Program Requirements
The Master of Globalisation (Advanced) requires completion of 96 units, which must consist of:
96 units must come from 6000-level, 7000-level and 8000-level courses
24 units from completion of the following introductory graduate globalisation courses:
ANTH6009 Culture and Development
ANTH6025 Gender and Cross-Cultural perspective
ANTH6515 Crossing Borders: Migration, Identity and Livelihood
ANTH6516 Violence and Terror
ARAB6510 Arab Current Affairs and Media Arabic
ARTH6082 Art, War and Conflict
ASIA6047 Human Security: Conflict, Displacement and Peace Building
ASIA6070 Democracy in Southeast Asia
ASIA6074 Popular Culture in East Asia
ASIA6085 Southeast Asia in World History
ASIA6101 Language in Asia (L)
ASIA6508 Popular Cultures in Indonesia
CRIM6009 Corruption in our World
CRIM6010 Cybercrime: An Introduction
ENGL6027 Empire and its Fictions
ENGN6516 World Energy Resources and Renewable Technologies
ENVS6013 Society and Environmental Change
ENVS6033 International Environmental Policy
ENVS6101 Environment and Society: Geography of Sustainability
ENVS6108 Sustainable Development
ENVS6307 Climate Change Science & Policy
ENVS6315 Essentials of Environmental Law
ENVS6528 Environmental Policy
ESEN6101 Extended University English
HIST6121 Electric Citizens: The Rise of the Modern Media in the United States, 1865 - 2000
HIST6133 Human Variations and Racism in Western Culture, C.1450-1950
HIST6136 The World at War: 1939 - 1945
HIST6214 The Great War: 1914-1919
HIST6237 Digital History, Digital Heritage
HIST6240 Democracy & Dissent: Europe since 1945
HUMN6001 Digital Humanities: Theories and Projects
HUMN6002 Gutenberg to Google: Histories of Information
LAWS8001 Introduction to Law, Governance and Development
LAWS8182 Principles of International Law
LAWS8189 Fundamentals of Environmental Law
LAWS8586 Law and Legal Institutions
LAWS8651 Fundamentals of Australian Migration Law
LING6002 Language and Society
LING6010 Sounds of the World's Languages: Phonetics and Phonology
LING6015 Language, Culture and Translation
LING6017 Chinese Linguistics
LING6021 Cross Cultural Communication
LING6022 Language Policy and Language Politics
LING6103 Language, Power, and Identity
MUSI6007 Music and Globalisation
MUSI6009 Music and Digital Media
PASI6001 Pacific Studies in a Globalizing World
POLS6100 The Politics of Empire
POLS6101 Refugee Politics: Displacement and Exclusion in the 20th & 21st Centuries
SOCY6045 Third World Development
VCPG6003 Leadership and Influence in a Complex World
12 units from completion of the following research methods courses:
SOCR8001 Statistics for Social Scientists
SOCR8002 Survey Data Analysis
SOCR8003 Qualitative Research Analysis
SOCR8006 Online Research Methods
SOCR8008 Qualitative Social Research
SOCR8009 Quantitative Social Research
12 units from completion of the following compulsory research project courses:
POLS8031 Globalisation: Theories, Issues, Debates
POLS8032 Globalisation: the Interaction of Politics and Economics
24 units from completion of courses from any of the following lists:
Business in a Globalising World
BUSI7001 Managing the Global Supply Chain
BUSI7020 The European Business System
BUSI7055 Asian Business Systems
BUSI7280 Managing in a Global Context
ECON8006 International Trade Theory
ECON8009 International Monetary Economics
FINM7045 Asian Capital Markets
FINM8017 Trading and Markets
MGMT7065 International Perspectives on Human Resource Management
MGMT7107 Managing Across Cultures
MKTG7035 Global Marketing
POGO8015 Foreign Direct Investment Policy
POGO8213 The Global Trading System
Climate Change, Environment & Sustainability
ANTH8060 Exploring Gender, Resources and the Environment
DEMO8088 Population, Climate Change and Sustainable Development
EMDV8001 Environmental Sustainability, Health and Development
EMDV8007 Environment Policy and Communications
EMDV8035 World Trade and the Environment
EMDV8080 International Climate Change Policy and Economics
EMDV8104 Environmental Governance
ENVS8003 Climate Change, Vulnerability and Adaptation
ENVS8013 Research in Climate Change Vulnerability and Adaptation
IDEC8053 Environmental Economics
INTR8028 Global Environmental Politics
LAWS8008 Climate Change and Displacement
LAWS8010 Environmental Protection and Human Rights
LAWS8111 Environmental Regulation
