Program Overview

With a Bachelor of Communication and Media (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 of your degree, you’ll work hands-on as a student journalist for The Owl and UCFM, and by the final year of study you’ll be exercising editorial leadership across the entire course. 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 early career journalist who employs the highest standards of professionalism and ethical practice in your work.

Study a Bachelor of Communication and Media (Journalism) at UC and you will:

• Produce compelling and trustworthy multiplatform journalism
• Identify and engage contemporary audiences within complex media and information landscapes
• Work flexibly, autonomously and collaboratively in deadline-driven editorial production environments
• Employ the highest standards of professionalism and ethical practice in your work
• Interrogate the evolving role of journalism in societies and its interaction with power.

Work Integrated Learning

During the course, you’ll gain 100 hours of real-world industry experience through an internship placement at media organisations such as the ABC, the Canberra Times, WIN, and amplifyCBR. There are also exciting year-round on-air and production opportunities for journalism students at the Faculty of Arts and Design’s radio station, UCFM.

Core Major: Communication and Media

In this Program core you produce and track digital content across multiple platforms for diverse audiences to create narratives that inform, persuade and generate change; creating compelling content and solving problems in novel ways to contribute to the world around you. Working closely with your peers, staff, and industry in a supportive learning environment, you develop your creativity and critical thinking, your fundamental skills in communication and collaboration and invaluable lifelong professional networks through extensive professional practice and work integrated learning opportunities.