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Program Requirements

This vertical double degree program requires the completion of 192 units.

 

Bachelor of Asia-Pacific Studies

The Bachelor of Asia-Pacific Studies program requires the completion of 144 units, of which:

A maximum of 60 units can come from completion of 1000 level courses A minimum of 84 units can come from completion of 2000 and 3000 level courses

The 144 units must include:

A minimum of 96 units from completion of course offered or approved by the ANU College of Asia & Pacific, including:

48 units from completion of one of the following Language majors:

Chinese Language Major, French Language Major, Hindi Language Major, Indonesian Language Major, Japanese Language Major, Korean Language Major, Sanskrit Language Major, Spanish Language Major, Thai Language Major, Urdu Language Major, Vietnamese Language Major

48 units from completion of one of the following Contextual majors:

Asian Art History Major, Asian History Major, Asia-Pacific Politics Major, Chinese Studies Major, Indonesian Studies Major, Japanese Studies Major, Northeast Asian Studies Major, Pacific Studies Major, Peace, Conflict and War Studies Major, Asia-Pacific Security Studies Major, South Asian Studies Major, Southeast Asian Studies Major

24 units from completion of elective courses which may be offered by the ANU College of Asia & the Pacific or by another ANU College.

The College of Asia & the Pacific encourages students to consider applying to take a Vice Chancellor's undergraduate course as part of this degree. These courses are:

VCUG2001 Creating Knowledge

VCUG2002 Leadership and Influence

VCUG3001 Unravelling Complexity

 

12 units from the completion of 2000, 3000 or 4000 level courses from the following list:

ASIA2056 Korean and Japanese Cinema: Shaping Identities through the Lens*

ASIA2081 Human Rights in Southeast Asia*

ASIA4016 Asian Diasporas: Histories, Cultures, Identities*

ASIA2251 Buddhist Thought*

ASIA2165 Islam in Southeast Asia*

ASIA2074 Popular Culture in East Asia*

ASIA2070 Democracy in Southeast Asia*

ASIA2065 Comparative Politics (Asia Pacific)*

STST3001 Transnational security issues in the Asia-Pacific*

STST2001 International Security issues in the Asia Pacific*

 

12 units from the completion of 6000, 7000 or 8000 level courses from the following list:

Course A*

Course B*

Course C*

* The units from completion of these courses will also contribute to the completion of the Master of Globalisation

 

 

Progression Requirements

A 65% mark average for the first 96 completed units, with no single failing grade, is required to be able to progress to 6000, 7000 and 8000 level courses in the Bachelor of Asia-Pacific Studies.

A 65% mark average for the 144 completed units from the Bachelor of Asia-Pacific Studies, with no failing grade, is required to progress to the Master of Globalisation.

 

Master of Globalisation

The Master of Globalisation program in this combined version requires the completion of 72 units which must include:

24 units from the completion of:

courses marked * above (12 units from the 2000/3000 list and 12 units from the 6000/7000/8000 list). The units from completion of these courses will also contribute to the completion of the Bachelor of Asia-Pacific Studies

12 units from the completion of the following compulsory courses:

POLS8031 Globalisation: Theories, Debates, Issues [new course in 2013]

POLS8032 Globalisation: The Interaction of Economics and Politics [new course in 2013]

 

12 units from the completion of core courses from the following list:

ANTH8042 Migration, Refugees and Development

ENVS6033 International Environment Policy

HIST8018 A Globalising World

LAWS8182 Principles of International Law

SOCY6045 Third World Development

 

24 units from the completion of any courses from the following lists:

 

Globalisation in Historical Perspective

ANTH6056 Belonging, Identity, Nationalism

HIST6117 Technology & Society 1800-2000

HIST6121 Electric Citizens: the rise of modern media in the US

HIST8015 Colonial Australia in an Imperial World

HIST8016 Settler Societies and Indigenous Encounters

HIST8017 Australia and the World at War

POLS6100 The Politics of Empire

 

