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2025 unit information
Trimester 1: Burwood (Melbourne), Waurn Ponds (Geelong), Online, Community Based Delivery (CBD)*
Trimester 3: Burwood (Melbourne), Online
Nil
Trimester 1:
1 x 2-hour on-campus seminar per week
Trimester 3:
5 x 4.4-hour on-campus practical experiences (workshops) per trimester in weeks 1, 3, 6, 8 & 10
1 x 2-hour online seminar per week (recordings provided)
Students will on average spend 150-hours over the teaching period undertaking the teaching, learning and assessment activities for this unit.
This will include educator guided online learning activities within the unit site.
*Community Based Delivery (CBD): only for students of the National Indigenous Knowledges, Education, Research and Innovation NIKERI Institute (located at the Waurn Ponds campus)
Beginning with an exploration of what public relations is (and what it is not), you’ll discover why it’s a communication field with many opportunities. The unit focuses on how businesses, non-profits, and governments use public relations to solve communication problems, find opportunities, and forge successful relationships with internal and external stakeholders, target publics and audiences. You will also learn how to research, and plan, and write a simple public relations campaign. Whether you are interested in learning more about public relations or need a foundation for further study in the field of public relations, this unit provides a solid introduction.
Alignment to Deakin Graduate Learning Outcomes (GLOs)
Write, redraft, and edit own work clearly and concisely for an internal audience of public relations practitioners.
GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities
GLO2: Communication
Apply public relations scholarship and theories to examine public relations strategy and tactics
GLO4: Critical thinking
Use desk research to locate factors internal and external to an organisation to define target publics, set objectives, and inform decisions about public relations strategy and tactics
GLO3: Digital literacy
GLO5: Problem solving
Critically analyse an issue and use a planning framework to develop a public relations plan to support informational, motivational, and behavioural objectives
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.
ALR103 Introduction to Public Relations has weekly study guide topics on the unit site. Links to readings and resources are located within the study guide topics. Commence each week’s topic via the study guide. Whilst many readings and resources can be found via the University Library via ALR103, link you should not rely on this list as you may miss learning activities and resources central to assessment and unit quizzes.
Note: When using the reading list via the Deakin library, select the relevant trimester reading list. Please note that a future teaching period's reading list may not be available until a month prior to the start of that teaching period so you may wish to use the relevant trimester's prior year reading list as a guide only.
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