Media at Macquarie? (1 Viewer)

[bling05]

Gday,
thinking of deing Media at Macquarie or Media/Law...does anyone that does Media care to comment on it? Is it a good course? Practical? Theory? Shit course? Good course for someone who wants to be a journalist?
Let me know!!

 

[AsyLum]

If you want to be a journalist, then UTS may be a better place for you, its more focused on that sort of thing. Having said that, it doesn't really qualify you for much more than being a journalist, which is the strength (and perhaps weakness) of the Creative Writing major at MQ. It'll allow you to do more than just journalism and expand into other areas.

On top of that though, with anything media/communications related, there are two things that people look for, experience and portfolios, so much of the work will rely on you actually being pro-active about things. Getting yourself published in anything/everything you can is the best path for a journalist.

 

[antisheep]

I've just transferred from Communications at UTS and the journo kids do really vocational stuff. From the first week they're having to get their own news stories that haven't been reported on before, go out in the city interviewing, etc. It's intense but apparently alot of fun so if you're sure you wanna be a journo kid that may be an option... Although Asylum is right in saying that it only qualifies you to be a journo.. to a point. Another main advantage of the UTS is course is it's a BA Communications rather than B Media, which opens alot more corporate doors in internal communications, PR etc. I know alot of people who completed communications degrees and are now working within varied sectors such as advertising, human resources, internal communications, media outlets etc. It's a degree with a fairly broad scope and can take you alot of places if you're willing to put in the hard yards (i.e. get yourself the internships in the summer, volunteer at radio stations, do anything you can to get yourself published ANYWHERE). According to alot of people that I've spoken to in the industry, as soon as people see the "B Media" they immediately think more multimedia and design stuff rather than writing. That being said I'm sure it's a great course regardless.

My question is... if you wanna be a journalist why do you want to do a law degree? Why spend almost twice the time in uni and get over twice the debt? I'm not saying not to do it cos law apparently makes a good generalist degree too, i was just wondering if there was any reason.

Regardless, you seem to have your eye on two very popular careers at the moment. Hope you work hard this year!

 

[AsyLum]

Hehe, its actually quite funny you say that, because MQ actually changed from a B Mass Communication to B Media, (thus the prefix MAS rather than MEDIA)

I must admit I have had a few people actually ask what I do in my degree, but like antisheep said it does provide you opportunities to work in varied sectors (and as she said its up to you to make that happen), they restructured the media degree recently so that you can actually now take on several areas, screen/print/radio/multimedia/writing during the second and third, then you got PR, internship and other theoretic stuff. (Before you were locked into your major, so you could only really do Multimedia or Screen etc.)

NB. I'd probably still maintain UTS would be a better option if you're keen on journalism. They really do have it down

 

[bling05]

I've just transferred from Communications at UTS and the journo kids do really vocational stuff. From the first week they're having to get their own news stories that haven't been reported on before, go out in the city interviewing, etc. It's intense but apparently alot of fun so if you're sure you wanna be a journo kid that may be an option... Although Asylum is right in saying that it only qualifies you to be a journo.. to a point. Another main advantage of the UTS is course is it's a BA Communications rather than B Media, which opens alot more corporate doors in internal communications, PR etc. I know alot of people who completed communications degrees and are now working within varied sectors such as advertising, human resources, internal communications, media outlets etc. It's a degree with a fairly broad scope and can take you alot of places if you're willing to put in the hard yards (i.e. get yourself the internships in the summer, volunteer at radio stations, do anything you can to get yourself published ANYWHERE). According to alot of people that I've spoken to in the industry, as soon as people see the "B Media" they immediately think more multimedia and design stuff rather than writing. That being said I'm sure it's a great course regardless.

My question is... if you wanna be a journalist why do you want to do a law degree? Why spend almost twice the time in uni and get over twice the debt? I'm not saying not to do it cos law apparently makes a good generalist degree too, i was just wondering if there was any reason.

Regardless, you seem to have your eye on two very popular careers at the moment. Hope you work hard this year!

As you said law is a good generalist degree, but additionally I'm not 100% sure if I'm going to go into journalism, and I suppose I'd like to keep my options as open as possible, and becoming a lawyer is a potential option for me as my family have a law firm.