The Strategic and Defence Studies Centre’s Historical International Security (HINS) minor offers students in security, international relations, and related field studies the opportunity to establish a firm historical foundation on which to view past events, current challenges, and future contingencies as they conduct undergraduate analysis and enter their post-graduation careers.
Learning Outcomes
- Gain an appreciation for the role of historical analysis in understanding and developing public policy across all governmental organisations, NGOs, and IGOs
- Better comprehend the regional and worldwide interplay of historical influences and current events/trends
- Practice a multi-perspective approach to historical and contemporary analysis
- Employ history to enhance comprehension of extant and emerging crises/flashpoints
Relevant Degrees
Requirements
This minor requires the completion of 24 units, which must include:
24 units from the following Historical International Security courses:
STST1004 How Nations Fight: From Tsushima to Taiwan
STST2005 Why Nations Fight: The Causes of International Conflict
ASIA2009 Modern Japan: the state and the society from Meiji to the present
ASIA2037 History of Modern China
ASIA2085 Southeast Asia in World History
ASIA2045 The Investigative Historian in Asia: reading between the lies
ASIA2271 The Making of South Asia
ASIA2307 History of Empire in Asia
ASIA3088 The Korean War
HIST1209 Terror to Terrorism: A History
HIST1214 Clash of Empires: 1450 to the Present
HIST2110: Approaches to History
HIST2136 World at War, 1939-1945
HIST2227 Australian Political History
HIST2240 Democracy and Dissent: Europe Since 1945
MEAS1001 Introduction to the Modern Middle East
MEAS2001 New States of Eurasia: Emerging Issues in Politics and Security
PASI2002 Australia in Oceania in the 19th and 20th centuries
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