The Global Economy

BUSI7001 Managing the Global Supply Chain

BUSI7019 The Global Business Environment

BUSI7110 International Business Strategy

CRWF8000 Government, Markets and Global Change

CRWF8001 Economic Globalisation and the Environment

POLS8029 Regional Integration in the Global Economy

 

Global Governance and Regionalism

ANTH6516 Violence & Terror

EURO8003 The European Union: regional integration in comparative perspective

INTR8045 Global Governance 1

INTR8046 The Evolution of the International System 1

MEAS8100 Oil, Religion, Politics & Conflict in the Middle East

MEAS8102 Islamic Radicalism

MEAS8103 Central Asia in Regional & Global Perspectives

MEAS8109 Energy and Security

MEAS8111 Islam, the West and International Terrorism

POLS8003 Culture and Development in Latin America

POLS8026 Latin American International Relations

 

Globalisation in Asia

ASIA6030 The Origins of the International Order in Southeast Asia

ASIA6041 Mainland SE Asia: Colonial and Postcolonial Predicaments

ASIA8016 Asian Diasporas: Histories, Cultures, Identities

ASIA8037 Asia and the World

ASIA8610 Globalising Southeast Asia: Capitalism, Media, and 21st Century Cultures

 

Development and Migration

ANTH6009 Culture and Development

ANTH6515 Crossing Borders: Diasporas & trans-nationalism

ANTH8007 Key Concepts in Development

ANTH8009 Development in Practice

ANTH8038 Introduction to Gender & Development

ANTH8056 Introduction to Humanitarian Action

CHMD8006 Global Health and Development

IDEC8007 Aid and Development Policy

POGO8029 Health Policy in a Globalising World

POGO8044 Global Social Policy

POLS6101 Refugee Politics: Displacement and Exclusion in the 20th and 21st Centuries

 

Globalisation and the Environment

ANTH8047 Resource Projects and Indigenous Peoples

DEMO8088 Population climate change and sustainable development

ENVS6013 Society and Environmental Change

ENVS6033 International Environmental Policy

ENVS6108 Sustainable Development

ENVS6307 Climate Change Science and Policy

ENVS8003 Climate Change, vulnerability and adaptation

 

Global Ethics

INTR8051 Ethics and Culture in World Politics

POLS8023 Human Rights in International Relations

POLS8028 Post-Conflict Justice

 

Global Security

INTR8032 Global Security I (6 units)

POLS8020 Non-Traditional Approaches to Security (6 units)

POLS8021 Civilian Protection in Conflict and Post-Conflict Zones (6 units)

POLS8022 Norms and Ideas in International Security (6 units)

POLS8024 Conflict Resolution and Peace Studies (6 units)

POLS8025 The Alliance in Question Australia, the United States and the Challenge of Research (6 units)

POLS8027 Terrorism and Counter-Terrorism (6 units)

POLS8030 Critical Concepts in Nuclear Politics (6 units)

STST8013 China’s Defence and Strategic Challenges (6 units)

STST8021 Intelligence and Security (6 units)

STST8026 Nuclear Strategy in the Asian Century (6 units)

STST8027 Insurgency & Counterinsurgency in an Age of Terror (6 units)

STST8052 Strategy in Action: Development of the Operational Art (6 units)

 

International Law

LAWS8001 Introduction to Law, Governance and Development (6 units)

LAWS8003 Transnational Business and Human Rights (6 units)

LAWS8008 Climate Change and Displacement (6 units)

LAWS8229 International Law of World Trade (6 units)

LAWS8234 International Human Rights Law (6 units)

LAWS8237 Health Law & Bioethics in a Global Context (6 units)

LAWS8252 International Refugee Law (6 units)

LAWS8264 International Law of the Environment (6 units)

LAWS8268 International Humanitarian Law (6 units)

LAWS8566 International Criminal Law (6 units)

 

Internship

ANIP6505 Australian National Internship B (12 units)

ANIP6506 Australian National Internship C (18 units)

ANIP6524 Australian National Internship D (24 units)

POLS8033 Special Topic in Globalisation [new course in 2013]

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