Postgraduate - UnitAPG5814 - Journalism professional project

This unit entry is for students who completed this unit in 2014 only. For students planning to study the unit, please refer to the unit indexes in the the current edition of the Handbook. If you have any queries contact the managing faculty for your course or area of study.

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6 points, SCA Band 1, 0.125 EFTSL

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Level	Postgraduate
Faculty	Faculty of Arts
Organisational Unit	Journalism
Offered	Caulfield First semester 2014 (Day) Caulfield Second semester 2014 (Day)
Coordinator(s)	Ms Monica Jackson

Notes

Previously coded JRM5940

Synopsis

This is a capstone unit for the Master of Journalism program. It allows students to produce a major project for their portfolio demonstrating the depth and breadth of their learning and skill development. Students working under supervision produce a work of outstanding professional quality in their chosen medium of print, Internet, television or radio. During the semester, students attend some seminars to present and discuss works-in-progress with other students.

Outcomes

Students' work is expected to be of a high professional standard. At the satisfactory completion of this subject students will be able to:

produce journalism projects in their chosen medium of a high publishable standard
draw together and further develop professional and analytical skills acquired in other professional and disciplinary subjects
present in tutorials comprehensive work-in progress reports and exegeses of their reports.

Assessment

Oral Work in progress reports: 20%
Major project: 80%

Chief examiner(s)

Ms Monica Jackson

Workload requirements

2 hour seminar per week

Prerequisites

48pts in Master of Journalism