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
pose a significant research question relating to Middle Eastern and Central Asian Studies;
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
communicate their research and its findings through an appropriate medium.
Relevant Degrees
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:
6 units from compulsory research training course:
MEAS4002 Ways of Reading the Middle East, Central Asia and their Diasporas: the Big Issues
6 units from the completion of the following course(s):
MEAS4001 - Special Topics in Middle Eastern and Central Asian Studies (6 units)
LANG4004 - Research Tools in Advanced Language Studies (6 units)
LING4010 - Selected Topics in Empirical Approaches to Linguistics (6 units)
SOCR4006 - Online Research Methods (6 units)
SOCR4003 - Qualitative Research Analysis (6 units)
SOCR4008 - Qualitative Social Research (6 units)
SOCR4009 - Quantitative Social Research (6 units)
SOCR4001 - Statistics for Social Scientists (6 units)
SOCR4002 - Survey Data Analysis (6 units)
POLS4038 - Comparative Political Institutions (6 units)
12 units from the completion of the following course(s):
MEAS4001 Special Topics in Middle Eastern and Central Asian Studies (which may be taken twice)
MEAS4102 Islamic Radicalism
MEAS4109 Energy and Security in Central Asia and the Caucasus
MEAS4111 Drivers of Violent Extremism: The Local and the Global in the Middle East
MEAS4112 Dynamics of the Israel-Palestinian Conflict
MEAS4113 The Gulf Strategic Environment
MEAS4114 Geopolitics of Central Asia
MEAS4115 Islam in World Politics
MEAS4116 Authoritarianism, Democratisation and Protest in the Muslim Middle East
MEAS4117 Islam in Central Asia
MEAS4121 Approaches to the Study of Modern Muslim Societies
24 units from the completion of the following course(s):
THES4103 - Thesis (24 units)
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