Overview

This unit introduces students to the vital part communication plays in professional life. In covering ideas and skills fundamental to professional communication success, it aims to build not only competence but also students’ confidence in functioning as ethical communicators, able to use a range of techniques to achieve desired communication outcomes.

Requisites

Equivalent units
COM10007 Professional Communication Practice
Teaching periods
Location
Start and end dates
Last self-enrolment date
Census date
Last withdraw without fail date
Results released date
Pathways Teaching 3
Location
Hawthorn
Start and end dates
20-October-2025
30-January-2026
Last self-enrolment date
02-November-2025
Census date
14-November-2025
Last withdraw without fail date
12-December-2025
Results released date
10-February-2026
Pathways Teaching 1
Location
Hawthorn
Start and end dates
23-February-2026
29-May-2026
Last self-enrolment date
08-March-2026
Census date
24-March-2026
Last withdraw without fail date
14-April-2026
Results released date
09-June-2026
Pathways Teaching 2
Location
Hawthorn
Start and end dates
22-June-2026
25-September-2026
Last self-enrolment date
05-July-2026
Census date
21-July-2026
Last withdraw without fail date
11-August-2026
Results released date
06-October-2026
Pathways Teaching 3
Location
Hawthorn
Start and end dates
19-October-2026
29-January-2027
Last self-enrolment date
01-November-2026
Census date
17-November-2026
Last withdraw without fail date
15-December-2026
Results released date
09-February-2027

Learning outcomes

Students who successfully complete this unit will be able to:

  • Provide model used to interpret communication activity
  • Identify your own communication styles as well as being responsive to those of others
  • Utilize foundational skills in researching, evaluating and presenting information in different forms for professional communication purposes
  • Display confidence in approaching involvement in different forms of professional communication
  • Assess the relevance of mobile and online forms of communication to professional communication requirements

Teaching methods

Hawthorn

Type Hours per week Number of weeks Total (number of hours)
Live Online
(Lecture)		 1 12 weeks  12
On-campus
(Tutorial 1)		 2 12 weeks  24
On-campus
(Tutorial 2)		 2 12 weeks  24
Unspecified Learning Activities 
(Independent Learning)		 7.5 12 weeks  90
TOTAL     150

Assessment

Type Task Weighting ULO's
AssignmentIndividual 35% 1,2,3,4,5 
Class ExercisesIndividual 45% 1,2,3,5 
TestIndividual 20% 3,4 

Content

  • Basic research techniques
  • Information acquisition and organisations
  • Resource evaluation
  • Academic writing skills
  • Theories of communication
  • Communicating for a corporate audience
  • Writing for the digital age
  • Intercultural communications
  • Effective presentation techniques

Study resources

Reading materials

A list of reading materials and/or required textbooks will be available in the Unit Outline on Canvas.