Monash University Handbook 2010 Postgraduate - Course

The Graduate Diploma of Journalism is both an entry-level qualification for a professional journalism career and a mid-career course for working journalists seeking to extend their expertise and refresh the intellectual basis of their practice. It has a national and international orientation designed to optimise the contribution graduates will make to their profession using a full range of media technologies.

Students completing this course will demonstrate:

• strong professional research and reporting skills in a range of media technologies and formats
• the necessary skills and attributes either to enter professional practice in the news media or, for qualified journalists, to extend their existing skills and intellectual understanding of journalist practices
• an understanding and ability to contribute to the important role of professional and ethical journalism in the service of the public right to know and democratic process
• an effective understanding of the role of journalism and the media in local, national, regional and global contexts.

Students complete four core units and four elective units at level four.

Students complete the following four core units:

• JRM4901 Research and reporting
• JRM4902 Reporting with sound and image
• JRM4903 Journalism and the law
• JRM4904 Journalism studies

plus 24 points of level four elective units from the following:

• JRM4907 Journalism and society
• JRM4908 Print features
• JRM4910 Editing and publishing
• JRM4911 Online research and reporting
• JRM4912 Radio reporting
• JRM4913 Video journalism
• JRM4914 Reporting the environment
• JRM4915 Investigative reporting
• JRM4916 Specialist reporting

Students who complete the graduate diploma with a minimum credit average, may apply to enter course 3932 Master of Journalism.

After successful completion of 24 points, students may apply to exit the program with a related graduate certificate.

Graduate Diploma in Journalism