LAWS8278 Environmental Dispute Management
POPH8318 Human Health, Environment and Climate Change
Development
ANTH8007 Key Concepts in Anthropology of Development
ANTH8009 Development in Practice
ANTH8038 Critical Issues in Gender and Development
ANTH8043 Conflict and Development in the Pacific
ANTH8058 Inequality and Development
ANTH8103 Contemporary Development Theory
ANTH8106 Gender, Violence and Development
ANTH8107 The World Bank and the Organisation of Development
DEMO8048 Gender and Population
ECON8049 Southeast Asian Economic Policy and Development
ECON8901 Advanced Topics in Poverty, Public Policy and Development
EMDV8013 Issues in Development and Environment
IDEC8003 Issues in Development Policy
IDEC8007 Aid and Development Policy
IDEC8022 Economic Development
IDEC8083 Financial Markets and Instruments
LAWS8006 Law and Development in the Contemporary South Pacific
LAWS8312 Land, Law and Development in Asia
MEAS8108 Issues of Development in the Middle East
POGO8003 Conflict and Development
POGO8051 Local Development and Governance in an Indigenous Context
POGO8072 Development Theories and Themes
POGO8095 Development Policy and Practice
POGO8110 Inter Governmental Relations and Local Economic Development
Global Culture & Communication
ANTH8018 Explanation and interpretation in the Analysis on Cultures
ARTV6008 Cyberculture
ASIA8037 Asia and the World
ASIA8051 Language and Power in Asia: Speech, Script and Society
HIST8015 Colonial Australia in an Imperial World
HUMN8008 World Rock Art: Global Perspectives on Rock Art Research
HUMN8019 World Heritage: Conserving Cultural Heritage Values
HUMN8028 Humanities in the Public and Digital Sphere
HUMN8029 Debates and Issue in the Humanities
INTR8051 Ethics and Culture in World Politics
LAWS8076 Digital Media and Communication Law and Practice
MEAS8121 Approaches to the Study of Modern Muslim Societies
MEAS8125 Islam and Modernity
POLS8003 Culture and Development in Latin America
Global Governance
ANTH8107 The World Bank and the Organisation of Development
CRWF8000 Government, Markets and Global Change
DIPL8001 Transnational Diplomacy
DIPL8002 Contemporary Challenges in Diplomacy
DIPL8003 Case Studies in Diplomacy
DIPL8006 Diplomacy in a Globalising World
DIPL8006 Diplomacy, Politics and the United Nations
DIPL8008 The United Nations and Peace
DIPL8010 Harnessing Diplomacy for International Development
INTR8045 Global Governance
INTR8070 International Organization
LAWS6224 International Law of the Sea
LAWS8023 International Law and the United Nations Peace Operations
LAWS8178 International Law and Use of Force
LAWS8229 International Law of World Trade
LAWS8264 International Law of the Environment
LAWS8578 Constitutionalism in the Global South
POGO8044 Global Social Policy
POGO8045 International Policy Making in the Shadow of the Future
POGO8115 Challenging the Global Food Trading Regime
POGO8219 Governing Urbanisation
Global Politics
ANIP6505 Australian National Internships B
ASIA6017 International Relations in Northeast Asia
IDEC8127 Modelling the Global Economy: techniques and policy implications
INTR8011 International Relations Theory
INTR8013 International Political Economy
INTR8036 World Politics
INTR8043 The Post-Colonial Pacific and Global Change
INTR8044 Global Civil Society and the Role of NGOs 1
INTR8046 The Evolution of the International System
INTR8055 Contemporary Issues in International Political Economy
INTR8059 Democracy in World Politics
INTR8060 China: Global Engagement and Domestic Transformation
INTR8066 Contemporary Issues in International Relations
INTR8074 Chinese Thinking on International Relations
LAWS8171 Kyoto Seminar: Japanese Law in the Global Era
LAWS8182 Principles of International Law
MEAS8102 Islamic Radicalism
MEAS8111 Islam, the West and International Terrorism
MEAS8115 Islam in World Politics
MEAS8116 Islam and Democracy
POGO8015 Foreign Direct Investment Policy
POGO8210 Case Studies in Economic Policy
POGO8211 China and the World
Global Security
INTR8022 Arms Control: Theory, Technology, Policy
INTR8022 Asia Pacific Security
INTR8032 Global Security
INTR8067 US Security Policy in the Asia Pacific
LAWS8035 Cyber Warfare Law
LAWS8179 International Security Law
LAWS8314 Post Conflict Situations and International Law
LAWS8566 International Criminal Law
MEAS8109 Energy and Security in Central Asia and the Caucasus
