mass communications major (48 points)
(b) an arts minor (24 points)
(c) a further 24 points in arts
(d) two six-point science core units: SCI1020 The design of science and SCI2010
How science works
(e) a science major (excluding computing) (48 points).
(f) a science minor (24 points)
(g) at least one first-year-level 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)
(h) additional electives within the Faculty of Science to complete the 96
points required.
The arts minor may be chosen from Australian Indigenous studies, behavioural studies, community studies, history-politics, Indonesian, journalism, sociology, psychology or writing (details on each discipline are provided under the entry for the School of Humanities, Communications and Social Sciences).
For information on the mass communication major and minors offered, students should refer the `Areas of study' section on the faculty website at http://www.arts.monash.edu.au/current/coursework/study_areas/index.html.
For details, refer to `Science areas of study and sequences' in the Faculty of Science entry in this handbook.
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