Unit (course) restrictions

Students enrolled in more than 50% Art and Design units must also enrol in the non-credit occupational health and safety unit OHS1000.

Students who apply to do studio-based units at Monash should supply a portfolio of relevant work.

Due to a high demand for Business & Economics units, quotas are imposed particularly at the Clayton and Caulfield campuses. 

Students applying to do accounting, finance, economics, econometrics and statistics units are required to produce evidence of completion of high level Mathematics (final year secondary or tertiary level). They should attach the detailed curriculum & results of their completed Maths units at the time of sending their Monash Abroad application for assessment by the faculty.
Students applying to do second and third year units must show they have completed the prerequisites as detailed in the Monash Unit handbook.
If students are requesting units which are of same year level and content as an already completed unit listed on their transcript, their request will not be approved by the faculty.

Postgraduate units at the Clayton campus cannot be taken by exchange or study abroad students but units at the Caulfield campus may be approved on a case by case basis.

Students applying for MBA units must meet the following minimum requirements:

• English test score of IELTS 7.0 with no band under 6.0 (or the TOEFL equivalent)
• Two years relevant work experience
• Applications must include a complete resume showing both study and employment undertaken 

Units with practical teaching components may be available for students enrolled in a teaching program at their home university.

• The units will be limited to 1st, 2nd or 3rd year units only
• Units will be subject to the availability of teaching placements
• Students who are offered placements will be required to undertake a police record check which costs $75 (in 2008)

Students applying for Law units should note that:

Law units are only available to students who are currently studying law at their home university.

Compulsory and Quasi compulsory units are not available unless there are special circumstances (eg where the student has a special need to complete a particular unit).  Written request from the home university is required in this instance.

Only Law elective units are available excluding the units listed below.  The units listed below have quotas and are not available to exchange students as preference is given to full degree students
LAW1003
LAW2003
LAW3003
LAW4003
LAW4160
LAW4162
LAW4173
LAW4174
LAW4183
LAW4214
LAW5110
LAW5127
LAW5149
LAW5151
LAW5207
LAW5216

• Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery units not available

Students applying for Psychology units should note that

• Psychology units are only available to students with substantial previous study in psychology and the School of Psychology have strict requirements for progression at undergraduate level.
• In order to assess applications from exchange and study abroad students they require official unit /subject descriptions for all previously studied psychology units including the number of hours of classes per week, the assessment requirements of the units, the textbooks used, and an outline of the content.
• Approval for 1st year units is more straightforward but students applying for 2nd or 3rd year units must have a working knowledge of a statistics program like SPSS and have previously written scientific lab reports. 

Students should attach the above noted documentation at the time of sending their Monash Abroad application for the assessment of any of their applied Psychology units .