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 the 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 the completion of one of the following list of advanced courses:
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 the completion of the following list of security studies courses:
ASIA1025 Asia and the Pacific: Power, diversity and change
ASIA1999 The Origins of Political Order in Asia
ASIA2060 Southeast Asian Security
ASIA2093 Natural Resource Conflicts in Asia and the Pacific
ASIA2111 Indonesian Foreign and Security Policy
ASIA2307 History of Empire in Asia
ASIA3029 Reconciliation and the Memory of Conflict in Asia
INTR2012 Chinese Foreign and Security Policy
INTR2018 Japanese Foreign and Security Policy
INTR2024 The Politics of Nuclear Weapons
INTR3002 Global Governance in the Asia-Pacific
PASI3001 Politics and Development in the Contemporary Pacific
PASI3013 Environment and Development in the Pacific
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
36 units from completion of the following course(s):
| Code | Title | Units |
|---|---|---|
| STST1001 | Introduction to International Security Studies | 6 |
| STST 1002: Asia-Pacific Conflict | ||
| STST2001 | Security Concepts in the Asia-Pacific | 6 |
| STST 2002: Internal Security | ||
| STST 3001: Transnational Security | ||
| STST3002 | Living with Giants: Australia's Security in a Contested Asia | 6 |
12 units from completion of the following course(s):
| Code | Title | Units |
|---|---|---|
| STST2003 | Australia and Security in the Pacific Islands | 6 |
| STST2004 | Special Topic in International Security | 6 |
| STST3003 | Honeypots and Overcoats: Australian Intelligence in the World | 6 |
| STST 3004: Asia-Pacific Security | ||
| INTR2012 | Chinese Foreign and Security Policy | 6 |
| INTR 2014: Indian Foreign&Security Policy | ||
| INTR 2016: US Foreign/Sec Policy in Asia | ||
| INTR2018 | Japanese Foreign and Security Policy | 6 |
| INTR 2020: (In)Stability Korean Peninsula | ||
| INTR2024 | The Politics of Nuclear Weapons | 6 |
| ASIA2060 | Southeast Asian Security | 6 |
| MEAS2001 | New States of Eurasia: Emerging Issues in Politics and Security | 6 |
| POLS 2099: Cartographies of Security |