Education
Master of Interpreting and Translation Studies
Would you like to become a translator or interpreter? The Master of Interpreting and Translation Studies will develop your skills in translation and interpreting in English and another language, with an understanding of both practice and theory. MITS students all undertake work integrated learning and have access to internship opportunities, ensuring that our graduates are work-ready upon completing the degree.
Bachelor of Global Studies
Break down global challenges like poverty, racism, gender equality, and forced migration – and formulate innovative solutions. Develop the intercultural competence essential to be a globally agile changemaker. International study experience is integral to the course – from the Global Immersion Guarantee, study tours, to studying at a prestigious overseas partner university. Our industry connections and extensive internship program ensures you will be career ready.
Master of International Sustainable Tourism Management
Prepare yourself for an international career in tourism management with Australia’s leading and most innovative industry-focused specialist tourism program. The program equips you with skills and expertise in domestic and international marketing, environmental studies, information technology, cultural heritage studies and development, special events and planning.
Master of Applied Linguistics
Our Applied Linguistics program has a proud reputation for excellence in the field, and this is reflected in strong workplace opportunities for graduates. An understanding of linguistics in a global landscape is highly-regarded in industry, particularly where skills in solving language related problems are required to optimise communication.
APG5471 Leadership in intercultural environments
21st century graduates as future global leaders must develop professional capabilities that allow them to demonstrate intercultural leadership in different contexts. Intercultural and inclusive leaders understand their own biases and cultural lenses shaping their behaviours while being able to adapt and adjust across differences to maximise intercultural opportunities arising in globally diverse settings. The unit focuses on the nexus between leadership and culture, analysing the roles of cultural intelligence in supporting a more intercultural and inclusive leadership style.
APG5652 Language and intercultural communication
As globalisation facilitates the increased contact of individuals with different linguistic and socio-cultural backgrounds across both online and offline spaces, there is a growing need to understand the relationship between language and culture. In this unit, students will acquire knowledge and skills to understand the linguistic and socio-cultural factors that shape complex intercultural communication events across a range of personal and professional contexts. Key theories underpinning intercultural communication are explored, including language as social action and cultural identity. Students apply their insights to case-studies from a wide variety of languages and contexts, and develop skills to address intercultural communication in their own personal and professional contexts.
APG5470 Managing Multicultural Teams
In today's globalised world, particularly in multicultural societies such as Australia, all professions require a nuanced understanding of the challenges and opportunities created by cultural diverse workplace. 21st-century graduate students need to be equipped with a critical understanding of intercultural competence, as well as the skills and attitudes required in order to apply this understanding to their chosen field. This unit develops your intercultural competence and provides you with skills and attitudes to successfully manage multicultural teams in a variety of professional settings.
As a Monash student, you are part of a globalised community. Your student experience will be shaped by a diverse range of people – whether you are on campus at Monash, on exchange overseas, or travelling during our breaks. But how can you be effective in this multicultural environment?
Being a global citizen is a crucial attribute for successful leaders. Being culturally aware will allow you to communicate effectively, as well as anticipate, correctly interpret, and adjust to the culturally defined habits of the people around us.
Availability
The Intercultural Studies section of the School of Languages, Literatures, Cultures and Linguistics coordinates a suite of units available across various disciplines in A2000 Bachelor of Arts, A2001 Bachelor of Global Studies and A0502 Diploma of Liberal Arts.
Undergraduate units
- ATS2184 Intercultural skills for an internationalised workplace*
- ATS2199 The inhuman body in the human world: Corporations and contemporary culture*
- ATS3083 Translating across cultures
- ATS2269 Contemporary Australia and its cultures: People, places, identities
- ATS3391 Worlds of sport: Business, politics, media and geographies
- ATS2211 Understanding workplace innovation
- ATS3173 Workplace innovation project
Global study tours and virtual mobility programs
- ATS2264 Intercultural skills for global leaders
- ATS3064 Intercultural skills for global leaders
- ATS2170 Social entrepreneurship challenge in the Indo-Pacific*
- ATS3170 Social entrepreneurship challenge in the Indo-Pacific*
*These units are offered as Arts Professional Futures domain units in Intercultural expertise. Refer to the A2000 Bachelor of Arts in the 2026 Handbook.