Course code: 2131 + Course abbreviation: BA(Journ)/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 aims to provide students with the knowledge, understanding and
skills relevant to the practice of science journalism, the role of science and
media society, modern multimedia technology appropriate to journalism and
science communication.
The importance of science in our society will continue to develop rapidly and
will require people with specialised and flexible communication skills able to
make science accessible to the general community. There is also an increasing
need for scientists to be able to communicate their work and its importance to
colleagues in other rapidly diverging fields, as well as to grant-awarding
bodies and to the industry and the community in general.
Students must complete 96 credit points in the Bachelor of Arts (Journalism) component and 96 credit points in the Bachelor of Science component.
Students
complete a compulsory major in journalism. The arts minor may be chosen from
Australian Indigenous studies, communications, community studies,
history-politics, Indonesian, philosophy, psychological studies, psychology,
public relations, social and community welfare, sociology, or writing.
For information on the journalism major and arts 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/.
For details on science disciplines, refer to `Science areas of study and
sequences' in the Faculty of Science section in this handbook.
Students
must complete:
(a) a journalism major (48 points)
(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 processes (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
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 (Journalism) 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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