OVERVIEW
The Diploma of Communication offers a wide range of unit choices that give you a lot of flexibility when you’re entering the second year of a relevant Deakin University degree. Areas of study include advertising, communications, criminology, journalism, digital media, public relations and more.
Employment and career options upon completing your Bachelor degree:
- Advertising agency roles
- Account management
- Media planning
- Journalist
- Copywriting and art direction
- Media policy and management
- Politics
- Research
- Media business-oriented consulting
- In-house brand communications
- Community and paralegal work
- Intelligence and security services
- Justice policy development and analysis
- Social science research
- State and federal police and other law enforcement agencies including anti-corruption agencies, or courts and corrections.
- Academic Integrity (0 credit points)
- Gutenberg to Zuckerberg: Communication in Everyday Life
- Global Challenges and Personal AgencY
- Advertising Principles and Practices
- Creative Brand Communication
- Introduction to Public Relations
- Strategic Communication and Writing
- Introduction to Journalism
- News Reporting
- Making Social Media
- Making Video
- Designing 3D Animated Environments
- Design Thinking
- Screening History
- Principles of Animation
- UX Fundamentals
- Digital Photography
- Type Foundations
- Introducing Crime and Criminology (from 2024)
- Introducing Crime and Criminal Justice (from 2024)
What can you achieve at Deakin College?
DFACT is an online showcase of creative work from students of Deakin College in the Diplomas of Design, Film/TV/Animation, and Communication.
