Communication

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Up at dawn to get the scoop. Hands racing to write the first draft of history. Here's to our media, and our communicators, the gatekeepers, truth tellers, and story makers. Pitching to media and riding out the rush of the embargo, to feel the satisfaction of seeing the breaking news. It's that thrill of reading your byline in print and the way the ink on the pages stains your fingertips. It's framing up the perfect shot, planning an award-winning campaign. And when your design is on the best billboard in the city, they are our experts, sifting through the world's noise, drawing out a single thread to hit home, on the frontline of every global event, in the campaign room, and behind all your favorite brands, armed with pen and paper, a camera, creativity, and the skills to make an impact.  

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As part of the global security challenges course we decided to change up the way that we assessed the students and we thought we would come up with a scenario-based exercise that allowed them the opportunity to role play, to simulate what it might be like to participate in a UN Security Council meeting.

You're learning in a multimodal way, I would say. You've got tutorials, you have in-person and online lectures, you've got workshops where you're in class, i.eracting with other people, you're using language in the interpreting lab. I am amazed at how much my Chinese has improved because I've been working with it day in, day out, hour after hour. So I've seen a huge improvement in my language skills and my ability to deal with complex translation tasks, in particular.

A highlight here at RMIT has been making use of the interpreting laboratory because it is an industry-standard interpreting laboratory that has all of the equipment for simultaneous conference interpreting. So to be able to have an experience that is reflective of the real-world industry is really exciting.

RMIT is preparing me to look, I would think in an unparalleled experience. The teachers and the training staff at RMIT have been absolutely fantastic in actually getting us ready for the real-life experience.

I would say that what makes it a standout is the passion the staff bring to the program. We're really committed to our students because we treat them as our future colleagues. We've got great industry connections and the best thing is that all our teachers, the tutors and also continuing the staff, they are all very connected to their industry and all our programs are industry certified.

Thinking through what's next. Well, we really want to keep our focus on the future-oriented learning for our graduates. They're going into a world where the issues we're addressing from global security challenges through to development and crisis management, very real they're moving fast. They're changing quickly. It's for us to make sure our program responds to and resonates with those needs.