COM5207 - Stategic Communication

Leader: Dr Kwamena Kwansah-Aidoo

Offered

Caulfield Second semester 2007 (Evening)
Gippsland Second semester 2007 (Off-campus)

Synopsis

As for COM4207

Objectives

On successful completion of this unit, students will be able to demonstrate:

1. Knowledge, skills and attributes necessary for the understanding and utilising the ethics, techniques, channels and limits of public advocacy and influence;
2. Increased understanding of and competency in formulating and making, public statements, images, and gestures;
3. Increased understanding of the large-scale and long-term context in which public communications has developed;
4. Increased knowledge, skills, and attributes necessary for independent research, enhanced capacity to formulate and research public communications, to analyse and evaluate arguments, and to understand critical approaches to the conduct of public communications;
5. Enhanced intellectual independence, and greater self-reliance and critical distance in intellectual and professional activity especially regarding the effective and ethical formulation and delivery of public communication;
6. Significantly increased ability to engage in public communication;
7. In comparison with Level 4 students, greater fluency in use rhetorical, written, and visual forms.

Assessment

Assignment 1 Rhetoric Exercise (3000 words): 33.3%;
Assignment 2 Writing Exercise (3000 words): 33.3%;
Assignment 3 Visual Exercise (3000 words): 33.3%

Contact hours

2 hours (1 x 2 hour seminar) per week.

Off Campus Attendance Requirements

Students will be expected to participate for a minimum of one hour per fortnight in on-line discussion.

Prohibitions

COM4207