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Discover authentic Australia: Study Abroad at Monash University Gippsland campus
Monash University’s Gippsland campus offers an educational experience like no other.
Nestled between the mountains and the ocean, and only two hours from the bright lights of Melbourne the campus combines a quality Monash University education with the unforgettable experience of life in regional Australia.
Gippsland offers a safe, intimate environment, where you will get to know other students and your lecturers. At Monash Gippsland you can become fully immersed into university life and will be treated as a valued member of the local community.
The campus offersnot only a great study experience, but also a great life experience. The Good Universities Guide (2004), gives the campus five star ratings for positive graduate outcomes, graduate starting salaries and describes it is a low cost place to live with great facilities and support.
10 great reasons to Study Abroad at Gippsland
1. Guaranteed accommodation
2. Airport pick up and orientation
3. Safety
4. Peer mentoring
5. Academic mentoring
6. Cultural experiences
7. Food "experiences"
8. Sporting opportunitites
9. Active student life
10. And even more trips
1. Guaranteed accommodation
- If you accept your offer at least 60 days prior to commencement you are guaranteed your own room on campus that includes your own dedicated internet line
- As an on campus student you are also given the opportunity to take part in weekly university activities ranging from ski trips in the Snowy Mountains to surf trips at the nearby golden sand beaches
2. Airport pick up and orientation
- All Study Abroad students are picked up at the airport and transported to campus
- When you arrive, current students will show you around campus, ensuring you immediately feel part of the community
3. Safety
- Gippsland is a place where students feel safe at all times. As a highly supported, lower population campus, every student at Gippsland is important
- Gippsland's wide range of support staff includes trained 24-hour on-call staff, counsellors, a campus nurse, international support networks and more
4. Peer mentoring
- New Gippsland students aren't strangers for long. But to help you adjust quickly, we will assign a current student to help you out. When you arrive your peer mentor will provide advice on everything from shopping to study
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5. Academic mentoring
- To provide even more study support, you will also be given an academic mentor in your field of study. This academic will help you with essay writing, preparing for exams, timetabling and all other matters relating to study
6. Cultural experiences
- Each of the eight study abroad units includes optional field trips
- If you are studying the unit, you will receive transport and food subsidies, and of course, as well as being enjoyable, it'll also be beneficial to studies
- Even if you aren't studying the unit, you are welcome to take part in the field trips!
7. Food "experiences"
- As a special feature of the Study Abroad program, special free food nights will take place throughout the semester. The nights are a great opportunity to mix with other students on campus, international students and other Study Abroad students
- Some of the dining experiences will include sampling bush tucker, Australian desserts night, pancake brunches, chocolate and smoothie lunch and the most Australian of experiences, backyard “barbies”
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8. Sporting opportunitites
- If you are looking to get involved in life Down Under, look no further than sport! Various sports at all levels of competitiveness, from netball to soccer to backyard cricket will be available
- And don't forget the golf clubs! The campus has its own golf course and a further 12 high quality courses are within 30 minutes drive
9. Active student life
- The Gippsland Campus Student Union is extremely active organising events ranging from orientation week to entertainment and running 21 clubs and societies
- These groups include artists groups, photography clubs, sports groups, environmental association and just about anything else you can think of
10. And even more trips
- As well as the trips organised as part of the study abroad units, you will get one train ticket to Melbourne. This will provide the chance to contrast authentic Australia experience with life in urban Australia
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There are eight uniquely Australian units offered at Gippsland. (In your home country, you may know units as “courses”). They provide a fantastic opportunity for you to take full advantage of the Gippsland region's National Parks, sport and culture. These units and their corresponding field trips will be complemented by a wide array of other great optional excursions that will be heavily subsidised as part of Study Abroad and make your time at Gippsland truly memorable.
Units
Semester one
EDF2606 Sport and Australian society
EDF2601 Adventure education
ENV3656 Natural area management
Semester two
AIS2809 Tourism and indigenous Australia
HPL 2506/3506 Researching and writing community history
EDF3609 Experiencing the Australian landscape
PHO1203 Photographing authentic Australia
ENV3647 Forest management
Semester one
EDF2606 Sport and Australian Society (Socio-cultural Elements of Sport and the Individual), examines the social nature of issues and significance of sport in Australia. It traces the role that the notion of sport as a form of moral education has played in the development of national identity and contemporary Australian culture, and examines the impact of a growing global sports economy on the practice and meaning of sport in Australian schools and communities. Field trips take you into the heart of the sporting action. Australian sport has to be seen to be believed and field trips will help you see, and believe!