NSPO8001 Australia's National Security Community
NSPO8009 Cyber-Intelligence and Security
NSPO8013 Disease, Security and Biological Weapons
NSPO8015 Asian Regionalism and Security: Implications for Australia
NSPO8021 Statecraft and National Security in Cyberspace
POGO8076 Corruption and Anti-Corruption
POLS8021 Civilian Protection in Conflict and Post-Conflict Zones
POLS8022 Norms & Ideas in International Security
POLS8024 Conflict Resolution and Peace Studies
POLS8027 Terrorism and Counter-Terrorism
POLS8028 Post-Conflict Justice
POLS8030 Critical Concepts in Nuclear Politics
STST8013 China's Defence and Strategic Challenges
STST8015 The US and East Asian Security
STST8021 Intelligence and Security
STST8026 Nuclear Strategy in the Asian Century
STST8027 Insurgency & Counterinsurgency in an Age of Terror
STST8052 Strategy in Action: Orchestrating the Elements of National Power
STST8100 Australia's Strategic and Defence Policy
Human Rights, Human Security and Global Ethics
ANTH8054 Humanitarian Action (Advanced)
ANTH8056 Introduction to Humanitarian Action
ANTH8106 Gender, Violence and Development
ASIA8021 Human Rights in Asia and the Pacific
ASIA8048 Disasters and Epidemics in Asia and the Pacific
CHMD8006 Global Health and Development
EMDV8082 Food Wars: Food Security and Agricultural Policy
HIST8022 History, Human Rights, and Globalisation
HUMN8023 Human Rights and Humanitarian Law
INTR8020 The Responsibility to Protect
INTR8053 Ethics of Peace and War
INTR8062 Humanitarianism in World Politics
INTR8073 Human Security
LAWS8003 Transnational Business and Human Rights
LAWS8066 Intersection of International Humanitarian and Human Rights Law
LAWS8155 Human Rights Litigation
LAWS8234 International Human Rights Law
LAWS8237 Health Law and Bioethics
LAWS8254 Business, Human Rights and Corporate Responsibility
LAWS8268 International Humanitarian Law
LAWS8320 Critical Approaches to International Law
LAWS8582 Global Health Law
NSPO8014 Ethics and Technologies of War
NSPO8016 Governance, State Weakness and Human Security in Asia
POGO8029 Health Policy in a Globalising World
POGO8075 Disasters and Humanitarian Aid Policy Evaluation Issues
POLS8023 Human Rights in International Relations: Theory and Practice
POLS8035 Ethics and Politics
POLS8036 Human Rights and Human Responsibility
Indigenous Australia
ANTH6005 Traditional Australian Indigenous Cultures, Societies and Environment
ANTH6017 Culture, Social Justice and Aboriginal Society Today
ANTH8047 Land Rights and Resource Development
HIST6022 Indigenous Australian History
HIST8016 Settler Societies and Indigenous Encounters
INDG8001 Australian Indigenous Development
INDG8004 Australian Indigenous Policy
LAWS8583 Indigenous Peoples and International Law
Migration
ANTH8042 Migration, Refugees and Development
DEMO8047 International Migration
INTR8050 States, Globalisation and the Movement of Peoples
LAWS8008 Climate Change and Displacement
LAWS8170 Applied Migration Law
LAWS8252 International Refugee Law
LAWS8650 Applied Australian Migration Law and Practice
LAWS8653 Contemporary Issues in Migration Law
Regions and Regionalism
ASIA6030 History of the State System in Southeast Asia
ASIA8011 Rethinking Northeast Asia: Region, Culture and Society
ASIA8020 National and Transnational Histories in Asia and the Pacific
ASIA8040 Engaging Asia: Australia and the Asian Century
ASIA8049 International History from Asia and the Pacific: Framing Critical Perspectives
ASIA8513 China: The Big Questions
CRWF8015 China, India and the Future of Asia
EURO8003 The European Union: Regional Integration in Comparative Perspective\
INTR8040 Ethnicity and Conflict in Asia and the Pacific
INTR8058 Politics of Islam in Southeast Asia
LAWS8071 Law and Governance in sub-Saharan Africa
LAWS8239 The European Union
MEAS8100 Oil Religion Politics and Conflict in the Middle East
MEAS8103 Central Asia in Regional and Global Perspective
PASI8002 Pacific Foundations: From Maritime Societies to Global Cultures
POGO8114 Regional Trade Arrangements
POLS8026 Latin America's International Relations
POLS8029 Regional Integration in the Global Economy
24 units from completion of THES8103 Thesis
Unless otherwise stated, a course used to satisfy the requirements of one list may not be double counted towards satisfying the requirements of another list.
