The document provides information about communication and creative industries programs offered at a School of Humanities and Communication Arts. It describes bachelor's degrees in areas such as communication, creative industries, screen media, and communication/creative industries. It outlines the courses and majors/sub-majors available for each degree. It also discusses the school's facilities, student experience, internship and study abroad opportunities, and industry partnerships.
4. CONTENTS
01 Courses
B.Communication
B.Creative Industries
B. Screen Media
B. Communication/Creative Industries
02 Facilities
Studio and Production Facilities
03 Student Experience
04 Internships & Study Abroad
Opportunities for students
05 Industry Partnerships
Industry experience opportunities students
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5. 01.
COURSES
Programs on offer in Communication Arts
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10. B Communication Degree Overview
• Studies include media, communications and arts
• With practical studies in media arts production and
digital journalism, advertising, public relations
• Teaching is both theoretical and practical
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B.COMMUNICATION
• The Media Arts Production Major covers a
variety of digital platform production
practices including; short film, documentary,
experimental, transmedia and TV
11. • Journalism major
provides students with an understanding
of the relationship between many news
media forms and processes of production
and consumption. Students learn how
communication works while developing
skills for newspapers, magazines,
internet, radio, television, corporate and
community media contexts.
• Interdisciplinary Sub-major
(Cultural and Social Analysis)
Includes: popular culture, cinema
studies, everyday urban life, cultural
and social impacts of scientific theories
and new technologies and
multiculturalism.
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B.COMMUNICATION
12. What Students Learn
• To reflect and value ethical and intellectual conduct
as well as respect for diversity and social justice
principles
• To find a key area of interest through project work
• To actively participate in team-based, problem-based
learning in the community and professional contexts
• To develop an understanding of how to create
content for a variety of digital media platforms
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B.CREATIVE INDUSTRIES
13. Creative Industries Course Overview
• Communication Industries
• This course is for those wishing to build a career in the
creative industries, working in small business
environments, and creative media communications
organisations
• Combines studies from Communication and Arts, with
Business studies in innovation and entrepreneurship and
introduction to Law
• Students work in small collaborative teams alongside
community and industry organisations
• Students develop a portfolio of works that include project
management, planning, and creative outcomes
• Available at Parramatta, and Penrith with some units
online 3 years full time
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B.CREATIVE INDUSTRIES
14. How Students Learn:
• Combine communication, media, arts, business,
and law studies
• Students find an area of interest through project and
industry project work
• Actively participate in team-based, problem-based
learning in community and professional contexts
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B.CREATIVE INDUSTRIES
15. Core studies provide invaluable skill set
for employability
Creative Industries: The core subjects are
the compulsory units which includes studies
in communication and media theory, digital
writing, and introduction to law and business
skills around entrepreneurship and
innovation
From year 2, students work in Creative
Teams units, in tandem with small business
partners on actual industry projects
Core skills include problem solving, design
thinking, collaborative team roles, project
management, public communication and
speaking, plus digital skills for business
interaction
Students exit this course with a digital
portfolio reflecting the quality of their
creative industry project work and
specialisation.
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B.CREATIVE INDUSTRIES
17. Possible major/ sub major combinations
All students select 2 Intro Majors in Year 1 – this
means they have the option to take one Major OR 2
Sub-majors from Year 2
Some possible Sub-major combinations are:
• Creative Writing / Advertising
• Literature /Journalism
• Media Arts Production/ Music
• Public Relations/Enterprise Innovation
• Cultural and Social Analysis /Law and the Creative
Industries
• Music/Enterprise Innovation
• Literature / Enterprise Innovation
• Advertising /Culture and Society
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B.CREATIVE INDUSTRIES
19. New Media and Production
Facilities
Based at our Parramatta campus the School of
Humanities and Communication Arts has new
creative industries teaching facilities which include
illustration, animation and design studios; modern
photographic studios; HD edit suites; a full HD
multi-camera television studio and control room;
audio and state-of the-art postproduction edit
facilities.
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Students may access through an online
booking system cameras (industry standard
video and DSLRS) and a range of equipment
including gibs, lighting and specialist camera
and design equipment.
Video: New Parramatta Studios
https://vimeo.com/rachelbentley/wsuparramattastudios
http://western-production.format.com
28. Internships
Students work with their Area Coordinators
to secure internship places. We have a
database of over 500 employers and
enterprises willing to take our students.
The internship program requires students to
do. A parallel online program assists to
document their experience on weekly blogs.
May students receive further work and paid
internships post the initial internship.
