Postgraduate Handbook 2009 - Faculty of Arts Areas of Study
Anthropology and sociology - Faculty of Arts
Offered by the School of Political and Social Inquiry
Anthropology is the discipline within the university that is concerned with the study of specific cultures and their social organisation. All anthropology staff have intensive research experience in other societies and their cultures and bring to the units offered, whether they are about 'others' or 'ourselves', a distinctly anthropological perspective, an understanding of, and respect for, cultural difference. The ethnographic expertise of the staff ranges through indigenous Australia, Southeast Asia and the Pacific to the study of minority communities and their cultures in Australia, incorporating a range of theoretical perspectives.
Research seminars are an important part of the graduate experience. Students are involved in seminars within the disciplines and the school to help them develop a range of research skills, receive feedback on their work, and share and learn with others in the intellectual community of the school. They are encouraged to organise and attend conferences, summer schools and enrichment programs, and to publish and present their work in a variety of forums.
Students who have completed graduate degrees have won scholarships for study, travel and further research. Many have had the opportunity to conduct and speak about their research across Australia and around the world. All our postgraduate programs aim to provide students with a broad range of research skills and equip them for careers in social research, government, industry and the public service.
Relevant course groups
- 3937 Postgraduate Diploma in Arts (Research)
- Masters degree by research and coursework
- Masters degree by research
- 0020 Doctor of Philosophy
Contacts
Telephone: +61 3 9905 2991
Email: sue.stevenson@arts.monash.edu.au
Applied social research - Faculty of Arts
Offered by the School of Political and Social Inquiry
In today's information society, we are constantly exposed to 'research findings'. Each day when we read the newspapers or listen to the television news we are told 'Research shows that ...', or 'According to a recent study ...', or 'Studies generally agree that ...'. It is essential to have a certain degree of 'research literacy' to understand the flood of 'facts' we are exposed to on a daily basis. Postgraduate study in applied social research aims to provide an understanding of the particular strengths and weaknesses of various research approaches and methodologies so we can make a critical and informed assessment of research findings. Research now plays a vital role in the shaping of community and governmental policies. Applied social research is the application of the analytical tools of the social sciences to the social, political and economic policy issues in today's society. In this way, applied social research aims to develop a practical understanding of the design process, execution and evaluation of social research projects which focus on immediate problems and their resolution.
For further information on the following courses, contact the postgraduate administrator, School of Political and Social Inquiry. Refer also to the entry for 'Anthropology and sociology'.
Relevant course groups
- Postgraduate Diploma
- Masters degree by coursework
Contacts
Telephone: +61 3 9905 2991
Email: sue.stevenson@arts.monash.edu.au
Applied Japanese linguistics - Faculty of Arts
Offered by the School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics
Research supervision is available in areas including language teaching and assessment; second language acquisition (including language learning and Information Communications Technology), intercultural interaction; sociolinguistics and language planning. For further information on courses, contact the school or visit our website at www.arts.monash.edu.au/lcl/pgrad/index.php.
Relevant course groups
- Graduate Certificate
- Graduate Diploma
- 3937 Postgraduate Diploma in Arts (Research)
- Masters degree by coursework
- Masters degree by research and coursework
- Masters degree by research
- 0020 Doctor of Philosophy
Contacts
Telephone: +61 3 9905 5409; email sally.riley@arts.monash.edu.au
Applied linguistics - Faculty of Arts
Offered by the School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics
For further information see discipline entry under 'Linguistics'.
Relevant course groups
- Graduate Certificate
- Postgraduate Diploma
- 3937 Postgraduate Diploma in Arts (Research)
- Masters degree by coursework
- Masters degree by research and coursework
- Masters degree by research
- 0020 Doctor of Philosophy
Contacts
Telephone: +61 3 9905 5409; email sally.riley@arts.monash.edu.au
Archaeology and ancient history - Faculty of Arts
Offered by the School of Historical Studies
The principal aim of the Centre for Archaeology and Ancient History is to expand students' engagement, through detailed research, with the culture and history of key civilisations of the ancient Mediterranean, especially Egypt. It encourages students to explore and consider the various means by which the ancient past can be approached through a combination of textual sources and material culture, and the ways in which it is both constructed and deconstructed.
The centre offers the only programme in Victoria and one of only two in Australia that provides supervision of research degrees in Egyptology, especially Egyptian archaeology from the Predynastic to early Christian Period. It also offers supervision in aspects of the Classical world, the Near East and regions extending to the Indian sub-continent.
Postgraduate study can be undertaken by research or a combination of research and coursework. Students are supported by a process of induction, training in methodology and theoretical approaches, and supervised project design; regular seminars are held by staff, students and visiting academics. All postgraduate students are given the opportunity to participate in fieldwork in Egypt on one of the centre's various projects.
Relevant course groups
- 3937 Postgraduate Diploma in Arts (Research)
- Masters degree by research and coursework
- Masters degree by research
- 0020 Doctor of Philosophy
Contacts
Telephone: +61399052199 (coursework), +61399052206 (research)
Email: liisa.williams@arts.monash.edu.au (coursework); rosemary.johnston@arts.monash.edu.au (research)
Asian studies - Faculty of Arts
Offered by the School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics
Asian studies comprises the interdisciplinary study of the region referred to as 'Asia'. Asia is usually regarded as starting to the west of Pakistan and extending to the western rim of the Pacific, including those countries in south, south-east and east Asia. The region contains two-thirds of the world's population and many hundreds of distinct cultures and languages. It is home to the world's two largest countries in terms of population and to the world's biggest democracy. It embraces some of the world's most sophisticated and developed economies, and some of the world's most impoverished and least developed countries.
East Asia in particular has been the engine for global economic growth over the last two decades of the 20th century. Many of the region's political, strategic and diplomatic issues have dominated world attention at the beginning of the 21st century. Research on Asia is undertaken across a wide range of disciplines at Monash. Much of it is interdisciplinary and relates to aspects of society, language and culture, politics, government, economics, industrial relations, business, health and nutrition, education and law. Accordingly, supervision of PhD and research masters candidature is available in a wide range of fields.
Relevant course groups
- 3937 Postgraduate Diploma in Arts (Research)
- Masters degree by coursework
- Masters degree by research and coursework
- Masters degree by research
- 0020 Doctor of Philosophy
Contacts
Telephone: +61 3 9905 5409; email: sally.riley@arts.monash.edu.au; see also Monash Asia Institute; telephone: +61 3 9905 5481
Email monash.asia.institute@adm.monash.edu.au
Australian art - Faculty of Arts
Offered by the School of English, Communications and Performance Studies
For further information see entry under Visual culture.
Relevant course groups
- 0020 Doctor of Philosophy
- 2695 Master degree by Research
- 2846 Master degree by Research and Coursework
Contacts
Telephone: +61 3 9905 2277; Email: ecps.enquiries@arts.monash.edu.au
Australian Indigenous Studies - Faculty of Arts
Offered by the National Centre for Australian Studies
The Centre for Australian Indigenous Studies (CAIS) has been offering Indigenous Studies at the undergraduate level since 1978, and runs a successful honours program. The Centre now offers research programs at the Masters and PhD level. Areas of research include: Indigenous education, the history of colonisation of Australia, Aboriginal rock music, Indigenous performance, racism and sport, and public policy.
