CCI500 Professional Communication Trends and Influences (16)

Abstract

Professional communication is a diverse and dynamic field spanning a range of contexts, disciplines and literatures. This subject helps students to ‘map’ the communication field and critically reflect on important trends and influences including social, technological, ethical, legal, cultural and practice issues, for the field generally, and for students’ particular discipline of interest.

+ Subject Availability Modes and Location

Session 3
Online	Bathurst Campus

Continuing students should consult the SAL for current offering details: CCI500
Where differences exist between the Handbook and the SAL, the SAL should be taken as containing the correct subject offering details.

Subject information

Duration	Grading System	School:
One session	HD/FL	School of Communication and Creative Industries

Learning Outcomes

Upon successful completion of this subject, students should:

demonstrate ability to review, analyse and synthesise important trends and influences on the field of communication
demonstrate ability to reflect critically on trends and influences from different stakeholder and other perspectives
demonstrate ability to think critically about tensions between change and status quo within their own field of practice, and make high level judgments concerning future trends or policy

Syllabus

The subject will cover the following topics:

Technological, ethical, societal, cultural, legal, media, ownership and other trends influencing professional communication
Communication practice, professionalism and stakeholder perspectives
Power, symbolic power and discourse

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