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29. BACHELOR SCREEN MEDIA (ARTS
PRODUCTION)
Journalism students have taken up Internships
corporations/institutions including:
• Australian Consolidated Press –ACP Magazines
• ABC Australian Broadcasting Corporation
• BBC British Broadcasting Corporation
• Nepean News
• Nine Network Australia
• SBS Special Broadcasting Corporation
• SMH Sydney Morning Herald
• Sunday Telegraph
• Western Weekender
• Yahoo 7
Industry Partnerships
31. BACHELOR SCREEN MEDIA (ARTS
PRODUCTION)
Students have taken up Internships with
corporations/institutions such as:
• SBS (Special Broadcasting Corporation)
• Cordell Jigzaw
• Beyond Productions
• Discovery Channel
• Animal Logic - Animation and Digital Effects
• George Miller – Legend of the Guardians
• Make Believe Productions
• Endless Solar
• Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Industry
Partnerships
33. Semi-Permanent is a global platform that brings together renowned creative practitioners
through live events and digital experiences. Now in its 15th year, Semi-Permanent
continues to inspire and enable the creativity community with an exciting line-up in 2017.
In Visual Communication, our recent and current community learning partners include:
Sydney Water; Penrith Regional Gallery Lewers Bequest; Lifeline; Headspace; Cancer
Council; Australian Hearing; Show Me the Way; Penrith Council.
*These organisations have brought live creative briefs to the Rabbit Hole, our fourth year
work integrated learning studio.
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35. Storyology 2017
WSU journalism students were the reporters on the ground for Storyology 2016, Australia’s
premier journalism and storytelling festival.
As their news blog testifies they, ‘distilled the wisdom, hopes, hilarity and chaos of Storyology...’
The students say the experience was a kind of ‘journalism bootcamp’; covering stories,
interviewing speakers and engaging social media for the event. The experience was invaluable
in developing multi media skills and gave students the opportunity to network with senior
journalists and media organisations.
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36. WSU Students at Storyology…
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43. Wendy Chandler
AWARDS
HEIRLOOMS: Animation Series
Producer, Co-Director, Editor, Animator, Compositor
Best Television Series
Bradford International Animation Festival, UK
· Silver Conch, Best Animation
Mumbai International Film Festival
· Highly Commended
Melbourne International Animation Festival
· Finalist Best Animation
ATOM Awards: Finalist
Lena Wiess Award for Humanity
Stuttgart International Animation Festival, Germany
· Finalist Pulcinella Awards Best Educational and Social Issues Film
Cartoons on the Bay, International Television and Cross-Media Animation
Festival, Italy
ONE OF THE LUCKY ONES: Hybrid Documentary
Writer, Director, Editor, Animator, Compositor
· If Media Award for most Popular Film
Flickerfest International Film Festival
· Finalist Best Documentary
ATOM Awards
· Finalist Best Film
AEAF Awards (Australian Animation and Effects Festival)
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44. Dr Amin Palangi
Awards and Nominations
• Winner of Golden Pheonix, Fajr Int. Film Festival – Love
Marriage in Kabul
• Winner Best Director, Australian Director’s Guild – Love Marriage
in Kabul
• Winner, Sydney Film Festival Audience Choice Award – Love
Marriage in Kabul
• Winner, Canberra International Film Festival – Love Marriage in
Kabul
• 2014 Finalist, The Walkley Documentary Award – Love Marriage
in Kabul
• Finalist, Film Critics of Australia Award – Love Marriage in Kabul
• 2013 Grant recipient, Australian Council for the Arts
• 2012 Winner of Best Short film at Korean Film Festival -
Immigrant and Cigarettes
• Winner of Best Documentary, Noor Film Festival, LA - Hidden
Generations
• Winner of Best Tertiary Short Film, ATOM Awards - Close
Distance
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45. Assoc. Prof. Juan Salazar
Nightfall on Gala (2015) Documentary Film. HD Video 93 min.
Writer, Producer, Director.
Festival Screenings:
• RAI International Ethnographic Film Festival Bristol, June 2015
• Antenna International Documentary Film Festival , Sydney,
October 2015
• MIDBO Bogotá International Documentary Film Festival , Bogotá,
October 2015
• CPH:DOX Copenhagen International Documentary Film Festival
, November 2015
• Barcelona Planet Film Festival, February 2016 – Best
Documentary Film Award
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46. Senior Lecturer: Dr Rachel
Bentley2017
Unlimited- Solar Car Challenge
Screening Earth Hour Featured Documentary, Penrith City Council
2016
BRAVE - Student welfare. Catholic Care schools Assoc.
2015
Documentary CUTBACK: Occupy the City (SBS2 Screening October
2015, and NYC Indie Film Festival Finalist)
2012-2014
Kokoda – In the Footsteps of The Brave Documentary (ATOM Finalist)
Indigenous Models of Achievement (IMOA) (ATOM Finalist)
Models of Achievement (IMOA) (ATOM Finalist)
Enquiring Minds (Children’s series and game) ATOM finalist
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Notes de l'éditeur
Youtube clip is of Lynette – Journalism at Western Sydney University.