Relevant courses
Contact details
Centre for Australian Indigenous Studies General Office: telephone (03) 990 54200 E-mail: cais@arts.monash.edu.au
Australian studies - Faculty of Arts
Offered by the National Centre for Australian Studies, within the School of Humanities, Communications and Social Sciences
Australian studies aims to investigate and analyse Australian society, culture and politics in order to support greater understanding of Australia both locally and internationally. Australian studies is a dynamic, interdisciplinary subject area which provides insight into the modern world by applying historical perspectives to contemporary issues.
The National Centre for Australian Studies (NCAS) plays a key role in the development of teaching and research in Australian studies both nationally and internationally. NCAS offers innovative undergraduate courses and postgraduate programs taught by staff actively engaged in research projects, public programs and international collaboration. The research interests of staff range from politics and trade union history to youth and Indigenous tourism; from publishing to media studies; from the history of advertising to diasporic Asian identities and culture. MA and doctoral supervision is available from staff publishing in these and other areas.
NCAS also offers internationally recognised vocationally-oriented tuition in communications and media studies, tourism, and publishing and editing. NCAS staff have expertise in applying interactive, multimedia technologies to teaching and have produced a range of multimedia resources in Australian studies. Teaching and research supervision at NCAS is informed by a commitment to the internationalisation of Australian studies.
NCAS welcomes the interest of international students and visitors in its programs. For further information, see http://www.arts.monash.edu.au/ncas.
Relevant course groups
- Graduate Certificate
- Graduate Diploma
- Masters degree by coursework
- Masters degree by research and coursework
- Masters degree by research
- 0020 Doctor of Philosophy
Contacts
Telephone: +61 3 9903 4039; Email: NCAS.enquiries@arts.monash.edu.au
Behavioural studies - Faculty of Arts
Offered by the School of Political and Social Inquiry
Behavioural studies is concerned with a multidisciplinary examination and understanding of the biological, sociological and psychological bases of human behaviour and the consequent interpretations of the nature of human development, personality, identity and relationships. This interest in behaviour has wide and varied applications into areas such as work and workplace relationships and identities, education, criminology, youth studies and services, intercultural communication and understanding, and medical and therapeutic contexts.
Behavioural studies offers postgraduate students the opportunity to undertake either a PhD or MA by research (100 per cent). The section has a strong commitment to building up the number of postgraduate students, and staff are able to provide MA and PhD candidates with supervision in a range of areas, theoretical orientations and methodological perspectives. Staff are dedicated to promoting research which is theoretically informed as well as grounded in rigorous empirical research.
Behavioural Studies has many research strengths and can offer PhD and MA supervision in the following areas: globalisation, AFL football and AFL players identities, workplace change and identities, youth studies and identities, behavioural dimensions and perceptions of terrorism, health psychology, trauma reactions, dissociative disorders, psycho-dermatology, psychology of medical treatment compliance.
Relevant course groups
- Masters degree by research
- 0020 Doctor of Philosophy
Contacts
Telephone: +61 3 9905 2991; Email: sue.stevenson@arts.monash.edu.au
Bioethics - Faculty of Arts
Offered by the School of Philosophy and Bioethics
The growth of scientific knowledge and technical ability in medicine, genetics and the biological sciences has led to a number of ethical dilemmas which perplex all of us, but especially those in the health care field. Does the fact that we can prolong the life of a patient in a permanent vegetative state mean that we should do so? Is destructive embryo experimentation justified by the prospect it offers of alleviating infertility? Should research designed to find 'gay genes' be conducted given that the results of such work might be used against homosexual people? Should we proceed with research trying to clone people? These and many other questions raise complex ethical and legal issues. The study, discussion and teaching of these issues has come to be known as bioethics - a field generally defined as covering the ethical issues raised by medicine, genetics and the biomedical sciences.
The Centre for Human Bioethics offers PhD and masters by research degrees. Academic strengths within the centre include ethical issues in patient care, especially involving autonomy and confidentiality and clinician accountability; the ethics of clinical trials; medical end-of-life decisions; new reproductive technologies; nursing ethics; surrogacy; disability and discrimination; the new genetics and ethics; moral psychology and moral development. The centre is also strong in ethical theory, especially virtue ethics and consequentialism, the relevance of emotions to ethics, partiality and impartiality in ethics, and feminist ethics. Applied ethics and moral philosophy has been identified as one of the research strengths of the faculty.
Master of Bioethics students who have completed at least one semester of the course are eligible to apply for an annual fellowship of $7000 to work during the Australian summer as an intern in the human genetics program at the World Health Organisation in Geneva. For more information, contact Dr Justin Oakley.
Relevant course groups
- 3761 Graduate Certificate in Bioethics
- 1158 Graduate Diploma in Bioethics
- 3937 Postgraduate Diploma in Arts (Research)
- 0122 Master of Bioethic sby coursework
- 2704 Master of Bioethics by research
- 0020 Doctor of Philosophy
Contacts
Telephone: +61 3 9905 4277 (coursework), +61 3 9905 1519 (research)
Email: justin.oakley@arts.monash.edu.au (coursework), dirk.baltzly@arts.monash.edu.au (research)
Biography and life writing - Faculty of Arts
Offered by the School of Historical Studies
Relevant course groups
- Graduate Diploma
- Masters degree by coursework
Contacts
Telephone: +61 3 9905 2199 (coursework), +61 3 9905 2206 (research)
Email: liisa.williams@arts.monash.edu.au (coursework), rosemary.johnston@arts.monash.edu.au (research)
Chinese studies - Faculty of Arts
Offered by the School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics
As the world's longest continuous civilisation, China provides rich sources as well as case studies for a wide range of research in the humanities and social sciences. Thus, China Studies covers a diverse range of research areas and uses several disciplinary and interdisciplinary approaches. At Monash University, Chinese Studies focuses on political, historical and cultural issues in the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries using both Chinese and Western sources. Several staff members also have strong interdisciplinary interests in Taiwan Studies. Research supervision is available in areas including Chinese politics and foreign relations, traditional and modern Chinese literature, Chinese philosophy and intellectual history, contemporary Chinese intellectuality, post-Mao Chinese society, mainland and diasporic cultural issues, Taiwan politics and foreign relations, Taiwan history and cross-strait relations.
Relevant course groups
- Masters degree by research
- 0020 Doctor of Philosophy
Contacts
Telephone: +61 3 9905 5409; Email: sally.riley@arts.monash.edu.au
Civil ceremonies - Faculty of Arts
Offered by the School of Historical Studies
The programs in civil ceremonies prepare students to plan and conduct public ceremonies of recognition such as weddings, namings and graduations, and ceremonies of grief such as funerals and divorce. They aim to enable graduates to provide expert advice on precedent and etiquette and to help people handle the often emotionally charged processes of moving through a rite of passage. The programs aim to prepare graduates to orchestrate the delicate issues of planning and conducting rites of passage with sensitivity, dignity and propriety. They are designed to develop an appropriate understanding of the possibilities and limitations of the role of a celebrant, including listening carefully to clients and, where appropriate, referring them elsewhere for professional legal and counselling advice. Literary and musical content of ceremonies are considered.
This emerging profession has grown substantially since the first appointments were made in 1973 such that more than half of all marriages in Australia are now performed by civil marriage celebrants. People who perform functions touching the lives of others are widely expected to have been trained to undertake what they do.
