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Double degree 4 years February, July and October RM38,213 Malaysian student RM43,680 International student 2020 fees per year Professionally accredited Work placement program CAREER PATHS Graduates can explore many roles in: • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • financial analysis human resources public relations marketing accountancy international trade administration advertising journalism publishing editing writing corporate communications multimedia tourism. NOTE This double degree will be known as Bachelor of Business and Commerce and Bachelor of Digital Media and Communication in 2020, upon approval from the Ministry of Education Malaysia. BACHELOR OF BUSINESS AND COMMERCE AND BACHELOR OF DIGITAL MEDIA AND COMMUNICATION KPT/JPT (R2/340/6/0099) 10/21 - MQA/SWA0109 Broaden your career options by combining business and commerce with digital media and communication. This double degree offers a world-class education in the economic, political, legal, social, cultural and technological principles that exist around the world, while giving you a strategic and critical understanding of the role of mediated communication in society. You’ll gain all the benefits of each degree course, and be fully equipped to pursue a career in either field or to combine your knowledge from both to gain a competitive edge in today’s interconnected industries. Areas of study BUSINESS AND COMMERCE Designed to provide you with high-level skills in a range of key business disciplines, this course will equip you to work in and manage different functions across an organisation. It blends a conceptual theoretical framework with practical applications, providing both a broad basis for business and commerce study and a more specific knowledge of your selected major(s). We offer nine majors in: • • • • • • • • • 70 UNDERGRADUATE PROSPECTUS 2020 Accountancy Applied economics Banking and financial management Business analytics Business law and taxation Econometics and business statistics International business management Management Strategic marketing. COMMUNICATION You’ll explore the workings of the media and develop your knowledge and skills in describing and analysing the organisation, processes, uses and effects of traditional and new communications technologies such as print, television, film, electronic and digital media, and the complex relationships between audiences, producers and policymakers. You’ll learn to critically analyse the media, the structure of communications industries, and the relations between media, culture and power in global and local contexts. We offer 12 units, including: • • • • • • • • • • • • Media studies Communication technologies and practices Contemporary media theory Freedom and control in the media Introduction to internet studies Digital media 1 Digital screens Digital media 2 Youth and mobile media Research methods in the social sciences Digital society: Engaging with the world Reading social media: sociotechnological literacies.