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In this course you will be developing advanced hard news skills and skills in colour news writing. You will be exploring and addressing issues of subconscious bias in your work. This is important for the development of your ethical journali…

This course will give you practical experience working in a news media organisation. Your placement in a professional news media organisation in Australia or overseas will give you the opportunity to put into practice the skills and knowled…

This course brings together ideas from different fields to help you think about today’s world as a planetary world. You will develop your knowledge of arguments about the scale and nature of environmental, technological, economic, social an…

In Digital Cultures, you will critically examine the evolving relationship between digital design, technology, and contemporary culture. You will explore how digital platforms, tools, and environments influence design practice, aesthetics,…

Third-party influencers play an integral role in professional communication that has continued to grow in our evolving digital media landscape. In this course you will explore the theory and practice of influential and persuasive communicat…

You will develop knowledge and skills in the production of live media and the impact of community media through a mixture of theory and practice. You will explore a range of audio and video formats, as well as ideas of audience; program for…

In this course you will examine issues concerning the intersection of gender, politics and social change in the context of a range of Asian societies. You will explore the relationships of gender with social and political transformation in…

In this course, we investigate the interdisciplinary climate of media and communication industries. A strong focus on the processes of team and project work allows you to identify and develop the skills that high functioning media and commu…

In this course you will develop the knowledge and skills to manage professional relationships between communication practitioners, their clients and within organisations. You will investigate the communication industry, and client managemen…

In this course you will examine a range of critical approaches within media and cultural studies frameworks to examine contemporary Asian popular culture. You will consider how popular cultures are constructed, marketed and then consumed by…

This course explores the writing of contemporary Australian authors on writing. The featured genres include letters, diaries, essays, articles, podcasts, interviews, and so on. This course centres extra-textual works by authors to enable su…

In this course you will investigate the contemporary workplace and how to navigate it in a period of change, contestation, automation and concerns about sustainable work. You will analyse workplaces characteristic of knowledge economies fro…

In this course you will explore how economies of all kinds are formed, operate and change through particular cultural and communication practices and technologies. You will investigate a range of economic frameworks, practices and technolog…

In this course you will examine how politics and power is communicated and how communication is part of governing all kinds of populations. You will consider where power lies and how it is exercised in an increasingly technologized world. Y…

In this course you will explore how cultural and theoretical developments in animation and interactive media are changing, and how historical ideas and techniques may influence the future. Through your study of ideas and techniques you will…

In this course you will study the history and theory of animation and interactive media, exploring the very beginnings of these media through to the present day. You will be introduced to animation as a global industry, entertainment, techn…

In this course you will explore ethics in literature and the ethics of literature. Ethics in literature considers marginalised voices and perspectives represented in the literary work. The ethics of literature considers the relations that f…

This course offers opportunities to explore future directions in popular culture. You will reflect on major and emerging perspectives in the study of popular culture and apply those perspectives. You will explore these perspectives in the c…

In this introductory course, you will explore the historical, economic, and political environments that produce popular culture products and practices. You will learn to identify specific popular culture phenomena and artifacts-whether writ…

In this course you will examine texts from the travel genre in order to consider the imaginative possibilities of mobility. You will be introduced to ways of reading literature related to space (including psychological, physical, geographic…

In this course you will explore how politics and technologies are presented in popular film, television and other screen formats both locally and globally. You will consider the significance of popular cultural presentations of politics and…

In this course you will explore the practice of adaptation in cinema across a variety of forms including comic books, novels, theatre, games, biography, translation, and music. The course will survey a range of theories of and approaches to…

This course will explore understandings about and expressions of the self through philosophical and literary works. You will have the opportunity to think, read, and discuss how others have sought to understand the self (in general) and the…

Media & Communication Internship helps you develop skills to create, negotiate and broker your own internship opportunity with support and advice from RMIT staff, then gain work experience in your field of practice. It prepares you for empl…

“A picture is worth a thousand words” (attributed to Frederick R. Barnard). In this course you will explore journalistic storytelling, focusing on how images can be used to tell and enhance a news story. You will examine the role of news va…

In this course, you will explore critical contexts for the development of your creative writing. You will identify and interpret different methodological approaches through a range of critical and theoretical sources examining the philosoph…

Writing a Major Project is the capstone course where you will produce a major creative work, building on skills developed throughout the program in an energetic, high-level, close-knit community of practice. The course is designed to extend…

In Media Making, you will learn to create contemporary media content through hands-on practice. You will develop essential technical skills across different media technologies while learning to think critically about your creative decisions…

In this course you will explore what to do if an issue or crisis threatens an organisation, and how effective response demands commitment and involvement across all areas of management. The reputation of an organisation can be damaged overn…

This course introduces you to concepts and practices available to journalists, other investigators and everyday citizens to tackle challenges posed by the Internet and social media. It reviews current debates about the importance of “facts”…