For further information on the following courses, contact the School of Historical Studies
Relevant course groups
- Faculty Certificate
- Graduate Diploma
Contacts
Telephone: +61 3 9905 2199 (coursework), +61 3 9905 2206 (research)
Email: liisa.williams@arts.monash.edu.au (coursework); rosemary.johnston@arts.monash.edu.au (research)
Communications and media studies - Faculty of Arts
Offered by the National Centre for Australian Studies, within the School of Humanities, Communications and Social Sciences
The National Centre for Australian Studies (NCAS) offers an innovative, vocationally oriented graduate program in communications and media studies. It is focused particularly on challenges posed by the emergence of digital media, globalisation and increasing levels of cross-cultural exchange. The last decade has been one of unprecedented change in communications and media content, forms, technology and policy with wide-ranging implications for business, politics, public administration and everyday life.
The graduate program in communications and media studies examines these developments from a historical, political and theoretical perspective. The Master of Communications and Media Studies seeks to further students' understanding of communications and media systems both locally and globally.
Relevant course groups
- Graduate Certificate
- Graduate Diploma
- Masters degree by coursework
- Masters degree by research and coursework
- Masters degree by research
- 0020 Doctor of Philosophy
Contacts
Telephone: +61 3 9903 4039; Email: NCAS.enquiries@arts.monash.edu
Communications - Faculty of Arts
Offered by the School of English, Communications and Performance Studies and the School of Humanities, Communications and Social Sciences
The last decade has seen unprecedented changes in communications technologies and policy. The communications program is based around the need for a course which meets the academic and research needs of a discrete industry sector undergoing rapid change. The communications program also emphasises the need to maintain a critical literacy in information research, which increasingly requires the development of new skills in technological use and evaluation and an understanding of issues in information access.
In this context, 'communications' is broader than any one of its traditional constituent elements, including journalism, public relations, media studies, publishing and editing, and creative writing. A broader approach, which places these elements in a cultural and policy framework, allows a range of students to enter the program and to specialise as appropriate within it. The program supports students in examining topics relevant to those employed (or seeking employment) in communications and media industries (for instance, audience and internet user studies, electronic journalism, policy formation, public relations and tourism marketing).
Students come from a range of disciplinary and industry backgrounds. Past intakes have included students with undergraduate degrees in politics, journalism, science and fine arts, as well as those with extensive industry experience in areas such as print and radio journalism, public affairs, media liaison, public relations, and media or policy advisers to politicians and industry. Supervision of PhD and research masters candidates is available, with particular staff strengths in internet studies , new communications technologies, publishing studies, music studies, national identity and communications policy, war and conflict, travel writing, sports media, animation studies, computer and video games, textual and discourse analysis of media texts, philosophy of communication, writing practices and cultural/communication theory.
Relevant course groups
- Faculty Certificate
- Graduate Certificate
- Graduate Diploma
- Postgraduate Diploma
- 3937 Postgraduate Diploma in Arts (Research)
- Masters degree by coursework
- Masters degree by research and coursework
Contacts
Telephone: +61 3 9905 2277 or +61 3 9902 6339
Email: ecps.enquiries@arts.monash.edu.au or humcass.info@arts.monash.edu.au
Visit http://www.arts.monash.edu.au/ecps or http://www.arts.monash.edu.au/humcass
Comparative literature and cultural studies - Faculty of Arts
Offered by the School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics
The Centre for Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies has an international reputation for its postgraduate research training and graduate education.
Particular research strengths in comparative literature include European, Asian and Latin American literature; romanticism, modernism and postmodernism; literature and philosophy; and comparative literary theory.
Research strengths in cultural atudies include postcolonial culture; genre studies; graphic novels; New Hollywood; Japanese popular culture; science fiction; and cyber culture. Cultural studies at Monash seek to problematise the binary oppositions between high and low culture and make use of a broad range of theoretical perspectives.
Relevant course groups
Contact details
Visit http://www.arts.monash.edu.au/cclcs/index.php
Corporate environmental and sustainability management - Faculty of Arts
Offered by the School of Geography and Environmental Science
The courses in Corporate Environmental and Sustainability Management are designed to integrate environmental management concepts, issues and trends within a commercial context, through an understanding of the linkages between business practices and environmental outcomes. You will gain the analytical skills to identify environmental impacts in terms of product/service life cycles and to understand the synergies between business management theory and practice, and environmental management approaches.
The courses are suitable for corporate managers, business strategists, technical and environmental managers and others who wish to develop combined environmental and business skills.
Relevant course groups
- 2529 Faculty Certificate in Corporate Environmental and Sustainability Management
- 2527 Graduate Certificate in Corporate Environmental and Sustainability Management
- 2528 Graduate Diploma in Corporate Environmental and Sustainability Management
- 3090 Master of Corporate Environmental and Sustainability Management
Contact details
Telephone: +61 3 9905 4624
Email: postgradges@arts.monash.edu.au
Visit http://www.arts.monash.edu.au/ges/staff/contact.php
Counter-terrorism - Faculty of Arts
Offered by the School of Political and Social Inquiry
The September 11 attacks and Bali bombings have increased the significance of terrorism and political violence in international politics. This program provides a critical understanding of terrorism and how it is constructed and reproduced. It addresses diverse and multifaceted factors involved in enacting and preventing terrorism and other security concerns. The program includes units on terrorisms (state, religious, revolutionary and right wing); the political, theological intellectual bases of terrorism; political violence and political movements; and country and regional studies. The course is appropriate for professionals working in law enforcement, public service, defence and diplomacy.
Relevant course group
- Masters degree by coursework
Contacts
Telephone: +61 3 9905 2991
Email: sue.stevenson@arts.monash.edu.au
Criminal justice - Faculty of Arts
Offered by the the School of Humanities, Communications and Social Sciences
The Master of Criminal Justice presents the application of criminal justice in a unique mixture of regional, urban and international crime-related contexts. The course will specialise in contemporary regional and international crime matters, crime prevention, policing in its generic sense, criminal behaviours and profiles, and alternative justice and corrections initiatives. A special feature of this Master of Criminal Justice will be opportunity for students to develop links with regional practitioners and, in some cases, utilise placements within the criminal justice and allied systems.
Relevant course groups
- Masters degree by coursework
Contacts
Telephone: +61 3 9902 6339
Email: humcass.info@arts.monash.edu
Criminology - Faculty of Arts
Offered by the School of Political and Social Inquiry
Crime, its causes and consequences, directly impact on all public and private sector institutions and on every member of society. The discipline of criminology interprets, analyses and evaluates critical aspects of crime, social control and the criminal justice process. People interested in pursuing research into the criminal justice system and related criminological issues are invited to apply. All relevant research topics will be considered, subject to the availability of supervision. Joint interdisciplinary supervision can be arranged.
Current academic strengths relevant to the criminology discipline include state crime, punishment and incarceration, terrorism and counter-terrorism, people trafficking, causes of crime, bordern policing an sovereignty, gender and the criminal justice system, restorative justice, histories of policing and transnational crime.
Relevant course groups
- Masters degree by research
- 0020 Doctor of Philosophy
Contacts
Telephone: +61 3 9905 2991
Email: sue.stevenson@arts.monash.edu.au
Critical theory - Faculty of Arts
Offered by the Centre for Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies, School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics
Critical Theory is a term that has come to signify a number of contemporary approaches to textual and cultural criticism. Research interests include eco-philosophy and eco-feminism; cultural materialism; deconstruction; feminist critical theory; hermeneutics; and psychoanalysis.
See also 'Comparative literature and cultural studies'.
