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QUT (Queensland University of Technology)

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Bachelor of Communication (Professional Communication)/Bachelor of Public Health

  • Bachelor

Combine communication and public health to promote healthy lifestyle choices, prevent the spread of disease and improve education.

Key details

Degree Type
Bachelor
Duration
4 years full-time
Course Code
429522, 096581B
Study Mode
In person
Intake Months
Feb
ATAR
70

About this course

Highlights
  • Develop high-level professional writing skills and gain knowledge and experience in a range of areas including organisational communication such as strategic speech writing and delivery, as well as persuasive writing.
  • Visits and lectures from industry, work integrated learning placements and projects, and international study options will provide you with real-world experience and contacts.
  • Learn to implement strategies that promote healthy lifestyle choices, prevent the spread of disease and improve education. Work as a health communications specialist, print and online editor, or in health products promotion and marketing.
Highlights
  • Develop high-level professional writing skills and gain knowledge and experience in a range of areas including organisational communication such as strategic speech writing and delivery, as well as persuasive writing.
  • Visits and lectures from industry, work integrated learning placements and projects, and international study options will provide you with real-world experience and contacts.
  • Learn to implement strategies that promote healthy lifestyle choices, prevent the spread of disease and improve education. Work as a health communications specialist, print and online editor, or in health products promotion and marketing.

Entry requirements

Study locations

Kelvin Grove

What you will learn

Bachelor of Communication (Professional Communication)

This course prepares you for communication roles across a broad range of professional settings in small and large organisations.

In addition to the high-level professional writing skills required by employers you will develop knowledge and experience in a range of areas. These include organisational communication such as strategic speech writing and delivery and persuasive writing including the role of rhetoric in contemporary communications and important societal debates.

You will graduate with advanced writing and communication competence - a rare skill keenly sought by employers - as well as practical industry knowledge and networks.

Graduates can work as professional writers and editors in corporate government community and freelance capacities. Your skills support careers in leadership and management in the private sector.

Bachelor of Public Health

This course offers the flexibility that allows you to concentrate your studies in areas that align with career opportunities. You will choose five elective units from areas that include community nutrition Indigenous health family and gender issues health management and general studies in psychology.

Our graduates are strategic thinkers who can apply their knowledge to develop innovative solutions that create improved health and quality of life for everyone.

With your public health and communication knowledge you can implement strategies that promote healthy lifestyle choices prevent the spread of disease and improve education. Work as a health communications specialist print and online editor or in health products promotion and marketing.

Career pathways

Careers and outcomes

With your public health and communication knowledge you can implement strategies that promote healthy lifestyle choices prevent the spread of disease and improve education. Work as a health communications specialist print and online editor or in health products promotion and marketing.

Possible careers
  • Communication strategist
  • Health educator
  • Public health program manager

Course structure

In order to complete this course you must complete a total of 384 credit points made up of 192 credit points from the Bachelor of Communication (Professional Communication) and 192 credit points from the Bachelor of Public Health. You will undertake the two components of the double degree concurrently.

Communication component

You will complete:

  • four core units (48 credit points)
  • a communication major (144 credit points) in professional communication.
Public health component

You will complete:

  • core public health units (144 credit points)
  • public health elective studies (36 credit points)
  • a professional practice unit (12 credit points).
Study overseas

Study overseas while earning credit towards your QUT degree with one of our worldwide exchange partners. Overseas study can be for one or two semesters (or during the semester break) and the units you take can be in either degree area depending on how they match with your QUT course.

In order to complete this course you must complete a total of 384 credit points made up of 192 credit points from the Bachelor of Communication (Professional Communication) and 192 credit points from the Bachelor of Public Health. You will undertake the two components of the double degree concurrently.

Communication component

You will complete:

  • four core units (48 credit points)
  • a communication major (144 credit points) in professional communication.
Public health component

You will complete:

  • core public health units (144 credit points)
  • public health elective studies (36 credit points)
  • a professional practice unit (12 credit points).
Study overseas

Study overseas while earning credit towards your QUT degree with one of our worldwide exchange partners. Overseas study can be for one or two semesters (or during the semester break) and the units you take can be in either degree area depending on how they match with your QUT course.