The Asia-Pacific Security Major provides students with an in-depth education on the security challenges facing the Asia-Pacific region, and the implications for Australia’s foreign and defence policies. The courses are intended for students wishing to pursue careers related to security affairs, international relations, or wishing to undertake graduate work in the fields of strategic and/ or security studies. Students are able to enhance their knowledge through courses about the security of specific states in the Asia-Pacific region, or on topics such as intelligence and nuclear security.
Learning Outcomes
- Understand and evaluate historical and current events and developments that have shaped dimensions of security in the Asia-Pacific region,
- Identify and critique the key concepts, ideas and principal actors in Asia-Pacific security,
- Analyse developments in security in the Asia-Pacific in their regional and global context,
- Develop and apply critical thinking skills so as to understand and critique events in the Asia-Pacific region and the way different disciplinary approaches frame and understand those events.
Relevant Degrees
Requirements
This major requires the completion of 48 units which must include:
24 units from completion of the following compulsory courses:
STST2001 Security Concepts in the Asia-Pacific
STST2003 Australia and Security in the Pacific Islands
STST3002 Living with Giants: Australia’s Security in a Contested Asia
STST3005 International Security in the 21st Century
A minimum of 6 units from completion of advanced courses from the following list:
ASIA3029 Reconciliation and the Memory of Conflict in Asia
PASI3001 Politics and Development in the Contemporary Pacific
PASI3013 Environment and Development in the Pacific
A maximum of 18 units from completion of security studies courses from the following list:
ASIA2060 Southeast Asian Security
ASIA2093 Natural Resource Conflicts in Asia and the Pacific
ASIA2111 Indonesian Foreign and Security Policy
INTR2012 Chinese Foreign and Security Policy
INTR2018 Japanese Foreign and Security Policy
INTR2024 The Politics of Nuclear Weapons
STST1004 How Nations Fight: From Tsushima to Taiwan
STST2005 Why Nations Fight: The Causes of International Conflict
STST3003 Honeypots and Overcoats: Australian Intelligence in the World
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