Certificate IV in Advertising

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Get into a career in the challenging field of advertising. In this course you'll learn about target markets, audience profiling, pre-campaign testing, production monitoring, advertisement scheduling, media buying and more.

You will develop sophisticated advertising skills and a broad knowledge base that can be applied in many industry contexts.

Course Essentials

How to apply

We are currently accepting applications for this course.

Already a VU student?

You can transfer into this course through our internal transfer process.

For more info contact the
School of Business Services

Careers

  • account co-ordinator
  • art director
  • copywriter
  • media assistant
  • media buyer
  • assistant account planner
  • media planner

Learn more about your career options on the Australian government's Career Information and Resources website.

Course Objectives

The course aims to provide the knowledge and skills required for a person wishing to acquire well-developed advertising skills & a broad knowledge base for application in a wide variety of Industry contexts.

Units and electives

All units selected are subject to the approval of the Head of School.

Units from other Training Packages must not duplicate units selected from the Business Training Package.

All units selected must contribute to and combine to form a work outcome.

Complete five core units listed below:

Plus a minimum of five elective units:

The course is approximately 6 months full-time.

What's a unit?

A unit or 'subject' is the actual class you'll attend in the process of completing a course.

Most courses have a mixture of compulsory 'core' units that you need to take, and optional 'elective' units that you can choose to take based on your area of interest, expertise or experience.

How to apply for this course

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