CCI500 Professional Communication Trends and Influences (16)

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.

Availability

Session 3 (90)
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

Grading System

HD/FL

Duration

One session

School

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

This 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

Contact

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Future students

The information contained in the CSU Handbook was accurate at the date of publication: May 2019. The University reserves the right to vary the information at any time without notice.

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