- 2018

Undergraduate

Specialisation

Commencement year

This area of study entry applies to students commencing this course in 2018 and should be read in conjunction with the relevant course entry in the Handbook.

Any units listed for this area of study relate only to the 'Requirements' outlined in the component of any bachelors double degrees.

Unit codes that are not linked to their entry in the Handbook are not available for study in the current year.

Managing faculty

Faculty of Arts

Offered by

School of Languages, Literatures, Cultures and Linguistics

Coordinator(s)

Dr Gabriel Garcia Ochoa

Contact details

Global studiesGlobal studies (http://future.arts.monash.edu/bachelor-global-studies/)

Location

Clayton

This is a new interdisciplinary field that fosters awareness of language as a critical site of cultural interaction and negotiation, conflict and cooperation. Students can take this specialisation with a language focus in Chinese, French, German, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean or Spanish.

Compulsory overseas study component

A minimum of 18 points must be chosen for study abroad from the units listed below or an overseas partner institution. For more information go to Arts study abroadArts study abroad (http://artsonline.monash.edu.au/study-overseas/).

Units

Students complete:

  1. Three units (18 points) as follows:

    One level 1 gateway unit (6 points):

    One level 2 cornerstone unit (6 points), chosen from:

    • ATS2671 Managing intercultural communication
    • ATS2732 Writing the world, the other and the self
    • ATS2770 English as an international language: Language and globalisation

    One level 3 capstone unit (6 points), chosen from:

    • ATS3064Not offered in 2018 Cultural intelligence: Building competencies for global leadership
    • ATS3083 Translating across cultures
    • ATS3302Not offered in 2018 Global connections: Understanding cultural literacy
    • ATS3778 Englishes in the global context
  2. Eight units (48 points) in one of the language studies listed below, equivalent to a major in that language and following the entry point guidelines and order prescribed under the Bachelor of Arts:
  3. One additional unit (6 points) from the remaining cornerstone and capstone units above or list of global cultural literacies electives below.

Global cultural literacies electives

  • ATS1250 Social justice and Indigenous Australians
  • ATS1254 Culture, power and difference: Indigeneity and Australian identity
  • ATS1319 Global Asia
  • ATS2020/ATS3020 Colonialism in comparison: Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific
  • ATS2170/ATS3170 Arts international experience
  • ATS2214Not offered in 2018/ATS3214Not offered in 2018 Italy on film (In country)
  • ATS2251/ATS3251 Cuba study tour
  • ATS2269 Exploring contemporary Australia: People, events, ideas
  • ATS2335Not offered in 2018/ATS3135Not offered in 2018 War and memory: Resistance, massacre and representation in Second World War Italy
  • ATS2355 Race and power: Imagining Indigenous Australia
  • ATS2358 Contesting Laws: Heritage, culture and land
  • ATS2379Not offered in 2018/ATS3379Not offered in 2018 Fairy tale in Italy
  • ATS2382Not offered in 2018 War and memory in the Asia Pacific: Legacies of World War II
  • ATS2387/ATS3387 Beyond Gallipolli: Australians in the Great War (12 points)
  • ATS2444Not offered in 2018/ATS3444Not offered in 2018 Inscribing Italy: Travels and imaginings
  • ATS2612/ATS3612 The Renaissance in Florence
  • ATS2619/ATS3319 Cultural diversity in contemporary Europe
  • ATS2898/ATS3898 The Italian city: Historical and literary perspectives
  • ATS2941 Asia's underside: Violence, crime and protest
  • ATS2971Not offered in 2018 Fields of play: Entertainment, politics and popular cultures
  • ATS3064Not offered in 2018 Cultural intelligence: Building competencies for global leadership
  • ATS3089 Social institutions and power in Asia
  • ATS3302Not offered in 2018 Global connections: Understanding cultural literacy
  • ATS3304Not offered in 2018 Forms of identity
  • ATS3309 Producing and consuming Japan: A study tour through western Japan
  • ATS3627 Global cultures, media flows: Creating and consuming (popular) culture
  • ATS3779 Cultural linguistics
  • ATS3798Not offered in 2018 Global Shakespeares
  • ATS3917Not offered in 2018 Representing war: Censorship, propaganda and art

Related areas of study

Relevant courses

Bachelors

Single degrees

Successful completion of this specialisation can be counted towards meeting the requirements for the following single degree:

  • A2001 Bachelor of Global Studies

Students in other single bachelor's degrees are not eligible to complete this specialisation.

Double degrees

Successful completion of this specialisation can be counted towards meeting the requirements for the Bachelor of Global Studies component in the following double degrees:

  • B2006 Bachelor of Commerce and Bachelor of Global Studies
  • L3009 Bachelor of Laws (Honours) and Bachelor of Global Studies
  • S2003 Bachelor of Science and Bachelor of Global Studies