Course code: 1866 + Administered by the Faculty of Arts
This double degree 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 as well as multimedia development. The course is directed towards those 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.
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 a year full-time or 24 points a year part-time or by off-campus learning.
For details on the Bachelor of Arts (Communication), refer to `Entry requirements' under `Arts regulations and definitions' in the Arts faculty entry.
The double degree offers students a structured sequence of study that 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) a mass communications major (48 points)
(b) an arts minor (24 points)
(c) arts electives (24 points) including 12 points at first-year
level
(d) the prescribed 16-unit computing sequence in systems development, business
systems or multimedia technology (96 points).
For information regarding the mass communications major, refer to the Bachelor of Arts (Communication) entry in the Faculty of Arts section of this handbook.
Minors can be taken in Australian studies, community studies, history-
politics, journalism, Indonesian, Australian Indigenous studies, psychology,
sociology or writing (details on each discipline are provided under the entry
for the School of Humanities, Communications and Social Sciences) in the
Faculty of Arts section in this handbook.
For information on majors 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.
* Students may opt to take the 12-point unit GCO3800 (Industry project) in place of the 6-point unit GCO3819 (Computing project).
Plus two elective units to be chosen from:
** Students may opt to take the 12-point unit GCO3900 (Business systems project) in place of the 6-point unit GCO3819 (Computing project).
Plus two elective units from:
[dagger] Students may opt to take the 12-point unit GCO3700 (multimedia computing project) in place of 6-point GCO3819 (Computing project).
Plus two electives to be chosen from:
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