Undergraduate courses and subjects 2000 - Structure and organisation of the faculty

Structure and organisation of the faculty

The term 'Faculty of Arts' is used both in a broad descriptive sense and in a strictly legal sense. In the descriptive sense, it is used to include all students enrolled for arts degrees and all staff, including academic, administrative, technical and clerical, attached to the schools and centres of the faculty and to the Arts faculty office.

· The schools and the faculty offices on the Clayton campus are housed chiefly in the west and south wings of the Robert Menzies building. A noticeboard on the ground floor indicates the location of schools and staff.
· On the Caulfield campus, the school/faculty office is located on the fourth floor of building B.
· On the Peninsula campus, the faculty office can be found on the fourth floor of building A.
· At the Berwick campus, the administration office is found on level three of building D.
· At the Gippsland campus, the school/faculty office is located in building 2W.
· The Monash Malaysia campus is located in Kuala Lumpur.

The Faculty of Arts is one of the largest in the university both in terms of student and staff numbers and operates on the Berwick, Caulfield, Clayton, Gippsland and Peninsula campuses in Australia and at the Monash Malaysia campus in Kuala Lumpur. The faculty has about 4000 undergraduate students and offers undergraduate degrees and diplomas as well as a large range of graduate programs.
The Faculty of Arts is also responsible for the administration of two university degrees: the Bachelor of Communication degree offered on the Berwick campus and the Bachelor of Arts, an open-access degree available through Open Learning Australia.
The faculty is a body established under university statute. It comprises members of the teaching staff and other persons as appointed by the University Council. The responsibility for making academic decisions lies with the faculty board, which comprises heads of schools, appointed and elected members, elected members of the general staff, student members, nominees of other faculties and the library.
The faculty also has a number of committees, including an executive committee, undergraduate and graduate studies committees, and committees for research, international and external relations, and finance and resources.