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Bachelor of Arts (Journalism)/Bachelor of Education


Important information

Gippsland campus

Course code: SBJEDG

Contact: Ms Jane Southcott (course adviser)

The course

This double degree is a four-year full-time or eight-year part-time course which provides students with appropriate skills and knowledge relevant to educational journalism and teaching. Career flexibility and adaptability are significant assets in modern society and this double degree offers students such flexibility with majors in journalism, a second arts discipline, education and professional preparation for both primary and secondary teaching.

Objectives

In keeping with the mission statement of Monash University the general aim of the BA(Journ)/BEd course is to provide a program of studies which should prepare its graduates with:

The objectives of the BA(Journ)/BEd course are to provide students with knowledge and understanding of: Students should develop the skills to: The course should encourage the following attitudes in students:

Outcomes

The outcome of the degree is to foster the acquisition of soundly based knowledge and skills that should equip students for ethical and competent journalism and educational practice in a changing technological, social and political environment. Students should also acquire skills and understanding to equip them for research and further studies.

Entry requirements

Applicants must have completed a VCE (or equivalent) with at least a C average in units 3 and 4 of English and a D average in any three other VCE studies. All applicants should be willing to undertake a normal workload of forty-eight points a year full-time or twenty-four points to thirty-two a year part-time. Most studies must be taken on-campus but a few may be available by distance mode.

Course structure and sequence

A candidate for the double degree must fulfil the following requirements to receive the awards of Bachelor of Arts (Journalism) and Bachelor of Education:

(a) successfully complete subjects totalling of 208 but not more than 216 points;

(b) successfully complete the prescribed journalism sequence (fifty-two points) and an arts major (fifty-two points) offered by the School of Humanities and Social Sciences;

(c) successfully complete a major sequence in education studies (fifty-two points) and a major sequence in teaching and curriculum studies (fifty-two points).

The journalism sequence includes:

Major sequence in arts

The arts major sequence may be chosen from English, history/politics, Indonesian, or sociology.

First-year sequences in education studies, and teaching and curriculum studies

The education studies, and teaching and curriculum studies sequences in the first year include:

First semester

Second semester Note that applicants should consult the course adviser for appropriate subject selection at enrolment.

Further information

Further information regarding this course may be obtained from the student administration office, Gippsland School of Education (telephone (051) 22 6375 or (03) 9902 6375).


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