Objectives
Students will be equipped to:
* Understand the roles of international organisations and institutions, and their inter-action with national and regional institutions, cultures and societies;
* Critically appreciate how the processes of key concepts, including internationalism, globalisation and transnationalism, have shaped the contemporary world;
* Understand the theory and method of comparative and cross-disciplinary approaches to a range of issues in international studies;
* Understand, through detailed examination of selective case studies, how key concepts and approaches in international studies may be applied to processes, 'problems' and cultures.
Course description
Shorter Thesis of 20,000 - 22,000 words and one core theoretical subject and one elective.
Total points per year 100 - subjects are worth 12.5 points each unless otherwise noted.
Thesis Subject
75 points in the first year of enrolment and 50 points in the second year.
Supervision of the Shorter Thesis can be drawn from across the Faculty and is not necessarily limited to the Australian Centre.
Subject Semester Credit Points
102-513 Shorter Thesis - MA International Stud.
This subject involves a departmentally supervised thesis of 20000 - 22000 words, embodying the results of the student's own research into a topic within the International Studies arena. RHD First Half Year, RHD Second Half Year N/A
Core Subjects
Subject Semester Credit Points
102-507 Themes in International Studies
The subject offers students an introduction to the key themes in the International Studies program. Graduates of the Master of International Studies should be equipped with the skills to analyse and assess thematic approaches to International Studies... Semester 1 12.50
102-508 Theories in International Studies
This subject will introduce students the most recent theoretical approaches and debates in international studies, the historical context of these concerns, and their regional permutations. These include state-formation, world systems, post-colonialis... Semester 2 12.50
Elective Subjects
Subject Semester Credit Points
102-511 Imaging Australian Spaces
This subject allows students to examine the ways in which Australian space has been represented in a variety of cultural forms. The subject explores how these spaces - conceived in a visual, literary and physical sense - have developed, and how these... Semester 2 12.50
102-512 Australian Cosmopolitanisms
"Australian Cosmopolitanisms: Beyond Multiculturalism" explores a range of effects resulting from the traffic across national boundaries of culture, capital, people and ideas. Unlike some programmes t... Semester 1 12.50
106-514 The Publishing Industry & Globalisation
This subject addresses a range of political, social and cultural issues associated with the globalisation of publishing. Students will review various interpretations of the emergence of global publishing conglomerates and the integration of print pub... Semester 2 12.50
107-550 Biennales, Triennales and Documentas
This subject examines the exhibition of contemporary art in international survey exhibitions since the 1960s, delineating the methods that curators and directors have tested in response to the needs of art museums, bureaucracies, artists and publics ... Semester 2 12.50
110-590 Critical Asian Perspectives
This subject aims to consolidate and develop fourth year and postgraduate coursework students' intellectual conception of the interdisciplinary field of Asian Studies. Students will deepen their understanding of their chosen field through readin... Semester 1 12.50
110-553 Human Rights in Southeast Asia
This seminar will focus on human rights and its critics from a historical and comparative perspective. We will explore the factors that have given rise to radically different conception of rights and justice (i.e. political, economic, cultural, relig... Semester 2 12.50
110-561 Islamic Education: Philosophy & Methods
This subject will not be available in 2009 12.50
121-537 Heritage and Cultural Environments
This subject provides students with advanced level analysis and interpretation of the range of issues associated with cultural resource management. The subject advances student knowledge of cross cultural issues as they relate to resource management ... Semester 2 12.50
121-545 Understanding Development
This subject forms an introduction to the main past and current theories of development, involving the approaches of several social science disciplines. It also considers many of the major issues in development, including the environment, gender, hum... Semester 1 12.50
131-546 Gender, Globalisation and Development
This subject examines the relationships between gender, globalisation and development in selected regions of Asia and the Pacific, drawing on the theoretical perspectives and insights of a number of social science and humanities disciplines. On compl... Semester 1 12.50
131-547 Rethinking Rights and Global Development
This subject explores the theoretical and political issues surrounding ideas of rights and human rights, with special reference to the development process within the contemporary globalising order. It draws on recent critical, feminist and other (re)... Semester 2 12.50
HIST00013 Memory and History
This subject will not be available in 2009 12.50
131-551 Gender: Representations and Histories
What is gender and why does it matter? In this seminar we will explore how this concept emerged and the multiple meanings it has taken on in academic inquiry and everyday life. Representations of gender will be examined in both theoretical and histor... Semester 1 12.50
136-528 Medicine and Culture
Over the ages people have deployed various methods - metaphysical, magical or the pure empirical - to combat the ravages of disease. Bloodletting, cupping, leaching, doses of highly poisonous chemicals, blisters, copious draughts of mineral water, hy... Semester 2 12.50
136-540 Science, Conflict and Globalisation
This subject will not be available in 2009 12.50
161-515 Global Justice
This subject begins with an analysis of recent attempts to justify the claim that duties of justice apply to the world as a whole. This cosmopolitan point of view is contrasted with nationalist positions which seek to limit duties of distributive jus... Semester 1 12.50
161-514 Violence, War and Terrorism
Today, war is still a salient feature of international relations, while terrorism takes on ever more international character and scope. The subject will explore the philosophical—conceptual and moral—issues to do with violence... Semester 2 12.50
166-502 International and Comparative Politics
This subject provides a comprehensive overview of the major post-war approaches and methodologies used to explain international relations and comparative world politics. It also provides a trenchant critique of these approaches and methodologies, not... Semester 1 25
166-511 US Foreign Policy
This subject will address key questions for evaluating American leadership since 1989. We will look specifically at the leadership offered by George Bush snr., Bill Clinton and George W. Bush. How different is the approach taken by these presidents t... Semester 2 12.50
166-541 Aspects of Post-Communism
This subject focuses on deeper theoretical aspects of the transitions from communist power, primarily in Central and Eastern Europe, since 1989. It introduces students to many of the dilemmas faced by European (mainly) transition states, and to the c... Semester 2 12.50
166-544 The EU and Globalisation
This subject focuses on current debates on European Integration and Globalisation, and examines the EU as an International Actor. It introduces students to concepts of integration, multi-level governance; polity; globalisation and social model. It ap... Semester 2 12.50
