Communication & Public Value

About this subject

• What you'll learn

  At the completion of this subject you will have:

  1. an understand the history and sectoral contexts of ‘values’ as rationales for organisations, their goods and services;
  2. skills in comparing and evaluating different value rationales;
  3. a familiarity with best practice models of public value currently used internationally by organisations to understand, measure and communicate their contributions to public life;
  4. experience in identifying an organisation’s ‘authorising environment’ and the key relationships between its constituent parts;
  5. experience in developing indicators of public benefits;
  6. practical experience in designing a public value model for an organisation, to improve its internal and external communication processes and foster resilient relationships with its ‘authorising environment’;
  7. an understanding of the benefits and problems involved in strategic partnering;a greater capacity to participate in policy development and application;
  8. an enhanced understanding of the role played by communications practices in influencing and expressing what publics value.

• Topics covered

• Description

• Assessments

• Textbooks

• About Griffith University

Entry requirements

Part of a degree

To enrol in this subject you must be accepted into one of the following degrees:

Core

• GRF-MCM-GCE-2025 - Graduate Certificate in Communication

Elective

• OUA-PSU-GCE-2025 - Postgraduate Single Subjects

Prior study

You must either have successfully completed the following subject(s) before starting this subject, or currently be enrolled in the following subject(s) in a prior study period; or enrol in the following subject(s) to study prior to this subject:

one of

• GRF-COM190-Communication Research Skills
• GRF-COM120-Visual Culture

and one of

• GRF-COM110-Introducing Communication Studies

• GRF-COMM110 (Not currently available)

Please note that your enrolment in this subject is conditional on successful completion of these prerequisite subject(s). If you study the prerequisite subject(s) in the study period immediately prior to studying this subject, your result for the prerequisite subject(s) will not be finalised prior to the close of enrolment. In this situation, should you not complete your prerequisite subject(s) successfully you should not continue with your enrolment in this subject. If you are currently enrolled in the prerequisite subject(s) and believe you may not complete these all successfully, it is your responsibility to reschedule your study of this subject to give you time to re-attempt the prerequisite subject(s).

Others

COM190 only applies to new students commencing this program in 2015. If you are an existing student, COM120 applies to you.

Additional requirements

No additional requirements

Study load

0.125 EFTSL

This is in the range of 10 to 12 hours of study each week.

Equivalent full time study load (EFTSL) is one way to calculate your study load. One (1.0) EFTSL is equivalent to a full-time study load for one year.

Find out more information on Commonwealth Loans to understand what this means to your eligibility for financial support.