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Undergraduate handbook 2005 - Arts

Bachelor of Arts (Communication)

Course code: 1708 + Course abbreviation: BA(Comn) + Total credit points required: 144 + 3 years full-time, 6 years part-time

Study mode and course location

On-campus (Gippsland)
Off-campus (Gippsland P/T only; Singapore)
Multimode (Gippsland)

Course description

This course provides an interdisciplinary core to produce graduates who will be knowledgeable about communications and who can apply that knowledge in a range of vocational and academic areas. It aims to provide students with conceptual tools for describing and analysing communications media in a number of different ways.

Course structure

Students complete a compulsory major in communications, with additional studies chosen from a variety of arts disciplines.

Majors and other studies

In addition to the communications major, minors can be taken in Australian Indigenous studies, Australian studies, community studies, history-politics, Indonesian, philosophy, psychological studies, psychology, public relations, social and community welfare, and sociology.
For full information on the communications major and all minors offered, refer to the `Areas of study' section on the Arts faculty website at http://www.arts.monash.edu.au/current/coursework/study_areas/.

Course requirements

Students must the complete the following:
(a) a communications major (48 points) - COM1010, COM1020, COM2407/COM3407, COM2409/COM3409, COM2411/COM3411, COM2413/COM3413, COM2423/COM3423 and one of COM2408/COM3408, COM2417/COM3417 or PRL2003
(b) an arts minor (24 points)
(c) another 12 points in arts at first-year level
(d) a further 12 arts points at first, second or third-year level
(e) a specialisation sequence (36 points) in one of business computing, journalism, photography, marketing, management or writing
(f) a minimum of 36 points at third-year level (includes those completed in the communications major and specialisation sequence)
Of the 144 points, 96 points must be completed within the Faculty of Arts. The remaining 48 points may be taken from disciplines in the Faculty of Arts or disciplines outside the faculty. Students undertaking a specialisation sequence in management, marketing, photography, or business computing will only be able to complete a further 12 points outside of the faculty.
Note that no more than 10 units (60 points) are to be completed at a first-year level. Students have a maximum of eight years to complete this course.