Relevant course groups
- 3937 Postgraduate Diploma in Arts (Research)
- 2846 Masters of Arts by research and coursework
- 2695 Masters of Arts by research
- 0020 Doctor of Philosophy
Contacts
Telephone: +61 3 9905 2208
Email: gail.ward@arts.monash.edu.au
Visit http://www.arts.monash.edu.au/cclcs/contact-us.php
Drama and theatre studies - Faculty of Arts
Offered by the School of English, Communications and Performance Studies
Drama and theatre studies is a discipline that spans a wide range of research interests, characterised by an intersection of textual or theoretical enquiry with performance, as an exploratory activity, and/or a subject for documentation and analysis.
Relevant course groups
- Masters degree by research
- 0020 Doctor of Philosophy
Contacts
Telephone: +61 3 9905 2277
Email: ecps.enquiries@arts.monash.edu.au
visit http://www.arts.monash.edu/ecps and http://www.arts.monash.edu/drama-theatre
English as an international language - Faculty of Arts
Offered by the School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics
English as an international language is a new and timely discipline that is concerned with all aspects of the spread and the use of English around the globe. This interdisciplinary area includes studies that deal with all areas of linguistics and applied linguistics that have implications for English as a language of international and intercultural communication.
The very rapid growth in the use of English and in the number of English speakers around the world in recent decades has had significant linguistic, socio-cultural, political and pedagogical implications and consequences for this global language, which deserve scholarly attention. The program of English as an international language at the School of Languages, Cultures, and Linguistics provides a unique opportunity for masters and PhD students to undertake in-depth studies in this area that will equip them with knowledge and expertise that is highly needed in today's internationalized world.
Prospective students may choose to investigate topics from a wide range of sub-fields, including teaching and testing of English as an international language, intercultural communication, discourse analysis, pragmatics, sociolinguistics, cognitive linguistics, and cultural linguistics.
Relevant course groups
- Graduate Certificate
- Graduate Diploma
- Masters degree by coursework
- Masters degree by research
- 0020 Doctor of Philosophy
Contacts
Telephone: +61 3 9905 5409
Email: sally.riley@arts.monash.edu.au
English - Faculty of Arts
Offered by the School of English, Communications and Performance Studies
The discipline of English is concerned with the richest and most varied of the world's literatures, reaching in time from Anglo-Saxon writings of the eighth century to contemporary genre fiction, and in geographical range across all the many nations in which English is a preferred medium for writing. English has also been the source of some of the most exciting theoretical and interdisciplinary advances of recent decades. English at Monash has as its ideal a fruitful interaction of new energies and modes of awareness with the strengths of traditional scholarship and criticism. It offers studies in authors from the Renaissance onwards and in many thematic and theoretical fields. It is a world-recognised centre for the editing of scholarly texts, particularly from British literature pre-1800, and classic Australian poetry and fiction, and postcolonial literature. Scholarly editions of Henry Handel Richardson and Mary Gilmore, and 19th-century Indian women's writing in English are among some of the section's recent productions. The Monash Library has particularly fine collections in the field of English literature 1660-1800 and has recently acquired a rare database, exclusive to Monash University, in postcolonial studies - Empire On-Line. The Rare Books library also has outstanding collections of Australian literature, children's literature, science fiction and ephemera.
Particular academic strengths in the section include:
- 17th and 18th-century writing and new literatures in postcolonial contexts
- Australian literature (including its regional and textual character)
- children's literature and discourses of childhood
- creative fiction writing
- discourse analysis
- law and literature
- literary and cultural theory
- literary and other biography
- literature and the history of ideas
- poetics and poetry
- postcolonial literature and discourse
- pre-1800 British literature
- the construction of canons and the newly emerging developments of English studies
- the history of authorship and editorial practice and theory
- Victorian literature
- women's studies and writing.
Relevant course groups
- 3937 Postgraduate Diploma in Arts (Research)
- Masters degree by research and coursework
- Masters degree by research
- 0020 Doctor of Philosophy
Contacts
Telephone: +61 3 9905 2277
Email: ecps.enquiries@arts.monash.edu.au
Visit http://www.arts.monash.edu.au/ecps and http://www.arts.monash.edu/english
Environmental science - Faculty of Arts
Offered by the School of Geography and Environmental Science
Geography and Environmental Science is concerned with understanding dimensions, complexities and relationships of the physical, human and environmental world. The School has an active research program that provides research training and the foundations for interactions across a range of government, non-government and industry sectors. There are a number of broad research strengths within the School including:
- urban and regional sustainability - associated with social, cultural, economic, environmental and political change across a range of scales (global to local); dealing with a range of activities (housing, economic development, resource management, sustainability) and contexts (Australia, Africa and Indo-Pacific Region)
- short and long-term changes in climate, vegetation and the physical and human landscape
- the socio-political structures shaping human interactions with the biosphere and the exploration of the community governance of environmental and ecological change at the local, national and international scale
- specialisation in the archaeology of Aboriginal Australia and Torres Strait
- geographic information systems (GIS) and remote sensing, with strong emphasis on scientific applications to environmental and resource management, GIS for mapping and modelling in local government, transport and land use planning applications.
Relevant course groups
- Masters (Research)
- Masters (Research and Coursework)
- Postgraduate Diploma
- 0020 Doctor of Philosophy
Contacts
Telephone: +61 3 9905 4624
Email: postgradges@arts.monash.edu.au
Visit http://www.arts.monash.edu.au/ges/staff/contact.php
Environment and sustainability
Offered by the School of Geography and Environmental Science
Programs in environment and sustainability have been designed to prepare students for careers in environmental policy and analysis, planning, consulting, education, advocacy and management. For more information refer to the discipline entry under 'Geography' and 'Environmental science'.
Relevant course groups
- 3783 Masters of Environment and Sustainability
- 0095 Graduate Diploma of Environment and Sustainability
Contact details
Email: postgradges@arts.monash.edu.au
European and European Union Studies - Faculty of Arts
Offered by the Monash European and EU Centre
The Monash European and EU Centre provides a focus for multidisciplinary teaching and research in European and European Union Studies. It gives particular attention to the European Union and its significance on the world scene, including in the Asia-Pacific. The Centre is also committed to highlight Europe's cultural, social, linguistic and intellectual heritage as reflected in the diversity of its peoples. It promotes top-quality research on Europe and the European Union.
For more information visit http://www.monash.edu.au/europecentre.
Relevant course groups
- Diploma
- Graduate Diploma
- Masters degree by coursework
- Masters degree by research
- 0020 Doctor of Philosophy
Contacts
General enquiries
- Telephone: +61 3 9903 4639
- Email: europecentre@general.monash.edu.au
- Visit http://www.monash.edu.au/europecentre
Professor Pascaline Winand
Director, Monash European and EU Centre
- Email: pascaline.winand@general.monash.edu.au
- Telephone: +61 3 9903 4633
- Visit http://www.monash.edu.au/europecentre/winand-cv-april-2008.pdf
Dr. Natalie Doyle
Deputy Director, Monash European and EU Centre
- Email: natalie.doyle@arts.monash.edu.au
- Telephone: +61 3 9905 9418
European Integration
Offered by the Monash European and EU Centre
The Master of European Integration at Monash is an inter-disciplinary program which explores the significance and implications of the creation of the European Union.
