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QTAC code (Australian and New Zealand applicants): Toowoomba campus: 909521; External: 909525; Springfield campus: 929521

CRICOS code (International applicants): Pending

You are currently viewing the 2023 Handbook. For study in 2024, please refer to the .

Please be advised that this program will be transitioning from Semester to Trimester study periods in 2024. Trimester 1 starts on 22 January 2024. Read more in our new academic calendar FAQs.

Notes

In 2023 the program follows the Semester calendar. The Academic Calendar and Important Dates webpage will allow you to view and download a copy of the important dates for the Semester calendar.

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Program aims

For Communication and Media students

The program aims to produce diplomates who have:

• Demonstrated competencies in communication skills necessary for further academic study in appropriate discipline areas

• Acquired basic knowledge in one or more disciplines in a relevant degree program.

For students intending to transfer to other UniSQ programs

This program aims to provide students with:

• Identify and apply key communication models, their principles and elements to their personal, study and work lives.

• Communicate with high degree of clarity and coherence focusing on specific recipients using professional or technical language.

• Recognise employment opportunities within industry.

• Have familiarity with entry-level industry expectations.

• Identify avenues for developing professional networks.

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Australian Qualifications Framework

The Australian Qualifications Framework (AQF) is a single national, comprehensive system of qualifications offered by higher education institutions (including universities), vocational education and training institutions and secondary schools. Each AQF qualification has a set of descriptors which define the type and complexity of knowledge, skills and application of knowledge and skills that a graduate who has been awarded that qualification has attained, and the typical volume of learning associated with that qualification type.

This program is at AQF Qualification Level 05. Graduates at this level will have specialised knowledge and skills for skilled/paraprofessional work and/or further learning.

The full set of levels criteria and qualification type descriptors can be found by visiting .

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Program Information Set

View UniSQ鈥檚 admission criteria, student profiles and a summary of all offers made under via the QTAC website.

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Admission requirements

To be eligible for admission, applicants must satisfy the following requirements:

• Have achieved a minimum Australian Tertiary Admission Rank (ATAR) of 65, or equivalent qualification.^

• Assumed knowledge expectations: English (Units 3 & 4, C).

• English Language Proficiency requirements for Category 2.

All students are required to satisfy the applicable .

If students do not meet the English language requirements they may apply to study a 精东传媒app-approved . On successful completion of the English language program, students may be admitted to an award program.

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Program fees

Commonwealth supported place

A Commonwealth supported place is where the Australian Government makes a contribution towards the cost of a students' higher education and students pay a , which varies depending on the courses undertaken. Students are able to calculate the fees for a particular course via the .

Commonwealth Supported students may be eligible to defer their fees through a Government loan called .

Domestic full fee paying place

Domestic full fee paying places are funded entirely through the full fees paid by the student. Full fees vary depending on the courses that are taken. Students are able to calculate the fees for a particular course via the

Domestic full fee paying students may be eligible to defer their fees through a Government loan called provided they meet the residency and citizenship requirements.

Australian citizens, Permanent Humanitarian Visa holders, Permanent Resident visa holders and New Zealand citizens who will be resident outside Australia for the duration of their program pay full tuition fees and are not eligible for .

International full fee paying place

International students pay full fees. Full fees vary depending on the courses that are taken and whether they are studied on-campus, external or online. Students are able to calculate the fees for a particular course via the .

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Program structure

The Diploma of Professional Communication comprises eight units of study, two of which are core courses. The remaining six units are Advertising, Journalism and Public Relations courses. The Diploma of Professional Communication may articulate into the Bachelor of Communication and Media.

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Required time limits

Students have a maximum of 4 years to complete this program.

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Core courses

Commencing students must complete HAC1000 The Skilful Communicator^拢 and HAC1001 The Professional Self: Building Career Identity in their first and second semester of study. A credit for these courses may be granted for students with a previous UniSQ undergraduate degree.

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Articulation

A Diploma of Professional Communication, subject to selection of appropriate courses, articulates into the Bachelor of Communication and Media . Students must keep in mind that normal entry requirements still apply for their chosen area of study.

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Exit points

This program can be used as an exit point for the Bachelor of Communication and Media, where a student has completed at least eight courses in the disciplines of Advertising, Journalism or Public Relations.

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Credit

Graduates from other UniSQ programs within the last 10 years may be credited for the core requirement of the Diploma of Professional Communication.

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Course transfers

Courses may be transferred to other programs; students should consult the relevant School.

Recommended enrolment pattern

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Recommended enrolment pattern