Information for future Journalism students
Undergraduate studies
Professor Chris Nash, Head of Monash Journalism
Undergraduate studies 2010
Monash is offering a new undergraduate Journalism curriculum from 2010. The main impacts of the change will be, firstly, to integrate all technologies in the various fields of study. At the end of first year, students will have basic and equivalent levels of competence in news reporting for print, online, video and radio. So students will be operating in a thoroughly converged technological environment. Secondly, Monash is expanding the range of electives that students can do. In second year, students move into current affairs and features formats, and specialise further in print, video, radio or online, and then in third year they will be able to specialise in particular genres of journalism -- political, business, sport and cultural, investigative and environmental reporting.
Students will be offered an unrivalled array of specialisations as well as a very thorough grounding in the multimedia aspects of journalism. Details of the new degree structure and subjects are available in the 2010 university handbook.
Journalism at Monash is the largest undergraduate journalism program in the country and that provides economies of scale that enable a range of elective options. This is followed by an honours year in Journalism, where the best students can cap-off their studies with a supervised project which will be the jewel in the portfolio that they take out into the world.