Bachelor of Communications

Curtin University - Bentley

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Overview

The Communications course prepares you for working across more than one area in the rapidly expanding world of media and corporate communication. It provides key technological skills and knowledge, as well as an understanding of the issues and debates that concern media, communication and information in the world today.

In your first year you are introduced to the many different areas that make up mass communication, including foundation units in media studies as well as practical units in journalism, screen production, web media, design and either marketing or public relations. In your second and third years, you consolidate your training by choosing two areas (or 'streams') in which to specialise.

The first stream can be chosen from Corporate Screen Production, Journalism, or Web Media. The second stream may also be taken from those areas, or you may prefer to choose from Digital Design, Marketing, Photography, Public Relations, or Graphic Communication.

Your second and third year core units also offer insight into a range of media issues and communication contexts, teaching you not just the technical skills to suit your professional ambitions but also the flexibility and critical awareness that come with a broader intellectual understanding of media and corporate communications.

The unique combination of media, design and business means that Communications graduates are ideally equipped to pursue a range of careers as professional communicators in either the media or in business.

Prerequisites

Majors

Corporate Screen Production, Journalism, Web Media, Digital Design, Photography, Graphic Communication, Marketing, Public Relations

Potential Career Outcomes

Public relations officer, market researcher, journalist, advertising account executive, creative advertising consultant, in-house creative advisor, photographer, freelance designer, copywriter, print journalist, radio journalist, television journalist, photo journalist, media liaison officer, public relations consultant, communications officer, filmmaker, director, production coordinator, cameraperson, producer, executive producer, production designer, cinematographer, editor, web developer, web architect, internet project manager, online writer, online policy and operations, researcher, internet analyst, web communications consultant, website manager, online marketer, digital content creator, marketing officer

ATAR & Selection Rank

The table below shows the ATAR and Selection Rank information for those offered places wholly or partly on the basis of ATAR in 2021.

ATAR-based offers only, across all offer rounds
ATAR
(excluding adjustment factors)
Selection Rank
(including adjustment factors)
Highest rank to receive an offer97.3597.35
Median rank to receive an offer81.7081.70
Lowest rank to receive an offer63.0570.00

<5 - Less than 5 ATAR-based offers were made

Admission Criteria

Please refer to the Curtin University website for admission criteria information.

Course Seeker

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