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
- International Relations
- Political Science
- Global Security
- Sociology
Or approval of the Honours convener
2. 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 of research training, comprised of:
6 units from the research training course:
MEAS4002 Ways of Reading the Middle East, Central Asia and their Diasporas: the Big Issues
AND
6 units from the completion of a course from the following research training course list:
LING4100 - Quantitative Research Methods in Linguistics (6 units)
POLS4038 Comparative Political Institutions (6 units)
SOCR4001 Statistics for Social Scientists (6 units)
SOCR4002 Survey Data Analysis (6 units)
SOCR4003 Qualitative Research Analysis (6 units)
SOCR4006 Online Research Methods (6 units)
SOCR4008 Qualitative Social Research (6 units)
SOCR4009 Quantitative Social Research (6 units)
OR 12 units from the completion of the following research training course:
SOCY4010 - Sociology Honours Methods Seminar (12 units)
12 units from the completion of the following research project courses:
MEAS4001 Special Topics in Middle Eastern and Central Asian Studies (which may be taken twice)
MEAS4102 Islamic Radicalism
MEAS4111 Drivers of Violent Extremism: The Local and the Global in the Middle East
MEAS4113 The Gulf Strategic Environment
MEAS4115 Islam in World Politics
MEAS4116 Authoritarianism, Democratisation and Protest in the Muslim Middle East
MEAS4117 Islam in Central Asia
24 units from the completion of the following course(s):
THES4103 - Thesis (24 units)
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