Maximise your degree
Time at university can be so much more than academic achievement. Maximise your university experience through exploring unique opportunities that interest you, with the opportunity to engage through experiential learning as part your studies, or undertake extracurricular activities alongside your degree.
These experiences can help to form lifelong friendships, give you skills and talents attractive to employers, and influence your future career direction. Challenges stretching beyond the classroom helps foster initiative and independence whilst allowing you to form new networks and friendships. Taking your studies to a new level with volunteer activities, placements, or travel provides you with a platform to showcase initiative, versatility, personality and professional skills such as time management, planning, organisation and communication.
Within your studies
Are you looking to explore new horizons, or challenge yourself in a professional environment? Gain academic credit whilst taking a leap outside of the classroom with these elective unit options:
Work Integrated Learning (WIL)
Develop professional skills and experience via WIL placements within organisations. Psychology Impact Placements provide tailored opportunities in psychology for Bachelor of Psychology (Honours) students. Innovation placements or general placement opportunities are available either locally or overseas, developing career readiness skills.
Research experiences
If you are considering a research career, the Global Leadership and Advanced Research Program (GLARP) enables students to develop a research proposal and potentially receive funding to present and carry out their projects.
Study abroad
Dive into a rich cultural experience by studying overseas. Psychology opportunities are available in Malaysia, Norway and the United Kingdom, or consider exploring on your semester break through global summer and winter programs.
Within your psychology studies, you’ll learn from leaders in the field and be exposed to latest innovations in teaching and learning. Explore deeper insights and current research which are highlighted in our psychology Masterclasses.
Supporting your studies
Psych research internships
Take the plunge into research! Successful Bachelor of Psychology (Honours) applicants are matched to an appropriate psychology research lab, gaining hands-on volunteer research experience relevant to Psychology.
Volunteering and general internships
Gaining practical, relevant experience can be beneficial both in determining your next career steps, and in gaining a broad range of transferrable career skills. Students are guided to a range of volunteer and internship opportunities available in the community and relevant to psychology studies. In some instances relevant volunteer opportunities can be highlighted on student’s academic transcript.
Peer mentoring program
The Psychology Peer Mentoring Program aims to assist first-year, international, Bachelor of Psychology (Honours) students in their transition from high school into university.
The program aims to create a fun and supportive network between program coordinators, peer mentors and first year students (mentees). Mentees will be placed in groups led by a mentor, who is a later year student from your course. They will help guide you throughout your first year of university, to answer your questions, get you involved with various activities and clubs and show you how university life works.
What is a mentor and how will they help me?
Your mentor will help you to become connected with students and services, and ensure you are equipped to tackle university life. Mentors can share their experiences and offer advice on:
- how to adapt to university life
- what to expect in the course you are studying
- what support services exist on campus
- the social life on campus
- the workload and study requirements
How do I get a mentor?
All first year students in the Bachelor of Psychology (Honours) will be assigned a mentor as part of orientation. You will be introduced to your mentor and receive an overview of the mentoring schedule of activities for your course orientation. If you do not receive these details please contact us at mentoring@monash.edu
What if I have more questions?
If you have any further questions about the mentor program please contact mentoring@monash.edu