Course content

The BA International Studies takes an interdisciplinary approach to national, regional and global issues.  Its aim is to produce graduates with well-developed intercultural skills and broad-based understanding of cultural diversity, foreign policy making and international relations.

The degree combines a range of subjects based in the disciplines of Political Science and Communication with a Language Major, and offers rich insights into the interplay of cultural, political, economic and environmental forces in regional and global arenas.

Language Study and Exchange Program

Students may study a language at the University of Canberra – Chinese, Japanese or Spanish and other languages may be studied at ANU.  Language may also be studied cross-institutionally as distance education if not offered at the University of Canberra.

Students, as part of their undergraduate degree, have the opportunity to study overseas in the country of the language that they are studying, or undertaken as a general study abroad program.

Course Structure

• International Studies Foundations subjects
• Major in International Studies including Political Science & Communication units
• Chinese, Japanese and Spanish, or in another language in which the student is not a native speaker
• Four open electives or a minor sequence and (in Stream A), Politics and Democracy and Communication Traditions 
  or
• Professional major drawn from majors offered at the University

A detailed course outline is available here.

Double degrees

Students have the opportunity of undertaking four-year double degrees (including their language major) with

Advertising/Marketing

 Commerce, Journalism

 Management

 Media/Multimedia Production

 Public Relations

Tourism Management

 or a five year double degree with Law.

These can be viewed at Courses & Units from the University Home Page.

Careers

The skills and attributes acquired in the degree will be highly relevant to careers in the Public Service, diplomacy, overseas aid, international trade, multinational business, international education, tourism and many other fields.