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

Teaching Periods
Location
Start and end dates
Last self-enrolment date
Census date
Last withdraw without fail date
Results released date
Semester 1
Location
Hawthorn
Start and end dates
26-February-2024
26-May-2024
Last self-enrolment date
10-March-2024
Census date
31-March-2024
Last withdraw without fail date
12-April-2024
Results released date
02-July-2024
Winter
Location
Hawthorn
Start and end dates
17-June-2024
28-July-2024
Last self-enrolment date
17-June-2024
Census date
28-June-2024
Last withdraw without fail date
12-July-2024
Results released date
13-August-2024
Semester 2
Location
Hawthorn
Start and end dates
29-July-2024
27-October-2024
Last self-enrolment date
11-August-2024
Census date
31-August-2024
Last withdraw without fail date
13-September-2024
Results released date
03-December-2024

Learning outcomes

Students who successfully complete this unit will be able to:

  • Identify and develop an industry standard model to interpret communication activity across diverse social and cultural communication contexts
  • Identify and develop personal and professional communication styles through collaborative feedback
  • Utilise foundational skills in researching, evaluating and presenting professional information across diverse and dynamic media formats
  • Display confidence in approaching involvement in different forms of professional communication
  • Assess the relevance of mobile, online, interactive and emerging forms of communication to professional communication requirements

Teaching methods

Hawthorn

Type Hours per week Number of weeks Total (number of hours)
Online
Lecture
1.00 12 weeks 12
On-campus
Class
2.00 12 weeks 24
Specified Activities
Various
3.00 12 weeks 36
Unspecified Activities
Various
6.50 12 weeks 78
TOTAL150

Sarawak and All Applicable Locations

Type Hours per week Number of weeks Total (number of hours)
Online
Directed Online Learning and Independent Learning
12.50 12 weeks 150
TOTAL150

Assessment

Type Task Weighting ULO's
AssignmentIndividual 35% 1,2,3,4,5 
Class ExercisesIndividual 45% 1,2,3,5 
TestIndividual 20% 3,4 
Applied ProjectGroup 30% 1,2,3,4,5 
Class ExercisesIndividual 30% 1,2,3,5 
Oral PresentationGroup 20% 1,2,3,4,5 
TestIndividual 20% 1,2,3 

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.