Journalism degree (1 Viewer)

[Homey]

Hey, does Macquarie University have a Journalism degree?? My freind is interested and is currently doing Media and Cultural studies...he wants to know if there is anything close to a journalism degree.

 

[Phanatic]

Yep, it's a B Media in Writing. It involves two specific writing units a year in second and third year.

 

[xeuyrawp]

Homey --

Have a look here for the specifics.

From the look of it, a student would do MAS104 and CUL100 in first year, as well as some electives I suppose. Have a look at the specific units (by clicking on them) to have a look what they're about.

[edit: Yep, asylum's right, you don't do 210 and 211 in first year.]

But yeah, so you've got all those required subjects as well as 35 credit points worth of electives; which is about 10 or so subjects. Not to mention that, near the end of your degree, you've got these random MAS3xx subjects to do -- I've looked through a few of them, and they look fun.

Personally, if I were to do journalism, I'd do the BA (Communications) degree at UTS; I just like their share of practical units... I think the Macquarie ones look more theory based, not to mention the fact that you're not actually doing 'journalism'. Then again, journalism is more of a generic skill, and I think any degree really equips you for it.

 

[AsyLum]

Err, you do MAS104, CUL100 first year, first sem. MAS105, second sem.

Then do the 200 units, can't do MAS210 as MAS203 is a co-req and it has a 6cp @ pass 100 level req.

 

[xeuyrawp]

Then do the 200 units, can't do MAS210 as MAS203 is a co-req and it has a 6cp @ pass 100 level req.

I love the handbook, if x is y's coreq, why don't they put the prereqs of y in x's box. It's so confuzzling sometimes.