Welcome to Monash Journalism
Professor Chris Nash, Head of Monash Journalism
Monash offers the largest and most stimulating undergraduate journalism program in Australia. It combines a practice-based approach with rigorous professional and intellectual standards. Students are taught by journalists who are at the top of their field, including permanent staff who between them have won all of Australia’s most prestigious journalism and television awards. Members of staff have experience at senior levels in all media: newspapers, radio, television and the web.
Journalism students have access to a vast range of electives from the Arts Faculty and other parts of Australia's largest university and can create a degree that suits their own interests and aspirations.
Monash Journalism is an exciting place to be, both for students who want a career in journalism, and for those who are still deciding their futures but want excellent research and communication skills.
Journalism is an essential component of a free, democratic society, holding to account powerful vested interests such as governments, corporations, unions, churches and other institutions. Through a vibrant journalistic culture, citizens can make informed choices about how they live their lives, how they vote, what they do with their money, how they live in their environments and which movies and sports they go to see.
Huge structural changes enabled by the internet are taking place in the media worldwide. While these will test some media outlets, they will also create exciting opportunities and new jobs. Whatever the fallout, the world will still need well-trained journalists to produce hard news stories, features, and intelligent analysis.
Students can study journalism at Monash in several ways. They can work for a tagged Bachelor of Journalism degree, which is offered at Caulfield campus and also in off-campus mode, or they can also pick up a Journalism major in an Arts or Communications degree. Students are currently doing Journalism subjects as part of 55 different degrees at Monash. However, the tagged Journalism degree would be the first option for somebody who wanted to be a professional journalist because of the prestige, focus and the essential core curriculum.