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 Indonesian studies major develops in you the linguistic competence to negotiate commonly-encountered interactions in Indonesian, and follows that by equipping you with the skills necessary to perform successfully more complicated linguistic tasks such as translation, interpretation and commentary. You will acquire cultural skills by exploring a diversity of linguistic varieties, media and performance styles, and by developing fluency in the codes of politeness that enable successful communication in Indonesian settings. Varieties of Indonesian are studied as tools for successful communication as well as ways of understanding Indonesian diversity. Throughout the major, you will acquire research skills that prepare you for research connected with Indonesia in a disciplinary field of your choice, or in Indonesian area studies. You will acquire the linguistic and cultural skills that enable you to work in private and public settings where Indonesia expertise is required. There are two streams within the major: Introductory, for students with no previous knowledge of Indonesian or Malay and Intermediate, for students with VCE Indonesian or its equivalent.
