Overview
Studying the Graduate Diploma in Communication will support you to build your professional practice as an emerging leader in the communications industry. As well as developing advanced skills based on current best practice models of modern communications, you will engage in work integrated learning projects which will link you with industry leaders. This will give you unique and valuable opportunities to transmit your knowledge, skills and ideas to help solve real-world problems. Progression from this course to the Master of Communication is available by enrolling in additional units.
Learning outcomes
- Exemplify specialised professional skills and judgments focusing on reflective and informed practice through the agency of work integrated learning.
- Distinguish and enact specialised to advanced creative and critical thinking skills consistent with strategic management attributes necessary for public and private sector practice.
- Integrate critical knowledge and communications skills for sustained contribution to innovation and leadership in their field.
- Examine and interpret ongoing research to identify challenges and opportunities across industry environments, considering ethical and cultural impacts.
- Design and employ professional best practice models underpinned by theory, addressing real-world problems across sectors.
- Critique and assess communication theory and practice informed by discourse and local and global contexts, with reference to best practice models.
Alternative exits
This course is subsumable into ARM201 Master of Communication. Alternative exit award Graduate Certificate in Communication: Students may exit early from the Graduate Diploma course if they have passed 12 credit points as follows: 11627 Communicating Politics G 11628 Communication Theory: A Toolbox for Practical Problem Solving G 11629 Smart Ideas for Communication G 11630 Communication Trends and Innovation G
