International Studies - 3447
Program Summary
Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
Contact: bis@unsw.edu.au
Campus: Sydney
Career: Undergraduate
Typical UOC Per Semester: 24
Min UOC Per Semester: 6
Max UOC Per Semester: 24
Min UOC For Award: 192
UAC Code: 422200
Domestic Entry Requirements: See Domestic Entry Requirements
International Entry Requirements: See International Entry Requirements
Award(s):
Bachelor of International Studies
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Program Description
Students commencing prior to 2017 should refer to program 3424 Bachelor of International Studies.
The Bachelor of International Studies (UNSW BInSt) is an innovative and practical program in which you will develop a comprehensive understanding of the contemporary world, pick up a useful second language, and experience one-year of study overseas. The program satisfies a growing demand in Australia and globally for graduates who are highly skilled, internationally informed and professionally equipped to meet the challenges of work in a rapidly changing global environment.
The program examines the interactions of nations, economies, institutions, peoples, cultures, technologies and ideas against a background of increasing international integration and changing modernity. The program challenges you to: examine the dynamics of global and regional change; explore key issues and challenges in global change, evaluate the importance of globalisation, and debate key questions centred on nationalism, sovereignty, social change, development, and transnational interaction. You specialize in an area of study, complete language study and a one-year Overseas Study Program (OSP) at one of the more than 200 approved partner universities around the world.
The UNSW BInSt can be completed full-time in Single Mode (normally 4 years), in Dual Mode (the equivalent of 3 years full-time) or part-time. The basic requirements of the program are simple. The BInSt has a depth component and a breadth component. If you study in either the Single or Dual Mode, you will complete the depth component. If you study in the Single Mode, you will also complete the breadth component.
The Depth component is:
- The completion of an International Studies Core (24 UOC) (4 courses)
- The completion of Regional Electives (12 UOC ) (2 courses)
- The completion of Specialist Electives (12 UOC) (2 courses)
- The completion of a Language Study Core (24 UOC) (4 courses)
- The completion of a minor stream (24 UOC) (4 courses) selected from the list of UNSW BInSt approved minor streams
- The completion of an overseas exchange (48 UOC) (2 semesters)
- The completion of Arts & Social Sciences Prescribed Electives (12 UOC) (2 courses)
- The completion of Free Electives (24 UOC) (4 courses)
- General Education (12 UOC) (2 courses)
Program Objectives and Graduate Attributes
Program Objectives
- To satisfy a growing demand, in Australia and abroad, for graduates who are highly skilled, well informed and professionally equipped to meet the challenges of work in a rapidly changing global environment.
- To give you a thorough preparation for further study and employment in areas vital to Australia's increasing participation in the international arena.
- To examine and develop a better understanding of the interactions of nations, economies, institutions, peoples, cultures, technologies and ideas against a background of increasing international integration and changing modernity.
- To promote competence in a major language or languages relevant and useful for the global economy in which we live (viz. French, German, Spanish, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Italian, Greek and Indonesian).
- To provide you with the invaluable experience of other cultures, languages and peoples - experience greatly valued by employers internationally, through the completion of a one-year Overseas Study Program.
Learning Outcomes
- Research, Inquiry and Analytic Abilities - Graduates in International Studies have high-level skills in problem solving, research techniques, analysis and critical understanding of key global issues. They display intellectual adaptability and conceptual sophistication, informed by broad international knowledge and language skills.
- Personal and Intellectual Autonomy - Graduates in International studies have an interdisciplinary approach to problem solving and work autonomously and in ways motivated by intellectual curiosity and openness to new ideas and arguments.
- Ethical, Social and Professional Understanding - Graduates in International Studies have the capacity to critically reflect upon ethical principles and codes of conduct and contribute in socially responsible ways to local and international communities
- Communication Skills - Graduates in International Studies consistently demonstrate high-level skills in both oral expression and written communication. Additionally, they possess advanced communication skills appropriate for negotiating and promoting understanding in a global multilingual environment.
- Information Literacy - Graduates in International Studies are able to locate, evaluate and use information technologies appropriately and effectively.
- Professional and Intellectual Development - Graduates in International Studies are intellectually flexible, independent and open to new ideas. They embrace enthusiastically opportunities to develop awareness, learning and professionalism and are ideally equipped to meet the challenges of work in a rapidly changing global environment.
- Global Outlook - Graduates in International Studies display an informed appreciation and respect for cultural and social diversity. They have a keen understanding of the complexity of international political and economic interaction and they engage creatively with the dynamics of global change.
