- Program summary
- Program overview
- Admission requirements
- Program objectives
- Program structure
- Program requirements and notes
- Enquiries
Program summary
Program title: Graduate Certificate in Communication
Award abbreviation: GCComn
Degree type: coursework
Mode of study: on campus
Duration: 6 months minimum full-time, 2 years maximum part-time
Commence: Semester 1 or Semester 2
Fee type 2010: postgraduate coursework places, international fee-paying places
Total courses: 4
USC program code: AR541
CRICOS code: 058562J
Program overview
The Graduate Certificate in Communication offers students an opportunity to develop skills and conceptual understandings in contemporary communication. It will provide an attractive opportunity to gain a qualification that has relevance, currency and credibility. The Certificate will be attractive to professionals within the corporate and government sectors who wish to upgrade their qualifications and expertise within a short time frame. In many of these job markets the ability to write and communicate well is becoming increasingly important. Employers are looking for people with the ability to write and communicate in an effective, efficient and lucid fashion. The program does not just impart knowledge and skills pertinent to professional and business writing, but also ones pertinent to written communication more generally.
Admission requirements
A student entering the Graduate Certificate program will normally be required to hold an undergraduate degree, or equivalent, from a recognised higher education institution. Entry by non-graduates who have extensive relevant industry experience may be considered on a case-by-case basis by the Dean, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences.
Program objectives
On completion of this program students should be able to:
- demonstrate proficiency in areas of professional writing
- identify and evaluate a particular audience, and develop the styles of written communication and modes of delivery accordingly
- identify the generic conventions of different forms of written communication
- analyse written and oral communications in order to identify and implement proper drafting, revising, and editing techniques.
- graduate and pursue further vocational studies and apply theoretically advanced approaches to communication studies
Program structure
Select 1 course from:
CMN102 Visual Communication & Meaning
CMN116 Design Futures
CMN120 Visual Identity
CMN130 Design Portfolio
CMN140 Industry Project 1: Communication, Creativity and Design
Plus select 3 courses from: (provided prerequisite equivalency has been approved by the course coordinator)
CMN213 Industry Internship 1: Communication, Creativity and Design
CMN214 Creativity, Design and Communication Project
CMN216 Branding and Package Design
CMN218 Art of Illustration and Design
CMN224 Innovation Management and Professional Development
CMN226 Strategy, Governance and Ethics
CMN227 Leading and Managing Organisations
CMN228 Marketing in a Global Environment
CMN229 Accounting for Managers
CMN231 Evidenced Based Decision Making
CMN235 Economics for Managers
CMN237 Finance and Accounting for Managers
CMN238 Accounting Principles
CMN240 Exploring Business Research
CMN243 Information Systems in Organisations #
CMN246 Communication and Thought
CMN247 Economics for Business
CMN248 Financial Accounting
CMN249 Law of Business Associations
CMN251 Business Finance
CMN256 Company Accounting
CMN260 Business Law
CMN266 Contemporary Accounting Issues
CMN267 Auditing and Professional Practice
EGL201 World of Work: Your Pathway to Employment
EGL285 Business, Governance and Society
ENP240 Management Accounting
Requirements and notes
- The Graduate Certificate in Communication is a 48 unit program.
- The courses that constitute the Graduate Certificate in Communication will be existing undergraduate courses but will be assessed at a more advanced level than they are for undergraduate students.
- The Graduate Certificate articulates into the Graduate Diploma and the Master of Communication. Students who undertake 48 units in the Graduate Certificate can apply those units to the Graduate Diploma.
- Refer to the Academic Rules.
- Only a full-time study option is available to international students on a Student Visa.
- International students need to refer to the University's English language proficiency requirements.
Enquiries
How to apply
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
Tel: +61 7 5430 1259
Program Leader
Anna Potter
Tel: +61 7 5430 2846
Email: apotter@usc.edu.au