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Graduate Certificate in Journalism (Advanced) (GCA-JOURN) // Attributes, outcomes and skills
About this course
Contact
Course coordinator:
Associate Professor Andrew Dodd
Email: adodd@unimelb.edu.au
Currently enrolled students:
- Contact Stop 1
- General information: https://ask.unimelb.edu.au
Future students:
- Further information: http://arts.unimelb.edu.au/graduate-studies/programs
- Contact: 'make an enquiry' on http://graduate.arts.unimelb.edu.au/degrees/27-graduate-certificate-in-arts-advanced
Intended learning outcomes
Students who complete the Graduate Certificate 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 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
- Demonstrate an ability to apply theoretical concepts to journalistic practice.
Generic skills
Students who complete the Graduate Certificate 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
- Develop capacities of effective teamwork through group activities.
Graduate attributes
Students who complete the Graduate Certificate in 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
- Be equipped with capacities of informed ethical reasoning, and an understanding of their social responsibilities.
Last updated: 30 January 2024