Program Requirements

The program consists of 48 units of coursework:

Compulsory Courses (12 units)

POLS Globalisation: Theories, Debates, Issues (new course in 2013)
POLS Globalisation: The Interaction of Economics and Politics (new course in 2013)

Core Courses (a minimum of 12 units from the following courses)

HIST8018 A Globalising World
ANTH8042 Migration, Refugees and Development
PAAE8002 Global Justice
SOCY6045 Third World Development

Elective Courses (a maximum of 24 units from the following courses)

Globalisation in Historical Perspective

HIST6121 Electric Citizens: the rise of modern media in the US
HIST6117 Technology & Society 1800-2000
HIST6122 Popular Culture, Gender and Modernity
HIST8015 Colonial Australia in an Imperial World
HIST8016 Settler Societies and Indigenous Encounters
HIST8017 Australia and the World at War
ANTH6056 Belonging, Identity, Nationalism

The Global Economy

CRWF8000 Government, Markets and Global Change
CRWF8001 Economic Globalisation and the Environment
BUSI7001 Managing the Global Supply Chain
BUSI7019 The Global Business Environment
BUSI7110 International Business Strategy 

Global Governance and Regionalism

EURO8003 The European Union: regional integration in comparative perspective
MEAS8100 Oil, Religion, Politics & Conflict in the Middle East
MEAS8103 Central Asia in Regional & Global Perspectives
POLS8003 Culture and Development in Latin America
MEAS8102 Islamic Radicalism
MEAS8109 Energy and Security
ANTH6516 Violence & Terror
MEAS8111 Islam, the West and International Terrorism

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
ANTH8030 Critically Assessing Contemporary Development Practice
ANTH8038 Introduction to Gender & Development
CHMD8006 Global Health and Development
IDEC8007 Aid and Development Policy
POLS6101 Refugee Politics: Displacement and Exclusion in the 20th and 21st Centuries
POGO8029 Health Policy in a Globalising World
POGO8044 Global Social Policy

Globalisation and the Environment

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

PAAE8404 Human Rights and Human Responsibility
PAAE8403 Peace Conflict and Ethics
POLS8028 Post-Conflict Justice
POLS Research Project to allow students to conduct supervised research in an area of their interest.] (new course in 2013)

Students who have completed the compulsory/core course(s) in another ANU award are exempt from this requirement and will take alternative course(s) from the program in their place.

The information published on the Study at ANU 2012 website applies to the 2012 academic year only. All information provided on this website replaces the information contained in the Study at ANU 2011 website.