Availability: First Semester
Location: Gippsland Campus
Contact: Three contact hours per week by combination of lectures and tutorial plus field trips
Prerequisities: None
Credit points: 6 points at second-year level (25% of a full time academic load)
Assessment: Book Review (1000 word equivalent): 25%; Major Paper (1800 word equivalent) 45%; Two-hour examination 30%
Potential field trips:
1) Get dressed in your Sunday best to be among the 120,000 people out for a day at the races at the world famous Melbourne Cup
2) Be transfixed by the crowd at the Melbourne Cricket ground, barracking (cheering) for their favourite Australian Rules Football club as the equipment free players hammer it out on the turf below
3) Surfs Up! Head for the white sand beaches with a board and come back with a whole new found respect for the Australian surf culture.
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EDF2601 Adventure Education is a fully interactive course that allows you to not only understand, but experience adventure education. During ten days of fieldwork programs, you will participate in kayaking, snorkeling, sea kayaking, environmental interpretation and remote area first aid. These experiences will help transfer the adventure experience into life-applicable learning by emphasising planning, managing and evaluating the use of small group, problem solving, trust and team building course elements.
Availability: First Semester
Location: Gippsland Campus
Contact: 4 hours of lectures and tutorials per week as well as fieldwork
Prerequisities: None
Assessment: 1000 word assignment - 30%; 2000 word journal - 40%; and a practical program assessment - 30%. Satisfactory completion of fieldwork is required to pass this unit
Field trip: Nine days split across two adventurous field trips that involve canoeing, kayaking, diving, environmental interpretation and remote first aid in the Victorian rivers, oceans and forests.
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ENV 3656 Natural Area Management provides an in-depth understanding of the issues facing Australians as they strive to protect their unique flora and fauna in the 21st century. The local Gippsland area provides an excellent living classroom to showcase precisely how the management, and mismanagement, of the natural environment affects animals, plants and ecosystems. As part of the program, you will have the opportunity to explore the habitats of some of our unique Australians: koalas, kangaroos, emus and possums. Through classes, labs and fieldwork an understanding of the critical issues of Australian environmentalism will be gained, including fire ecology and management, human environmental impacts, ecotourism, the role of government and the reserve system.
Availability: First Semester
Location: Gippsland Campus
Contact: Three 1-hour lectures and one 1-hour tutorial per week plus an average of approximately 2 hours practical exercises per week (including field excursions and assignment work)
Prerequisities: None
Credit points: 6 points at third-year level (25% of a full time academic load)
Assessment: 2000-2500 report based on the field excursion- 20%; 2500-3000 analysis of a park management plan, focusing on coverage of biological, social, cultural and economic issues - 20%;One three-hour exam paper - 60%
Field trip: A two-day excursion (includes camping out overnight) to the world famous Wilson's Promontory and the progressive new reserves along the adjacent coastline. During this visit you will have the opportunity to see some of the most beautiful natural environments in Australia, where you are likely to encounter some of the thriving wildlife including wombats, koalas, echidnas and kangaroos. You will also meet and talk with the rangers who manage these special animals and their ecosystems. Estimated cost: AUD$45.
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Semester two
AIS2809 Tourism and Indigenous Australia is a special course taught by a combination of course work, research into a major project and fieldwork. This provides you with an opportunity to investigate and examine the contribution Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people make to the tourism industry in Australia. Individualized student case studies will allow you to study various tourist attractions and management arrangements and their level of Indigenous Australian involvement. Field excursions are closely linked with the course and vary depending on the specific case studies and cooperation with community organisations.
Availability: Second Semester
Location: Gippsland Campus
Contact: Two 1-hour lectures each week plus field trips
Prerequisities: None
Credit points: 6 points at second year level (25% of a full time academic load)
Assessment: Major Case study/project (2000 words): 50%; Examination (2 hours): 40%; Draft proposal for major project (500 words): 10%
Potential field trips:
1) A four-day trip to the Red Centre of Australian tourism and Aboriginal spirituality, Uluru
2) A one-day excursion to the Bairnsdale Co-operative, a working example of superb Aboriginal management in tourism
3) A visit to the Grampians National Park and Aboriginal Cultural Centre. As well as enjoying the scenic beauty of the National Park, the trip also includes an opportunity to experience Aboriginal rock art and an understanding of the importance of the site to Aboriginal groups. Note: Trips to be confirmed in late 2005.
