Overview 2020
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In 2010, Lucy graduated with First Class Honours in Journalism. Only a few years later she found herself sitting behind the news desk bringing the news to Tasmania for the first time.
Lucy Breaden
News Reader, WIN Television
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Honours combines units of study with a thesis focused on a topic you devise yourself. Your research can investigate virtually anything in media, from politics to podcasts.
You will complete your project supported by your supervisor, an academic whose expertise aligns with your topic, and whose combination of research and industry experience will guide you through.
Research skills are vital to any career in the media industry, from journalism to corporate communications. Honours is an excellent way to get an advantage in the job market, lay the foundation for a higher research degree, or work towards becoming an expert in your chosen field.
Learning Outcomes
- Critically analyse media texts, industries, and audiences from both theoretical and practical perspectives, showing advanced awareness of local, national, and international contexts
- Demonstrate coherent and advanced knowledge of key media studies principles, concepts, approaches, and methods
- Integrate and apply knowledge with initiative and judgement to the production of media content and to workplace practice
- Demonstrate advanced analytical, practical, technical, and research skills in one of the following areas: News and Journalism; Screen; Strategic Communications; or Media Practice and Analysis
- Communicate effectively and ethically across a variety of media platforms, showing advanced abilities in a specific area of media production and/or the ability to communicate scholarly ideas in a meaningful and coherent way
- Respond effectively and creatively to a changing media environment, demonstrating industry-level problem solving, creative thinking, and critical analysis skills
- Demonstrate the capacity for independent scholarship and advanced critical reflection by undertaking a research project that makes original contributions to media research and/or media practice
Career outcomes
The Future of Media:
Why Study Media In Tasmania
What skills are needed to push the media industry forward? Find out from professionals working across film, print, digital and animation who all share a connection to Tasmania. Discover why a media career is so rewarding and why Tasmania is the place to get your start.
Understanding the media is now an essential role in a range of careers. By combining analysis of media industries, and the production and consumption of media, you will gain the knowledge and skills needed to work in a broad range of professions and environments.
The Bachelor of Media offers a wide variety of possible careers such as:
- Advertising creative director
- Art director and copywriter
- Broadcaster, presenter
- Campaign manager
- Documentary maker/producer
- Editor
- Events manager
- Film production crew
- Media and market researcher
- Media adviser
- News producer
- Public relations consultant
- Publishing
- Photojournalism
- Policy adviser and analyst
- Science communicator
- Screen and media entrepreneur
- Social media content creator
- Sports writer and presenter
- Teacher
- Travel writer or editor
Course structure
In Honours you will complete 100 credit points (cp), equivalent to one year of study, comprising;
- a research project completed over two semesters (50cp);
- a compulsory research-focused coursework unit (25cp);
- and an elective coursework units (25cp).
In your first semester you will complete the first research project unit alongside the compulsory coursework unit. In your second semester you will complete the second research project unit and an Honours coursework elective.
In your second semester you will also enrol in XSB400 which will record your final Honours result. This unit is administrative only and does not have classes or assessments.
Honours Research Core
Complete all of the following units (75cp)
This unit summarises key developments in journalism, media and communications theory, approaches and methods. It reviews the work of significant theorists and addresses a range of approaches. Various methodological resources are outlined for students, helping them to both undertake their…
Credit Points: 25
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| Hobart | Semester 1 | ||||
View all details for HEJ412 Researching Media and Communication
Students will undertake substantial research on an approved subject leading to a major project or thesis.…
Credit Points: 25
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| Hobart | Semester 1 | ||||
| Hobart | Semester 2 | ||||
Students will undertake substantial research on an approved subject leading to a major project or thesis.…
Credit Points: 25
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| Hobart | Semester 1 | ||||
| Hobart | Semester 2 | ||||
Honours Coursework Electives
Complete one of the following units (25cp):
This unit explores how to use theoretical material from media studies in a practical setting. Students will work on an individual or group project of their design in consultation with staff members. The theoretical foundations of this unit will vary…
Credit Points: 25
This unit is currently unavailable.
View all details for HEJ418 Theory to Practice in Journalism, Media and Communications
This unit equips students to produce content and tell stories across multiple media platforms. A range of digital tools, delivery options and conceptual approaches will be explored as students design, research and produce media content. Academic and technical staff with…
Credit Points: 25
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| Hobart | Semester 2 | ||||
This unit introduces students to the practical skills of media writing. It is intended to provide students with a strong foundation for participation in the media industry in a variety of forms. A fundamental appreciation of language will enhance writing…
Credit Points: 25
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| Hobart | Semester 1 | ||||
Media engagement is a central component of contemporary communications strategies. The unit provides contexts for historical and current media and public relations practice. Students are equipped to interact professionally with the media, to set clear communications goals and strategies, and…
Credit Points: 25
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| Hobart | Semester 1 | ||||
In this unit students will undertake an internship of no less than ten days with an industry provider to gain work-place experience. They will critically analyse a relevant industry or industry-related problem. To be accepted into this unit students are…
Credit Points: 25
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| Hobart | Semester 1 | ||||
| Hobart | Semester 2 | ||||
| Hobart | Winter school | ||||
This unit offers students the opportunity to undertake supervised fieldwork in the area of journalism, media and communications.…
Credit Points: 25
This unit is currently unavailable.
View all details for HEJ610 Fieldwork in Journalism, Media and Communications
Entry requirements
Eligibility
Candidates for the degree of Bachelor of Media with Honours:
- must have qualified for admission to the degree of Bachelor of Media, or another approved Bachelor degree, in this
University or another approved tertiary institution; - if a candidate from another approved tertiary institution, must have qualified for admission to a fourth year honours
course in the proposed program of study or a cognate program; - are required by the College as having reached, in a Bachelor of Media in this University or another approved tertiary
institution, a standard of proficiency, a weighted average of 70% or higher, in the 200 and 300 level units in their
Bachelor of Media (or equivalent) units.
Exemptions regarding entry requirements may be made at the discretion of the Head of School.
Detailed Admissions Information
Detailed admissions information and advice for all undergraduate courses, including comprehensive, course-level student profiles, is available from UTAS Admissions.
Fees & scholarships
Domestic students
Domestic students enrolled in a full fee paying place are charged the Student Services and Amenities Fee but this fee is incorporated in the fees you pay for each unit you enrol in. Full fee paying domestic students do not have to make any additional SSAF payments.
Detailed tuition fee information for domestic students is available at the Domestic Student Fees website, including additional information in relation to a compulsory Student Services and Amenities Fee (SSAF).
International students
2020 Total Course Fee (international students): $31,950 AUD*.
Course cost based on a rate of $31,950 AUD per standard, full-time year of study (100 credit points).
* Please note that this is an indicative fee only.
International students
International students are charged the Student Services and Amenities Fee but this fee is incorporated in the annual rate. International students do not have to make any additional SSAF payments.
Scholarships
For information on general scholarships available at the University of Tasmania, please visit the scholarships website.
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