Multimedia
Journalism
Bachelor of Multimedia Journalism
Campus: Townsville
Mode: on campus; full time or part time
Duration: 3 years full time
Prerequisites: English
Mid-year entry: Yes
QTAC code: 311471
What is Multimedia Journalism?
Career opportunities
The Bachelor of Multimedia Journalism is a ground-breaking course which
provides the digital media skills required for journalism careers in the
changing media landscape, and prepares students to tell stories using
video, audio and text.
Tomorrow’s journalists will be working primarily for the web. Students will
have a portfolio of multimedia work at the end of their degree to prepare
them to enter the changing media industry.
Course overview
The Bachelor of Multimedia Journalism prepares students to enter a
digital media world where stories are told across multiple platforms –
radio, TV, print and online. Journalists are no longer expected to exclusively
work in one medium. They are expected to be storytellers using a variety
of digital tools – video cameras, audio recorders, digital cameras, and
computers. Audiences are seeking fresh, innovative ways in which to get
their news – from videos to audio and pictures, as well as text and through
social networks.
As a student in this course, you will prepare your own stories on a digital
media platform, JCNN. This will give you real world experience in writing
stories, filming news and producing audio pieces for a real audience, as well
as producing a portfolio of work.
Special attention will be paid to key roles including collecting sound and
visual material, and helping to produce the media platform, JCNN. You will
gain editing skills to get the stories out to deadline.
Such real-life skills are complemented by studying a variety of subjects in
creative arenas such as graphic design, photography, web authoring or
digital music technology, as well as critically analysing the changing role of
the journalist in today’s society.
In addition to their journalistic skills, depending on their choice of subjects,
graduates will have skills in web design, graphic design, digital storytelling,
photography and digital manipulation to add to their career skills.
Your study
A selection of subjects for this course includes:
• Writing Convergent Stories
• Introduction to Broadcast Journalism
• Design for Media
• Multimedia Production
• Investigative Features
• Video and Photo Journalism.
Fieldwork is an important component of journalism and in this course
students visit courtrooms, do onsite stories and complete a professional
internship during the final year of study.
You are also given access to the latest multimedia technology:
microphones, digital still and video cameras, videos to help you gather
stories. Our lecturers are working journalists so you are exposed to best
practice.
For full course outline details, visit www.jcu.edu.au/courses
You will gain an understanding of the language of news, as well as
learning how to work within the legal and ethical frameworks expected in
professional practice.
Course highlights
You will enjoy small class sizes and good interaction with lecturers.
As well as working as journalists, editors and producers for the media
platform, JCNN, students will spend time in the media industry, in TV,
radio, print or multimedia as interns. The course incorporates Work
Integrated Learning (WIL) from Level 1 (first year).
Students have an opportunity to use their elective space to include a
Bachelor of Arts major, thereby providing a further distinguishing feature to
their course.
| 35