Bachelor of Media - Plan BP221P27

Bachelor of Media - Plan BP221P27

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Entry score:

ATAR 63.30*

Duration:
Full-time 3 years
Fees:

Commonwealth Supported Places

Next intake:
February, July
Location:
Melbourne City
Entry score:

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Duration:
Full-time 3 years or 2.5 years accelerated
Fees:

AU$43,200 (2027 annual)

Next intake:
February, July
Location:
Melbourne City

CRICOS code: 120991B

To graduate you must complete the following. All courses listed may not be available each semester.

To graduate you must complete the following. 

All courses listed may not be available each semester. 

You must complete a total of 288 credit points as follows:

Year 1: Four (4) first-year block courses (48 credit points) and 48 credit points from your chosen combination; and 

Year 2: Four (4) core courses (48 credit points) and 48 credit points from your chosen combination; and 

Year 3: Three (3) core courses (48 credit points) and 48 credit points from your chosen combination.


List of Combinations

Combination 1: Complete one (1) Major (96 credit points) and one (1) Minor (48 credit points).

Combination 2: Complete one (1) Major (96 credit points) and 48 credit points of program option courses.

Combination 3: Complete three (3) minors (144 credit points).

Combination 4: Complete two (2) minors (96 credit points) and 48 credit points of program option courses. One of the chosen minors must be from the Program minors list.

Combination 5: Complete one (1) minor from the program minors list (48cp) and 96 credit points of program option courses.


Details of majors and minors can be found at the end of the program structure. 

‘Program option courses’ include courses in the Program Options list and all courses listed within each major and minor. 

NOTE: If you use a course toward the completion of a major or minor, you cannot use that same course again to count toward another major or minor. If you complete a core course as part of the program's core requirements, you cannot use the same course towards a major or minor.

Students must complete a series of compulsory onboarding modules during their first semester or study period. Complete 48 credit points from the following:

Course Title Credit Points Course Code Campus
Media Cultures and Industries 12 COMM3030 City Campus
Making Media 12 COMM2674 City Campus
Thinking Media 12 COMM1384 City Campus
Country and Story 12 COMM3031 City Campus

AND

Complete 48 credit points from your chosen combination.

Complete 48 credit points from the following:

Course Title Credit Points Course Code Campus
Media Studio: Craft 24 COMM1407 City Campus
Media Studio: Concept 24 COMM1408 City Campus

AND

Complete 48 credit points from your chosen combination.

Complete 48 credit points from the following:

Course Title Credit Points Course Code Campus
Media Studio: Community 24 COMM1409 City Campus
Media Capstone 12 COMM3008 City Campus
Media Futures 12 COMM3009 City Campus

AND

Complete 48 credit points from your chosen combination.

List of Major(s):

Complete 12 credit points from the following:
Course Title Credit Points Course Code Campus
Introduction to Pop Culture 12 COMM2633 City Campus

AND

Complete 36 credit points from the following:
Course Title Credit Points Course Code Campus
Music in Pop Culture 12 COMM1081 City Campus
Speculative Futures 12 COMM2874 City Campus
Music Video Culture 12 PERF2062 City Campus
TV and Screen Cultures 12 COMM1073 City Campus
Exploring Asian Popular Culture 12 COMM2345 City Campus

AND

Complete 48 credit points from the following:
Course Title Credit Points Course Code Campus
Popular Culture Now 12 COMM2631 City Campus
Audio-Visions: Music, Sound and the Moving Image 12 COMM3018 City Campus
Stardom and Celebrity Culture 12 COMM3023 City Campus
Capstone: Pop Culture Futures 12 COMM3019 City Campus

Complete 48 credit points from the following:
Course Title Credit Points Course Code Campus
Introduction to Cinema Studies 12 COMM1031 City Campus
Film Criticism: From Early Cinema to the Digital Age 12 COMM2880 City Campus
Beyond the Frame: Technologies, Industries and Audiences 12 COMM2875 City Campus
Film Genre 12 COMM2881 City Campus

