Future students
Why study at Griffith?
Arts, Communication and Journalism at Griffith equip you with the knowledge and expertise to create the future. Our programs focus on giving you:
Expertise in new literacies
- Visual Literacy is a key element of communication in the twenty-first century. You must be able to discriminate and interpret the complex visual actions, objects and symbols you encounter.
- Media and Information Literacy: how to interpret, evaluate, use and create knowledge using traditional and new digital forms of communication.
- Numeric Literacy: how to identify and solve socio-economic problems using a range of quantitative methods.
- Economic Literacy: how to assess the consequences of changes in socio-economic conditions and public policies; how to analyse the costs of innovation against the benefits.
- Cross-cultural Literacy: how to understand and appreciate differences and similarities in life-ways and cultures within Australian and other societies.
- Scientific and Technological Literacy: how to evaluate scientific and technological knowledge and its impact on the human condition.
Skills in effective communication
Employers demand graduates who have high level communication skills, the ability to research complex situations and the ability to craft and transmit the appropriate message for the target audience. We offer expertise in how to speak and write with clarity and precision, for a variety of formats and in a range of voices. Graduates need to be able to work face-to-face, via radio and TV screens and even more virtually (Blogs, PODs and beyond). They need to present knowledge comprehensively and convincingly, to make an argument appropriate to the forum and to create a media persona for themselves or others. New modes of communication provide students with the opportunity to explore and experiment in the public sphere and the workplace and to begin to create their own networks and niches that will be the bedrock of their career success.
Expertise in creative thinking
Arts disciplines remain fundamentally about teaching people to be critical and creative thinkers. Now the challenge is to produce graduates who understand the complexities of the human condition in a world where accelerating global flows of information are profoundly changing notions of self, community and nation. They need a focus on how to create new communities and original work and the rights and responsibilities that go with creation. They must be especially able to think critically and creatively about economic and cultural innovations as citizens, producers and consumers.
Public engagement and productivity
We aim to equip you for employment in fields that are changing profoundly in response to economic innovation and new government policies. We are witnessing the emergence of new vocations and forms of employment in both the public and private sectors that demand of graduates in Arts, Communication and Journalism that they demonstrate independence and leadership, and understand processes and techniques for planning, project management and risk analysis. As work is now characterized by new styles of collaboration and teamwork, Arts graduates must have expertise in community-building and independently managing interpersonal relations.
Central to our vision is interdisciplinary team-based research in collaboration with community and industry partners in the southeast conurbation. Our research in the public sphere gives you unique opportunities for research-based learning, work integrated learning and the skills to undertake industry-based or postgraduate research of national and international significance.
Careers
At Griffith, you will be immersed in a diverse program of study to prepare you for a wide range of careers world wide.