Professional futures

A defining feature of employability in the future will be innovation capability, and specifically, how an individual can add value to an organisation by generating new ideas and developing new ways of working.

Through our focused courses, students engage in active, case-based and problem-based learning, whilst developing an understanding of innovation as a workplace and social process.

By examining both its theoretical and practical applications, you will have the opportunity to research, integrate theory, practice knowledge and apply skills across a range of industries, sectors, challenges and scenarios, to drive and enhance outcomes.

Innovation capability units

• Introduction to health humanities
• Geopolitical security in the Indo-Pacific
• Introduction to Philosophy: The meaning of life
• Live! From the past
• Understanding social behaviour
• Ethics, health and justice
• Understanding the media
• The geography of global challenges
• Extreme earth! The geography of disasters
• Introduction to sociology
• Big ideas for better futures
• The making of the modern world, 1750 to the present
• Introducing literature: Ways of reading
• Issues in Australian politics and government
• Understanding workplace innovation
• The mind, the self and political behaviour
• Living a meaningful life: Wisdom traditions and their contemplative practices
• Interdisciplinary research collaboration
• The ethics of artificial intelligence
• Environmental ethics
• Critical thinking: How to analyse arguments and improve your reasoning skills
• Workplace innovation project
• Developing research literacy
• Field methods in anthropology and international development
• Living a meaningful life: Wisdom traditions and their contemplative practices
• True happiness: The art, practice and science of human flourishing
• Post-conflict: Justice, memory, reconciliation
• Imagining tomorrow, climate change and social futures
• Social change in practice (global intensive)
• Research, experimentation and discovery
• Monash innovation guarantee
• Research, experimentation and discovery
• Monash Innovation Guarantee

In the multicultural workplaces of today and tomorrow, the ability to navigate these environments with well-developed cultural intelligence is crucial.

We place a strong emphasis on intercultural competence to ensure you graduate as a socially responsible individual, able to adapt to the diverse demands of your profession in an increasingly globalised world.

Through the adoption of intercultural skills, students learn strategies to communicate, negotiate and resolve conflicts.

Participants are also given the opportunity to investigate the representation of ethnic identities in popular culture; explore the complexity of decolonisation, understand the complex rights of Indigenous peoples; and analyse the impact of globalisation on creative industries and media.

Intercultural expertise units

• Indonesian Introductory 1
• Culture, power and difference: Indigeneity and Australian identity
• Encountering cultures: Introduction to anthropology 1
• Introduction to international human rights
• Popular music in global perspective
• Intercultural skills for an internationalised workplace
• The inhuman body in the human world: Corporations and contemporary culture
• Aboriginal languages
• Interrogating racism: Indigenous Australians and the state
• Global inequality and alternatives to development
• Understanding Australia: From the deep past to the present
• Intercultural skills for global leaders
• Interrogating racism: Indigenous Australians and the state
• Hearing the country: Studies in Indigenous Australian ethnoecology
• Global inequality and alternatives to development
• Understanding Australia: From the deep past to the present
• Indigenous geographies
• Intercultural skills for global leaders
• Language, culture and power
• The Indigenous history of modern Australia
• Indigenous peoples globally

In addition to enriched, innovative and integrative learning experiences, our students have the unique opportunity to build their experience whilst completing their undergraduate studies.

With a focus on both professional and academic expertise and professional practice, you will graduate work-ready, with polished presentation, teamwork, communication, critical thinking and judgement skills.

If you are specifically interested in journalism, politics or working internationally, there are also bespoke internship programs on offer that provide invaluable practical experience in a plethora of industries and professions.

Professional experience units

• Crafting compelling written content
• Communicating in the digital era
• Professional writing
• Cracking the language code: English and beyond
• Writing and editing for the workplace
• Build your career: Planning and strategies for employability
• Professional and academic presentation skills
• Arts internship
• Arts international internship
• Practising applied qualitative research
• Victorian parliamentary internship
• Journalism professional placement
• Professional practice
• Activism for academic freedom: Applied workshop in research advocacy
• Volunteering in practice

Our students become global citizens, poised to create a professional future in whichever industry and market they choose.

The Social Enterprise Challenge in the Indo-Pacific (SECIP) program is a two-week intensive initiative that gives students hands-on experience in establishing a social enterprise or solution that can have an immediate social impact. Delivered in collaboration with partner universities throughout the Indo-Pacific region, participants work in cross-cultural, interdisciplinary teams, with learning based on the principles of design-thinking, frugal innovation and rapid prototyping.

Global immersion units

• Social entrepreneurship challenge in the Indo-Pacific (second year)
• Climate justice challenges in the Indo-Pacific (second year)
• Global Encounters: Indigenous knowledges, entrepreneurship and cultural exchange (second year)
• Social entrepreneurship challenge in the Indo-Pacific (third year)
• Global Encounters: Indigenous knowledges, entrepreneurship and cultural exchange (third year)
• Global Immersion Guarantee program

Flagship Rich Educational Experiences (FREE) give students a personal curation of rich educational experiences focusing on the challenges defining our world and future. Current educational experiences offered include: Global Immersion Guarantee (GIG), Monash Innovation Guarantee (MIG) and Research, Experimentation and Discovery (RED).

• Flagship Rich Educational Experiences