Postgraduate - UnitAMG5751 - Communications industry internship

This unit entry is for students who completed this unit in 2015 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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12 points, SCA Band 1, 0.250 EFTSL

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Level	Postgraduate
Faculty	Faculty of Arts
Organisational Unit	School of Arts and Social Sciences, Malaysia
Offered	Not offered in 2015
Coordinator(s)	TBA

Notes

The unit has an internship component - contact the Unit Coordinator for further information
The unit is offered as a Summer Semester unit - see the Summer Arts ProgramSummer Arts Program (http://www.monash.edu/students/courses/arts/summer-program.html) page for further information

Synopsis

Students are provided with an opportunity to undertake a supervised internship in the media industry. Prior to the start of semester students are responsible for identifying and contacting a suitable industry partner and arranging the placement as well as seeking approval from the unit co-ordinator. Their research topic should be worked out in consultation with the unit coordinator and the industry partner. Students should intern with the industry partner for no less than four weeks and not more than eight weeks. Students are not permitted to undertake the project in their usual place of work.

Outcomes

To develop awareness of the range of social and professional contexts in which communication occurs;
To develop an understanding of communication as a set of practices and to identify common features within these practices;
To introduce some of the major ways in which communication and media have been understood at a theoretical level;
To consider the relation between theory and practice in the field of communication and an appreciation of how they can productively inform each other;
To introduce communications and media studies as a basis for further graduate study and professional practice in the field.

Assessment

Within semester assessment: 100%

Workload requirements

Minimum total expected workload equals 288 hours per semester, including a minimum of 152-hours of internship

Chief examiner(s)

TBA

This unit applies to the following area(s) of study

Communications and media studies

Prohibitions

APG5751