10851 (v.5) Public Relations (Media) 250

Area:	School of Marketing
Credits:	25.0
Contact Hours:	3.0
The tuition pattern below provides details of the types of classes and their duration. This is to be used as a guide only. For more precise information please check your unit outline.
Tutorial:	1 x 1.5 Hours Weekly
Seminar:	1 x 1.5 Hours Weekly
Prerequisite(s):	10854 (v.6) Public Relations (Techniques) 220 or any previous version
Syllabus:	The unit covers the principles and practice of media relations, and the place of media relations in the public relations management process. Students learn the skills, tools and planning needed to manage relations ethically with those in the media responsible for editorial content. Issues and crisis management with local, national and international media. Mass versus specialist media, controlled and uncontrolled media and how to select the right tools for the job. The impact of the rise of social media.How to plan, manage and evaluate media relations strategies. Writing for the media, and organising media conferences. Giving radio and television interviews and training media spokespersons. How to plan, manageand evaluate media relations strategies. Writing for the media, organising media conferences, communicating under fire, crisis media relations and facing the media. Giving radio and television interviews and training media spokespersons.
To ensure that the most up-to-date information about unit references, texts and outcomes appears, they will be provided in your unit outline prior to commencement.
Field of Education:	080509 Public Relations
SOLT (Online) Definitions*:	Not Categorised *Extent to which this unit or thesis utilises online information
Result Type:	Grade/Mark

Availability

Year	Location	Period	Internal
2010	Bentley Campus	Semester 1	Y
2010	Bentley Campus	Semester 2	Y
2010	Lim Kok Wing Uni Malaysia	Semester 1	Y
2010	Miri Sarawak Campus	Semester 1	Y
2010	Miri Sarawak Campus	Semester 2	Y

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Fully Online refers to the main (larger portion of) mode of learning provided via Internet interaction (including the downloading of pre-packaged material on the Internet). Excludes online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External