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All organisations need effective communicators—professionals who can design, implement, and evaluate communication strategies across varied contexts and for diverse audiences. The Undergraduate Certificate in Strategic Communication introduces you to core skills and key aspects of the strategic communication industry. From media law to crisis communication, you’ll develop practical skills relevant to contemporary strategic communication challenges. Taught by academics with extensive professional experience, this qualification equips you with the knowledge and capacity to produce clear, ethical, and effective messages.The undergraduate certificate also provides a foundation for further study or work in communication, media, or related fields, while offering a pathway to the Diploma of Communication or Bachelor of Communication.

Begin your journey in strategic communication. You’ll learn the essentials of messaging, media law, and crisis communication. Build practical skills and ethical awareness. Graduate with a strong foundation and a pathway to further study.

Undergraduate Certificate in Strategic Communication

The Undergraduate Certificate in Communication is a pathway program designed to help you transition into the Diploma of Communication or the Bachelor of Communication. Alternatively, it can enable you to gain knowledge and skills, which support career development and versatility. The undergraduate certificate introduces the diversity and complexity of the contemporary communication and media landscape. You&#39;ll develop skills in writing and digital communication. Critical thinking and creativity are emphasised to develop innovative problem-solving skills. You&#39;ll gain foundational knowledge and skills in a supportive learning environment, setting you up for success in your further studies.

Take your first step into communication. You’ll build core skills in writing, digital media, and critical thinking. Explore how communication shapes society. Graduate with the confidence to continue your studies or boost your career versatility.

Undergraduate Certificate in Communication

Web Communications

Academic and Professional Communications

Communication and Media

Introduction to Communication and Journalism

Making Meaning

Communication, Culture and Indigenous Perspectives in Business

Professional and Technical Communication

Coming Into Community

Communication and Culture

Crisis and Disaster Communication

This subject explores the preparation, planning and delivery of communication strategies and activities for major events and entertainment industries. It builds on students’ knowledge of strategic communication while applying that knowledge and skills in practice to events and entertainment contexts.

Event and Entertainment Communication

This capstone course provides a work-integrated learning opportunity to apply knowledge and skills garnered throughout the program to develop projects and media outputs that focus on communication solutions to address social, environmental, and other issues of concern. Prerequisites: 2513LHS Media Law AND must have completed 2505LHS Ethical Communication OR must have completed 2501LHS Public Relations Theory, Ethics and Professional Practice OR must have completed 2511LHS News Writing and Ethics.Incompatible: 3503LHS Communication for Social and Environmental Change Project.

Communication for Social and Environmental Responsibility

This subject enables students to develop a critical understanding of ethics and professional practice in the contexts of journalism and strategic communication. It offers a highly practical, &#39;hands on&#39; focus on ethical decision-making and social considerations in the workplace.

Ethical Communication

This subject provides knowledge and skills in the development of professional social media and considers theory and practice to take advantage of the opportunities of social media while navigating the risks that come with the terrain.

Social Media for Global Communication

Students need high level audio and video production skills for a range of communication professions. This course develops literacy in these styles of production and understandings on how they are used to best communicate with stakeholders and publics. Incompatible: 3502LHS Advanced Digital Media Production and 2523LHS Digital Audio Media Production.

Telling Stories with Video and Sound

This subject is a basic introduction to digital media production, providing students with exposure to the theory and practice behind communicating with and through a variety of digital media formats including photography and web design.

Digital Media: Portfolio Production

This subject provides a foundation for professional communicators in the public sphere, including considerations of communication and professional identity in contemporary environments. This includes awareness of social and political change, diversity, environmental change and ethics and legal issues. This subject introduces essential research and writing skills required for a range of media and communication roles and provides a foundation for considering which communication professions students wish to pursue.

Empowering the Professional Communicator

This subject covers key theories common to a range of communication professionals, and introduces students to strategic considerations in communication, while allowing students to engage in the practical application of a range of tactics for different audiences, publics, and stakeholders.

Communication Principles and Practices

Whether you work as an administrative assistant, a communication officer, a low-level manager or as the Chief Executive Officer, to operate efficiently you need well developed communication skills. This subject investigates the connections between clear communication and effective leadership and management.You will explore the theoretical models that underpin contemporary communication processes and the different communication structures and styles that exist in modern business organisations. By interrogating concepts such as interpersonal communication, emotional intelligence, diversity and team dynamics you develop a clearer awareness of your own communication strengths and weaknesses and an understanding of how those around you communicate. Through practical exercises and assessment you will learn how to identify and map the communication structure and networks that exist in workplaces and how to improve your own written and oral communication skills.

No matter your goal, the ability to communicate is what is going to get you there. Whether you’d like to work in communications itself or business in general, this course will help you hone the expert skills to navigate your career with confidence.

Business Communication

If businesses are to survive in an increasingly competitive and information-oriented environment they will need trained managers who can speak, write and interact with others efficiently, effectively and professionally.Explore the theory and practice of communication in the business environment from a management perspective. This subject offers you an opportunity to build both theoretical and applied knowledge as you examine the management of communication in conflict and crisis situations as well as in everyday operational conduct. You can expect to explore and build on previous studies in communications. You are also encouraged to adopt a management perspective when working on assignments and practical activities. This subject introduces communications skills for managers.

Management Communication

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