Stage2 - Diploma of Arts and Creative Industries - Communication, Design and Arts, Leading to Bachelor of Arts in Digital and Social Media Navitas Group - Curtin College, Australia

Students who have already completed Year 12 (or equivalent) may start with the Stage 2 Diploma, which has the same course content and structure as year one of the corresponding Curtin University undergraduate degree. Upon completion of your Diploma, you will progress directly into the second year of your Curtin University Bachelor's degree program.

Stage2 - Diploma of Arts and Creative Industries - Communication, Design and Arts
The Diploma of Arts and Creative Industries leads into the Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Communications, Bachelor of Creative Arts or Bachelor of Design. You will learn transferable skills in communication, creativity, critical thinking, digital knowledge, presentation, problem solving, research and teamwork that can be applied to a range of workplaces in the creative industry.

Leading to: Bachelor of Arts
The Bachelor of Arts is a flexible degree where you can tailor your studies to your creative passions and career goals. Our majors combine theoretical study and practical, industry-relevant content, so you graduate confident and ready to launch your career.

Major: Digital and Social Media
This course explores the social, cultural and political impacts of the internet and digital and social media platforms. You will learn the fundamentals of online communications: how people network, create, collaborate and share information through digital and social media platforms, for a range of different purposes and career paths.

You’ll build practical and advanced skills in creating, maintaining and managing online communications across web media, publishing and presence, and develop expertise in online collaboration and community management.

You’ll learn how to effectively mobilise digital and social media to promote products, causes and interests. You’ll understand how digital and social media are changing political systems and reshaping cultures, societies and economies, and how you can use digital and social media to make the world a better place.

You’ll graduate career-ready for diverse roles in digital and social media and strategy, content and policy.

Digital and Social Media is offered as part of the Bachelor of Arts. You can create a degree that suits your career goals by enhancing your studies with a second major.

What you'll learn

• Understand and apply key concepts of Internet Studies and apply transdisciplinary thinking to the application and creation of ideas concerning networked technologies of information and communication
• Think critically, creatively and reflectively so as to imagine, design, use and critique networked technologies of information and communication
• Conduct appropriate scholarly and professional research to find, access, organise, evaluate and synthesise information through a variety of media and apply that information to the construction of knowledge
• Communicate and facilitate communication through a variety of media, for different purposes, and for different audiences
• Use the Internet and related networked technologies of information and communication with an understanding of the complex interaction of political, cultural, and economic forces that constitutes technology as social
• Further develop skills and knowledge through self-directed learning
• Understand the complex interplay of local, national and global factors that influence and are expressed through the Internet and networked technologies of information and communication
• Recognise and value cultural difference and understand its significance in relation to network technologies and their use in society for communication and information
• Act ethically and responsibly to use, sustain and expand the social, business and cultural networks that exist via the Internet, when working independently and in teams