undergraduate

communications & Arts
Communications and Arts offers a wide range of
specialisations in Communications, Media, Design, Arts and
the Humanities. All courses are designed to equip graduates
with the knowledge and skills needed to live, work, and
contribute to the technological and creative culture of the
21st Century. Students have great flexibility to tailor their
course to their interests and to graduate with more than one
area of expertise.
FACILITIES and SERVICES
Studying at ECU means you have access to a state-of-theart
education environment. There’s 24 hour, 7 day a week
access to our artists’ studios, edit suites and computer labs
with printing facilities and the latest software. The very best
digital and analogue video, audio and photographic equipment
is also available for loan from our on-campus Media Store.
Then, when you’re ready, we’ll showcase your work through
exhibitions, performances, competitions, screenings, and
broadcast media.
CREATIVE ACHIEVEMENTS
Our course structures are designed to promote multi-skilling
of students which, combined with our focus on community
projects and industry placements, serves to increase
employment prospects in an increasingly competitive market.
Our students have been highly successful, both nationally
and internationally, in gaining recognition through awards,
competitions and employment in rapidly growing creative
industries.
REGIONAL WINNERS IN THE GOOGLE ONLINE
MARKETING CHALLENGE
Competing as online marketing consultants, Georg
Widschwendter, Michael Allbeury and Marjorie Fouquereau
from ECU’s Communications, Design and Marketing courses,
have cleaned up at the Google Online Marketing Challenge,
standing out against more than 3,000 teams from 600
universities around the world.
ECU JOURNALISM STUDENTS AND Western
Australian POLICE WORKING TOGETHER
Journalism students from ECU’s School of Communication
and Arts have joined budding detectives from the Western
Australian Police Detective Training School in a joint initiative
to give trainee journalists and detectives real-life experience.
Competing for interviews, interrogating detectives and
reporting evidence are all covered in mock scenarios designed
to prepare students to step out into the workforce.
COMMUNICATIONS STUDENTS SHINE AT ASIA
PACIFIC MEDIA FORUM
Annabel Slade and Eva Reppen were named joint champions
at the Forum, with their essay and presentation on the impact
and ethics of social media impressing an international panel of
industry judges.
RED CARPET BONANZA FOR ECU FILMMAKERS
Congratulations to ECU Film and Video, Western Australian
Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA) and WA Screen
Academy students and graduates, who received an amazing
20 nominations in the 2010 WA Screen Awards, the State’s
version of the Oscars.
Bachelor of Creative Industries
The Creative Industries are a growing and important
component of the global economy, focused upon the
creation and exploitation of intellectual property across a
range of disciplines.
The Bachelor of Creative Industries is designed to meet
the needs of the Creative Industries and enable graduates
to meet the challenges of employment (including selfemployment)
in today’s society in which the creative
industries play an increasingly central role.
See page 41 for more details on this courses.
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