Its goal is to provide professionals with a particular interest in the European region, or future professionals, with a broad and deep understanding of the history and institutional framework of the European Union as well as of its political, legal, economic and socio-cultural implications. The approach to teaching is inter-disciplinary and draws on a variety of disciplines: history, politics, sociology, law and management.
The range of elective units reflects this interdisciplinary approach and allows students to deepen their understanding of one or more particular aspect of European Integration, whilst the research project allows in-depth specialisation.
Contact details
General enquiries
- Telephone: +61 3 9903 4639
- Email: europecentre@general.monash.edu.au
- Visit http://www.monash.edu.au/europecentre
Professor Pascaline Winand
Director, Monash European and EU Centre
- Email: pascaline.winand@general.monash.edu.au
- Telephone: +61 3 9903 4633
- Visit http://www.monash.edu.au/europecentre/winand-cv-april-2008.pdf
Dr. Natalie Doyle
Deputy Director, Monash European and EU Centre
- Email: natalie.doyle@arts.monash.edu.au
- Telephone: +61 3 9905 9418
Film and television studies - Faculty of Arts
Offered by the School of English, Communications and Performance Studies
Film and television studies offers graduate studies in Australian film and television, alternative film and video, film and television genre studies, American film, European film (especially French cinema), Asian film (Indonesian, Malaysian, Thai, Japanese, Chinese, Hong Kong, Indian), documentary film studies, women and cinema, women and television , teen film and television, film aesthetics (form, style, narrative), international film cultures and institutions, histories of film theory and criticism, film history.
Relevant course groups
- 3937 Postgraduate Diploma in Arts (Research)
- Masters degree by coursework
- Masters degree by research
- 0020 Doctor of Philosophy
Contacts
Telephone: +61 3 9905 2277
Email: ecps.enquiries@arts.monash.edu.au
Visit http://www.arts.monash.edu.au/ecps and http://www.arts.monash.edu/film-tv
French language - Faculty of Arts
Offered by the School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics
For information about the Graduate Diploma in Languages, refer to the entry under 'Languages' or visit the School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics website at http://www.arts.monash.edu.au/lcl/postgraduate_coursework.
Relevant course group
- 3058 Graduate Diploma in Languages
Contacts
Telephone: +61 3 9905 5409
Email: sally.riley@arts.monash.edu.au
French studies - Faculty of Arts
Offered by the School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics
Areas of research specialisation include 19th-century French studies (especially Zola and the late 19th-century novel), contemporary poetry, the contemporary novel, film studies, contemporary popular culture, critical theory and practice, French political philosophy and social theory, translation studies, foreign language learning and classroom instruction, new technologies and language learning, writing in a foreign language and L2 writing instruction.
The French studies program is home to the Australian Journal of French Studies.
Relevant course groups
- Masters degree by research
- 0020 Doctor of Philosophy
Contacts
Telephone: +61 3 9905 5409
Email: sally.riley@arts.monash.edu.au
For up-to-date information about research areas, refer to the staff and research interest sections on the French studies website at http://www.arts.monash.edu.au/french/staff
General information is available on the School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics website at http://www.arts.monash.edu.au/lcl/graduate_studies
Geography - Faculty of Arts
Offered by School of Geography and Environmental Science
Geography and Environmental Science is concerned with understanding dimensions, complexities and relationships of the physical, human and environmental world. The School has an active research program that provides research training and the foundations for interactions across a range of government, non-government and industry sectors. There are a number of broad research strengths within the School including:
- urban and regional sustainability is associated with social, cultural, economic, environmental and political change across a range of scales (global to local); dealing with a range of activities (housing, economic development, resource management, sustainability) and contexts (Australia, Africa and Indo-Pacific Region)
- short and long-term changes in climate, vegetation and the physical and human landscape
- the socio-political structures shaping human interactions with the biosphere and the exploration of the community governance of environmental and ecological change at the local, national and international scale
- specialisation in the archaeology of Aboriginal Australia and Torres Strait
- geographic information systems (GIS) and remote sensing, with strong emphasis on scientific applications to environmental and resource management, GIS for mapping and modelling in local government, transport and land use planning applications.
Relevant courses
- 3937 Postgraduate Diploma in Arts (by research)
- 2846 Master of Arts by research and coursework
- 2695 Master of Arts (Research)
- 0020 Doctor of Philosophy
Contacts
Telephone: +61 3 9905 4624
Email: postgradges@arts.monash.edu.au
German studies - Faculty of Arts
Offered by the School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics
Areas of research specialisation include studies in German literature from the 18th century to the present (esp. Weimar Classic, Romanticism, literature of the 19th century, contemporary literature), literary aesthetics, literary theory, sociology of literature, history and theory of German drama and theatre, travel literature, comparative literature, poetics, history of German philosophy, media studies, history and theory of mass media, visual culture, rhetoric and cultural studies; cultural anthropology, psychoanalytic theory; applied linguistics, sociolinguistics, second language acquisition, German for special purposes, discourse and text analysis; cultural identity, migration and bilingualism.
Relevant course groups
Contacts
Telephone: +61 3 9905 5409
Email: sally.riley@arts.monash.edu.au
Geographical information systems - Faculty of Arts
Offered by the School of Geography and Environmental Science
The programs in Geographical Information Systems cover advanced methods of digital spatial data handling, with special reference to the environmental and social science applications. You will learn how to use and derive information from a range of spatial data products, including satellite images and data sets from public and commercial spatial data vendors. In addition, you will be introduced to the Global Positioning System for data collection, spatial analysis using the vector and the raster data models, and spatial modeling for network analysis and for decision-making and conflict resolution.
Relevant course groups
- Graduate Certificate
- Postgraduate Diploma
Contacts
Telephone: +61 3 9905 4624
Email: postgradges@arts.monash.edu.au
Hebrew - Faculty of Arts
Offered by the School of Historical Studies
Hebrew language studies is available to postgraduate students as part of the Graduate Diploma in Languages. This program is for those wishing to add the equivalent of an undergraduate language major to their existing undergraduate degree. Students are enrolled at the appropriate level for their language competence; from introductory to advanced.
It is possible to study part of the graduate diploma abroad by undertaking either a short intensive program or semester long program overseas.
Relevant course
- 3058 Graduate Diploma in Languages
Contact details
Telephone: +61 3 9905 2172Email: Colin.Hope@arts.monash.edu.au
Hispanic studies - Faculty of Arts
Offered by the School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics
Areas of research specialisation include applied Spanish linguistics, culture and civilisation of the Hispanic world, feminist literature in the Hispanic world,19 th and 20 th-century Spanish American literature and culture, 19 th and 20 th-century Spanish literature, postmodernism, pre-Colombian literature and culture, Spanish socio-linguistics, and Latin American popular culture
The Graduate Diploma in Languages program is for those wishing to add the equivalent of an undergraduate language major to their existing undergraduate degree. You are enrolled at the appropriate level for your language competence; from introductory to advanced.
It is possible to study part of your graduate diploma abroad by undertaking either a short intensive program or semester long program overseas.
Relevant course groups
Contact details
Telephone: +61 3 9905 5409
Email: sally.riley@arts.monash.edu.au
History education - Faculty of Arts
Offered by the School of Historical Studies
This course brings fresh approaches to the study of history together with innovative classroom practice to meet the needs of the teaching profession and advance the historical understanding of course participants. This nationally delivered course is innovative, explores the possibilities of the web, and encourages the development of a critical approach to the new technologies. Through the strategic partnership with the University of Melbourne, the course provides an appropriate mix of intensive weekend schools and online delivery as well as establishing credit points for approved professional development activities in history education. Units cover the world since 1900; the past around us; rights and justice in Australian history; and Asia, the Pacific and the West.
