The School of Humanities, Communications and Social Sciences is located at the Gippsland campus The school offers postgraduate study towards the degree of Doctor of Philosophy and Master of Arts by research in a variety of disciplinary areas: Australian studies, cognitive science, communications, community studies, Asian studies, gender studies, history, politics, journalism, social welfare, sociology and writing. Mid-year entry is available.
Further information may be obtained by contacting Ms Louise Bye, postgraduate administrator, telephone (03) 5122 6575, fax (03) 5122 6400 or email HUMCASS.info@arts.monash.edu.au, or via the website at http://www.arts.monash.edu.au/humcass.
Teaching and research within the school focuses around a number of disciplinary areas, including history, politics, Indonesian, journalism, mass communications, writing, sociology, social research, social welfare and cognitive science. Particular areas of academic expertise include Australian politics; Australian history; citizenship and governance; public policy; social policy; radio journalism; television journalism; cultural theory; mass communications; media studies; organisational communication; multimedia; relations between media, culture and power; writing; gender studies; feminist theory; community development; welfare practice and methodology; social work in rural contexts; sociology of work; sociology of deviance; environmental sociology; cross-cultural sociology; social research; sociology of race and ethnicity; research methodology; sociology of religion; sociology of children and family, and Australian urban and regional studies.
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