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HPL 2506/3506 Researching and Writing Community History is a hands-on study of Gippsland's history, community and concepts of place and belonging. At the completion of the semester, you will have an intimate knowledge of local history, and the skills to undertake historical research. To bring the history alive, take part in a two-day trip and visit the historic sites and ruins of an abandoned village, experience its lime kilns and interpret that history as part of an overall understanding of Australian settlement. As well as understanding more of Australia's history and heritage, the course will introduce the skills of historical research, focusing on oral history, material culture, photographic interpretation and site interpretation.
Availability: Second Semester
Location: Gippsland Campus
Contact: One 1-hour lecture and one 1-hour tutorial each week plus field trips
Prerequisities: None
Credit points: 6 points of second or third year level (25% of a full time academic load)
Assessment: Interpretive Sign (25%); Topic Proposal or Field Trip Preparation (5%), Community History or Field Trip Report (70%)
Field trip:During a voyage to Walkerville on the scenic Waratah Bay you will experience the nineteenth century industrial settlement, now secreted in bush. This relatively undiscovered site will help you gain an appreciation for life and work in isolated Australian settlements. This field trip will make up a large portion of the assessment for the unit.
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EDF 3609 Experiencing the Australian Landscape, is as the name suggests, an opportunity for to gain an understanding of some of Australia's unique wilderness environments. The classroom for most of this course will be Australia's unique wilderness environments, especially the nearby national parks. The experience will, among other things, provide you with a better understanding of the relationship between nature and Australians and an appreciation for the therapeutic nature of wilderness.
Availability: Second Semester
Location: Gippsland Campus
Contact: One 2-hour lecture each week plus two field trips
Prerequisities: None
Credit points: 6 points at third-year level (25% of a full time academic load)
Assessment: Minor paper and oral presentation 10%; major paper 90%; and attendance and participation at the two four-day field trips
Field trip: The field trip venues are two of Victoria's major National Parks - the Grampians and Wilson's Promontory. They provide unique opportunities to experience contrasting locations - the Grampians being representative of the dryer inland landscape and “The Prom” being the southern-most coastal park on the Australian mainland. The field trips each consist of 3 and 4-day programs in the parks, base camping leading to overnight walks on the second program. The cost of these two excursions in 2005 was AUD$240 and included all food, transport and equipment hire.
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PHO1203 Photographing Authentic Australia (Photomedia Imaging I) will have encourage you to discover Australia's identity through the lens of a camera. This studio based course will help you to see Australia in a whole new light, as you try to put Down Under on film and compare it with your life Up Above. As well as seeing Australia, this course will hone photography skills and give a critical understanding of photography art. You will be assessed not only on exercises that develop those skills, but also your ability to interpret Australia and to keep a record of explorations. By taking part in the optional field trips you will be assured plenty of opportunity to complete your journal to a high standard.
Availability: Second Semester
Location: Gippsland Campus
Contact: One 1-hour lecture and one 3-hour tutorial each week where you are involved in the creative processes of conceiving, producing and editing photographic imagery using appropriate photographic materials
Prerequisities: None
Credit points: 6 points at Monash University (25% of a full time academic load)
Assessment: Exercises: 30% · Project: 50% · Journal: 20%
Optional field trips:
1) An artist's view of Melbourne. Equipped with a map, a train ticket and a list of must-see art sites, restaurants (the best way to an artist is through the stomach) and some off-the-beaten path hot spots, you will be encouraged to see urban Australian in a way that few others ever will
2) An artist's view of authentic Australia. You will explore scenic rural Australia, taking in the landscape, the rural galleries and the Australian hospitality that still thrives in Gippsland.
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ENV3647 Forest Management brings you up close and personal with Australia's highly disputed forests. The knowledge gained will not only have applications for Australia but anywhere in the world where forest management is a hot topic. The unit fosters better understanding of the importance of managing forests for biodiversity as well as for production purposes, with emphasis on conservation. Three components of specialised education are the cornerstones of the curriculum:
- tree anatomy and physiology;
- forest ecosystem management, and
- management of plantation forests
The unit will be complemented by a two-day field trip, which will help bring the subject matter to life.
Availability: Second Semester
Location: Gippsland Campus
Contact: Four hours of lectures and tutorials per week plus twenty-six hours of practical exercises and fieldwork per semester
Prerequisities: None
Credit points: 6 points at third-year level (25% of a full time academic load)
Assessment: A final exam (60%) and three assignments that will involve identifying and classifying forests and forest species and analyzing ecosystems (40%)
Field trips:A two-day excursion to the picturesque Victorian high country where you will have the opportunity to see what biodiversity exists in Australian forests and why it is important to manage it for future generations.
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More information
To discuss your Study Abroad options, contact Philip Dearman at the Gippsland campus today!
Call: +61 3 5122 6322
Email: Philip.Dearman@arts.monash.edu.au
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