The ambition and vision here is really simple. We want the best students to come and do a year’s intensive work in our research laboratories. Because you are already excellent in the area of media and communications practice and/or scholarship. Because you understand that honours tests you. Because you realise that honours provides you with the opportunity to be, and make, a difference that matters.
This is an honours program for now, and not for what scholarship, knowledge and media looked like last century. It is experimental, creative, and academic. It is about making with words and ideas, with ideas and artefacts. What doesn’t work will be changed. It will be amongst the best honours programs of its kind in Australia from the beginning.
the laboratories
Honours revolves around the year long research labs. Each lab is capped at around 15 students, and has a specific theme…
people
Find out who is here, who is doing honours, who has done it, and which staff are involved. It’s just an informal listing, with some connections to the other stuff we have around the honours community, for instance the ….
research
We have people who do cultural studies, film theory, musicology, popular music, gaming, game design, creative writing, photography, film making, advertising, public relations, journalism, new…
curriculum and pedagogy
Honours provides an integrated set of subjects that try to combine what you already know with learning about ‘research’. The simplest statement of the teaching concept in honours is that the best learning happens by doing…
view as a student
You might do honours because you know what you want to do next in your career, academically or professionally, and honours provides you with the chance to make or do that thing which will really open doors and make these possibilities happen for you, that demonstrates how and why you are different to all the other recent graduates out there….
view as a teacher
Honours provides the opportunity to apply your research to your teaching by working with a focussed, research active cohort of some of the best students in media and communication in Australia. With these students you can provide research problems that are directly related to current research so that the teaching undertaken becomes, for teachers, a chance to test ideas…
view from the school
This Honours program allows outstanding students to undertake substantial, year long projects on specific, research relevant topics. It utilises a laboratory or studio model with state of the art resources to let you achieve the sorts of things that establish reputations and demonstrate abilities relevant to future careers. You will study topics relevant to…