Communication Degrees Online

Year

2009
Award

Bachelor of Journalism
Length

Three years full-time or part-time equivalent.
Honours requires an additional year full-time.
Campuses

Melbourne (Bundoora)
Course description

This course offers training for those who intend to work in the areas of print, television, radio and online journalism. It also provides a broad understanding of the operation and regulation of the media and its cultural, social, political and economic role in society.

Students are required to complete a number of core units at each year level. Some of these may include:
- Writing for Media
- Press and Society
- Advanced Journalism Practice.

Students are also required to complete Journalism stream units, such as:
- Journalism Production Workshop
- Advanced Journalism Design
- Broadcast and Electronic Journalism.

Subject to the availability of places, students can also take up to one unit from the video/television or audio/radio streams.

The Media Internship program is available to third year students. The unit (which is awarded academic credit) allows students to develop contacts with and work in a media organisation. The program is an invaluable opportunity for students to undertake supervised work experience. Students complete 120 hours attendance at an approved workplace and three 3-hour workshops.
Handbook (course structure, subject details for 2009 – may change for 2010)
Melbourne (Bundoora)
Major areas of study

Media studies. Students are also encouraged to undertake electives from outside the media studies stream. These could include, for example, politics, history and/or sociology.
Overseas study opportunities

Overseas study opportunities are available.
Please see www.latrobe.edu.au/international/exchange for more information
Application

VTAC
Fee type

Commonwealth Supported Place (CSP)
Tuition fee (AUD)

Indicative (per 120 credit points):
Commonwealth Supported Place – $5095

Core Comminucation Requirements: 30 units for both Public Relations/Advertising and Theory emphases:
COMM 104, 226, 244, 285, 288, 328, 344, 485, 490

Required Cognate: Math 251 Introduction to Statistics (4), or BUAD 341 for COMM 490

Public Relations and Advertising
69 units total (27 units upper division) including the core curriculum; the remaining 39 units include the following specified 20 units from Communication and 19 units from Art:
COMM 215, 237, 238, 315, and 338 or 339
ARTS 194B, 194C, 248, 255, 344, 345
Required Cognate: ARTS 115, prerequisite for ARTS 116 and ARTS 248
Recommended: COMM 494 (4), Internship (4)

Theory
62 units total (28 units upper division) including the core curriculum; the remaining 32 units include the following 20 specified Communication units and 12 Communication units (4 units must be upper division) that a student chooses in consultation with advisor: COMM 202, 264B, 365, 487A, 488

MINOR IN COMMUNICATION

32 units (16 upper division), including
COMM 202 Social Rhetoric (4)
COMM 226 Mass Media in Society (4)
COMM 244 Interpersonal Communication (4)
COMM 288 Communication Theory I (4)
COMM 285/485 Communication Colloquium (Four years of residence requires 1 unit of 285 and 1 unit of 485)

LSU’s master’s program is broadly based in British and American literature. As a graduate student, you will be expected to take forty-eight hours, twenty-four of which must be at the graduate level (click here for complete degree requirements). A class in research methods and proven facility in a foreign language are required; the rest of your program will be individually designed according to your background and interests.

Many of our students consider their experience as a teaching assistant to be the most important part of the MA program. If you apply for and receive a teaching assistantship, you will teach one class of college writing per quarter under the supervision of Dr. Elissa Kido, director of the writing program and Dr. Mary Wilson, our department chair . Teaching assistants are also required to take the class, Composition Theory, in their first quarter on campus.

Again, thank you for considering graduate study at La Sierra University. Please browse through our English department web site to learn more about our program. For news about what our current MA students and recent graduates are doing, click here. If you have any further questions, please feel free to contact us.

Sincerely,

Dr. Lora Geriguis
Graduate Student Advisor

The Department of English and Communication recognizes that communication, on both the personal and social levels, is the foundation of human interaction. Our mission is to understand ourselves and our world more fully by returning again and again to those linguistic forms which have continually shaped and reshaped us, which define and limit us and then wonderfully set us free–recast in new forms. We take language seriously as a tool of self- and social-understanding, as a means of entry into the life and responsibilities as the adult, the church member, and the citizen, as a means to professional advancement, yet not so seriously as to overlook the important roles language plays in recreation and entertainment. Finally, the department emphasizes the importance of a liberal arts education with a firmly grounded knowledge of the communication process to prepare students for graduate education and for success in a wide variety of occupations.

Preparation for Teaching

Students preparing to teach at the secondary level should plan to qualify for state of California teaching credentials by completing the bachelor’s degree and passing the PRAXIS (or SSAT) subject area assessment. During the freshman year prospective teachers of both secondary and elementary levels should see the School of Education section of the Undergraduate Bulletin and consult the credential analyst and the Department of Curriculum and Instruction in the School of Education for detailed information concerning requirements.

A further program leading to the Master of Arts degree in English is described in the Graduate Bulletin.

Program’s Student Learning Objectives

The English and Communication Department has six core learning objectives for all majors. Students graduating should be able to:

1. Read and listen perceptively, analytically and empathically.
2. Construct well reasoned arguments.
3. Design and deliver effective presentations.
4. Analyze and critically evaluate texts.
5. Demonstrate knowledge of basic rhetorical and critical perspectives from classical through contemporary traditions.
6. Retrieve information, including how to find and evaluate scholarly and popular journals, how to use electronic databases, the Internet, non-print sources, electronic communication, and library resources.

Students graduating with Communication majors should be able to:

1. Demonstrate skills needed to prepare and present messages for different audiences.
2. Explain the influence of media on communication in multiple contexts.
3. Use communication knowledge and skills that reflect ethical and logical audience centered expression.
Students graduating with the Public Relations/Advertising emphasis in Communication should be able to:
1. Analyze and design effective messages for target and secondary audiences.
2. Write, communicate and present materials appropriate to the practice of public relations.
3. Uphold professional conduct, with truth, accuracy, fairness, and responsibility to the public; improve individual competence and advance the knowledge and proficiency of the profession through continuing research and education; and adhere to the articles of the Member Code of Ethics 2000 for the practice of public relations as adopted by the governing Assembly of the Public Relations Society of America.

The Department of Communication is guided by Lasallian values, which serve as a basis for our decisions, and provide the framework for the ethical and behavioral values we strive to model for our students. Primary among these values is an abiding respect for the uniqueness of each student, the provision of a practical education, and the creation of a shared teaching and learning community.

Lynne A. Texter, Ph.D.
Department Chair, Associate Professor
Com Center 223
215.951.1207
texter@lasalle.edu

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