Spotlight: Prue Lester

Course

Majors - Communications, Film and Television Studies

Minor - International Studies

Most memorable Monash experience so far

Attending a Saturday morning laughing club on the St. Kilda foreshore for a communications subject specialising in comedy.

Most challenging experience

Managing a successful combination of academia, socialising and work.

What you love about doing an Arts degree

Critical thinking means being able to evaluate complex information from different angles. It involves sifting out the relevant pieces of information and making sense of it. Arts students are good at researching the causes of a problem and suggesting alternative solutions.

Career aspirations

I feel an Arts degree has left me open to a myriad of career opportunities globally – I would like to travel and discover these first hand. The lecturers and tutors in the course have been a huge inspiration for creative expansion – and I plan to develop these facets of my personality in a global sphere, perhaps as a photographic journalist.