Creative Industries & Business

Short Courses (Communication)

The following credit-bearing Bachelor of Communication courses can also be taken as one-off courses. You will join current communication students in class and undertake assessment projects as applicable. Once you complete the course, you will receive a Certificate of Proficiency and at a future date, if your application to join the Bachelor of Communication is successful, you may be able to cross-credit the course to the programme.

Digital Media and Communication Tools
Academic Skills for Communication Studies
East meets West: Asian Popular Culture and its Impact on the West
Creativity in Communication

Semester 1:

Digital Media and Communication Tools

This short course shows how computers are used to design, produce and deliver communication in traditional and online publishing. Learn to use basic computer tools to build works of communication in a variety of media, including text, images, numbers, sound and video. You also explore presentation techniques, desktop publishing, and social software such as wikis and blogs.

2011 Dates

Duration

Days

Times

Course

Code

Class

7 Mar - 8 July

13 weeks

Tue & Thur

3pm – 5pm

COMM 5534

009135

1744

Location: Building 172, Department of Communication Studies, Mt Albert campus

Fee: $568.50

Note: Please complete an Application/Enrolment Form for New Students

 

Academic Skills for Communication Studies

This short course will enable you to think critically and communicate effectively for academic purposes such as in essays and reports, and to conduct basic research procedures appropriate to communication studies. Explore how to structure logical arguments, how to do literature reviews/annotated bibliographies, how to develop a research proposal/question, and how to use databases and Endnote reviews/critiques.

2011 Dates

Duration

Days

Times

Course

Code

Class

TBC

13 weeks

Tue

08.30am –10.30am

COMM 5543

009146

1729

TBC

13 weeks

Wed

1pm – 3pm

COMM 5543

009146

1729

TBC

13 weeks

Thur

08.30am –10.30am

COMM 5543

009146

1729

Location: Building 172, Department of Communication Studies, Mt Albert campus

Fees: $568.50

Note: Please complete an Application/Enrolment Form for New Students

 

East meets West: Asian Popular Culture and its Impact on the West

In this short course you will explore the linkage between the technology-based visual culture of East Asia, its impact on Western popular culture (primarily youth culture) and its economic implications.

2011 Dates

Duration

Days

Times

Course

Code

Class

TBC

13 weeks

Tue

10.30am –12.30pm

LANG 5212

010021

2172

TBC

13 weeks

Thur

1pm – 3pm

LANG 5212

010021

2172

Location: Building 172, Department of Communication Studies, Mt Albert campus

Fee: $568.50

Note: Please complete an Application/Enrolment Form for New Students

 

Creativity in Communication

To enable students to understand the contributions of creativity to professional communication roles. It equips students with a range of techniques for collaborative teamwork, problem solving and communicating novel ideas, while exploring how to prepare creative messages for various media.

2011 Dates

Duration

Days

Times

Course

Code

Class

3 Aug - 9 Nov

13 weeks

Wed - Lecture

8.30am –10.30am

COMM 5533

 

5556
3 Aug - 9 Nov 13 Weeks Wed - Tutorial 10:30am - 12:30pm

COMM 5533

 5556

4 Aug - 10 Nov

13 weeks

Thur - Tutorial

10:30am - 12:30pm

COMM 5533

 

5556

Location: Building 172, Department of Communication Studies, Mt Albert campus

Fee: $568.50

Note: Please complete an Application/Enrolment Form for New Students

Further information

For further information please contact Student Central on study@unitec.ac.nz or 0800 10 95 10 or +64 9 815 2945.

All fees include GST. If there are insufficient numbers registered for a course Unitec reserves the right to postpone or cancel.