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:

1. pose a significant research question relating to Middle Eastern and Central Asian Studies;
2. investigate this question creatively, critically, ethically, and independently, including through sophisticated use of appropriate theory and methodology as appropriate to Middle Eastern and Central Asian Studies, and place these investigations in the context of the relevant intellectual tradition; and
3. 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

Students must complete a minimum of 18 units of coursework in the first semester of study.

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
LANG4004	Research Tools in Advanced Language Studies	6
LING4010	Selected Topics in Empirical Approaches to Linguistics	6
POLS4011	Research Training: Scope and Methods	12
POLS4038	Comparative Political Institutions	6
SOCR4001	Statistics for Social Scientists	6
SOCR4002	Survey Data Analysis	6
SOCR4003	Qualitative Research Analysis	6
SOCR4006	Online Research Methods	6
SOCR4008	Qualitative Social Research	6
SOCR4009	Quantitative Social Research	6

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

Code	Title	Units
MEAS4001	Special Topics in Middle Eastern and Central Asian Studies	6
MEAS4100	Oil, Religion, Politics and Conflict in the Middle East	6
MEAS4102	Islamic Radicalism	6
	MEAS 4103: Central Asia Regional&Global
MEAS4109	Energy and Security in Central Asia and the Caucasus	6
MEAS4111	Islam, The West and International Terrorism	6
MEAS4112	Dynamics of Israeli-Palestinian Conflict	6
MEAS4113	The Gulf Strategic Environment	6
MEAS4114	Geopolitics of Central Asia	6
MEAS4115	Islam in World Politics	6
MEAS4116	Authoritarianism, Democratisation and Protest in the Muslim Middle East	6
MEAS4117	Islam in Central Asia	6
MEAS4121	Approaches to the Study of Modern Muslim Societies	6

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

Code	Title	Units
THES4103	Thesis	6-24

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