Students are required to complete 48 points of study comprising a thesis and two coursework units.
Coursework units and the thesis topic are chosen in consultation with the communications honours coordinator on the relevant campus.
Berwick, Caulfield and Clayton
Offered by the School of English, Communications, and Performance Studies
Thesis
Students complete one of the following options:
- ATS4724 Communications honours thesis
- ATS4725 Communications honours thesis part 1 and ATS4726 Communications honours thesis part 2
Coursework units
Students complete two of the following units:
- ATS4722 Contemporary media and communications theory
- ATS4723 Current issues in international media and communications
- ATS4403 Battle lines: War and (post)modernity
- ATS4404 Cultural memory and the Spanish civil war
- ATS4405 Audiences and the social influence of media
- ATS4406 Communicating the body
- ATS4260 Communication systems and networks
- ATS4261 Communication economies and society
- ATS4262 Media flows
- ATS4263 Eyewitness: Reportage, representation and war
- ATS4411 Media, politics and everyday life
- ATS4412 Music, media, culture
- ATS4728 Honours research readings
- APG4415 Cultural production and consumption of music
- a maximum of 12 points at fourth-year level from another discipline and/or institution with the permission of the ECPS communications honours coordinator at http://www.arts.monash.edu.au/ecps/current/honours.
Gippsland, Off-campus
Offered by the School of Humanities, Communications and Social Sciences
Thesis
Students complete the following two units:
- ATS4805 HUMCASS honours dissertation part 1
- ATS4806 HUMCASS honours dissertation part 2
Coursework units
Students complete the following two units:
- ATS4729 Media, social relations and power
- ATS4807 HUMCASS selected topics in theory and practice
South Africa
Offered by the School of Arts
Thesis
Students complete the following two units:
- ATS4718 Communications dissertation part 1
- ATS4719 Communications dissertation part 2
Coursework units
Students complete two of the following units:
- ATS4720 Communication research: Issues and methodology
- ATS4721 Communications and cultural studies applied: Industry practice
- a maximum of 12 points at fourth-year level from another discipline and/or institution with the permission of the communications honours coordinator on the relevant campus
Sunway
Offered by the School of Arts and Sciences
Thesis
Students complete the following two units:
- ATS4718 Communications dissertation part 1
- ATS4719 Communications dissertation part 2
Coursework units
Students complete two of the following units:
- ATS4720 Communication research: Issues and methodology
- ATS4721 Communications and cultural studies applied: Industry practice
- a maximum of 12 points at fourth-year level from another discipline and/or institution with the permission of the communications honours coordinator on the relevant campus
