Australian studies - Faculty of Arts

Offered by the School of Humanities, Communication and Social Sciences

Campus availability: Clayton, Gippsland, Off-campus learning*

* NOTE: A minor only is offered on the Gippsland campus and via Off-campus learning.

Relevant courses

2432 and 2450 Diploma in Arts (Communications)
2460 Diploma in Arts (Writing)
4040 Associate Degree of Social and Community Welfare
0002 Bachelor of Arts (and associated double degrees)
1708 Bachelor of Arts (Communication) (and associated double degrees)
2396 Bachelor of Arts (Journalism) (and associated double degrees)
3904 Bachelor of Arts (Journalism)/Diploma of Professional Writing and Editing
1731 Bachelor of Social and Community Welfare (and associated double degrees)

Australian studies is an interdisciplinary major available within the School of Humanities, Communications and Social Sciences. The major includes units from a range of disciplines within the school, enabling students to develop a broad understanding of Australian cultures, lifestyles and societies.

Sequences

First year sequence

A first year sequence in Australian Studies consists of two first year units chosen from the units below.

Minor sequence

Students complete a standard minor chosen from the units below.

Major sequence

Students complete a standard major chosen from the units below.

Units

Clayton

First-year level

AUS1040 Holiday business: An introduction to the tourism Industry
AUS1010 Out of empire (intensive mode)*
AUS1020 Democracy and nation*
AUS1060 Contemporary Australia
AUS1070 Sport and society in Australia
GES1020 Australian physical environments: Evolution, status and management
PLT1020 Australian politics and government
SCY1100 Introduction to sociology I
SCY1200 Introduction to sociology II
VSA1010 Contemporary visual culture

Second/Third-year level

Units marked with this symbol (*) cannot be included in an Arts double degree course. Further, non-Arts units are prohibited for students fulfilling a core Arts requirement, for example, non-Arts units cannot count towards the 96 point Arts core necessary to qualify for the Bachelor of Arts degree.

AIS1050 Aboriginal peoples, gender, and the colonial frontier
AIS2010/AIS3010 Social justice and Indigenous Australians
AIS2020/AIS3020 Racism and prejudice
AIS2090/AIS3090 Hearing the country: Studies in Indigenous Australian ethnoecology
AIS2180/AIS3180 Aborigines: Sport, race and gender
AIS2070/AIS3070 Australian Aboriginal women
AUS2000/AUS3000 Anzac legends: Australians at war
AUS2001/AUS3001 Broken earth: Journeys through the Australian landscape
AUS2002/AUS3002 Anzac battlefield tour (Prato)
AUS2015/AUS3015 A world of sport: Cultures, communities and communication
AUS2050/AUS3050 Australian sports writing
AUS2070/AUS3070 Australia in a globalising world
ECC2830 Industrial organisation in Australia*
ENH2690/ENH3690 Gender and authority in Australian literature
HSY2260/HSY3260 Australian Aboriginal history
HSY2300/HSY3300 Twentieth-century Australia
PLT2870/PLT3870 Power and democracy in Australia
PLT2970/PLT3970 Australia and the world
SCY2042/SCY3042 Multiculturalism, culture and social identities

Gippsland and off-campus learning (minor only)

First-year level

AIS1011 Introduction to Australian Indigenous societies 1
COM1010 Media studies

Second/Third-year level

HPL2501 Australian history
HPL2510/HPL3510 Governing Australia: Federal politics and policy
SCY2802 Sociology of race and ethnic relations
SCY2804/SCY3804 Work and technology

NOTE: Prerequisites are required for second and third year level units.

Contact details

Enquiries (Clayton): Room 219B, level 2, Monash University Museum of Art (building 55), Clayton campus;
Telephone +61 3 9905 4200

Enquiries (Gippsland): Room 283, building 2W
Telephone +61 3 9902 6339

Email humcass.info@arts.monash.edu.au

Visit http://www.arts.monash.edu.au/humcass