Deakin’s new Graduate Diploma of Digital Media is a postgraduate course work qualification. The course responds to diverse media and online developments
Deakin’s new Graduate Diploma of Digital Media is a postgraduate course work qualification. The course responds to diverse media and online developments. Deakin’s new Graduate Diploma of Digital Media critically considers a world in which the diverse array of media and cultural industries are increasingly impacted by digital and online developments. The course has been developed in consultation with industry and has been designed to ensure future media professionals are engaged in practical ways, with various forms of digital media platforms, not only critically understanding but also curating their own content and developing a substantial ePortfolio relevant to organisational contexts.
Following successful completion of the Graduate Diploma, you may choose to continue your studies and gain credit in Deakin’s Master of Communication.
Career opportunities
The Graduate Diploma of Digital Media is designed to produce graduates who are effective and multi-literate communicators. Graduates will be transmedia participants who work with and across multiple platforms as self-reflexive and flexible creators. They will meet the growing need for independent and collaborative researchers, who are innovative problem solvers and ethical global citizens. The course recognises that media professionals of the future will require versatile skill sets that enable them to adapt to fast-changing media and cultural industry environments and, in doing so, be active participants and content curators online.
Jobs of the future in media and cultural industries will be obtained by those media practitioners who complete their degree with a strong online identity/presence and diverse portfolio. The Graduate Diploma of Digital Media seeks to create savvy media professionals who actively, productively, and ethically engage with communities through online and traditional means.
Course rules
Students must complete 8 credit points of core units
