It’s an internship for assessment unit offered by the School of Arts and Social Sciences.
It serves as a capstone unit and a Work Integrated Learning unit across all majors offered under the Bachelor of Arts and Social Sciences (e.g. Communication, Gender Studies, Global Studies and Film, Television & Screen Studies).
It is a compulsory unit for those enrolled in Bachelor of Communication and Media Studies, Bachelor of Digital Media and Communication and Bachelor of Business and Commerce, and Bachelor of Digital Media and Communication.
It is also cross-listed as a U4 General Studies unit.
Students get the opportunity to integrate theory with practice and gain first-hand experience in the area of specialisation that they wish to explore or pursue upon graduation.
The work placement is aimed at consolidating and extending what they have learned from core units and other degree units, through experiential learning.
Students typically opt to intern at news agencies, PR consulting firms, advertising agencies, and creatively, at aviation, banking, insurance, and HR departments/companies. You may opt to intern either in Malaysia or abroad either as a home or international student.
We also strongly encourage students to consider interning at Non-Governmental Organisations as past student interns have done, either locally or abroad.
If you’re not sure where to apply for an internship, you may refer to the following resources as a starting point:
Resource links:
A. Students who already have 72 credit points (including 12cpts at Arts second-level), with at least one more semester left at the point of enrolling for this unit; and
B. Undergraduate students enrolled at SASS (i.e. this excludes students who are on exchange at Monash University, Malaysia).
C. Have at least one semester remaining to complete the degree at the point of the unit enrolment.
The Summer Semester A period is from 2 November 2026 to 12 February 2027. However, the duration for the internship requirement is minimum two months or maximum three months.
But in practice, interested students are advised to allocate at least three months as companies, agencies, NGOs prefer an internship duration for at least three months.
There are no on-campus classes for this unit as student interns are expected to be in the field not classroom!
It is recommended that internships begin in the first week of November, as the first assignment is due in the second week.
Assignment 1: Pre-Internship Report (20%) : TBC November 2026, 8:55 PM
Assignment 2: Auto-Ethnographic Internship Journal (40%): TBC December 2026, 8:55 PM
Assignment 3: Final Internship Report (40%): TBC January 2027, 8:55 PM
Please refer to the Monash Handbook (AMU3744) for more information regarding the unit learning outcomes.
You must secure an offer from the host organisation BEFORE enrolling. So have your updated CVs and cover letters ready!
With your letter of offer, you may then proceed to enrol by completing Step 4 at this link latest by Friday, 16 October 2026, 5:00pm (MYT).
Please refer to this link for more information on the steps to proceed further.
Next briefing session to be confirmed.
The recording of the previous briefing in 2025 is available HERE
NOTE: Please ensure you're logged into your Monash IT account to access the link.
Email: Rubin.Khoo@monash.edu
For more inquiries, please raise a ticket via AskMira or you may visit us at Monash Malaysia Connect (Student Hub) on Monday to Fridays (except Public Holidays).
Opening hours: 9:00am to 5:00pm (except Fridays at 9:00am to 1:00pm, closed on weekends and public holidays)
Note: SASS Specialists will be available at the Student Hub on Tuesdays at 9:00am - 1:00pm.