Relevant course groups
- Graduate Certificate
- Graduate Diploma
Contact details
Coursework
Telephone: +61 3 9905 2199
Email: liisa.williams@arts.monash.edu.au
Research
Telephone: +61 3 9905 2206 (research)
Email: rosemary.johnston@arts.monash.edu.au (research)
History - Faculty of Arts
Offered by the School of Historical Studies
History offers postgraduate supervision across a broad range of fields, along with coursework units and degrees which enable students to explore their own interests as well as key theoretical, interpretive and methodological questions about the nature of historical knowledge, research and writing. The seminars, conferences and reading groups, provide a supportive environment for all postgraduate students. Historical research is primarily concerned with interpretations of the past based upon the careful analysis of evidence and the critical assessment of other perspectives. Our courses also focus upon different approaches to the tasks of research, interpretation and writing, and encourage students to address questions such as the nature and status of different forms of historical evidence, the 'uses' of history in public debate, and the relationships between history and other ways of recording and remembering the past. History's questions are intrinsically fascinating: How can we know about the past? What can we know? Who speaks in the historical record, and who does not? If the past is written about in this way or that way, what are its consequences for interpretations of the present and the future? Our aim is to provide research and coursework students with the critical tools to undertake their own investigations of past worlds and to explore their own.
History at Monash covers a broad span of fields. Specific research strengths include Indigenous history and the history of racial and ethnic relations; the history of gender and sexuality, especially in Australia, Britain and Europe during the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries; Australian social and cultural history, especially urban history, local history, oral history, public history and social welfare; South and Southeast Asian history, Indonesian history and the history of imperialism, colonialism and post colonialism; European social and cultural history, especially French history, German history, renaissance studies, urban history, family history and the intellectual history of religion and belief in medieval and early modern Europe; military history; American history, especially social and cultural history; Jewish history; and biography, autobiography, oral history, memory and life stories. There is also considerable expertise in the area of historical biography. Students with research interests in areas such as public history and heritage should also refer to the 'Public history' discipline entry. For a full list of staff and research interests, see http://www.arts.monash.edu.au/historical-studies/staff/index.html. answers to those questions.
Research degrees in history combine detailed work in a particular area with broader training in appropriate research skills and in understanding of the changes within history as a discipline.
Research students are offered regular research training and work-in-progress seminars, an annual one-day conference for the presentation of graduate research, and the opportunity to participate in editing Eras, a refereed online journal.
Relevant course groups
- Faculty Certificate
- Graduate Certificate
- Graduate Diploma
- Postgraduate Diploma
- 3937 Postgraduate Diploma in Arts (Research)
- Masters degree by coursework
- Masters degree by research and coursework
- Masters degree by research
- 0020 Doctor of Philosophy
Contacts
Coursework
Telephone: +61 3 9905 2199
Email: liisa.williams@arts.monash.edu.au
Research
Telephone: +61 3 9905 2206 (research)
Email: rosemary.johnston@arts.monash.edu.au (research)
Indonesian studies - Faculty of Arts
Offered by the School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics
Areas of research specialisation include Indonesian language and society, literature, translation, performance and media studies. Joint supervision with other schools in the faculty is also possible.
Relevant course groups
Contacts
Telephone: +61 3 9905 5409
Email: sally.riley@arts.monash.edu.au
Indonesian - Faculty of Arts
Offered by the School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics
Indonesian language studies is available to postgraduate students as part of the Graduate Diploma in Languages. This program is for those wishing to add the equivalent of an undergraduate language major to their existing undergraduate degree. Students are enrolled at the appropriate level for their language competence; from introductory to advanced.
It is possible to study part of the graduate diploma abroad by undertaking either a short intensive program or semester long program overseas.
Relevant course
- 3058 Graduate Diploma in Languages
Contact details
Telephone: +61 3 9905 5409
Email: sally.riley@arts.monash.edu.au
Interpreting and translation studies
Offered by the School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics
Expert supervision is available in the fields of translation history, translation and interpreting theory, literary translation, gender studies and intercultural studies. General information is available on the School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics website at http://www.arts.monash.edu.au/lcl/pgrad/index.php.
Relevant course
- 2695 Master of Arts
- 3921 Master of Interpreting and Translation Studies
- 2846 Master Arts by research and coursework
- 0020 Doctor of Philosophy
Contact details
Telephone: +61 3 9905 5409
Email: sally.riley@arts.monash.edu.au
Visit http://www.arts.monash.edu.au/lcl/contact-us.php
International development and environmental analysis - Faculty of Arts
Offered by the School of Geography and Environmental Science
Coursework programs in international development and environmental analysis have been designed to equip students with tools and knowledge for a career promoting just and sustainable change in the developing world. Core and elective subjects cover a broad range of topics including the processes, theories and practices of globalization and environmental sustainability, governance, poverty alleviation, and participation and representation. For more information refer to the discipline entries under 'International development', 'Geography' and 'Environmental science'.
Relevant course groups
- Graduate Diploma
- Masters degree by coursework
- Masters degree by research and coursework
Contacts
Telephone: +61 3 9905 4624
Email: postgradges@arts.monash.edu.au
International development - Faculty of Arts
Offered by the School of Geography and Environmental Science
Research in international development covers the ideas and debates that comprise the over-arching term 'Development'. The focus is on contemporary concerns with the processes, theories and practices of globalisation and environmental sustainability in the international context. Supervision of PhD and Masters candidates is available in research which relates to global production systems, foreign investment, devolution of governance, centralisation of geopolitical power, changing concepts of property in natural resource exploitation and management, poverty, ethnic minorities and political participation and representation.
Relevant course groups
Contact details
Telephone: +61 3 9905 4624
Email: postgradges@arts.monash.edu.au
International relations - Faculty of Arts
Offered by the School of Political and Social Inquiry
Research programs in international relations at Monash are designed to enable students in politics or related disciplines to explore, at an advanced level, the many issues raised by the rapidly changing nature of contemporary world politics. What kind of world order, or disorder, is emerging in the aftermath of the declaration of a 'war on terror'? How are security issues to be understood in a fluid international system? How is globalisation affecting the sovereignty of states and the economic policies which governments pursue at home and abroad? What is the significance of issues such as human rights and the environment in contemporary international politics? How far can the consideration of ethical, normative and cultural issues contribute to the understanding of politics across state boundaries?
The graduate coursework programs at Monash analyse these and related questions with particular attention to relationships among major powers, developments in Australia's region and the principal theoretical approaches in international relations. The programs are particularly suitable for students interested in pursuing careers in such areas as government, diplomacy, business, NGOs, teaching and journalism.
Politics staff are active researchers. For students who wish to undertake research in international relations at masters or doctoral level, we are able to provide supervision in a wide variety of sub-fields, including, but not limited to, the following: Australian foreign policy; US foreign policy; international relations in East and Southeast Asia; arms control and strategic studies; the 'war on terror'; globalisation; international political economy; international law; nationalism; international relations theory; ethics and international relations; and international history. Refer also to http://www.arts.monash.edu.au/about.
For further information on the following courses, contact the postgraduate administrator, School of Political and Social Inquiry.
