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Bachelor of Arts (Degree with Honours)Specialisation (formal)Year: 2025
Media and Communications
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Coordinator
Professor Mark Davis
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Future students:
Overview
The Bachelor of Arts (Honours) (Media & Communications) is an advanced and specialised course of study requiring a higher standard of performance than for the pass degree. It enhances your ability to acquire advanced skills of analysis, to develop original ideas, and to apply innovative solutions to complex problems. The Honours program involves one additional year of study at fourth-year level. Commencement of honours must occur within five years of the completion of your degree course.
The minimum entry requirement for Media and Communication honours is:
- completion of all the requirements of the BA (Media and Communications); or
- completion of Bachelor of Arts with a major in Media and Communications with an average of at least H2A (75%) in second and third year subjects within the major, or equivalent.
Intended learning outcomes
See course objectives.
- Please see course level intended learning outcomes
Last updated: 14 January 2025
Structure
100 credit points
Students undertaking the pure honours stream complete:
- MECM40018 Media & Communications Thesis Part 1, and MECM40019 Media & Communications Thesis Part 2 (50 points);
- ARTS40001 Research Principles & Practices Honours (*see note below) (12.5 points);
- two core Media and Communications honours subjects (25 points);
- one optional honours subject (12.5 points)
Double major students may complete one of the following combined honours streams:
- MECM40018 Media & Communications Thesis Part 1, and MECM40019 Media & Communications Thesis Part 2 (50 points);
- ARTS40001 Research Principles & Practices Honours (*see note below) (12.5 points);
- three honours subjects in the combining discipline (37.5 points)
OR
- thesis in the combining discipline (50 points);
- research methodologies subject in the combining discipline (12.5 points);
- three core Media and Communications honours subjects (37.5 points)
Please note: students undertaking the second option will graduate with a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) NOT a Bachelor of Arts (Media and Communications Honours).
*Note: Students electing to undertake ARTS40001 Research Principles & Practices Honours should undertake this subject in the first semester of their Media and Communications Thesis enrolment.
Subject Options
Compulsory subjects:
Note: the thesis requires two consecutive semesters of enrolment.
Code | Name | Study period | Credit Points |
---|---|---|---|
MECM40018 | Media & Communications Thesis Part 1 |
Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville)
Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville)
|
25 |
MECM40019 | Media & Communications Thesis Part 2 |
Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville)
Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville)
|
25 |
ARTS40001 | Research Principles & Practices Honours |
Semester 1 (Early-Start) (On Campus - Parkville)
Semester 2 (Early-Start) (On Campus - Parkville)
|
12.5 |
Media and Communications core honours subjects:
Code | Name | Study period | Credit Points |
---|---|---|---|
MECM40003 | Researching Audiences and Reception | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
MECM40006 | Public Relations and Communications |
Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville)
Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville)
|
12.5 |
MECM40007 | Change in Journalism | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
MECM40011 | Writing for the Media | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
MECM90015 | Perspectives on Digital Platforms | June (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
Media and Communications optional honours subjects:
Code | Name | Study period | Credit Points |
---|---|---|---|
CULS40001 | Creative Economy, Policy, and Power | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
ASIA90001 | Human Rights in Southeast Asia | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
DEVT90039 | Civil Society, NGOs and the State | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
SCRN40013 | Censorship: Film, Art and Media | Not available in 2025 | 12.5 |
PPMN90057 | Strategic Political Communication | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
PUBL90006 | Writing and Editing for Digital Media | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
Links
http://www.culture-communication.unimelb.edu.au/study/mediacomm
Last updated: 14 January 2025