How will this course benefit my career?
The degree enables you to work in a number of emerging fields. Depending on how you tailor your program, you could work in communications, media and marketing, internet content management, internet policy and regulation, online research and analysis, website design and development. As the degree integrates the impact of the internet, it can also lead to careers in more traditional media and information industries.
Course overview
Explore the human dimension of the Internet – how people network, interconnect and creatively design the Internet. The degree examines the Internet as a social technology and a key development in the world of media and information in which we now live.
This degree combines professional outcomes, scholarly creativity, technological skills and intellectually demanding academic study, as well as the chance for innovative cutting-edge project work. The approach is inter-disciplinary involving options to develop skills in website design, online writing and communication, virtual community management, and links well in media, business and computing.
Majors
In the Bachelor of Arts (Internet Studies) you will study:
- Internet communications
- Internet content production and management
- Internet policy and regulation
- Online research and analysis
- Virtual communities
- Website design and development
