Bachelor of Arts

Course code: 3920 + Course abbreviation: BA + Total credit points required: 144 + 3 years full-time, 6 years part-time

Study mode and course location

On-campus (Malaysia)

Course description

The broad teaching and learning objectives of the Bachelor of Arts degree ask of students that they satisfy the requirements of study within the range of disciplines in the humanities, social sciences and communications offered by the faculty at Monash Malaysia.

Course Objectives

Students are encouraged to grasp the opportunity provided by undertaking a Bachelor of Arts to develop their imaginations and gain a broad understanding of new ideas, skills and concepts.

Course structure

Students must complete the following:

(a) an arts major (48 points) from either of the following study areas:

Communication

COM1010 Media studies
COM1020 Introduction to communication studies
COM2/3409 Media texts
COM2/3411 Media, culture, power – theories of mass communications
COM2407 Authorship and writing
COM3413 Cultural and communications policy
COM3423 Media audiences
PRL2003 Public relations theory and processes

Writing

COM1010 Media studies
COM1020 Introduction to communication studies
COM2/3409 Media texts
COM2407 Authorship and writing
COM3408 Screen theories and techniques
WRT2405 Contemporary fiction
WRT3421 Writing 1: techniques
WRT3422 Writing 2: portfolio

International Studies

HPL3503 International relations
INT1010 Contemporary worlds 1
INT1020 Contemporary worlds 2
INT2030/3030 Nationality, ethnicity and conflict
INT2040/3040 Globalisation and its discontents
INT2050/3050 Mobile worlds: migrants refugees and the politics of belonging
INT2060/3060 Global cultures, local traditions: creating and consuming (popular) culture
LIN2160/3160 Managing intercultural communications

(b) an arts minor (24 points)

(d) another 12 points of arts at first, second or third-year level

(e) a minimum of 36 points at third-year level (across the duration of the degree).

Of the 144 points, 96 points must be in the structure outlined in steps (a) to (d), and the remaining 48 points may be taken from disciplines in the Faculty of Arts or from disciplines outside the faculty. his means the student can study a second major from the Arts faculty or a major (equivalent) from another faculty. A major from a faculty other than Arts usually requires the permission of that faculty.

Note that no more than 10 units (60 points) are to be completed at a first-year level. Students have a maximum of eight years to complete this course.

Contact details

www.arts.monash.edu.au/current/coursework/contact_us/

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