As Australia’s engagement with the Pacific increases, so does the need for graduates with Pacific expertise. The Bachelor of Pacific Studies offers the opportunity to develop a deep understanding of the diversity, history and contemporary issues of Oceania, preparing you to take a leading role in Pacific policy and development. 

Learning about the Pacific is a voyage of discovery, and at the ANU you have the opportunity to learn from the world’s leading experts on the Pacific. As a Pacific Studies student you will be joining a community of scholars dedicated to addressing the Pacific’s most pressing challenges, including climate change. 

Pacific Studies at the ANU will provide you with an interdisciplinary grounding to engage with diverse Pacific voices, approaches and perspectives. Our courses incorporate Indigenous perspectives, experiential and innovative ways of learning, and creative problem-solving. In the degree program you will also have the opportunity to engage in internship and immersion programs in Oceania, boosting your language skills and knowledge of the region.

Statistics opens the door to understanding our world through the exploration of data and the modelling of uncertainty. The need for statistics is growing rapidly as our ability to collect massive amounts of data outruns our ability to understand and use the data we collect. Hal Varian, Chief Economist at Google, declared that “the sexy job in the next ten years will be statisticians”, as the challenge of understanding large, complex data structures mounts. It is estimated that 2.5 exabytes of data is generated every single day, with the accumulated amount of data doubling every 18 months, and that 90% of all data ever gathered was produced within the last two years. What’s more, statistics is critical for every discipline for which data play a role, and in responding to the world’s biggest challenges such as climate change, terrorism, health and medicine, and global economic conditions. Some of the world’s largest employers of statisticians include Google and Facebook as well as governments, financial institutions, medical and pharmaceutical industries, universities and many other sectors. By completing a BStat at ANU, you stand ready to meet humanity’s biggest challenges by understanding the world we observe through the eyes of data and statistical and probability modelling.

Learning Outcomes

1. Critically apply theoretical frameworks and research techniques to understand the global significance of Oceania as a region of diverse societies, cultures and languages;
   
2. Demonstrate an understanding of diverse disciplinary approaches and methods drawn from the humanities, social sciences and environmental studies, and use these to synthesise knowledge about Oceania and its place in the world;
3. Demonstrate a nuanced understanding of the diversity of Indigenous, popular culture, policy and scholarly perspectives on and within Oceania;
4. Evaluate knowledge and ideas and debate issues using academic and other approaches addressing a variety of scholarly, policy and public audiences;
   
5. Exercise critical thinking and judgement in identifying and solving problems individually as well as collaboratively;
6. Develop, refine, and apply the skills to utilise transdisciplinary approaches, recognise transdisciplinary opportunities and collaborate to solve complex transdisciplinary problems.

1. Review and synthesise a broad range of statistical knowledge from their chosen major.
2. Use the R statistical computing language to carry out a wide variety of statistical tasks.
3. Carry out model selection in a multiple linear regression modelling context in various discipline backgrounds.
4. Describe the concepts of stochastic processes in discrete and continuous time.
5. Describe and interpret probability theory, continuous random variables, and sampling distributions and the central limit theorem.
6. Using a diverse range of discipline backgrounds and varied data, analyse programming problems to suggest, design and implement appropriate modular program structures, based on a data-directed approach.

Admission Requirements

Prerequisites

• ACT:

Required: Mathematical Methods (Major) / Further Mathematics (Major) / Specialist Mathematics (Major) / Specialist Methods (Major)

Recommended: Specialist Mathematics/Specialist Methods (Major/Minor)

• NSW:

Required: Mathematics Advanced or equivalent

Recommended: Mathematics Extension 1 or equivalent

• VIC: Mathematics Methods or equivalent
• QLD: Mathematics Methods or equivalent
• TAS: Mathematical methods/Mathematics Specialised/Mathematics 1 and II through U Tas/Both Mathematics 1 and II through UTAS/Both Advanced Calculus and Applications 1A and 1B through UTAS
• SA / NT: Mathematical Methods or equivalent
• WA: Mathematical Methods or equivalent
• IB: Mathematics: Applications and Interpretations HL/Mathematics: Analysis and Approaches SL or HL

Adjustment Factors

Adjustment factors are combined with an applicant's secondary education results to determine their Selection Rank. ANU offers adjustment factors based on equity, diversity, and/or performance principles, such as for recognition of difficult circumstances that students face in their studies.

