Middle Eastern and Central Asian Studies Honours Specialisation

Total units 48 Units

Specialisation code MECA-HSPC

Academic career Undergraduate

The Middle Eastern and Central Asian Studies Honours Specialisation gives you high-level preparation for professional life or a higher degree by research through the development of an advanced knowledge of the research principles and methods and theoretical concepts of Middle Eastern and Central Asian studies, and through the design and implementation of a research project, typically a thesis of up to 20,000 words, that develops new understandings or that provides solutions to complex problems.

Learning Outcomes

Upon successful completion, students will have the knowledge and skills to:

pose a significant research question relating to biological anthropology;
investigate this question creatively, critically, ethically, and independently, including through sophisticated use of appropriate theory and methodology as appropriate to biological anthropology, and place these investigations in the context of the relevant intellectual tradition; and
communicate their research and its findings through an appropriate medium.

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Admission Requirements

1. a major or equivalent in one of the following:

Arabic

Middle Eastern and Central Asian Studies

Persian

2. with the written approval of an identified supervisor for the thesis

Requirements

This Honours specialisation requires the completion of 48 units, which must consist of:

12 units from completion of the following course(s):

Code	Title	Units
LING4009	Selected Topics in Methodologies for Researching Language	12
POLS4011	Research Training: Scope and Methods	12

A maximum of 6 units may come from completion of courses from the following list:

Code	Title	Units
LANG4004	Research Tools in Advanced Language Studies	6
LING4010	Selected Topics in Empirical Approaches to Linguistics	6

A minimum of 6 units must come from completion of courses from the following list:

Code	Title	Units
MEAS4001	Special Topics in Middle Eastern and Central Asian Studies	6

24 units from completion of the following course(s):

Code	Title	Units
THES4103	Thesis	6-24

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