Program Structure
Single Mode (192 UOC) made up of:
- International Studies core (24 UOC)
- Regional Electives (12 UOC)
- Specialist Electives (12 UOC)
- Language Study core (24 UOC )
- A minor stream (24 UOC)
- Overseas Study Program (48 UOC)
- Arts & Social Sciences Prescribed Electives (12 UOC)
- Free Electives (24 UOC )
- General Education (12 UOC )
- International Studies core (24 UOC)
- Regional Electives (12 UOC)
- Specialist Electives (12 UOC)
- Language Study core (24 UOC )
- A minor stream (24 UOC)
- Overseas Study Program (48 UOC)
Core
International Studies
- INST2003 Research Methods (6 UOC)
- INST3900 Int Studies Advanced Seminar (6 UOC) (to be completed in the last semester of study, after returning from the OSP Year Abroad)
The notes below outline program specific caveats:
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Languages
- Chinese
- French
- German
- Greek
- Indonesian
- Italian
- Japanese
- Korean
- Spanish
Minor Streams
External Stream UOC Requirement in International Business
If you are completing a dual degree in International Studies you have the option of completing an External Major in International Business (see Note 6).
(UNSW Business School)
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(UNSW Business School)
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Core Language Study and Language Stream
Overseas Studies Program
To proceed on the Bachelor of International Studies Overseas Study Program (OSP) you must have achieved satisfactory academic progress in your first and second years of study and must fulfil the requirements of the Universities Exchange Program.
You will undertake OSP during Semester 1 and Semester 2 of your third year of study.
Overseas Studies Program and Dual Mode
Electives
Regional Electives
You must take 12 UOC of regional electives consisting of one course that focuses on contemporary developments and one that focuses on historical trajectories in the region. If you wish to focus on Asia you may take 12 UOC of the following courses:
- ARTS1210 Concepts of Asia (6 UOC)
- ARTS1211 Australia's Asian Context (6 UOC)
- ARTS2210 Modern India: from British Raj to Bollywood (6 UOC)
- ARTS2211 East Asia (6 UOC)
- ARTS2212 Southeast Asia (6 UOC)
- ARTS2213 Asian Popular Culture (6 UOC)
- ARTS2216 Politics and Security in East Asia (6 UOC)
- ARTS2457 China Imagined and Perceived (6 UOC)
- ARTS2663 Korea and Japan: Chinese Cultural Transmission (6 UOC)
- ARTS2815 International Relations in Southeast Asia (6 UOC)
- ARTS3212 Powerful India (6 UOC)
- ARTS3216 Chinese Media Cultures (6 UOC)
- ARTS3217 History of Modern China: Contested Visions (6 UOC)
- ARTS3220 Asian Cities: Studies in History, Culture and Trade (6 UOC)
- ARTS3640 Japan and Korea: Cultures in Conflict (6 UOC)
You must take 12 UOC of regional electives consisting of one course that focuses on contemporary developments and one that focuses on historical trajectories in the region. If you wish to focus on Europe you may take 12 UOC of the following courses:
- ARTS1780 Concepts of Europe (6 UOC)
- ARTS1782 Contemporary Europe: Culture and Crisis (6 UOC)
- ARTS2273 Nineteenth-Century Europe: Between Revolution and War (6 UOC)
- ARTS2781 Postwar Europe: Politics, Societies, Cultures (6 UOC)
- ARTS2785 Europe between the Wars (6 UOC)
- ARTS3780 Contemporary Germany: History, Politics, Society (6 UOC)
- ARTS3789 Ethnic and Religious Minorities in Modern Europe (6 UOC)
You must take 12 UOC of regional electives consisting of one course that focuses on contemporary developments and one that focuses on historical trajectories in the region. If you wish to focus on The Americas you may take 12 UOC of the following courses:
- ARTS2150 Modern United States History (6 UOC)
- ARTS2750 Modern Latin America: Dependency and Development (6 UOC)
- ARTS3293 Empires and Colonies in Latin America (6 UOC)
- ARTS3816 US, China and International Law (6 UOC)
Specialist Electives
- ARTS2240 Environment, Sustainability and Development (6 UOC)
- ARTS2242 The Politics of Climate Change (6 UOC)
- ARTS2243 Waste and Society (6 UOC)
- ARTS2244 Rethinking Wildlife: Philosophy, Biodiversity, Extinction (6 UOC)
- ARTS2247 Indigenous People and the Environment (6 UOC)
- ARTS2248 Disasters and Society (6 UOC)
- ARTS2751 International Development (6 UOC)
- ARTS2752 Local Politics of Development (6 UOC)
- ARTS2811 International Law: Power, Politics and Ideology (6 UOC)
