Information for future Journalism students
Professor Chris Nash, Head of Monash Journalism
Undergraduate studies
Monash offers a course that has moved resolutely away from traditional courses centering on print and now integrates 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 are operating in a thoroughly converged technological environment. Monash also has a very wide range of electives that students can do. In second year, they move into current affairs and features formats, and specialise further in print, video, radio or online, and then in third year they specialise in particular genres of journalism -- political, business, sport and cultural, investigative and environmental reporting.
Students are 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 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.
Honours and postgraduate studies