Graduate Diploma in Journalism (Advanced) (GDA-JOURN) // Attributes, outcomes and skills

Intended learning outcomes

Students who complete the Graduate Diploma in Journalism (Advanced) should:

• demonstrate high level oral and written communication skills
• demonstrate high level expertise in researching, writing and editing their own work
• demonstrate an ability to apply high level research skills to investigate news stories
• demonstrate an advanced and practical understanding of how news stories are put together;
• be equipped to critically reflect on writing challenges that journalists face across different media;
• demonstrate the ability to reflect on professional issues and develop new and innovative forms of practice; and
• demonstrate an ability to apply theoretical concepts to journalistic practice.

Generic skills

Students who complete the Graduate Diploma in Journalism (Advanced) should:

• demonstrate capacities of informed critical reflection and practical reasoning;
• have excellent communication skills across a range of media platforms;
• be equipped with capacities of moral reasoning, and a capacity to exercise moral reasoning and social responsibility;
• be equipped to critically investigate significant issues through independent research and investigation;
• develop time management and planning skills through managing and organising workloads; and
• develop capacities of effective teamwork through group activities.

Graduate attributes

Students who complete the Graduate Diploma of Journalism (Advanced) should:

• demonstrate a practically grounded and theoretically informed understanding of the changing field of journalism practice;
• develop excellent communication skills that align with the rapidly changing and dynamic field of journalism;
• be equipped to undertake and produce journalism that is informed by excellent critical skills and an ability to engage with complex social issues and problems;
• be able to understand, and exercise, their responsibility as a critical practitioner who has a duty to support informed and responsible citizenship; and
• be equipped with capacities of informed ethical reasoning, and an understanding of their social responsibilities.

See http://provost.unimelb.edu.au/teaching-learning for further information.