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2022 unit information
Unit delivery will be in line with the most current COVIDSafe health guidelines. We continue to tailor learning experiences for each unit to achieve the best possible mix of online and on-campus activities that successfully blend our approaches to learning, working and research. Please check your unit sites for announcements and updates.
Last updated: 4 March 2022
Trimester 2: Burwood (Melbourne), Waurn Ponds (Geelong), Cloud (online)
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Students must have completed two level 2 ALJ coded units
ALJ302 and ALJ303
Students will on average spend 150-hours over the teaching period undertaking the teaching, learning and assessment activities for this unit.
Burwood: 1 x 3-hour seminar per week
Geelong: 1 x 7.5-hour on-campus seminar (week 2, 8), 1 x 2-hour online seminar (weeks 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 9, 10, 11)
Independent and collaborative online learning activities (3-hour per week equivalence)
Discover what it’s like to produce journalistic stories for an online news website. You will be writing, producing, researching, interviewing and editing a number of your own stories that showcase your knowledge of, and skills in, news writing, data visualisation, video and podcasting. You will meet deadlines and discuss your work with fellow students in a newsroom-like environment. This unit teaches you about industry structures and advanced storytelling techniques. You will leave this unit with a portfolio of work you can use to begin your career. You will also reflect on the newsgathering and production process.
Identify and research an audience for a digital news product
GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities
GLO2: Communication
Produce news stories to a professional standard in a variety of written, audio and visual formats
GLO3: Digital literacy
GLO5: Problem solving
GLO7: Teamwork
Engage with community issues and social media tools for sourcing, reporting and promoting news stories
GLO8: Global citizenship
Act responsibly, ethically and within legal frameworks when creating online content
GLO4: Critical thinking
Reflect critically on professional practice to identify how that practice will contribute towards career goals
GLO6: Self-management
These Unit Learning Outcomes are applicable for all teaching periods throughout the year
The assessment due weeks provided may change. The Unit Chair will clarify the exact assessment requirements, including the due date, at the start of the teaching period.
There is no prescribed text. Unit materials are provided via the unit site. This includes unit topic readings and references to further information.
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