Master of Engaging Asia
The Australian National University (ANU)
Type of institution: University/Higher Education Institution
Level: Postgraduate
CRICOS: 00120C
This degree positions you to lead effective, deep, and engaged relationships with Asia in applied contexts. How will Asia and our region respond to rising inequality, social upheaval, climate change, border challenges, and transformative technologies? This degree offers the comparative and self reflective perspective necessary for intercultural leadership skills. Approaching the idea of international engagement from multiple angles and cultural viewpoints, this program critically evaluates how histories, geopolitics, diasporas, and popular culture shape relationships between Australia and Asia. In a world where many shared global challenges require nuanced understandings of environmental crisis, technological innovation, and public health, this degree gives you humanistic and social science tools to address these STEM sites of crisis in historically informed and culturally sensitive ways. You can pursue advanced study in areas of international engagement, social change, political transformation, health crisis, and environmental challenges, while you have the opportunity to apply these regional understandings to such fields as business, diplomacy, tourism, environmental management, and public policy in courses offered across the ANU. In this program, you can develop long term networks with leading experts in regional affairs. The ANU is home to one of the largest concentrations of scholars focusing on Asia in the world. It offers world class language training and provides notable opportunities for in country experiences. In this degree, you build a flexible skill set for professional advancement that allows you to approach key challenges in the region with rigor, empathy, and nuance.
Structure
The Master of Engaging Asia requires completion of 72 units.
Subjects
- ASIA6121 Engaging Asia
- ASIA8050 Social Conflict and Environmental Challenges in Asia and the Pacific
- ASIA8020 National and Transnational Histories in Asia and the Pacific
- ASIA8021 Activism and Social Change in Asia and the Pacific
- ASIA8022 Approaching Asia and the Pacific: Concepts, Tools, Methods
- ASIA8023 The Body in Contemporary Chinese Cultures
- ASIA8038 Cultural Creativity and Research in Asia and the Pacific
- ASIA8048 Disasters and Epidemics in Asia and the Pacific
- ASIA8051 Language and Power in Asia and the Pacific
- ASIA6133 Rethinking Northeast Asia
- ASIA6099 Social Power in China: Family and Connections
- ASIA6030 History of the State System in Southeast Asia
- ASIA6022 Special Topics in Asian and Pacific Studies
- ASIA6176 Indias Culture Wars
- IDEC8021 The Chinese Economy
- POGO8220 Issues in Japanese Policy
- ASIA8049 International History from Asia and the Pacific: Framing Critical Perspectives
- INTR8017 Issues in Australian Foreign Policy
- INTR8022 International Relations in the Asia Pacific
- INTR8060 Chinas Global Engagement
- EMDV8009 Asia Pacific Environmental Conflicts: Causes and Solutions
- REGN8051 Regulatory Complexity in Asia
- STST8002 The New Power Politics of Asia
- STST8068 Asian Strategy and Security: History, Theory and Practice
- BUSI7033 International Business Strategies
- BUSI7055 Asian Business Systems
- BUSI7001 Managing the Global Supply Chain
- MGMT7107 Managing Across Cultures
- EMDV8080 International Climate Change Policy and Economics
- EMDV8104 Environmental Governance
- ANTH8060 Gender in Resource and Environmental Management
- POGO8072 Development Theories and Themes
- HUMN8033 Tourism, Heritage and Globalization
- HUMN8035 Critical Issues in Intangible Heritage
- POGO8044 Global Social Policy
- POGO8045 International Policy Making in the Shadow of the Future
- DIPL8001 Transnational Diplomacy
- DIPL8044 Negotiation and Conflict Resolution
- NSPO8032 Geoeconomics and national security
- NPSO8034 China, America and National Security
- ANTH8107 Global governance and the role of Multilateral Development Banks
- LING6021 Cross Cultural Communication
- SCOM6029 Cross Cultural Perspectives in Science Communication
- ASIA6022 Special Topics in Asia and Pacific Studies
Standard entry requirements
- Bachelor degree or international equivalent with GPA 5/7
- Or Bachelor degree or international equivalent with GPA 4/7 and a minimum of 3 years full time equivalent work experience at ANZSCO Skill Level 1 in a field related to the program
- Or Bachelor degree or international equivalent with GPA 4/7 and a Graduate Certificate or international equivalent with a GPA of 4/7
- Or Graduate Diploma or international equivalent with a GPA 4/7
- Or 48 units of courses in a postgraduate program with a GPA of 4/7
- Or Graduate Certificate or international equivalent with a GPA of 4/7 and a minimum of 3 years full time equivalent work experience at ANZSCO Skill Level 1 in a field related to the program
- Or Graduate Records Examination (GRE) General test, completed no more than 5 years before the time of application, with a minimum score of 155 for Verbal Reasoning, 155 for Quantitative Reasoning and 4.0 in Analytical Writing and a minimum of 3 years full time equivalent work experience at ANZSCO Skill Level 1 in a field related to the program
- Or A minimum of 10 years full time equivalent work experience at ANZSCO Skill Level 1 in a field related to the program.
Study information
| Campus | Fees | Mid year intake | Attendance |
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| Canberra | International: $80,550 | No |
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