Course code: 2130 + Course abbreviation: BA(Comn)/BSc + Total credit points required: 192+ 4 years full-time, 8 years part-time + Managing faculty: Arts
On-campus (Gippsland)
Off-campus (Gippsland P/T
only)
Multimode (Gippsland)
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.
Students must complete 96 credit points in the Bachelor of Arts (Communication) component and 96 credit points in the Bachelor of Science component.
For
information on arts majors and 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/.
Minors can be taken in Australian studies, community studies, history-politics,
journalism, Indonesian, Australian Indigenous studies, philosophy,
psychological studies, psychology, public relations, social and community
welfare, sociology or writing
For details on science disciplines, refer to `Science areas of study and
sequences' in the Faculty of Science section in this handbook.
(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) a further 24 points in arts
(a)
two six-point science core units: SCI2010 (How science works) and one of
SCI1020 (The design of science), STA1010 (Statistical methods for science) or
MAT1085 (Mathematics 1B) (12 points)
(b) a science major (excluding computing) (48 points)
(c) a science minor (24 points)
(d) 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) (6 points)
(e) an additional electives within the Faculty of Science to complete the 96
credit points required.
Students cannot graduate from either single degree, or undertake an honours
program, until they have satisfied the above requirements and successfully
completed studies to the value of 144 credit points in the relevant component.
Students undertaking the above double-degree program are permitted to count up
to 48 credit points of the other faculty's component towards those 144 credit
points. Students must also complete at least 36 credit points at third-year
level to meet Bachelor of Arts (Communication) requirements. To satisfy the
science component requirements, students cannot include more than 36 points of
level 1 science units and no less than 24 points of level 3 science units
overall.
Note that students have a maximum of 10 years to complete this course.
Website: http://www.arts.monash.edu.au/current/coursework/contact_us/.
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