To be eligible for adjustment factors, you must have:

• achieved a Selection Rank of 70 or more before adjustment factors are applied
• if you have undertaken higher education, completed less than one year full-time equivalent (1.0 FTE) of a higher education program
• applied for an eligible ANU bachelor degree program

Please visit the ANU Adjustment Factors website for further information.

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.

Program Requirements

The Bachelor of Pacific Studies flexible double degree component requires completion of 96 units, of which:

A maximum of 36 units may come from completion of 1000-level courses

A minimum of 18 units must come from completion of 3000-level courses

A minimum of 12 units of courses tagged as Transdisciplinary Problem-Solving

The 96 units must include:

The 144 units must include:

36 units from the following compulsory courses:

PASI1011 Pacific Encounters: An introduction to Pacific Studies

PASI1012 Pacific Worlds: critical inquiry in Oceania

PASI2001 Pacific Studies in a Globalising World

PASI3001 Politics and Development in the Contemporary Pacific

PASI3002 Gender and Sexuality in the Pacific

PASI3013 Environment and Development in the Pacific

A minimum of 36 units from the following thematic lists:

Anthropology and archaeology

ANTH3059 Doing Ethnography: Practicum in Applied Anthropology

ARCH2005 Archaeology of the Pacific Islanders

ASIA2130 The archaeology of rock art in Asia, Pacific, and Australia

History

HIST2231 Exploration: From Captain Cook to the Astronauts

PASI2002 Australia in Oceania in the 19th and 20th centuries

WARS2004 War in the Islands: The Second World War in the Pacific

Politics, conflict and security

ASIA2093 Natural Resource Conflicts in Asia and the Pacific

POLS2055 Pacific Politics

STST2003 Australia and Security in the Pacific

Environment, geography and migration

ASIA2018 Maps and Mapping in Asia and the Pacific

ASIA2301 Human Migration and Expansion in the Rise of the Asia-Pacific

ASIA2747 Airlines in Asia and the Pacific: Histories, Technologies, Cultures and Geographies

Gender, culture and linguistics

ASIA2001 Language in Asia and the Pacific

ASIA2308 Linguistic Histories in Asia and the Pacific

ASIA2311 Gender and Cultural Studies in Asia and the Pacific

PASI3012 Readings in Indigenous Studies

Field schools, study tours and self-directed research

ENVS2005 Islands Sustainable Development: Fiji Field School

PASI2030 Study Tour: Regional Policymaking for Pacific Development

PASI3005 Pacific Islands Field School

PASI3010 Pacific Engagement Project

Languages

Courses from the following language codes: CHIN, FREN, GERM, INDN, JPNS, TETM, TOKP, SPAN.

A minimum of 12 units of courses tagged as Transdisciplinary Problem-Solving

36 units from the following compulsory courses:

PASI1011 Pacific Encounters: An introduction to Pacific Studies

PASI1012 Pacific Worlds: critical inquiry in Oceania

PASI2001 Pacific Studies in a Globalising World

PASI3001 Politics and Development in the Contemporary Pacific

PASI3002 Gender and Sexuality in the Pacific

PASI3013 Environment and Development in the Pacific

A minimum of 36 units from the following thematic lists:

