Study Criminology in Europe with Monash Abroad

• Open to students who are studying criminology majors.

• Study for one semester (Jan-June 2009) at one of three universities, followed by a summer school (mid-June to mid-July) at the Institute of Political Studies Grenoble. The summer school is compulsory and students will receive credit for it.

• Host universities are:
  UK - Keele University
  France - Institute of Political Studies Grenoble
  Slovenia - University of Maribor

• All units studied abroad will be credited towards your Monash degree, including those studied at the summer school.

• Participants will be supported by a stipend of up to $8,600, in place of the usual $2,500 Monash Abroad travel grant, to cover living and transport costs during the semester and the summer school. Participants are eligible to apply for OS-HELP.

• Maribor and Grenoble will provide intensive language training. Classes at Maribor will be taught in English. Classes at Grenoble are taught in French so this university is only suitable for proficient French speakers.

• Accommodation is available at all three universities.

• Applicants are asked to list their proposed destinations in order of preference on the application form. Monash Abroad will select three successful applicants and notify them of their destination. Applications close on 31 July 2008 .

• Click here for more information about how to apply and to download a Monash Abroad Exchange application form.

Governance and Security: Challenges to Policing in the 21st Century

Students will be given the opportunity to develop an expertise in academic fields of security and governance through study abroad. Keele University has expertise in community safety, Grenoble in human rights and social justice and Maribor in post-conflict policing. The project aims at providing students with basic and enhanced knowledge on the following themes, and the skills to achieve the following learning objectives:

• Understanding of the problems of crime and safety in contemporary societies
• Understanding of community policing in urban and rural settings
• Understanding of feelings of insecurity amongst the population and specific groups
• Understanding of crime problems within specific groups and how these are related to policing
• Understanding of specific types of crimes, particularly those of an international nature (organized crime, terrorism, trafficking, financial crimes, illegal markets)
• Understanding of major approaches to crime prevention and safety in contemporary society
• Understanding of the institutional design of mechanisms for the delivery of safety, and emerging networks like community policing, public/private partnerships, multicultural policing etc.
• Understanding of the specific problems of post-conflict policing
• Understanding policing within a wider Human Rights agenda, and in democratic societies.

The programme will provide students with the following subject-based and transferable skills:

• Enhanced skills to collaborate internationally through language and cultural training
• Enhanced skills to collaborate across disciplines and work in an interdisciplinary environment
• Enhanced skills in understanding foreign cultures and structures of policing and security
• Specialised knowledge in the area of policing at undergraduate level
• Specialised and more advanced research and project training than provided at undergraduate level.

"Governance and Security: Challenges to Policing in the 21^st Century" acknowledges the financial and other support it has received from the Australian Government Department of Education, Science and Training.

More information

For general enquiries, email kate.parsons@adm.monash.edu.au, Monash Abroad

For academic enquiries, email jude.mcculloch@arts.monash.edu.au, School of Political and Social Inquiry