If your course permits, you may take elective units taught by other faculties. If you’re enrolled in a double degree, you can only take units from your two partner faculties.
You may want to request course advice about electives. Some electives have prerequisites or corequisites, so you may need permission from the managing faculty.
You can also use the Handbook to search for units and other information. If you have any questions, contact Monash Connect.
Art, Design and Architecture
Before enrolling in a Monash Art, Design and Architecture (MADA) elective unit, you’ll need to:
- meet the prerequisites in the Handbook or
- enrol in our online Occupational Health and Safety unit OHS1000 (0 credit points) and get written permission from the elective unit coordinator.
Some units have quotas so enrolment depends on available places. For more information, submit an online enquiry.
Arts
You can enrol in an Arts unit if you meet the prerequisites in the Handbook. If you have room in your course, you may complete an Arts major or minor.
Business and Economics
You can enrol in a Monash Business School unit if you meet the prerequisites and corequisites in the Handbook. If you have room in your course, you may complete a Business and Economics major or minor. Some majors or minors require the completion of additional and higher-level mathematics units.
Education
You can only enrol in an Education unit if you’re enrolled in a Faculty of Education course.
Engineering
You can enrol in an Engineering unit if you meet the prerequisites in the Handbook. When taking most Engineering undergraduate units, you’re expected to have completed VCE units 3/4 Maths Methods or 3/4 Specialist Maths (or equivalent). For some units, you’re also expected to have completed VCE units 3/4 Physics or 3/4 Chemistry.
Information Technology
You can enrol in most Information Technology units if you meet the prerequisites in the Handbook. Some units require Year 12 Mathematics.
Law
You can only enrol in a Law elective unit if you’re enrolled in a Faculty of Law course. Before enrolling in a Law elective, check that you meet the prerequisites in the Handbook.
Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences
You can enrol in a unit from the Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences if you meet the prerequisites in the Handbook.
Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences
You can only enrol in a Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences unit if you're enrolled in a Faculty of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences course.
Science
You can enrol in a Science unit if you meet the prerequisites and corequisites in the Handbook. If you have room in your course, you may complete a Science major or minor. Some majors or minors require the completion of additional mathematics units. You’ll find more information in the list of level one science units and the Handbook.