Professional Communication Practice
Duration
One semester or equivalent
Contact hours
- 36 hours over the teaching period, normally 3 hours per week
On-campus unit delivery combines face-to-face and digital learning. For Online unit delivery, learning is conducted exclusively online.
2021 teaching periods
Hawthorn
| Higher Ed. Semester 2 | ||
|---|---|---|
Dates: Results: Last self enrolment: Census: |
Swinburne Online
| Teaching Period 3 | ||
|---|---|---|
Dates: Results: Last self enrolment: Census: Last withdraw without fail: |
Prerequisites
Nil
Corequisites
Aims and objectives
Students who successfully complete this unit will be able to:
1. Provide model used to interpret communication activity.
2. Identify your own communication styles as well as being responsive to those of others.
3. Utilize foundational skills in researching, evaluating and presenting information in different forms for professional communication purposes.
4. Display confidence in approaching involvement in different forms of professional communication.
5. Assess the relevance of mobile and online forms of communication to professional communication requirements.
Courses with unit
BA-MCMN Bachelor of Media and CommunicationBA-MCMN PROF Bachelor of Media and Communication (Professional)
BB-MCMNBUS Bachelor of Business/Bachelor of Media and Communication
Unit information in detail
- Teaching methods, assessment, general skills outcomes and content.
Teaching methods
This unit will involve up to 150 hours of work including:
On-Campus & Sarawak
| Type | Hours per week | Number of Weeks | Total |
| Face to Face Contact Lecture Tutorial |
1 2 |
12 12 |
12 24 |
| Online Contact Not Applicable
|
|
|
|
| Specified Learning Activities Readings |
3 |
12 |
36 |
| Unspecified Learning Activities independent study |
|
| 78 |
| TOTAL |
|
| 150 hours/12.5cp |
SOL
| Type | Hours per week | Number of Weeks | Total |
| Face to Face Contact
|
|
|
|
| Online Contact Not Applicable |
|
|
|
| Specified Learning Activities Readings Online activities |
3 3 |
12 12 |
36 36 |
| Unspecified Learning Activities independent study |
|
| 78 |
| TOTAL |
|
| 150 hours/12.5cp |
Assessment
| Types | Individual or Group task | Weighting | Assesses attainment of these ULOs |
| Class exercises (9) | Individual | 45% | 1,2,3,5 |
| Assignments (2) | Individual | 35% | 1,2,3,4,5 |
| Tests (4) | Individual | 20% | 3,4 |
General skills outcomes
• Teamwork Skills
• Analysis Skills
• Problem Solving Skills
• Communication Skills
• Ability to tackle unfamiliar problems
• Ability to work independently
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.