The International Relations 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 international relations, 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 international relations;
- investigate this question creatively, critically, ethically, and independently, including through sophisticated use of appropriate theory and methodology as appropriate to international relations, 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:
Human Rights
International Relations
Latin American Studies
2. with the written approval of an identified supervisor for the thesis
Cognate Disciplines
Not applicable
Requirements
This Honours specialisation requires the completion of 48 units, which must consist of:
36 units from completion of the following course(s):
POLS4011 Research Training: Scope and Methods
THES4103 Thesis
12 units from the following list:
POLS4012 International Cooperation
POLS4013 International Relations Theory
POLS4019 Democracy and its Discontents
POLS4020 Ethnicity and Conflict in Asia and the Pacific
POLS4021 Civilian Protection in Conflict and Post-Conflict Zones
POLS4027 Terrorism and Counter Terrorism
POLS4031 Globalisation: Theories, Issues, Debates
POLS4032 Globalisation: the Interaction of Economics and Politics
POLS4036 Human Rights and Human Responsibility
POLS4043 Violence and Political Order
POLS4047 Interpretation, Method, Critique: Interpretivist Methods in the Social Sciences
HONS4100 Final Honours Grade will be used to calculate the Class of Honours and the Mark. It will be calculated using the formula: S (mark x units) / S units, giving NCN and WN a nominal mark of zero and WN a nominal mark of zero
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