Politics, International Studies, Social Sciences and Humanities
Behavioural studies
Campus | Berwick, Caulfield, Clayton
Behavioural studies explores human behaviour in the continuously changing and challenging environments of the 21st century. It promotes a multi-disciplinary approach to the study of issues such as the relationships between the individual and the social; human relationships, theories of personality, identity, self and others, explanations of criminal behaviours, individual development, conflict and difference and the self in digital environments. Examples of units include the criminal mind, digital selves, personality and beyond the persona, understanding human behaviour, social behaviour and psychology. Behavioural studies can play a significant role in preparing students for employment in most areas that involve the understanding, management and direction of human behaviours and relations such as human services, management, marketing, communications, media and recruitment.
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Child and youth development
Campuses | South Africa
Child and youth development promotes and facilitates optimum development of children and adolescents with both normal and special developmental needs, ensuring that their effectiveness within all the contexts in which they function. This area of study makes a significant contribution to the knowledge base of child and youth care workers. Such knowledge aims to prepare such workers for professional practice, which can focus on the infant, child and adolescent within the context of the family, the community and across the life span.
Community studies
Campuses | Gippsland, Off-campus
Community studies offers a range of interdisciplinary units that introduce students to community issues in postmodern contexts. These units aim to expose students to current debates about the meaning, nature and outlook of communities.
Community welfare and Counselling
Campus | Gippsland, Off Campus
Social and community welfare is designed to provide students with an understanding of social issues as they relate to their personal, organisational and socio-political contexts. Students will develop the necessary skills and knowledge to allow them to work effectively in organisational and community contexts and to bring about change at a personal, community, organisational and political level.
Criminal Justice
Campus | Gippsland, Off-campus
Many thousands of people in the public and private sectors are employed in dealing with the prevention and consequences of crime. They make important decisions about the daily lives and freedoms of thousands of citizens. This program provides students with the skills to understand the complexities of crime, to learn about the various stages of the criminal justice system, to critically analyse its workings and tensions and to explore alternative strategies.
Criminology
Campus | Caulfield, Clayton, South Africa
Many thousands of people in the public and private sectors are employed in dealing with the prevention and consequences of crime. They make important decisions about the daily lives and freedoms of thousands of citizens. This
program provides students with the skills to understand the complexities of crime, to learn about the various stages of the criminal justice system, to critically analyse its workings and tensions and to explore alternative strategies.
European studies
Campus | Clayton
This area looks at the present, past and possible futures of Europe, its peoples and nations; cultures, political and economic life and the relationships that link Europe to the rest of the world. Students can expect to learn about the contribution that European thought and culture have made to shaping the modern world and the significance of contemporary developments such as the European Union.
Gender studies
Campus | Caulfield, Clayton, Sunway
Gender studies is an exciting field of study broadly concerned with questions of gender, sexuality and culture. Gender studies units cover specific topics such as how gender issues are represented in film, literature, popular culture, advertising and the media; the relationship between gender and crime; connections between gender, consumption and marketing; gender, class and race and crosscultural feminism. Gender studies rests on the belief that all social processes are 'gendered' and these units bring innovative theory and research techniques to the study of women’s lives and the dilemmas in gender relations and sexualities.
History-politics
Campus | Clayton, Gippsland, Off Campus
Students build their knowledge of the history and politics of Europe, Australia, Asia and the major world powers. This major area of study provides a high level of academic competence in the study of continuity and change in human society and a deeper understanding of the nature of the past and the present world.
International studies
Campus | Caulfield, Clayton, South Africa, Sunway
International studies is a cross disciplinary major that begins by examining the history of the 20th century before moving on to study the issues facing the world moving into the 21st century. We focus on the effects of globalisation and question the potential outcomes of the move towards greater integration. We explore some of the benefits including access to better and cheaper goods and services, better health and better understandings of each other's cultures and traditions, but also the downside such as environmental destruction and the re-emergence of aggressive nationalism and racism.
Politics
Campus | Berwick, Caulfield, Clayton
Politics is concerned with government, policy and political institutions, resource allocation, decision-making, social behaviour and political action, conflict and power struggles, and the struggle for political freedom. Students at Monash may specialise in one of the following four broad areas of politics: Australian politics, international relations and global politics, politics of culture and identity, or social and political theory.
Psychology (as an Arts discipline)
Campus | Caulfield, Clayton, South Africa
Psychology is concerned with a wide range of phenomena including remembering and forgetting, thinking, problemsolving, learning, the acquisition of skills, language, seeing and hearing, decision-making, verbal and non-verbal communication, social interactions, and emotions. It is also concerned with the practical and ethical applications of psychological research to the profession. While the major focus is on people, animals are also studied because of the light they throw on human behaviour and because they are of interest in their own right.
Psychological studies
Campus | Gippsland, Off Campus
Psychological studies provides a sequence of units covering popular applied areas of psychology including forensic psychology, parapsychology, the psychology of sport and adventure, and psychology at work. These units are underpinned with a broad introductory background unit that explores a wide range of human behaviours, followed by developmental, personality, social and abnormal psychology units. The major and minor sequence in psychological studies are designed for those who are not intending to take up psychology as a profession but combine well with other areas of study such as education, social welfare, journalism, criminal justice, and sociology.
Sociology
Campus | Caulfield, Clayton, Gippsland, Off Campus, South Africa
Sociology students study people and the relationships they enter into as members of various social groups, for example families, schools, workplaces and cultures. Students reflect upon their own lives and look at a range of social issues in contemporary Australian society from a variety of perspectives. Specific subject areas include health, the environment, deviance, women's lives, race and ethnic relations, the family, work and technology, (human) reproduction, social justice and legal institutions, sociological theory and research.
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AREAS OF STUDY
Community welfare & counselling
Comparative Literature & Cultural Studies
Conservation of biological diversity and cultural heritage
English as an international language
Geography & environmental sciences
Indonesian & Indonesian studies
Spanish & Latin American studies
Sustainability, environment & society
Urban, regional and international development