Monash University Handbook 2011 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.

This course consists of four core units and four elective units at level four.

Students complete the following core units:

• APG4773 Research and reporting
• APG4774 Reporting with sound and image
• APG4775 Journalism and the law
• APG4776 Journalism studies

plus 24 points of elective units from the following:

• APG4640 Journalism and society
• APG4641 Reporting the environment
• APG4642 Investigative reporting
• APG4777 Print features
• APG4778 Editing and publishing
• APG4779 Online research and reporting
• APG4780 Radio reporting
• APG4781 Video journalism
• APG4782 Specialist reporting

Students who complete this course with a minimum credit average are eligible to apply for entry into 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