Outline
Outline
The Graduate Certificate in Internet Communications provides you with an opportunity to learn some of the key aspects of the human dimensions of the internet - how people network, collaborate, and share information through internet communications, media and design.
Depending on your choice of units, you will develop skills in creating, maintaining and/or managing online communications for personal and commercial interactions, as well as gain knowledge of the social and cultural contexts of those interactions.
The course has an interdisciplinary approach: you can develop skills in websites, public communication, social network management, collaboration via virtual organisations, and web media production. At the same time, you will learn about the political, economic and social changes associated with the internet. Building on your existing qualification, this course can provide the knowledge and skills to help you become an astute, engaged professional communicator via the internet.
Upon successful completion of the Graduate Certificate in Internet Communications, you may transfer to the Graduate Diploma of Internet Communications and then enrol in the master degree.
Please refer to the handbook for additional course overview information.
What jobs can the Internet Communications course lead to?
Our graduates find work in web design and development, in independent online businesses, and as members of the media industry as it develops to include and prioritise the online world. Because of the open structure of the course, they can add almost any skill or knowledge to their core Internet learning. The course provides graduates with the chance to shape and manage their own careers and become leaders in using and managing the Internet in our society.
Our graduates are well positioned to undertake management, operational and policy work concerning the Internet, giving informed advice, making good decisions, and basing their professional work in a deeper understanding of the profound changes that the Internet is bringing.
This course will assist your career development and allow you to take up new employment opportunities. You will then be able to help our society harness the technological development of the Internet for practical and valuable social uses.
What you'll learn
- understand and apply at an advanced level key concepts of Internet Studies and apply transdisciplinary thinking to the application and creation of ideas concerning networked technologies of information and communication
- think critically, creatively and reflectively so as to imagine, design, use and critique networked technologies of information and communication
- conduct advanced scholarly and professional research to find, access, organise, evaluate and synthesise information through a variety of media and apply that information to the construction of knowledge
- communicate and facilitate communication through a variety of media, for different purposes, and for different audiences
- use the Internet and related networked technologies of information and communication with an understanding of the complex interaction of political, cultural, and economic forces that constitutes technology as social
- further develop skills and knowledge through independent research and self-directed learning
- understand and utilise in their research and work the complex interplay of local, national and global factors that influence and are expressed through the Internet and networked technologies of information and communication
- recognise and value cultural difference and understand its significance in relation to network technologies and their use in society for communication and information
- act ethically and responsibly to use, sustain and expand the social, business and cultural networks that exist via the Internet, when working independently and in teams
