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Media connects every aspect of our personal and professional lives, from the 24-hour news cycle to social media trends and endless streaming services. The ability to create content, and understand the role of communication in culture and society, opens doors to dynamic and rewarding career opportunities.

The Bachelor of Media and Communication will introduce you to communication practices across news and journalism, digital content production, marketing and public relations, and film-making. You’ll gain professional insights into global media industries, including evolving trends in media production and communication practices, and deepen your understanding of how media informs and reflects culture and society.

Located at Salamanca Place, the historic heart of Hobart’s creative wharf precinct, the Media School is a great place to start your career. Our teaching teams are world-leading researchers and experienced broadcasters, journalists, and filmmakers. You’ll also experience creative collaborations with Fine Arts, Music, and Theatre and Performance students. Our curriculum is designed to enable close creative networks, test working relationships, and leverage your accomplishments to generate future opportunities. You could find yourself working within Tasmania’s unique festival scene, creatively solving real client briefs, or soaking up inspiration on a field trip overseas.

Course objectives:

The degree offers 6 first-year units that use practice-based and vocationally oriented learning as a way to introduce students to the various approaches, genres, and professional applications of media and communication. Students will identify and explore the key theoretical problems and complexities, and encounter challenges and opportunities in contemporary media and communication studies.

Later-year study deepens practice-led learning across four Portfolios as well as a combination of units that combines theoretical knowledge and analysis, with some practice components. From the outset students are encouraged to build a portfolio of their work that showcases wide-ranging skills and endeavour.

Learning Outcomes

• Explain key concepts and debates in media and communication studies.
• Analyse and evaluate media texts, industries, and audiences theoretically from local and global perspectives.
• Employ a range of communication skills in the production of media content and in workplace practices including the appraisal of your own and others’ work.
• Synthesise analytical and research skills in media and communication studies to identify and address problems in relation to the impact of media and communication on society and culture in diverse local and global contexts.

Career outcomes: The Bachelor of Media and Communications will prepare you to work in fast-paced and dynamic communications roles across a multitude of fields, including Tasmania’s booming screen industry. You’ll become a strategic and creative forward thinker with the ability to prepare content for a range of channels and audiences. You will develop advanced interpersonal, communication and presentation skills that will lead you to exciting career opportunities across journalism, public relations, communications management, reporting, social media and marketing.