1. Handbook
  2. Graduate Certificate in Arts
  3. Specialisation (Formal)
  4. Digital Studies
  5. Structure

Digital Studies // Structure

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Structure

50 credit points

Duration: 6 months full-time / 1 year part-time

Program Requirements -

1 core subject (12.5 points)

1 graduate elective subject (12.5 points)

2 undergraduate elective subjects (25 points)


Total 50 points

Please note: students can only take 12.5 points of elective subjects at first-year level

Subject Options

Core Subjects 

12.5 points 

Code Name Study period Credit Points
ARTS10003 Our Digital Worlds Not available in 2023 12.5
ARTS20001 Digital Tools and Methods Not available in 2023 12.5
ARTS30003 Digital Humanities and Social Sciences Not available in 2023 12.5

Graduate Elective Subjects 

12.5 points 

Code Name Study period Credit Points
CUMC90022 Digital Protocols
August (On Campus - Parkville)
 12.5
 
Code Name Study period Credit Points
COMP90059 Introduction to Programming
Summer Term (Dual-Delivery - Parkville)
Semester 1 (Dual-Delivery - Parkville)
Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville)
 12.5
 
Code Name Study period Credit Points
INFO90002 Database Systems & Information Modelling
Semester 1 (Dual-Delivery - Parkville)
Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville)
 12.5
 
Code Name Study period Credit Points
MECM90037 Online Community Management
July (On Campus - Parkville)
 12.5
 
Code Name Study period Credit Points
MECM90002 Global Data Policy & Governance
Semester 1 (Dual-Delivery - Parkville)
 12.5
 
Code Name Study period Credit Points
MECM90016 Digital Politics
Semester 2 (Dual-Delivery - Parkville)
 12.5
 
Code Name Study period Credit Points
JOUR90004 New Media Storytelling
Semester 1 (Dual-Delivery - Parkville)
 12.5
 
Code Name Study period Credit Points
LAWS90203 Science & AI: Legal & Ethical Challenges
July (On Campus - Parkville)
 12.5

Undergraduate Elective Subjects

25 points

Please note: students can only take 12.5 points of elective subjects at first-year level 

Code Name Study period Credit Points
LAWS10009 AI, Ethics and the Law
Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville)
 12.5
 
Code Name Study period Credit Points
GEOG10002 Landscape Information Systems
Semester 2 (On Campus - Dookie)
 12.5
 
Code Name Study period Credit Points
COMP10001 Foundations of Computing
Summer Term (Dual-Delivery - Parkville)
Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville)
Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville)
 12.5
 
Code Name Study period Credit Points
ASIA20008 Digital Asia
Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville)
 12.5
 
Code Name Study period Credit Points
LING30015 Corpus Linguistics
Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville)
 12.5
 
Code Name Study period Credit Points
MECM20003 Internet Communication
Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville)
 12.5
 
Code Name Study period Credit Points
MECM20014 Visual Communication and Digital Media
Semester 1 (Dual-Delivery - Parkville)
 12.5
 
Code Name Study period Credit Points
CULS20017 Gender and Contemporary Culture
Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville)
 12.5
 
Code Name Study period Credit Points
HPSC20009 Technology & Contemporary Life
Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville)
 12.5
 
Code Name Study period Credit Points
CRIM20007 Cybercrime and Digital Criminology
Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville)
 12.5
 
Code Name Study period Credit Points
GEOG20017 Spatial Analysis in Geography
Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville)
 12.5
 
Code Name Study period Credit Points
MECM30016 Digital Media Research
Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville)
 12.5
 
Code Name Study period Credit Points
MECM30017 Digital and Mobile Journalism
Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville)
 12.5
 
Code Name Study period Credit Points
MECM30013 Marketing Communications
Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville)
 12.5
 
Code Name Study period Credit Points
SCRN30005 The Environmental Screenscape
Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville)
 12.5
 
Code Name Study period Credit Points
SOCI30012 Digital Technology and Social Change
July (On Campus - Parkville)
 12.5
 
Code Name Study period Credit Points
ANTH30019 Innovation, Design, and Society
July (On Campus - Parkville)
 12.5
 
Code Name Study period Credit Points
HPSC30038 Being Online Not available in 2023 12.5

 

Last updated: 3 May 2024