The Bachelor of Arts allows you to choose from over forty areas of study, and to develop the research skills, advanced discipline knowledge and self-reliance to acquire information, assess evidence and convey complex ideas. You will be able to enrich your global awareness through a multitude of internship, professional engagement and overseas study opportunities such as the Monash Arts Global Immersion Guarantee, preparing you to live and work in complex and culturally diverse environments while building a community of like-minded peers. You'll develop a rich understanding of human difference and communication, and the complexities of social organisation. The Bachelor of Criminology is the study of crime and social control: how we define it, what causes it, and how we respond to it provide a window into our society. The degree will give you an understanding of victimisation and perpetration, and inequality and its impacts. You will consider the local, national and global aspects of crime and justice while assessing society’s changing responses. Learn about crime committed by individuals, groups, organisations and states and the mechanisms of the criminal justice system including police, courts and corrections. You will engage with policy leaders in crime and justice, and experience criminal justice in action in a range of international, national and local contexts. Take the opportunity to combine criminology with areas of study that offer a natural pairing such as psychology, sociology, behavioural studies, gender studies, anthropology. With a double degree in Arts and Criminology, you will cultivate skills in critically evaluating evidence, developing your own supported arguments, and understanding of the possibilities and challenges of reform. You will become an expert in your chosen discipline, and will be work ready, equipped with the core skills employers in all sectors are looking for.
The major is structured to develop in you a range of skills and knowledge. You will learn critical reading, research, and writing skills at every level of the major, but each year puts one aspect of the historian’s toolkit front and centre. Two gateway units provide an engaging, wide-ranging introduction to the past across a broad chronological sweep. In semester 1, you are exposed to the study of the modern era, and in semester 2, they dive deeper into the pre-modern past. In first year, we focus on learning source analysis—how to ask questions of historical evidence, understanding the limits of the evidence, and the circumstances that created it. Second-year cornerstones cover core thematic concerns of historical inquiry across the pre-modernmodern divide. In second year, we build on these skills by delving more deeply into historiographical concerns, i.e., how historians have written about the past. Majors will gain a deeper appreciation of historical methodology through inquiry into debates among historians. With the capstone, you have the opportunity to pursue a major research project of your own design. Our emphasis is on the craft of writing, while developing advanced skills in source analysis and historiography.
