General Information
The School of Humanities, Communications and Social Sciences is located on the Gippsland Campus, which is in the township of Churchill, about 140 kilometres east of the Clayton Campus. The school offers a range of undergraduate courses, enabling students to choose a program, which suits their specific interests, needs and career goals. The academic programs offered range from the broad, generalist Bachelor of Arts to the more specifically vocational programs such as the Bachelor of Social Welfare and BA (Journalism).
The school also conducts an extensive distance education program via the Centre for Learning and Teaching Support. The university's commitment to distance education means that the same opportunities can be offered to students who cannot attend on-campus lecture programs because of work or family commitments or because of location. The aim of distance education is to provide students with the necessary resources to complete a major part of their coursework off-campus.
The School of Humanities, Communications and Social Sciences employes about 50 academic and general staff, and has an enrolment of about 1300 students.
Within the school are six sections: Communications and writing, cognitive science and psychological studies, journalism, history-politics, sociology and social research, and social welfare.
In addition to the sections, the school has three centres: the Centre for Gippsland Studies, the Centre for Australian Indigenous Studies and the National Centre for Australian Studies
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 Centre for Australian
Indigenous Studies (CAIS) offers subjects
that aim to encourage students to understand the past and contemporary
experiences of Indigenous Australians. Courses in Australian Indigenous
Studies aim to assist students to develop a good knowledge base about
key issues in Indigenous societies.
http://www.arts.monash.edu.au/cais/
The National Centre for Australian Studies (NCAS) was established in 1988 as an Australian Research Council Key Research Centre. With its international reputation in Australian Studies, NCAS attracts students from around the world. NCAS has an innovative teaching program, which offers students undergraduate and postgraduate study in Australian Studies, and postgraduate study in Communications and Media Studies, Tourism and Publishing and Editing. http://www.arts.monash.edu.au/ncas
The school also includes the Gippsland Research Information Services (GRIS) and the Bionics and Cognitive Science Centre.