Program Overview

If you’re a great communicator and creative thinker who loves a good deadline, this is the double degree for you! UC’s Bachelor of Arts/Bachelor of Communications and Media combines a flexible, professionally-oriented arts degree with the hands-on knowledge and experience required of journalists and other media communications professionals around the world.

Our wide range of arts subjects, expert teachers (with links to government and industry) and international study options will help you build the knowledge and skills to become a globally engaged editor, media programmer, content writer, marketing manager or media analyst.

You’ll graduate with invaluable lifelong networks and a critical understanding of good narrative and what makes compelling content across a range of platforms – and the ability to think outside the square to deliver novel solutions to local and international problems.

Taught in small, more personalised classes, the course offers an individually tailored learning environment that ensures each student receives the highest level of support and encouragement throughout their UC study journey.

Combine a Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Communications and Media at UC and you will:

• Get to choose from a range of creative Arts subjects designed around your interests
• Acquire the ability to problem solve, analyse and evaluate information in a systematic, creative and insightful way
• Specialise in one of four professional communications areas: journalism, marketing communication, corporate and public communication and sports media
• Apply professional judgement and knowledge in adapting marketing communication theories, principles and methodologies across diverse social, cultural and organisational contexts
• Explore narratives that inform, persuade and generate change.

Specialist Major: Journalism

With a Specialist Major in Journalism from the University of Canberra you¿ll be equipped for success in a media and communications landscape that¿s changing faster than ever. In this course you will learn by doing, developing your skills and knowledge in a realistic production environment. You will engage with big ideas and the theoretical underpinnings of journalism, and apply them in your work.
From day one, you¿ll work hands-on as a student journalist for The Owl and UCFM, and by the end of your studies you¿ll be exercising editorial leadership across the entire student body. Along the way, you¿ll build the editorial and technical competencies required to produce compelling, accurate and trustworthy journalism for contemporary and future audiences. You¿ll graduate as a confident communicator who employs the highest standards of professionalism and ethical practice in your work.