- Program summary
- Program overview
- Admission requirements
- Program objectives
- Program structure
- Program requirements and notes
- Enquiries
Program summary
Program title: Graduate Diploma in Communication
Award abbreviation: GDComn
Degree type: coursework
Mode of study: on campus
Duration: 1 year minimum full-time, 4 years maximum part-time.
Commence: Semester 1 or Semester 2
Fee type 2010: postgraduate coursework places, international fee-paying places
Total courses: 8
USC program code: AR641
CRICOS code: 058564G
Program overview
The Graduate Diploma 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 Diploma 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
Candidates for this award are normally required to hold a Bachelor’s degree or a relevant Graduate Certificate. To be eligible to undertake this award, students must not have undertaken a previous undergraduate degree or a major or minor in communication studies. Students cannot undertake any course in this degree that they have completed previously at an undergraduate level. 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
2 required courses:
CMN102 Discovering Science
CMN574 Introduction to Mathematics #
Plus select 1 course from:
CMN116 Introduction to Applied Mathematics
CMN120 Introductory Calculus
CMN130 Communication Theory and Practice
CMN140 Research Design: Methodology and Literature Review
Plus select 5 courses from: (provided prerequisite equivalency has been approved by the course coordinator)
CMN213 Introduction to Creative Writing
CMN214 Public Relations Strategies and Tactics
CMN216 Introduction to Journalism
CMN218 Introduction to Creative Advertising
CMN224 Editing for the Communications Professional
CMN226 Computer-Assisted Reporting
CMN227 Crisis and Issues Management
CMN228 Media and Community Relations
CMN229 Advertising Campaigns
CMN231 Advertising: Copy and Image
CMN235 News Rounds
CMN237 The Writer and the Law
CMN238 Media and Promotion: Tourism and Hospitality
CMN240 Communication Campaign Planning
CMN243 News Writing: Print and Broadcast #
CMN246 Online Journalism
CMN247 Creative Writing D: Paperback Hero
CMN248 Digital Photojournalism and Feature Writing
CMN249 Public Relations Events Project
CMN251 Creative Writing for Children and Young Adults
CMN256 Creative Writing for the Illustrated Book
CMN260 Creative Advertising
CMN266 Advanced News Reporting
CMN267 International Communication
EGL201 Research into Journalism
EGL285 Creative Writing B: Novel Ideas
ENP240 Creativity and Literature: Chaucer to Romantics
INT270 Creativity and Literature: Victorians to Moderns
Requirements and notes
- The Graduate Diploma in Communication is a 96-unit program.
- The courses that constitute the Graduate Diploma in Communication will be existing undergraduate courses but will be assessed at a postgraduate level.
- The Graduate Diploma articulates into the Master of Communication. Students who undertake courses in the Graduate Diploma can apply for up to 8 courses advanced standing into the coursework components only of the Master of Communication.
- Refer to the Academic Rules.
- International students need to refer to the University's English language proficiency requirements.
- Only a full-time study option is available to international students on a Student Visa.
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