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, including across mobile, online, interactive and emerging forms of medial.

Requisites

Unit learning outcomes

Students who successfully complete this unit will be able to:

  1. Identify and develop an industry standard model to interpret communication activity across diverse social and cultural communication contexts
  2. Identify and develop personal and professional communication styles through collaborative feedback
  3. Utilise foundational skills in researching, evaluating and presenting professional information across diverse and dynamic media formats
  4. Display confidence in approaching involvement in different forms of professional communication
  5. 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

Swinburne Online

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
Class Exercises Individual  30%  1,2,3,5 
Oral Presentation Group  20%  1,2,3,4,5
Applied Project Group  30%  1,2,3,4,5 
Test Individual  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