Search units & courses
Every unit, course, major, minor and specialisation in the Monash handbook, with requisite maps and course structures.
ATS3903Leadership, politics and power
No reviews yetUnitLevel 36 credit pointsArts
How do we make sense of political leadership? What makes a “good” leader? In this unit, you will critique and investigate the nature of political leadership, challenges posed against it, and its impacts. You will explore the intersections...
Semester 2Clayton
ATS3124Life in the Soviet Union
No reviews yetUnitLevel 36 credit pointsArts
The unit will examine how Communism transformed everyday life in the Soviet Union by reshaping social structures and communal ties. How did the Bolshevik ascent to power reshape the private sphere? How did the Communist authorities try to...
Semester 2Clayton
ATS3324Lifestyle journalism
No reviews yetUnitLevel 36 credit pointsArts
This unit explores the research and reporting practices of Lifestyle Journalism, which fall into the category of popular journalism. Lifestyle Journalism is associated with travel, entertainment, leisure/fashion, lifestyle, food, music,...
Semester 1Caulfield
LENL-MAJLinguistics and English language
No reviews yetArea of studyMajorUndergraduate48 credit pointsArts
Linguistics and English Language is a major that is dedicated to the scientific study of language and its applications. Across our varied units, you will delve into the structure, diversity and use of languages across a range of settings,...
LENL-MINLinguistics and English language
No reviews yetArea of studyMinorUndergraduate24 credit pointsArts
Linguistics and English Language is dedicated to the scientific study of language and its applications. Across our varied units, you will delve into the structure, diversity and use of languages across a range of settings, as well as the...
ATS1339Linguistic structure and language diversity
No reviews yetUnitLevel 16 credit pointsArts
There are 7,000+ living languages in the world, each of which have their own structures, communities of users and cultures. In this unit we explore this diversity. Drawing on data from English and a range of other languages, we investigate...
Semester 2Clayton
LITR-MAJLiterary studies
No reviews yetArea of studyMajorUndergraduate48 credit pointsArts
Literary Studies is dedicated to the study of literature in English and the development of your skills in creative writing. You will learn how to write critically about what you read, and examine the relations between language, literature...
LITR-MINLiterary studies
No reviews yetArea of studyMinorUndergraduate24 credit pointsArts
Literary Studies is dedicated to the study of literature in English and the development of your skills in creative writing. You will learn how to write critically about what you read, and examine the relations between language, literature...
ATS3189Literary theory
No reviews yetUnitLevel 36 credit pointsArts
How do you know whether you are interpreting a literary text the ‘right’ way? This question goes to key issues of approach, method and disciplinarity which are collectively known as literary theory. Different literary theories are like...
Semester 1Clayton
ATS1076Literature and environment: Text, genre, world
No reviews yetUnitLevel 16 credit pointsArts
In this unit you will examine how literary texts frame and influence understandings of the natural world. You will explore texts from eighteenth-century Romanticism, through the era of industrialisation and empire, to the growth of...
Semester 2CaulfieldClayton
ATS3421Literature and modernism
No reviews yetUnitLevel 36 credit pointsArts
In this unit you will examine some of the major writers and texts of modernist literature from the Anglophone world from 1900 to 1940. You will discuss the famous works of 'High' modernism (e.g. Mrs Dalloway, The Waste Land), the...
Semester 2Clayton
ATS1079Live! From the past
No reviews yetUnitLevel 16 credit pointsArts
In this interdisciplinary unit you will step into the past and play immersive role playing games that bring history’s pivotal moments to life. You will receive expert introduction to a period and event and then play the roles of historical...
Semester 1Clayton
ATS2266Living a meaningful life: Wisdom traditions and their contemplative practices
No reviews yetUnitLevel 26 credit pointsArts
This unit will be informative, experiential and reflective. You will use teachings and texts from a number of the world's great wisdom traditions and their contemplative practices to help you reflect on and discuss some of life's most...
Semester 2Clayton
ATS3326Living a meaningful life: Wisdom traditions and their contemplative practices
No reviews yetUnitLevel 36 credit pointsArts
This unit will be informative, experiential and reflective. You will use teachings and texts from a number of the world's great wisdom traditions, and their contemplative practices to help you reflect on and discuss some of life's most...
Semester 2Clayton
ATS2718Love, families, and relationships
No reviews yetUnitLevel 26 credit pointsArts
In this unit, you will focus on intimate relationships and the complexities of contemporary love and changing families. You will examine theoretical perspectives on personal life and put diversities of contemporary relationships and...
Semester 2Clayton
ATS2371Magic, science and religion
No reviews yetUnitLevel 26 credit pointsArts
The unit enables you to gain understanding of what magic, ritual and spiritual beliefs means to people in the modern world. It also introduces first year students to some of the contributions that anthropologists and sociologists of magic...
Semester 2Clayton
ATS2671Managing intercultural communication
No reviews yetUnitLevel 26 credit pointsArts
The unit examines basic concepts of intercultural communication: face and politeness in language; the relation between cultural values and discourse; cultural variation in speech acts, turn taking rules and formulaic patterns; cultural...
Semester 2Clayton
MDIA-USPECMedia
No reviews yetArea of studySpecialisationUndergraduate36 credit pointsArts
The media specialisation provides a strong, grounded understanding of contemporary media. You will gain in-depth knowledge of media studies as a discipline and develop skills in media analysis that have applications across a wide range of...
ATS1279Media and culture
No reviews yetUnitLevel 16 credit pointsArts
In this unit you will explore the core concepts and theoretical traditions within media studies including political economy, textual analysis, empirical studies and cultural studies. You will consider these in alignment with historical and...
Semester 1CaulfieldClayton
AMU1163Media and global mobility
No reviews yetUnitLevel 16 credit pointsArts
In this unit you will be introduced to the key technological features inherent in digital media's mobility, followed by an examination of theoretical concepts and contextual backgrounds related to global mobility. You will examine how...
Semester 2Malaysia