Caution
Copyright © Monash University 1996
ISBN 1320-6222
Authorised by Academic Registrar, April 1996
The term `School of Humanities and Social Sciences,' like `Faculty of Arts,' is used most frequently to include all students enrolled in its courses and all staff, both academic and general, employed to assist in the delivery of these academic programs. The school is located on the Gippsland campus, which is in the township of Churchill, approximately 168 kilometres east of the Clayton campus.
The school is located in two wings of the campus: the 2W and 1E buildings. The school office is room 2W283, and staff there can direct inquiries to the appropriate areas within the school if necessary.
The School of Humanities and Social Sciences employs a staff of approximately sixty, including full-time, part-time and sessional staff. In 1994 approximately 1090 students were enrolled in undergraduate programs taught by the school, with a further 140 undertaking graduate study. Of these students, around 400 are enrolled on-campus, with in excess of 700 students studying part-time by distance education from a variety of locations within Australia and overseas.
Within the school there are five sections: English-Mass Communications, History-Politics, Social Research, Sociology and Social Welfare. Each section has a head of section who is responsible for administrative and academic issues relating to the one or more disciplines they teach.
In addition to the sections, the school also has two centres: the Gippsland Centre for Koorie Studies; and the Centre for Gippsland Studies. The Gippsland Centre for Koorie Studies, headed by a director, offers an undergraduate program in Koorie studies and also has involvement in research in this area. The Centre for Gippsland Studies has a large archive of information on Gippsland, maintained by the executive officer, which is accessible to anyone researching issues related to Gippsland.
The main business of running the school is the responsibility of the school board, which meets at least seven times throughout the year and reports to the faculty board where necessary. The school board comprises most academic and general staff within the school, a representative of another school and two student representatives.
Students wishing to bring matters to the attention of the school board should feel free to discuss them with the student representatives, who may be contacted via the student union.
The organisation of teaching and research in particular disciplines rests with the relevant head of section, while the school board is concerned with issues affecting more than one section, including new developments within the school. The school board has certain committees which have the power to act on behalf of the school board on particular issues as specified in their terms of reference. These committees include:
+ the Undergraduate Committee, which advises the board on all matters relating to undergraduate students as they arise, including questions of student workload and matters concerned with assessment; acts for the board in cases involving use of discretionary powers conferred on the school by the degree regulations and considers proposals for the introduction of new subjects;
+ the Honours Committee, which advises the board on all matters relating to the fourth year honours program, including the admission of students, the consideration of proposals for the introduction of new subjects, and the awarding of the honours degree;
+ the Postgraduate Committee, which advises the school on all matters relating to the admission of candidates for higher degrees and graduate courses and the awarding of higher degrees and graduate awards;
+ the Unsatisfactory Progress Committee, which acts as a subcommittee of the Undergraduate Committee to consider cases of students who become liable to be excluded for unsatisfactory progress;
+ the Research Committee, which advises the board on all matters relating to the conduct of research within the school, including policies, grants and ethics.
The requirements for the various courses are set out as simply as possible, but if there are remaining doubts as to their meaning, students should contact the school's administrative officers.
NEIL COURTNEY myth, legend and folktale; film.
CATHY GREENFIELD relations between media, culture, power with particular attention to forms of democracy and populism and to intercultural relations.
MIKE GRIFFITHS creative writing; contemporary writing; postcolonial studies; media, cultural and critical studies; travel writing.
MARY GRIFFITHS `postcolonial' theory and literature; women's writing; the politics of representation in the media.
NEIL HANLEY media studies, mass communications; computer-mediated learning.
PATRICK MORGAN Australian literature and Australian studies; Gippsland studies; political literature.
ROS PROSSER water; water history; work, industry; machinery, technology industries.
MALCOLM KENNEDY Australian economic and foreign policy developments; resource and military rivalry, and maritime security in the asia-pacific basin; the globalist-nation state debate; epistemology and theories of war and peace.
BETH RUSSELL environmental politics; international relations; public policy; citizenship and governance.
DAVID SCHMITT medical history; australian colonial military history; Australian health policy.
KEITH WILSON American civil war; African american culture; US civil rights; industrial revolution: Britain; Australian prisoners of war.
MARLENE DRYSDALE Koorie education.
MARGARET EGUDO policy issues relating to Aboriginal education.
ISABEL ELLENDER Koorie archaeology.
DORIS PATON local Koorie history.
PAUL THOMAS applied linguistics; lote methodology; language acquisition.
KAREN CRINALL homelessness specifically young women; feminist research methodology, art therapy; art; photography, painting, sculpture; youth work; youth suicide; education; curriculum theory.
GORDON DAWBER grief and loss, crisis intervention in general, interviewing, curriculum development (especially distance education); family-centred case work, groupwork.
MARG LYNN rural social work; rural information networks; community development; feminist social work practice.
HELEN MCADAM feminist practice; selection of students for social welfare course; evaluation of teaching practice and process.
DEBRA MANNING public welfare; overseas community development.
KATHLEEN WILLIAMS behavioural studies; adult education; mature-age students.
MARION COLLIS women's health; mental illness/psychiatric services; women and social control.
IAN HAMILTON family; ethnic relations; ethnic intermarriage.
LYLE MUNRO social movements; animal rights; youth employment; social control and deviance; sociology of education, school to work transition.
DARYL NATION distance education; educational technology; open learning.
MARIANNE ROBINSON children; gender relations; education.
PARIMAL ROY race, migration and ethnicity; family and kinship; social and community networks; social change; rural and urban studies; south and south-east Asia.
STEVEN RUSSELL social and political thought - historical and contemporary - especially Norbert Elias and Antonio Gramsci; sociology of defiance; sociology of religion, especially new religious movements and traditional religious institutions; race and ethnic relations, especially Jewish issues; gender relations and the reconstruction of masculinity; sociology of identity, the body, emotions.
+ Doctor of Philosophy
+ Master of Arts by research
A brief explanation of each of these courses follows. Students should note that full details of courses are contained in the regulations. Further information and application forms for each of these courses may be obtained from Student Administration, Monash University, Gippsland campus, Churchill 3842. Applicants should note that interviews may be required for some of these programs. International students wishing to apply for these programs should contact the manager, International Student Office, Monash University Gippsland campus, Churchill 3842, Australia.
A candidate may be enrolled on either a full-time or part-time basis. The total permissible period of candidature is five years (sixty months) full-time, or the equivalent part-time up to a maximum of eight years, after which time candidature will lapse. The minimum period of candidature is twenty-four months.
Further information may be obtained from the chair or secretary to the Postgraduate Committee in Gippsland.
The course may be undertaken on a full-time or part-time basis. The duration of the program will normally be a minimum of twenty-one calendar months of full-time work (or its equivalent for part-time programs) and a maximum period of thirty-six calendar months (or its equivalent part-time).
Prospective students are advised to contact the chair or secretary of the Postgraduate Committee in Gippsland for further information on eligibility and application procedures.