Anthropology and archaeology

ANTH3059 Doing Ethnography: Practicum in Applied Anthropology

ARCH2005 Archaeology of the Pacific Islanders

ASIA2130 The archaeology of rock art in Asia, Pacific, and Australia

History

HIST2231 Exploration: From Captain Cook to the Astronauts

PASI2002 Australia in Oceania in the 19th and 20th centuries

WARS2004 War in the Islands: The Second World War in the Pacific

Politics, conflict and security

ASIA2093 Natural Resource Conflicts in Asia and the Pacific

POLS2055 Pacific Politics

STST2003 Australia and Security in the Pacific

Environment, geography and migration

ASIA2018 Maps and Mapping in Asia and the Pacific

ASIA2301 Human Migration and Expansion in the Rise of the Asia-Pacific

ASIA2747 Airlines in Asia and the Pacific: Histories, Technologies, Cultures and Geographies

Gender, culture and linguistics

ASIA2001 Language in Asia and the Pacific

ASIA2308 Linguistic Histories in Asia and the Pacific

ASIA2311 Gender and Cultural Studies in Asia and the Pacific

PASI3012 Readings in Indigenous Studies

Field schools, study tours and self-directed research

ENVS2005 Islands Sustainable Development: Fiji Field School

PASI2030 Study Tour: Regional Policymaking for Pacific Development

PASI3005 Pacific Islands Field School

PASI3010 Pacific Engagement Project

Languages

Courses from the following language codes: CHIN, FREN, GERM, INDN, JPNS, TETM, TOKP, SPAN.

A minimum of 12 units of courses tagged as Transdisciplinary Problem-Solving

The Bachelor of Statistics flexible double degree component requires completion of 96 units, of which:

A maximum of 48 units may come from completion of 1000-level courses

The 96 units must consist of:

48 units from the completion of one of the following statistics majors:

Applied Statistics

Probability and Stochastic Processes

Statistical Data Analytics

Theoretical Statistics

 6 units from completion of the following compulsory courses:

STAT2005 Introduction to Stochastic Processes

 6 units from completion of an introductory statistics course from the following list:

STAT1003 Statistical Techniques

STAT1008 Quantitative Research Methods

6 units from completion of an introductory mathematical statistics course from the following list:

STAT2001 Introductory Mathematical Statistics

STAT2013 Introductory Mathematical Statistics for Actuarial Studies

6 units from completion of a regression course from the following list:

STAT2008 Regression Modelling

STAT2014 Regression Modelling for Actuarial Studies

12 units from completion of an introductory mathematics courses from the following list:

MATH1013 Mathematics and Applications 1

MATH1014 Mathematics and Applications 2

MATH1115 Advanced Mathematics and Applications 1

MATH1116 Advanced Mathematics and Applications 2

12 units from completion of courses from the following list:

COMP1100 Programming as Problem Solving

COMP1730 Programming for Scientists

CBEA2001 Australian Indigenous Perspectives in Business and Economics

CBEA3001 College of Business and Economics Special Industry Project (UG)

CBEA3066 Global Business Immersion

CBEA3070 ANU College of Business and Economics Internship Program

MATH2301 Games, Graphs and Machines

MATH3511 Scientific Computing

Any other ANU courses

If your flexible double degree is within the College of Business and Economics (for example Commerce and Economics), the below study plan may show the same course twice. If this is the case, you must only do the course once and replace the other course with a University Wide Elective. Please note that you cannot exceed 8 out of college electives.

Students enrolled in Bachelor of Statistics/Bachelor of Actuarial Studies degree will need to enrol in STAT2013 and STAT2014, instead of STAT2001 and STAT2008.

Students enrolled in Bachelor of Statistics/Bachelor of Advanced Computing (Hons) degree will need to enrol in MATH1115 and MATH1116, instead of MATH1013 and MATH1014. Also, in the Bachelor of Statistics, these students should replace COMP1100 with an elective, as they will completing COMP1130 in the BAC (Hons) degree, which is an incompatible course.

For majors and minors offered by the ANU College of Business and Economics, students may count a course towards multiple majors and minors. If a minor is a subset of all stated courses and/or prerequisites for a major, then completion of the major overrides completion of the minor, and only the major is regarded as having been completed. If all courses in a major and/or minor are compulsory courses in the degree, the major and/or minor will not be listed on the transcript.

Minors

Bachelor of Statistics Minors

Study Options