Relevant course groups
- Graduate Certificate
- Postgraduate Diploma
- Masters degree by coursework
- Masters degree by research
- 0020 Doctor of Philosophy
Contracts
Telephone: +61 3 9905 2991
Email: sue.stevenson@arts.monash.edu.au
Islamic studies - Faculty of Arts
Offered by School of Political and Social Inquiry
The Master of Islamic Studies is the first of its kind at Monash University and will offer a broad and comparative introduction to the social, historical and political aspects of Islam. This degree offers a multi-disciplinary approach to the study of Islam. The disciplines to be included are politics, sociology, history, religion and theology and international studies. Students in the Master of Islamic Studies will be exposed to the history of Islam and its civilization, its diversity of thoughts and interpretations, its geographical spread, challenges of modernity and globalization, and the practice of Islam in the West.
Relevant course
- 4003 Master of Islamic Studies
Contact details
Telephone: +61 3 9905 5409
Email: sally.riley@arts.monash.edu.au
Visit http://www.arts.monash.edu.au/psi/contact-us.php
Italian studies - Faculty of Arts
Offered by the School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics
Italian studies focus on the study of Italian literature, culture, history, language and linguistics. Areas of specialty include Italian poetry, Dante and early Italian literature studies, 19th and 20th century literature, Translation Studies, Renaissance culture and literature, Italian women's studies, Italian theatre and cinema studies, and social and linguistic issues connected with Italian migration to Australia. Italian studies staff can provide supervision of research candidates in any of these areas of specialty.
Italian language studies is available to postgraduate students as part of the Graduate Diploma in Languages. This program is for those wishing to add the equivalent of an undergraduate language major to their existing undergraduate degree. Students are enrolled at the appropriate level for their language competence; from introductory to advanced.
It is possible to study part of the graduate diploma abroad by undertaking either a short intensive program or semester long program overseas.
See also 'Translation studies'.
Relevant course groups
- Graduate Diploma
- Masters (Research)
- Masters (Research and Coursework)
Contacts
Telephone: +61 3 990 52212
Email: simon.west@arts.monash.edu.au
Visit http://www.arts.monash.edu.au/lcl/contact-us.php
Japanese language - Faculty of Arts
Offered by the School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics
Japanese language can be studied in the form of a Graduate Diploma in Languages (with entry points from beginners to intermediate level) or a Postgraduate Diploma in Japanese language (for those with an undergraduate major in the language, or equivalent competence). Up to 24 points of language units can also be taken within a Masters in Applied Japanese Linguistics or a Masters of Asian Studies. Very advanced students may also pursue further studies through a Masters in Interpreting and Translation.
For further information on the following courses, contact the postgraduate administrator, School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics.
Relevant course groups
- 2545 Postgraduate Diploma in Japanese Language
- 3058 Graduate Diploma in Languages
- 3073 Masters in Applied Japanese Linguistics
- 3084 Masters in Asian Studies
- 3921 Masters in Interpreting and Translation Studies
Contacts
Telephone: +61 3 9905 5409
Email: sally.riley@arts.monash.edu.au
Japanese studies - Faculty of Arts
Offered by the School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics
Supervision for PhD and research masters students, as well as coursework based studies are available in the following areas:
- applied linguistics
- child language acquisition and language planning
- gender studies
- industrial relations
- intercultural communication
- international relations
- Japanese culture and performing arts
- Japanese interpreting and translation
- Japanese linguistics
- Japanese society
- Japanese sociolinguistics
- languages in contact
- work organisation
Contact details
Telephone: +61 3 9905 5409
Email: sally.riley@arts.monash.edu.au
Jewish civilisation - Faculty of Arts
Offered by the Australian Centre for Jewish Civilisation
The Graduate School of Jewish Studies, to be launched in 2009 will be Australia's leading institute of Jewish Studies, attracting students nationally and internationally. Its diverse program will offer academics and students an environment shaped by the Monash ethos of excellence in teaching and research. An academic faculty comprised of four Professorial Chairs, lecturers and a stream of distinguished Visiting Fellows lead the programs.
The Graduate School is located at the Caulfield campus in a state-of-the-art facility with sweeping views of Melbourne. The School is part of a vibrant redevelopment of the Caulfield campus which will house the Law School and a Monash village precinct that will service student needs.
Course degrees are offered at various levels, offering entry to full- and part-time students with varied qualifications and aims.Supervision of PhD and research masters candidates is available
The six new courses offered by the Graduate School are diverse and incorporate interdisciplinary perspectives and a range of partners from Monash University. Masters programs are available in the following areas:
- Holocaust and genocide studies
- interreligious studies
- Jewish communal service and leadership
- Jewish educators program
- Judaic studies
- modern Israel studies.
Relevant course groups
- Faculty Certificate
- Graduate Certificate
- Graduate Diploma
- Postgraduate Diploma
- Masters degree by coursework
- 2846 Master of Arts by research and coursework
- 0020 Doctor of Philosophy
Contacts
Telephone: +61 3 9902 0771,
Email: acjc@arts.monash.edu.au
Journalism - Faculty of Arts
Offered by the School of Humanities, Communication and Social Sciences
This course caters for students from various disciplines with no journalism background as well as extending the professional skills of students with journalism degrees and those with industry experience. Students also have the opportunity to research their own particular field of interest in journalism and related media.
Relevant course group
- Masters degree by coursework
Contacts
Telephone: +61 3 9902 6339
Email: humcass.info@arts.monash.edu.au
Korean studies - Faculty of Arts
Offered by the School of Languages Cultures and Linguistics
Areas of research supervision include Korean linguistics and applied Korean linguistics. Close links with several universities in the Republic of Korea are maintained. Travel and field grants are available on a competitive basis for research students. Korean studies may also be incorporated into coursework Masters programs in Asian Studies, Translations Studies, and Applied Linguistics for Language Teachers.
Relevant courses
Contact details
Telephone: +61 3 9905 5409
Email: sally.riley@arts.monash.edu.au
Korean - Faculty of Arts
Offered by the School of Languages Cultures and Linguistics
Korean language studies is available to postgraduate students as part of the Graduate Diploma in Languages. This program is for those wishing to add the equivalent of an undergraduate language major to their existing undergraduate degree. Students are enrolled at the appropriate level for their language competence; from introductory to advanced.
It is possible to study part of the graduate diploma abroad by undertaking either a short intensive program or semester long program overseas.
Relevant course
- 3058 Graduate Diploma in Languages
Contact details
Telephone: +61 3 9905 5409
Email: sally.riley@arts.monash.edu.au
Linguistics in language endangerment studies - Faculty of Arts
Offered by the School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics
These courses offer professional development for a wide range of linguists, language maintenance practitioners and speakers of minority languages, with specialist training in documenting endangered languages in the particular social and political contexts in which they are spoken. It is designed for those who are involved in, or aspire to become involved in, work with minority endangered language groups and training is provided in the specialist skills needed to document and maintain endangered languages both in homeland and in diaspora or immigrant community settings.
Fieldworkers often find themselves confronted by a wide variety of challenges. Firstly, there are those associated with the requirement for urgent and optimal documentation practice when opportunities to document a particular language and associated cultural practices are limited. Secondly, there are challenges associated with becoming involved in advocacy and community development, and needing to reassess the conventional relationship between linguist and consultant and community in order to work within an 'empowering' framework. These challenges highlight the need for specialised training to prepare linguists and speakers of endangered languages to do the applied work that communities may ask them to do. As a part of their training, students in Language Endangerment are required to develop an affiliation with a language community or a relevant organisation which is engaged in language maintenance.
