The Bachelor of Arts offers both diversity and focus, and builds informed, skilful and critically aware citizens of the world. The course is built around deeply enriching experiences, and via your elective units, offers you four Signature elements through which to develop your unique graduate profile: Global immersion, Intercultural expertise, Professional experience or Innovation capability.

You can choose from local and international internships, professional engagements and entrepreneurial opportunities, and the choice of more than 50 global immersion programs including access to the funded 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, the complexities of social organisation, and humankind's trajectory through the past and into the future.

Literary studies

If you love books and writing, or aspire to a career as an author, Literary studies at Monash will give you the foundations to prosper in the world of letters.

Offering common core units and a range of literary studies and creative writing electives, this highly respected program will enhance your love of literature and your facility with language.

You'll study under leading literary critics, learn the craft of writing for specific genres from successful authors, gain a thorough grounding in current literary theory, have the opportunity to study at the Monash Prato Centre in Italy, where you can explore rich and diverse Italian literary traditions and along the way find clear pathways to employment and to postgraduate and further vocational study.

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