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This course builds on the foundational skills and knowledge required for communicating news and information to various publics. You will learn how to develop your reporting and multimedia skills to produce engaging digital content. You will also gain knowledge of your ethical responsibilities and learn to critically reflect on your own and others' media practice. The course combines analytical skills with practical experience, including fieldwork and work placement opportunities, to help consolidate the links between theory and practice and develop independence in professional work. Please note, the course’s strongly practical focus requires active in-class engagement. It is not a distance course. Note: This course is restricted to students enrolled in the Bachelor of Communication (Journalism) or Graduate Diploma in Journalism.
The successful completion of this course enables you to further develop the critical insight, advanced writing and multimedia production skills and flexibility needed to excel in a rapidly changing media world. By the end of this course, you are expected to demonstrate higher-level proficiency in gathering, writing and editing publishable news and stories using a range of tools and techniques, including audio-visual, web and social media skills, and to critically reflect on their practice.You will be expected to demonstrate:• effective organisational and time management skills, including an ability to meet deadlines• an advanced critical knowledge of news and current affairs• a better understanding of the role of journalism in society in general and in contemporary New Zealand in particular• enhanced research and investigative skills, including the retrieval and critical analysis of information from a range of sources using a range of tools• an ability to produce journalism independently using a range of media tools, for a range of platforms, particularly online, and to recognized industry standards• an ability to conduct interviews to recognized industry standard• an ability to communicate with and work effectively and collaboratively with others• a high standard of ethical behaviour• an advanced ability to reflect critically on your own and others' media practice• an enhanced ability to apply analytical and critical reasoning to multimedia media production
This course will provide students with an opportunity to develop the Graduate Attributes specified below:
Critically competent in a core academic discipline of their award
Students know and can critically evaluate and, where applicable, apply this knowledge to topics/issues within their majoring subject.
Employable, innovative and enterprising
Students will develop key skills and attributes sought by employers that can be used in a range of applications.
Biculturally competent and confident
Students will be aware of and understand the nature of biculturalism in Aotearoa New Zealand, and its relevance to their area of study and/or their degree.
Engaged with the community
Students will have observed and understood a culture within a community by reflecting on their own performance and experiences within that community.
Globally aware
Students will comprehend the influence of global conditions on their discipline and will be competent in engaging with global and multi-cultural contexts.
Limited Entry. (i) COMS331 (ii) Permission from the Head of Department.
Students must attend one activity from each section.
Conan Young
Domestic fee $2,182.00
International fee $8,811.00
* All fees are inclusive of NZ GST or any equivalent overseas tax, and do not include any programme level discount or additional course-related expenses.
Maximum enrolment is 25
For further information see Language, Social and Political Sciences .