- ARTS2812 The Politics of International Organisation (6 UOC)
- ARTS2813 International Security (6 UOC)
- ARTS2816 Introduction to Global Political Economy (6 UOC)
- ARTS2846 Multiculturalism in Law & Politics (6 UOC)
- ARTS2848 Language, Politics & Media (6 UOC)
- ARTS2851 Democracy and Authoritarianism in the 21st century (6 UOC)
- ARTS2870 Global Citizens, Justice and Civil Society (6 UOC)
- ARTS2873 Fieldwork Voices: Ethnographies of Place (6 UOC)
- ARTS3241 Environmental Justice (6 UOC)
- ARTS3242 Environmental History (6 UOC)
- ARTS3245 Public Relations and the Environment (6 UOC)
- ARTS3750 Development, Community and Environment (6 UOC)
- ARTS3755 Development in Practice: Project Design (6 UOC)
- ARTS3756 Development in Asia (6 UOC)
- ARTS3783 Great and Emerging Powers in Contemporary World Politics (6 UOC)
- ARTS3788 European Governance (6 UOC)
- ARTS3812 Theorising International Political Economy (6 UOC)
- ARTS3817 The Middle East and International Law (6 UOC)
- ARTS3819 Emerging Challenges in International Security (6 UOC)
- ARTS3846 Political Actors (6 UOC)
- ARTS3847 The International Relations of Europe (6 UOC)
- ARTS3849 Peoples, States and Sovereignty (6 UOC)
- ARTS3872 Media Publics (6 UOC)
- ARTS3885 Trauma and Violence (6 UOC)
- ARTS3886 Living Social Justice: Experience and Practice (6 UOC)
- MGMT2101 International Business and Multinational Operations (6 UOC)
- MGMT2102 Managing Across Cultures (6 UOC)
- MGMT2105 East Asian Business Enterprise (6 UOC)
- MGMT3003 Global Entrepreneurship (6 UOC)
- MGMT3721 Negotiation Skills (6 UOC)
UNSW Arts and Social Sciences Prescribed Electives
Free Electives
ARTS2050 Academic Writing for the Humanities (6 UOC)
HUMS1005 Personalised English Language Enhancement (6 UOC)
General Education
Award with Distinction
Sample Program
Bachelor of International Studies - Single Mode - Example only
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YEAR 1 |
UOC | ||||||||||||||||||
S1 | INST1005 Key Debates in International Studies (6 UOC) | Regional Elective (6 UOC) | Language (6 UOC) | Minor (6 UOC) | 24 | ||||||||||||||
S2 | INST1006 The World in Transition (6 UOC) | Free Elective (6 UOC) | Language (6 UOC) | Minor (6 UOC) | 24 | ||||||||||||||
YEAR 2 | UOC | ||||||||||||||||||
S1 | Specialist Elective (6 UOC) |
Language (6 UOC) |
Minor (6 UOC) |
24 | |||||||||||||||
S2 | Free Elective (6 UOC) |
Free Elective (6 UOC) |
Language (6 UOC) |
Minor (6 UOC) |
24 | ||||||||||||||
YEAR 3 | UOC | ||||||||||||||||||
OVERSEAS STUDY PROGRAM
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48 | ||||||||||||||||||
YEAR 4 |
UOC | ||||||||||||||||||
S1 | Free Elective (6 UOC) |
Regional Elective (6 UOC) |
General Education (6 UOC) | A&SS Prescribed Elective (6 UOC) |
24 | ||||||||||||||
S2 | INST3900 Advanced Seminar in International Studies (6 UOC) | Specialist Elective (6 UOC) | General Education (6 UOC) |
A&SS Prescribed Elective (6 UOC) |
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Academic Rules
Single Mode
- enrol in the Bachelor of International Studies and complete 192 units of credit;
- complete the requirements for the core in International Studies and the core in Language Study
- complete the requirements of Regional and Specialist Electives
- complete the requirements for one minor stream
- complete the requirements for the Overseas Study Program (OSP)
- complete 12 UOC of Arts & Social Sciences Prescribed Electives
- complete 24 UOC of Free Electives
- complete 12 UOC of General Education
- complete at least 30 UOC of Level 1 courses before enrolling in Level 2 courses
- specify your minor stream at the time of enrolment into the program
- complete at least 48 UOC, including 6 UOC at Level 1 and 6 UOC at Level 2 in your minor, before enrolling in Level 3 courses.
Dual Mode
- enrol in the Bachelor of International Studies and complete 144 units of credit;
- complete the requirements for the core in International Studies and the core in Language Study
- complete the requirements of Regional and Specialist Electives
- complete the requirements for one minor stream
- complete the requirements for the Overseas Study Program (OSP)
- complete at least 30 UOC of Level 1 courses before enrolling in Level 2 courses
- specify your minor stream at the time of enrolment into the program
- complete at least 48 UOC, including 6 UOC at Level 1 and 6 UOC at Level 2 in your minor, before enrolling in Level 3 courses.
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