AND

Complete 36 credit points from the following:
Course Title Credit Points Course Code Campus
Border Crossings: Cinema, Community and Nation 12 COMM2876 City Campus
Stardom and Celebrity Culture 12 COMM3023 City Campus
Uses of Film Theory 12 COMM1036 City Campus
True Lies : Documentary Studies 12 COMM1034 City Campus
Re-Make/Re-Model: Cinema and Intertextuality 12 COMM2637 City Campus
Politics and Technologies on Screen 12 COMM2636 City Campus
Alternative Cinemas 12 COMM3017 City Campus
Audio-Visions: Music, Sound and the Moving Image 12 COMM3018 City Campus

AND

Complete 12 credit points from the following:
Course Title Credit Points Course Code Campus
Practicing Cinema Studies (Capstone) 12 COMM3021 City Campus

List of Program Minors

Complete 48 credit points from the following:
Course Title Credit Points Course Code Campus
Introduction to Advertising 12 MKTG1208 City Campus
Message and Media Strategy 12 COMM2908 City Campus
Creativity for Advertising 12 GRAP3027 City Campus
Storytelling for Advertising 12 GRAP3029 City Campus
Art Direction for Advertising 12 GRAP3028 City Campus
People and Persuasion 12 COMM2909 City Campus
Influencers in Communication 12 COMM2112 City Campus

Complete 48 credit points from the following:
Course Title Credit Points Course Code Campus
Introduction to Pop Culture 12 COMM2633 City Campus
TV and Screen Cultures 12 COMM1073 City Campus
Music Video Culture 12 PERF2062 City Campus
Music in Pop Culture 12 COMM1081 City Campus
Speculative Futures 12 COMM2874 City Campus
Popular Culture Now 12 COMM2631 City Campus

Complete 48 credit points from the following:
Course Title Credit Points Course Code Campus
Contemporary Asian Modernities 12 COMM2878 City Campus
Asian Media and Communication 12 COMM2871 City Campus
Asian Mobilities: Practices, Experiences and Impacts 12 COMM2873 City Campus
Exploring Asian Popular Culture 12 COMM2345 City Campus
Sex, Politics & Social Change in Asia 12 COMM2253 City Campus

Complete 48 credit points from the following
Course Title Credit Points Course Code Campus
Introduction to Cinema Studies 12 COMM1031 City Campus
Film Criticism: From Early Cinema to the Digital Age 12 COMM2880 City Campus
Border Crossings: Cinema, Community and Nation 12 COMM2876 City Campus
Beyond the Frame: Technologies, Industries and Audiences 12 COMM2875 City Campus
Uses of Film Theory 12 COMM1036 City Campus
Film Genre 12 COMM2881 City Campus

Complete 48 credit points from the following:
Course Title Credit Points Course Code Campus
Governing Our Selves 12 COMM1413 City Campus
Talking Politics 12 COMM2409 City Campus
Economic Lives 12 COMM2408 City Campus
Politics and Technologies on Screen 12 COMM2636 City Campus
Work, Politics and Technology 12 COMM2407 City Campus

Complete 48 credit points from the following:
Course Title Credit Points Course Code Campus
Introduction to Digital Communication 12 COMM2906 City Campus
Precision Writing for Digital Engagement 12 COMM2913 City Campus
Social Media Communication 12 COMM2872 City Campus
Digital Audiences and Analytics 12 COMM2916 City Campus
Communication Platforms and Industries 12 COMM2917 City Campus
Managing Digital Challenges 12 COMM2914 City Campus
Influencers in Communication 12 COMM2112 City Campus
Content Creation for Digital Engagement 12 COMM2915 City Campus

