CMS8000 Professional Communication Dissertation (FOART)

Units 4.0 (Communication & Media Studies) Band 1

Synopsis

This 4 unit course enables students enrolled in the Master of Professional Communication or Master of Editing and Publishing degrees to complete their dissertation under supervision. The dissertation shall consist of a 12,000-15,000 word assignment on a topic chosen by the student and approved in advance by the supervisor, and may be either the result of original investigation, or embody a critical appraisal or analysis of primary or secondary source material. Students who have completed appropriate production course work units may, with the approval in advance of the dissertation supervisor, include a substantial software production in a medium or media other than print. Where a software production is submitted for assessment it must be accompanied by a dissertation theorising and contextualising the production at a level appropriate to the award of Master of Professional Communication or Master of Editing and Publishing. In such cases the length of the dissertation may be reduced to no less than 10,000 words.