Study Options
| Year 1 48 units | Introductory Course 6 units | Introductory Course 6 units | Introductory Course 6 units | Introductory Course 6 units |
| POLS8032 Globalisation: the Interaction of Economics and Politics 6 units | Research Methods Course 6 units | Disciplinary Course 6 units | Disciplinary Course 6 units | |
| Year 2 48 units | POLS8031 | Research Methods Course 6 units | Disciplinary Course 6 units | Disciplinary Course 6 units |
| THES8103 Thesis 6 to 24 units | - | - | - |
Admission Requirements
By transfer from the Master of Globalisation with a minimum GPA of 6/7 as well as the approval of an identified supervisor for the research project/thesis.
If the total number of units attempted exceeds 72 in the same teaching period in which the 72nd unit is attempted, exactly 72 units will be used in the calculation of the weighted average mark with units from the course with the highest mark applied first followed by further units from courses in descending order of marks.
Students will be awarded up to 72 units of course credit for completed courses listed in this Masters (Advanced) degree.
Cognate Disciplines
Anthropology, Area Studies eg. Middle Eastern and Central Asian Studies, Development Studies, Economics, Environmental Studies, Governance, History, International Relations, Law, Philosophy, Politics, Public Administration, Public Policy, Social Research, Sociology, Strategic Studies.
English Language Requirements
All applicants must meet the University’s English Language Admission Requirements for Students.
Assessment of Qualifications
Unless otherwise indicated, ANU will accept all Australian Qualifications Framework (AQF) qualifications or international equivalents that meet or exceed the published admission requirements of our programs, provided all other admission requirements are also met. Where an applicant has more than one completed tertiary qualification, ANU will base assessment on the qualification that best meets the admission requirements for the program. Find out more about the Australian Qualifications Framework: www.aqf.edu.au
ANU uses a 7-point Grade Point Average (GPA) scale. All qualifications submitted for admission at ANU will be converted to this common scale, which will determine if an applicant meets our published admission requirements. Find out more about how a 7-point GPA is calculated for Australian universities: www.uac.edu.au/future-applicants/admission-criteria/tertiary-qualifications
Unless otherwise indicated, where an applicant has more than one completed tertiary qualification, ANU will calculate the GPA for each qualification separately. ANU will base assessment on the best GPA of all completed tertiary qualifications of the same level or higher.
Indicative fees
- Annual indicative fee for domestic students
- $32,256.00
For more information see: http://www.anu.edu.au/students/program-administration/costs-fees
- Annual indicative fee for international students
- $45,864.00
For further information on International Tuition Fees see: https://www.anu.edu.au/students/program-administration/fees-payments/international-tuition-fees
Scholarships
ANU offers a wide range of scholarships to students to assist with the cost of their studies.
Eligibility to apply for ANU scholarships varies depending on the specifics of the scholarship and can be categorised by the type of student you are. Specific scholarship application process information is included in the relevant scholarship listing.
For further information see the Scholarships website.
How do you give your career an edge in an increasingly globalised world? You become an expert in globalisation itself.
The Master of Globalisation (Advanced) is the only degree in Australia focusing on the rapid pace of economic, cultural, political and social change in the world today and the challenges it brings.
The program is designed to meet your professional needs, with problem-based learning, research methods and tailored focus areas including business, security, development, environmental sustainability, culture, communications and regional implications.
Students enter the Master of Globalisation (Advanced) by transfer from the Master of Globalisation.
Career Options
Graduates from ANU have been rated as Australia's most employable graduates and among the most sought after by employers worldwide.
The latest Global Employability University Ranking, published by the Times Higher Education, rated ANU as Australia's top university for getting a job for the fourth year in a row.
Employment Opportunities
The Master of Globalisation will advance your career in multinational business, government, international organisations and non-government organisations.Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion, students will have the skills and knowledge to:
- develop a theoretical and pragmatic understanding of globalisation, its complexities and issues;
- develop an appreciation of different disciplinary approaches to globalisation and what each offers to contemporary understanding of global politics;
- develop advanced analytical and research methods skills;
- attain highly developed oral and written communication skills.
- understand and critically engage with globalisation theories and debates
- independently engage in ethically-sound research;
- effectively present conceptual frameworks, methods and findings both orally and in writing.
