Honours - Area of study Communications

Students who commenced study in 2013 should refer to this area of study entry for direction on the requirments; to check which units are currently available for enrolment, refer to the unit indexes in the the current edition of the Handbook. If you have any queries contact the managing faculty for your area of study.

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Managing faculty	Faculty of Arts
Offered by	School of Applied Media and Social Sciences School of Arts and Social Sciences School of English, Communications and Performance Studies
Campus(es)	Berwick, Caulfield, Clayton, Gippsland, South Africa, Sunway

Notes

Unit codes that are not linked to their entry in the Handbook are not available for study in the current year.
The units available differ between campuses. Refer to the individual campus entries below. Also available via off-campus learning.

Description

Students are required to complete 48 points of study comprising a thesis and two coursework units.

Coursework units and the thesis topic are chosen in consultation with the communications honours coordinator on the relevant campus.

Units

Caulfield and Clayton

Offered by the School of English, Communications, and Performance Studies

Thesis

Students complete one of the following options:

ATS4230 ECPS honours thesis
ATS4231 ECPS honours thesis part 1 and ATS4232 ECPS honours thesis part 2

Coursework units

Students complete the compulsory unit and one elective unit from the following:

Compulsory unit

ATS4002 Honours research methods seminar

Elective units

One of:

ATS4235 ECPS selected topics in theory and practice
ATS4263 Propaganda, censorship and the representation of war
ATS4405 Audiences and the social influence of media
ATS4412 Music, media, culture
ATS4722 Contemporary media and communications theory
ATS4723 Current issues in international media and communications
a maximum of 12 points at fourth-year level from another discipline and/or institution with the permission of the ECPS communications honours coordinator