Master of Intelligence and Master of Security and Strategic Studies

Program Overview

The Master of Intelligence equips graduates with practical skills to analyze real-world intelligence challenges and develop an understanding of Australia's intelligence community, emerging domestic, regional, and international challenges surrounding intelligence. The program offers access to highly respected experts in the intelligence sector, dynamic simulations, and war games to enhance practical skills and knowledge. Additionally, graduates can extend their expertise in security studies with electives in areas like counter-terrorism, cybersecurity, and criminology.

Program Outline

Degree Overview:

Smartphones and social media, digital networks and big data, gamification and mobile platforms – digital media continue to change the way we live, work and communicate. This course interrogates the impact of digital technologies on individuals and society, and provides you with the skills and knowledge to be able to think critically and creatively about digital media. You'll learn about diverse digital media techniques and processes, including coding and hacking, web design, digital ethnography and more to complement your analysis of critical theory. Merging theory and practice, you'll gain an understanding of the social, cultural and economic roles of digital media. The content of the course modules is informed by the research interests and practice of academic staff who teach them, allowing you to gain the knowledge and skills to thrive in this dynamic, fast-paced sector.

Outline:

You'll take a core module called Digital Practices, which spans the length of the course to introduce you to critical issues. You'll be introduced to a range of digital practices including web building, web design and data mining in order to open up how you think about digital media. We will also concentrate on digital methods, thinking about a range of digital tools and processes for undertaking research. We’ll touch on web languages such as HTML and CSS to open up how we think about digital media. No experience of the practical skills are required, but some knowledge is desirable. We’ll critically examine the relationship between digital media and contemporary culture and the interactive forms and practices that are emerging, and you'll gain some practical production, project management and critical skills through group work tasks and collaborative projects. You'll then have the chance to broaden your approach with your choice of optional modules, from photography and cinematics to political communication, television narratives and public relations in society. You'll complete a written dissertation, using the digital methods and skills you've learnt, applying these to a critical research issue. If you choose to study part-time, you’ll complete the course over two years, instead of one, taking fewer modules each year.

Course Structure:

• Year 1 Compulsory Modules:
• Dissertation and Research Methods (60 credits)
• Digital Practices (60 credits)
• Year 1 Optional Modules (selection of typical options shown below):
• Making Sense of Sound (30 credits)
• Movies, Migrants and Diasporas (30 credits)
• Humanity, Animality and Globality (30 credits)
• Critical Studies in Visual Communication (30 credits)
• Promotional Media, Culture and Society (30 credits)
• Popular Music and Society (30 credits)
• The Media Industries (30 credits)
• Global migration, `race?
and media (30 credits)
• Postcolonialism, Animals and the Environment (30 credits)
• Global Indigeneity (30 credits)
• The Literature of Crisis: Politics and Gender in 1790s Britain (30 credits)
• Writing Identities: Criticism, Creativity, Practice (30 credits)
• Rhetoric and Public Speaking (15 credits)
• Managing Business Across Cultures (15 credits)
• International Organisations: Context, Theory and Practice (15 credits)
• Writing for Professional Purposes (15 credits)
• Arts and Activism (30 credits)
• Cultural Policy and the Politics of Culture (30 credits)
• Narrative Perspectives in Practice (30 credits)
• Digital and Intermedial Storytelling (30 credits)
• Researching Inequality in the Media (30 credits)
• Reality TV: Truth or Fiction?
(30 credits)
• Videogames and Society (30 credits)
• Debates on Disability Theory and Research (30 credits)

Assessment:

We also use a range of assessment methods, depending on the modules you choose. They’re likely to include practical projects, essays, reports, group and individual presentations and case studies among others.

Teaching:

You’ll be taught in a mixture of practical workshops, lectures and small group seminars which allow you to discuss your reading and present some of your research to other students. Independent study is crucial to this degree, allowing you to practice your skills and deepen your knowledge. You'll be taught by active researchers in the field of communication and media. The research interests and practice of your tutors inform the content of the course. You may also be taught by industry professionals with years of experience, as well as trained postgraduate researchers, connecting you to some of the brightest minds on campus.

Careers:

People with high-level production, project management and critical analysis skills in digital media will be in high demand for decades to come, and this course will equip you with the knowledge and skills to thrive in a wide and rapidly expanding range of careers in digital media practice. These could include digital marketing, animation, web design and development, social media, analytics, PR and consultancy among others.

UK fees: £12,000 (Total) International fees: £27,250 (Total)