Graduate Diploma of Digital Media

2018 Deakin University Handbook

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Year	2018 course information
Award granted	Graduate Diploma of Digital Media
Course Map	This course map is for new students commencing from T1 2018. This course map is for new students commencing from T2 2018. If you require a course map from a previous year, please contact a Student Adviser.
Campus	Offered at Burwood (Melbourne)
Cloud Campus	Yes
Duration	1 year full-time or part-time equivalent
Deakin course code	A634
Approval status	This course is approved by the University under the Higher Education Standards Framework.
Australian Qualifications Framework (AQF) recognition	The award conferred upon completion is recognised in the Australian Qualifications Framework at Level 8.

Course sub-headings

Course overview

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.

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Participation requirements

Reasonable adjustments to participation and other course requirements will be made for students with a disability. Click here for more information.

Mandatory student checks

Any unit which contains work integrated learning, a community placement or interaction with the community may require a police check, Working with Children Check or other check.

Fees and charges

Fees and charges vary depending on your course, your fee category and the year you started. To find out about the fees and charges that apply to you, visit the Current students fees website.

Course Learning Outcomes

Deakin Graduate Learning Outcomes	Course Learning Outcomes
Discipline specific knowledge and capabilities	Demonstrate an advanced theoretical and applied understanding of contemporary digital and online media environments, particularly in relation to processes and practices in media and cultural industry contexts.
Communication	Demonstrate advanced and effective communication skills to communicate ideas, arguments and analyses in written, digital and oral formats that meet academic and media practitioner standards to a diverse range of audiences.
Digital literacy	Demonstrate an ability to utilise a range of digital media to communicate a variety of messages online to a professional standard.
Critical thinking	Demonstrate advanced cognitive skills in engaging with contemporary media debates, issues, and industry contexts in relation to their social, cultural, economic, legal, and ethical aspects.
Problem solving	Demonstrate an advanced understanding of industry-based problems and an ability to solve these through a strategic application of digital and online media platforms.
Self-management	Demonstrate autonomy, accountability, and initiative in responding effectively and creatively to new situations in professional contexts.
Teamwork	Demonstrate initiative and accountability in working collaboratively with peers in online environments to solve problems by completing media projects.
Global citizenship	Demonstrate and apply an advanced understanding of legal and ethical issues in relation to online media in a globalised media context, taking into account issues relating to intellectual property, social justice, diversities, and environmental impact.
Approved by Faculty Board November 2017

Course rules

To qualify for the award of Graduate Diploma of Digital Media, a student must successfully complete 6 of the units listed below and 2 electives.

Electives may be chosen from the remaining units below or from any other postgraduate course in the School of Communication and Creative Arts; students who intend to move from a diploma to a Masters are strongly advised to take ACX701Unit description is currently unavailable Communication Concepts for their two elective credits.

Students must also complete

AAI018