Monash University Handbook 2010 Postgraduate - Course

The Master of Journalism and Master of Business provides a comprehensive introduction to Australian and international business and an entry-level qualification for a professional journalism career, and a mid-career course for working journalists/business people seeking to extend their expertise and refresh the intellectual basis of their practice. It is has a national and international orientation designed to optimize the contribution graduates will make to their professions using a full range of media and business practices and technologies.

Graduates of the program will:

• have a strong introductory understanding of Australian and international business
• have strong journalistic research and reporting skills in a range of media technologies and formats
• be equipped with the necessary skills and attributes either to enter professional practice in the news media and business, or for qualified journalists or business people, to extend their existing skills and intellectual understanding of their professional practices
• understand and be able to contribute to the important role of professional and ethical journalism and business in the service of the public, and
• have an effective understanding of the role of journalism, the media, business and the economy in local, national, regional and global contexts.

The course involves extensive research and reporting in the field.

Students complete core and elective units and one of the options outlined at level five. Students who achieve a distinction average in their level four units have the option of undertaking a 24-point research dissertation at level five.

Core and elective units

Students complete 72 points as outlined below.

Students complete the following four units (24 points):

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

plus two of the following units (12 points):

• JRM4907/JRM5907 Journalism and society
• JRM4908 Print features
• JRM4910 Editing and publishing
• JRM4911 Online journalism
• JRM4912 Radio journalism
• JRM4913 Video journalism
• JRM4914/JRM5914 Reporting the environment
• JRM4915/JRM5915 Investigative reporting
• JRM4916/JRM5916 Specialist reporting

plus one of the following units (6 points):

• GSB9001 Personal development: Critical thinking and communication
• GSB9002 Personal development: Managing self and relationships
• GSB9003 Personal development: Professional advancement

plus one of the following units (6 points):

• MGX5030 Corporate and social responsibility
• BTX5040 Legal aspects of corporate social responsibility

plus the following unit (6 points):

• MGX5320/BTX5000 Corporate governance

plus three of the following units (18 points):

• AFF9020 Introduction to risk principles
• AFF9130 Financial planning environment
• AFF9250 Financial management theory
• BTX9020 Business law
• BTX9541 Corporations law and trusts
• BTX9651 Taxation law
• ECF9210 International economics
• ECF9530 Economics
• ETC9000 Business and economic statistics
• ETF5480 Optimisation for managers
• ETF9121 Data analysis in business
• ETF9480 Business modelling
• MBA9004 Accounting for business
• MBA9052 Project management
• MGX5020 Business ethics in a global environment
• MGX5900 Research report
• MGX5901 Research report
• MGX9600 Managing people and organisations
• MGX9720 Managing organisational change
• MGX9761 Strategic management
• MKX5123 Marketing innovation planning
• MKX5741 Marketing data analysis
• MKX9160 Foundations of marketing or MKX5461 Contemporary issues in marketing

Level 5

Students choose one of the following options (24 points).

Option 1

Students complete the following units (12 points):

• JRM5930 Journalism studies project
• JRM5940 Journalism professional project

plus 12 points of the following units (12 points):

• BTX5040 Legal aspects of corporate social responsibility
• BTX5100 Corporate environmental responsibility
• ENV5020 Perspectives on environmental sustainability
• ENV5040 Frontiers in sustainability and environment
• ENV537E Corporate sustainability management
• ENV541E Sustainability measurement
• ETX9520 Quantitative methods for risk analysis
• FIT5092 e-Business
• FIT5094 IT for management decision making
• FIT5097 Business intelligence modelling
• FIT5101 Enterprise systems
• FIT5102 IT strategy and governance
• FIT5107 Managing business records
• FIT5156 Logistics and supply chain management
• FIT5157 Services science
• FIT5157 Services science
• FIT5160 Business process modelling, design and simulations
• FIT9003 Database systems design
• FIT9006 Information technology management
• MBA9010 Supply chain and operations management
• MBA9052 Project management
• MGX5020 Business ethics in a global environment
• MGX9720 Managing organisational change
• MKX5280 Marketing sustainability
• MKX5611 Advanced supply chain management
• MKX9610 Supply chain logistics
• MKX9620 Fulfilment and order management
• MKX9640 Managing supply chain inventory

Option 2

• JRM5980 Journalism and business research project (24 points)*

* Part-time students will enrol in JRM5980(A) and JRM5980(B) 12 points each.

Students who undertake the 24 point research project option and achieve at least a distinction are eligible to apply for a higher degree by research.

Students who have completed studies in either business or journalism to the value of:

• 24 points may apply to exit with a related graduate certificate
• 48 points may apply to exit with a related graduate diploma.

Master of Business

Master of Journalism