AMG5751 · Communications industry internship

Overview

You are provided with an opportunity to undertake a supervised internship in the media industry. Prior to the start of semester you are responsible for identifying and contacting a suitable industry partner and arranging the placement as well as seeking approval from the unit co-ordinator. Your research topic should be worked out in consultation with the unit coordinator and the industry partner. You should intern with the industry partner for no less than four weeks and not more than eight weeks. You are not permitted to undertake the project in your usual place of work.

Areas of study: Communications and media studies

Offerings

Assessment

The Handbook does not list a final examination among the assessment items. That is not a guarantee there is none.

Within semester assessment: 100%

Assessment details may change. Please refer to the assessment information in Moodle closer to the start of the teaching period.

Requisites

The Handbook lists no prerequisite, corequisite or prohibition for this unit.

Learning outcomes

1. To develop awareness of the range of social and professional contexts in which communication occurs;
2. To develop an understanding of communication as a set of practices and to identify common features within these practices;
3. To introduce some of the major ways in which communication and media have been understood at a theoretical level;
4. To consider the relation between theory and practice in the field of communication and an appreciation of how they can productively inform each other;
5. To introduce communications and media studies as a basis for further graduate study and professional practice in the field.

Workload

Minimum total expected workload equals 144 hours per semester, including a minimum of 76 hours of internship

Student experience, not official rules. Nothing here changes what the Handbook says.