Courses range from Masters level to Graduate Certificate, and it is possible to enrol in a course even if you have not completed high school.
For further information on the following courses, contact the postgraduate administrator, School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics.
Relevant course groups
- Graduate Certificate
- Postgraduate Diploma
- Masters degree by coursework
Contacts
Telephone: +61 3 9905 5409
Email: sally.riley@arts.monash.edu.au
Linguistics - Faculty of Arts
Offered by the School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics
Linguistics is the study of the structure and function of language and the uses of language in communication, including written, spoken and cyber contexts. Linguistics explores how languages differ and what they all share, and provides the techniques and principles to be adopted in the analysis and description of any given language. In addition, the linguistic study of language and language use in socio-cultural contexts contributes to our understanding of identities, social and cultural organisation, multiculturalism and multilingualism, institutions and power, as well as the creative functions of language in texts and discourses. Knowledge of linguistics is central to the study of languages (eg English, Australian Aboriginal languages, Chinese, French, German, Greek, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Russian, Spanish). Linguistics also offers students of anthropology, mathematics, philosophy, sociology, engineering, psychology, law, and computer science, useful insights into the nature of language in their particular area of interest. Examples of the practical applications of linguistics include communications within organisations, communications interfaces with electronic systems, the preparation of materials for language teaching, the documentation of endangered languages, the development of language policies in government and education, and in the areas of business, professional and technical communication, tourism, intercultural communication and speech therapy.
The school accepts suitably qualified candidates for research degrees in linguistics (PhD and MA). Monash staff in the Linguistics Program have expertise in a number of areas of linguistics, including:
- anthropological linguistics
- applied linguistics
- Australian Aboriginal languages
- Australian English
- Austronesian languages
- bilingualism and multilingualism
- child language acquisition
- cognitive linguistics
- comparative and contrastive linguistics
- computers in linguistic research
- conversational analysis
- cross-cultural communication
- dialectology
- discourse analysis
- functional grammar
- historical linguistics
- language and discrimination
- language description and documentation
- language attitudes
- language attrition
- language contact
- language ecology
- language maintenance and shift
- language planning and policy
- language typology
- literacy development
- morphology and morphosyntax
- new and other Englishes
- phonetics (acoustic and articulatory)
- phonology
- politeness phenomena
- pragmatics
- prosody and meaning
- second language acquisition
- semantics
- sociolinguistics
- syntax.
In addition, there is close collaboration with linguists in other programs within the School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics who may have skills not represented within the Linguistics Program. Co-supervision can be arranged where it will be beneficial to a postgraduate student.
Relevant course groups
- Graduate Certificate
- Graduate Diploma
- Postgraduate Diploma
- 3937 Postgraduate Diploma in Arts (Research)
- Masters degree by coursework
- 2846 Master of Arts by research and coursework
- 2695 Master of Arts (Research)
- 0020 Doctor of Philosophy
Contacts
Telephone: +61 3 9905 5409
Email: sally.riley@arts.monash.edu.au
Visit http://www.arts.monash.edu.au/linguistics/pgrad/index.php and http://www.arts.monash.edu.au/lcl/contact-us.php
Mind and society - Faculty of Arts
Offered by the School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics
Mind and society studies at Monash explore the mind-society interface in modern, multicultural societies. The program's goal is to offer students a broad, deep and contemporary understanding of the complex of social and psychodynamic forces which shape society: its organisations, power relations, and individuals. Mind and society will interest psychotherapists, psychiatrists, teachers and counsellors, researchers and policy analysts, those working in community service and community advocacy, as well as postgraduate students interested in social and political thought, memory and trauma, and the mind-brain debates that link psychoanalysis and the neurosciences The approach to teaching is inter-disciplinary, in which history, politics, sociology, bioethics, linguistics, cultural studies, philosophy, public health and psychodynamics come together.
Relevant course group
- Masters degree by coursework
Contacts
Telephone: +61 3 990 52245
Email: Tina.Weller@arts.monash.edu.au
Music - Faculty of Arts
Offered by the School of Music
Music at Monash comprises the areas of composition, music, music performance, and music studies.
Composition
The Monash School of Music - Conservatorium has one of the finest composition programs in Australia in terms of works composed and performed by staff and students. The School also offers a performance subject dedicated to the development and performance of works written by its students. Composition students will have access to a wide range of facilities at various levels of sophistication in computer music, studio recording, and electronic music. They can also be involved with the sonic art group, which is a studio-based ensemble for composition students interested in electronic and computer music.
Relevant courses
Music
Students may choose to complete a postgraduate program in music that is musicology-oriented, ethnomusicology-oriented, composition-oriented, music education-oriented, or performance oriented, or a combination of these.Facilities are available for the supervision of PhD and research masters candidates in most of the main areas of music, including historical and systematic musicology and ethnomusicology, music education, music performance and music composition.
The concentration is on European (Western), Asian and Australian music, 19th and 20th-century music, contemporary music, music education, music semiotics, composition and music technology, popular and folk music, organology, dance studies, music-dance relationships, and music of South, East and Southeast Asia and Africa.
Relevant course groups
- 3068 Graduate Diploma in Music
- 3937 Postgraduate Diploma in Arts (Research)
- 3069 Master of Music (by coursework - 1.5 year program)
- 2846 Master of Arts by research and coursework
- 2695 Master of Arts (Research)
- 0020 Doctor of Philosophy
Music performance
With six regularly performing staff and over thirty studio teaching staff in performance, the School of Music - Conservatorium is involved in presenting sixty to seventy concerts a year by students, staff and outside artists. They include many large-scale choral/orchestral and small-scale solo and chamber music concerts of music from countries in all continents. The concerts are widely advertised as part of the Monash Performing and Visual Arts activities and are presented mainly in the excellent venues of the Monash Arts Precinct (which comprises the Robert Blackwood Hall, Music Auditorium, Alexander Theatre, and Drama Theatre, as well as the Religious Centre) but also in the city of Melbourne and overseas.
The School offers many major concerts of choral and orchestral works as well as solo, chamber and small ensemble concerts. The large ensembles in the School and their vibrant public concert seasons include performers from across the faculties of the University and from the external community. They include the New Monash Orchestra, the Monash Sinfonia (String Orchestra), the Monash Wind Symphony, Viva Voce, the Monash Women's Choir, re-sound (a contemporary music group), and the Monash Gamelan Orchestra. There are also several chamber groups. In recent years, the School's choirs and orchestras have toured Japan, Vietnam, Malaysia, Singapore and Taiwan.
Relevant course
- 3059 Master of Arts (Music Performance)
Music studies
The programs in Music Studies are designed for musicians who wish to develop a greater knowledge, understanding and competence in music. In the Masters, students acquire skills in research methods and techniques and develop the capacity for critical reflection and informed assessment in the area of music specialisation. Vocational outcomes include musicology, ethnomusicology and world music, composition, music education and pedagogy, contemporary music and Australian music.
Relevant course groups
- 3071 Graduate Diploma in Music Studies
- 3070 Master of Music Studies (by coursework - 1.5 year program)
Contact details
Inquiries: Room 101 Performing Arts Centre, building 68, Clayton campus
Telephone +61 3 9905 3231
Email music@arts.monash.edu.au
Visit http://www.arts.monash.edu.au/music