Complete 48 credit points from the following:
Course Title Credit Points Course Code Campus
Introduction to Gender 12 COMM2925 City Campus
Gender, Development and Globalisation 12 HUSO2092 City Campus
Global Feminisms 12 HUSO2388 City Campus
Rethinking Masculinities 12 COMM2926 City Campus
Feminist and Queer Perspectives 12 COMM2879 City Campus
Gender, Communication and Social Change 12 COMM2927 City Campus

Note: If you are enrolled in BP221P27 Bachelor of Media, you cannot use COMM2674 Making Media for completion of the minor, please select 48 credit points from the remaining list of courses.
Course Title Credit Points Course Code Campus
Making Media 12 COMM2674 City Campus
Live Media 12 COMM2220 City Campus
Script Writing for Social Impact 12 COMM3022 City Campus
Impact Documentary 12 COMM3020 City Campus
Communicating Sustainability 12 ENVI1137 City Campus
Politics and Technologies on Screen 12 COMM2636 City Campus

Complete 24 credit points from the following:
Course Title Credit Points Course Code Campus
Journalism Essentials 12 COMM3011 City Campus
Journalism Law and Ethics 12 COMM2836 City Campus

AND

Complete 24 credit points from the following:
Course Title Credit Points Course Code Campus
Fact Checking and Verification 12 COMM2803 City Campus
Podcasting 12 COMM2870 City Campus
Photojournalism 12 COMM2640 City Campus
Visualising News 12 COMM3010 City Campus

Complete 48 credit points from the following:
Course Title Credit Points Course Code Campus
Literature and Decolonisation 12 LANG1375 City Campus
Reading Space and Place 12 COMM2635 City Campus
Literary Environments 12 LANG1374 City Campus
Narrating the Self 12 COMM2638 City Campus
Literature's Ethics 12 COMM2630 City Campus

Complete 48 credit points from the following:
Course Title Credit Points Course Code Campus
Fact Checking and Verification 12 COMM2803 City Campus
Podcasting 12 COMM2870 City Campus
True Lies : Documentary Studies 12 COMM1034 City Campus
Picturing Power 12 VART3825 City Campus
Impact Documentary 12 COMM3020 City Campus

Complete 48 credit points from the following:
Course Title Credit Points Course Code Campus
Introduction to Public Relations 12 COMM2929 City Campus
Advocacy and Voice in Public Relations 12 COMM2920 City Campus
Public Relations Strategy and Planning 12 COMM2937 City Campus
Contemporary Media Relations 12 COMM2921 City Campus
Organisational Communication 12 COMM2922 City Campus
Issues, Risk and Crisis Communication 12 COMM2688 City Campus
Influencers in Communication 12 COMM2112 City Campus

Complete 12 credit points from the following:
Course Title Credit Points Course Code Campus
Photography 101 12 VART3590 City Campus
Visualising News 12 COMM3010 City Campus

AND

Complete 36 credit points from the following:
Course Title Credit Points Course Code Campus
Photojournalism 12 COMM2640 City Campus
Picturing Power 12 VART3825 City Campus
Politics and Technologies on Screen 12 COMM2636 City Campus
Documentary Photography 12 VART3817 City Campus
Counter Investigations 12 VART3815 City Campus

Complete 48 credit points from the following:
Course Title Credit Points Course Code Campus
Introduction to the Music Industry 12 PERF2077 City Campus
DJ Practice and Culture 12 PERF2061 City Campus
Music in Pop Culture 12 COMM1081 City Campus
Music Video Culture 12 PERF2062 City Campus
Popular Music Histories 12 PERF2080 City Campus

Complete 24 credit points from the following.NOTE: Course ‘Ableton Live’ is a first-year block course in BP047P27. Students enrolled in BP047P27 cannot use this course to count towards the completion of Minor: Music and Sound Production.
Course Title Credit Points Course Code Campus
DJ Practice and Culture 12 PERF2061 City Campus
Ableton Live 12 PERF2078 City Campus
Soundscape Studies 12 ARCH3347 City Campus

AND

Complete 24 credit points from the following:
Course Title Credit Points Course Code Campus
Ableton Live Advanced 12 PERF2088 City Campus
Spatial Sound Performance 12 PERF2070 City Campus
Immersive Sound Environments 12 ARCH1372 City Campus
Sonic Materials 12 ARCH3356 City Campus
Sound Art, Composition and Installation 12 VART3808 City Campus

NOTE: Course ‘Ableton Live’ is a first-year block course in BP047P27. Students enrolled in BP047P27 cannot use this course to count towards the completion of Minor: Music and Sound Production.

