Communications
Campus availability: Berwick, Gippsland, Malaysia, and South Africa
The honours program in Communications on the Berwick, Caulfield and Clayton campuses is administered by the School of English, Communications, and Performance Studies.
The honours program in Communications on the Gippsland campus is administered by the School of Humanities, Communications and Social Sciences.
The honours program in Malaysia is administered by the School of Arts and Sciences.
The honours program in South Africa is administered by the School of Arts.
Communications honours can be completed within the honours degree of the Bachelor of Arts, or the honours degree of the Bachelor of Letters. On the Berwick and Malaysia campuses honours can be completed within the specialist Bachelor of Communication (Honours) degrees.
How to apply
Program
Students complete 48 points at fourth-year level including a thesis and two coursework units chosen from the electives listed.
Coursework units and the thesis topic are chosen in consultation with the Communications Honours Coordinator on the relevant campus .
To check the availability of units listed below, and to their view current handbook entries, please enter the relevant unit code and press submit.
Berwick, Caulfield and Clayton: units that can be counted towards discipline
Core Units
- COM4050(H) Honours Thesis OR
- COM405H(A) Honours Thesis Part 1 AND
- COM405H(B) Honours Thesis Part 2
Elective units
- COM4030(H) Contemporary Media and Communications Theory
- COM4040(H) Current Issues in International Media and Communications
- COM4090(H) Media, Violence, Protest, Terror
- COM4203(H) Communication Systems and Networks
- COM4204(H) Communication Economies and Society
- COM4300 Honours Research Readings
- COM4302(H) Media Flows
- COM4550(H) Eyewitness: Reportage, representation and War
- A maximum of 12 points at fourth-year level from another discipline and/or institution with the permission of the ECPS Communications Honours Coodinator
Gippsland: units that can be counted towards discipline
Core Units
- COM4000(A) Dissertation Part 1 AND
- COM4000(B) Dissertation Part 2
Elective units
- COM4413 Writing Communication Culture
- COM4421 Media, Social Relations and Power
- A maximum of 12 points at fourth-year level from another discipline and/or institution with the permission of the HUMCASS Communications Honours Coodinator
Malaysia and South Africa: units that can be counted towards discipline
Core Units
- COM400H(A)Dissertation Part 1 AND
- COM400H(B) Dissertation Part 2
Elective units
- COM4010(H) Communication Research: Issues and Methodology
- COM4020(H) Communications and Cultural Studies Applied: Industry Practice
- A maximum of 12 points at fourth-year level from another discipline and/or institution with the permission of the Communications Honours Coodinator on the relevant campus