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Masters Qualifying in Politics with a research component

Course code: 1988 + Course abbreviation: MQualwresearchcomp + Total credit points required: 48 + 1 year full-time, 2 years part-time

Study mode and course location

On-campus (Clayton)

Course description

This course offers a preliminary year of study in preparation for the Master of Arts by 100% research in either politics or international relations. It provides an alternative to the honours program.

For further information on the research programs in this discipline, see the discipline entry under ‘Research programs’.

Entry requirements

Applicants should normally have completed a bachelors degree with at least credit results in the third-year units of a politics major, or equivalent.

Course structure

Students complete 48 points including one core unit and three electives chosen from the list below:

Core unit

PLM4060 Research project (politics)

Electives

PLM4340 Fringe politics and extremist violence: an introduction to terrorism
PLM4290 China: the quest for modernisation
PLM4310 Wars of recognition: terrorism and political violence
PLM4320 Republicanism and constitutionalism in Australia
PLM4390 Grand theories of politics
PLM4430 Political Islam
PLM4440 Global soul: consumers, citizens and rebels
PLM4480 Culture, norms and ideas in international politics
PLM4520 Perspectives on world politics
PLM4600 Strategic studies
PLM4800 Australian national government
PLM4930 Southeast Asian politics

Contact details

Course coordinator

Dr Shahram Akbarzadeh

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