Complete 12 credit points from the following:
Course Title Credit Points Course Code Campus
Storytelling 12 GRAP2317 City Campus

AND

Complete 36 credit points from the following:
Course Title Credit Points Course Code Campus
Storytelling for Advertising 12 GRAP3029 City Campus
Precision Writing for Digital Engagement 12 COMM2913 City Campus
Film Criticism: From Early Cinema to the Digital Age 12 COMM2880 City Campus
Script Writing for Social Impact 12 COMM3022 City Campus
Fact Checking and Verification 12 COMM2803 City Campus
Podcasting 12 COMM2870 City Campus
Writers on Writing 12 COMM2392 City Campus
Game Narratives 12 OART1127 City Campus

List of Interdisciplinary Minors

Complete 12 credit points from the following:
Course Title Credit Points Course Code Campus
Photography 101 12 VART3590 City Campus

AND

Complete 36 credit points from the following:
Course Title Credit Points Course Code Campus
Photographic Lighting and Representation 12 VART3596 City Campus
Alternative Photographic Processes 12 VART1704 City Campus
Photography and Environment 12 VART3823 City Campus
The Performed Image: Photography and Identity 12 VART3826 City Campus
Documentary Photography 12 VART3817 City Campus
Picturing Power 12 VART3825 City Campus
Counter Investigations 12 VART3815 City Campus
Editorial Photography 12 VART1710 City Campus
Fashion Photography Futures 12 VART3820 City Campus
Translating Spaces: Architectural and Interior Photography 12 VART3828 City Campus
Transforming Objects: Contemporary Product Photography 12 VART3827 City Campus
Photography Histories and Theories 12 VART3594 City Campus

Complete 24 credit points from the following:
Course Title Credit Points Course Code Campus
Regenerative Fundamentals 12 ENVI1241 City Campus
Regenerative Challenge 12 ENVI1242 City Campus

AND

Complete 24 credit points from the following:
Course Title Credit Points Course Code Campus
Systems Thinking for Sustainable Futures 6 ENVI1243 City Campus
Eco-Literacy 6 ENVI1244 City Campus
Regenerative Design 6 ENVI1245 City Campus
Regenerative Value Systems 6 ECON1629 City Campus
Social Equity and Regeneration 6 HWSS2262 City Campus
Regenerative Business Models 6 BUSM2779 City Campus
Design for the Circular Economy 6 ECON1630 City Campus
AI Ethics for Sustainable Futures 6 COSC3158 City Campus
Regenerative Design for Built Environment 6 ENVI1246 City Campus
Storytelling for Speculative Futures 6 PERF2076 City Campus
Biomaterials and Biofabrication 6 PROC2131 City Campus
Reimagining Futures in Media and Culture 6 COMM3024 City Campus
Regenerative Supply Chain Management 6 ENVI1247 City Campus
Linking Life and Learning 6 EMPL1008 City Campus
Leading Regenerative Action 6 BUSM2777 City Campus
Regenerative Futures Incubator 6 ENVI1248 City Campus
Reworlding for Creative Place Keeping 6 ENVI1249 City Campus
Planetary Pedagogies and Civics 6 HUSO2459 City Campus

List of Program Options:

Course Title Credit Points Course Code Campus
The Connected world 12 COMM3048 City Campus
Wicked problems: innovative solutions 12 SOCU2276 City Campus
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