Monash University - Faculty of Arts

Monash Studies Abroad

HSY3165/4165/HYM4165 Final Journey

An intensive Study Abroad unit that follows the road to Auschwitz

Beginning in Berlin, this 16-day intensive Study Abroad unit explores the pre-war life of European Jewry. Students will visit sites that mark the rise of Nazism and study the Final Solution through lectures, museums, memorials and meetings with European students grappling with the legacy of the past. Participants will travel to the major centres of interwar life and encounter the diverse heritage of each place. The program includes visits to synagogues, cemeteries and destroyed ghettos, and concludes with a guided visit to the sites of destruction including Auschwitz–Birkenau. We will ask what remains of the past by looking at the ways in which the lost world of European Jews is being memorialised and renewed through tourism and return.

Dates: 25 June to 11 July 2010

Itinerary: Includes Berlin, Prague, Krakow, Lublin, Zamosc, Vilnius, Bialystok, Warsaw.
For the complete itinerary, please click here [pdf 122kb]

Lecturer: Assoc. Professor Mark Baker, Director of Australian Centre for Jewish Civilisation and Coordinator, Holocaust and Genocide Studies. Co-ordinator: Sue Hampel, tutor in Holocaust and Genocide Studies.

For: This unit is a level 3 and 4 Arts intensive unit for undergraduate and postgraduate students. Students undertaking study at Prato are also eligible.

Eligibility: Monash students who will be chosen on the basis of early interest and academic merit. Priority will be given to postgraduate students.

To apply: Download and complete Application Form [pdf 77kb].

Information Sessions: Tuesday 27 October 2009, 12–1pm, ACJC, Building H, level 8, Caulfield Campus Or Wednesday 28 October, 12–1pm, Law Building (Building 12), Room L4, Clayton Campus.

Further Information: See Frequently Asked Questions or Contact acjc@arts.monash.edu.au

For further information and all the relevant contact details, please refer to the Information for Students document [pdf 145kb]

Other Useful Forms and Links
Monash Abroad OS-Help
Booking Form [pdf 35kb]
Covermore Travel Insurance Information [pdf 224kb]
Pre-departure advice for international study programs [pdf 145kb]

HSY3195/4195/HYM4195 Israelis and Palestinians: Between War and Peace

An intensive Study Abroad Unit exploring peace, conflict and reconciliation

Based in Israel, this two-week intensive Study Abroad unit examines the complexities of Israeli and Palestinian society. Students will investigate current attempts to mediate peace between Jews and Palestinians through political, social and educational institutions and explore the themes of cultural pluralism, migration, settlements and security issues, terrorism and counter-terrorism, and Jerusalem and its holy sites. Participants will travel to the Palestinian territories and tour the length and breadth of Israel where they will visit schools, museums, the Supreme Court and NGOs engaged in reconciliation work.

Dates: 15-29 November 2010

Lecturer: Assoc. Professor Mark Baker, Director of Australian Centre for Jewish Civilisation and Coordinator, Holocaust and Genocide Studies.

For: This unit is a level 3 and 4 Arts intensive unit for undergraduate and postgraduate students.

Eligibility: Monash students who will be chosen on the basis of early interest and academic merit. Priority will be given to postgraduate students.

Information Sessions: Tuesday 27 October 2009, 12–1pm, ACJC, Building H, level 8, Caulfield Campus Or Wednesday 28 October, 12–1pm, Law Building (Building 12), Room L4, Clayton Campus.

Further Information: See Frequently Asked Questions or Contact acjc@arts.monash.edu.au

INT3140/4140/ITM4140 After Atrocity: The Holocaust, South Africa, Rwanda

This unit will bring together students from Monash campuses in Australia and South Africa to study the contemporary histories of post-genocide and post-conflict societies, through three specific cases: European Jews after the Holocaust; the South African approach after apartheid; and local and global responses to the Rwandan genocide. Held in the winter semester as a two-week intensive, students will spend a week in Johannesburg and a week in Rwanda exploring public debates on memory and justice through visits to memorial sites and museums. Places to be explored include Soweto, the Apartheid Museum, Constitution Hill, the Murambi genocide memorial and a Gacaca village trial.

Dates: June-July 2011 (to be confirmed)

Lecturers: Associate Professor Mark Baker, Director of Australian Centre for Jewish Civilisation and Co-ordinator, Holocaust and Genocide Studies Program; and Professor Simon Adams, Deputy Pro Vice-Chancellor (International) and Head, Schools of Arts, Monash South Africa.

For: This unit is a level 3 and 4 intensive for undergraduate students of International Studies, History, Jewish Studies and graduate students of Global Studies, History and Holocaust and Genocide Studies.

Eligibility: Monash students who will be chosen on the basis of early interest and academic merit. Priority will be given to postgraduate students.

Financial Support

Financial support available through the Monash Abroad Travel Grants Scheme.
For further information see www.monash.edu.au/students/studyabroad/grants/short-term/travel.html

Jewish Studies Abroad Scholarships

For details of scholarships available to students enrolled in Jewish Studies Abroad units see Scholarships & Prizes