Digital Communication
Digital media is at the heart of modern communication. Explore how to make digital media communicate effectively, look awesome, and tell a great story.
AUT's Digital Communication courses offer a mix of media communication, production workflows, strategic thinking, and technological competencies that prepare you for a wide range of careers. Majoring in Digital Communications can lead you into an exciting and fast-paced career such as a digital strategist or producer. You could also pair Digital Communications as a conjoint major or minor to help you build a breadth of desirable media production skills that will compliment any media or communications role.
During your Digital Communication studies, you will work on various projects to create websites, app proposals, videos, motion graphics, and print media that can serve as portfolio pieces. You will develop a high level of critical thinking and strategic planning skills and manage production cycles from idea to final product.
What can I expect over the next two years?
In Year 2, the papers you take offer a grounding in the production, strategies, and theories of a range of digital media. Visual Communication provides an entry point to adobe software, digital workflows, visual theories, and production techniques. These are then built on in the more focused papers, Moving Image Communication and Online and Interactive Communication, which provide foundational knowledge in digital video production and web and app production respectively. In Year 3 of Digital Communication you build on the learning of Year 2, providing more focused and specialised subjects for study and an emphasis on digital strategy and digital producing. Digital Video and Motion Media provide further study in time-based media such as video and motion graphics. Web Media and Online Strategies further explore user engagement and user experience design. Digital Communication Project provides a capstone project for the major, where students work on real-world briefs while learning to work in teams to meet client needs on time and on budget.
Key features
Includes a substantial digital media project for a real client
A mix of strategy, creativity, and technical skills
Covers skills needed in all areas of communications
Hear more about these pathways with Matt Guinibert
Majoring in digital communication will prepare you for a wide range of roles
Digital strategist
Digital media project manager, producer or consultant
Digital video specialist
Instructional media designer
Interactive media producer or consultant
Mobile app designer
Mobile content developer
Motion graphics designer
A Major in Digital Communication
This consists of 120 points and you will take the following papers over two years
DIGM601 Moving Image Communication
DIGM602 Online and Interactive Communication
DIGM603 Visual Communication
DIGM701 Virtual Cinematics (Option)
DIGM706 Digital Audio (Option)
DIGM707 Web Media
DIGM709 Motion Media
DIGM711 Digital Communication Project
DIGM712 Online Strategies (Option)
A Minor in Digital Communication
This consists of 60 points and you will take four of the following papers over two years
DIGM601 Moving Image Communication
DIGM602 Online and Interactive Communication
DIGM603 Visual Communication
DIGM701 Virtual Cinematics
DIGM706 Digital Audio
DIGM707 Web Media
DIGM709 Motion Media
DIGM712 Online Strategies
See yourself as
An innovative storyteller
An early adopter or digital trendsetter
A creative and imaginative problem solver
Comfortable in a fast paced and constantly changing industry