ALJ330 - Developing a Journalism Portfolio 1

Year:

2026 unit information

Enrolment modes: Trimester 1: Burwood (Melbourne), Waurn Ponds (Geelong), Online
Credit point(s): 1
EFTSL value: 0.125
Prerequisite:

Students must have completed either ALJ111 or ALJ112
and either ALJ218 or ALJ221

Corequisite: Nil
Incompatible with: ALJ302, ALJ303
Study commitment:

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.

Scheduled learning activities - campus:

1 x 3-hour on-campus seminar per week

Scheduled learning activities - online:

Approximately 3-hours of online learning tasks and discussions per week

Content

Discover what it's like to produce journalistic stories for an online news website. In this unit, you will reflect on your employment goals and create a portfolio of work you can use to begin your career. You will be writing, producing, researching, interviewing
and editing a number of your own stories, while learning about news gathering, news production, data journalism, podcasting, video news, freelance journalism, fact checking and AI use in journalism. You will meet deadlines and discuss your work with fellow students in a newsroom-like environment. This capstone unit requires you to draw on the knowledge and skills you have been learning throughout your journalism studies and cement them by putting them into practice.

Unit fee information

Fees and charges vary depending on the type of fee place you hold, your course, your commencement year, the units you choose to study and their study discipline, and your study load.

Tuition fees increase at the beginning of each calendar year and all fees quoted are in Australian dollars ($AUD). Tuition fees do not include textbooks, computer equipment or software, other equipment or costs such as mandatory checks, travel and stationery.

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