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Humanities, communications and social sciences

Located at the Gippsland campus, the School of Humanities, Communications and Social Sciences offers postgraduate study towards the degree of Master of Arts by research and the Doctor of Philosophy in a variety of disciplinary areas: Australian studies, cognitive science, communications, history, politics, sociology and women’s studies.

Further information may be obtained by contacting Ms Louise Bye, postgraduate administrator, telephone +61 3 9902 6575, fax +61 3 9902 6400, email HUMCASS.info@arts.monash.edu.au, or visit www.arts.monash.edu.au/humcass.

Research strengths and supervision

Teaching and research within the school focuses around a number of disciplinary areas, including history, politics, journalism, 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; public relations, 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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