The Victorian Universities' Languages Consortium was established in 1996 with membership including all universities in Victoria. One central aim of the consortium is to facilitate and encourage cross-institutional enrolments in languages.
The guidelines governing cross-institutional enrolment as specified in the consortium's Memorandum of Understanding (Section 7) are as follows:
7.1 A student who is enrolled in an award course program at a home university may apply to enrol in a language program at another university and expect to be admitted, provided that:
7.1.1 where courses in the relevant language are offered by the home university, a student shall normally undertake them there;
7.1.2 the enrolment is approved by the relevant faculty/school/department at the home university; and
7.1.3 the enrolment is also approved by the relevant faculty/school/department of the host university;
7.1.4 the language studies are part of an award course at the home university.
7.2 The home university shall create its own codes for cross-institutional enrolments and determine the appropriate credit to be given to a course undertaken at another university.
7.3 Both home and host universities retain the right to limit the number of students who may enrol in language courses under such arrangements.
7.4 Where a student commences a sequence of language units under such arrangements, he/she will normally be permitted to take such further units as the sequence offers, provided progress is deemed satisfactory by the host institution and recognising that such courses may be offered on a different campus.
The following languages, taught at the universities listed, are available to students:
Language
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ACU
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Ballarat
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Deakin
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La
Trobe
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Melbourne
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Monash
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RMIT
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Swinburne
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VUT
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| Ancient
Greek
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3
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3
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| Arabic
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3
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3
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| Cambodian
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3
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| Chinese
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3
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3
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3
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3
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3
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3
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3
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| French
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3
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3
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3
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| German
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3
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3
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| Greek
(Modern)
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3
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3
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3
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3
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3
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| Hebrew
(Modern)
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3
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3
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| Hindi
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3
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| Indonesian/Malay
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3
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3
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3
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3
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3
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| Italian
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3
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3
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3
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3
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3
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3
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3
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| Japanese
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3
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3
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3
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3
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3
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3
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3
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3
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| Korean
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3
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3
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| Latin
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3
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3
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| Polish
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3
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| Russian
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3
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3
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| Sanskrit
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3
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| Spanish
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3
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3
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3
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3
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| Swedish
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3
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| Thai
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3
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| Ukrainian
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3
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| Vietnamese
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3
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3
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3
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3
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