Master of Global Securities and Strategy
Master of Global Securities and Strategy
The Master of Global Securities and Strategy examines the nature and interconnectivity of global and regional security challenges. Whilst we can conceive of the components of these challenges separately – climate, health, poverty, nuclear proliferation, disruptive technologies, to name just a few – in reality these challenges confront us simultaneously…
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COURSE DESCRIPTION
The Master of Global Securities and Strategy examines the nature and interconnectivity of global and regional security challenges. Whilst we can conceive of the components of these challenges separately – climate, health, poverty, nuclear proliferation, disruptive technologies, to name just a few – in reality these challenges confront us simultaneously and urgently. They shape, reinforce, and catalyse each other in ways that resist simple classification or understanding. These challenges, and the forces that animate them, are at their most pronounced in Asia and the Pacific, where precarity, crisis, and innovation coexist in ways that set the global agenda.
Responding to the disconnectedness of these challenges requires the ability to think, see, and work across disciplinary boundaries, to view patterns of security and insecurity from multiple perspectives – state, human, environmental, societal, economic, and cultural – and to consider indigenous knowledges and practices about our world. Developing strategies that respond to the challenges we face requires an awareness that the experiences of security and insecurity, for states, societies or individuals, varies as we consider the effects of culture, history, gender, race and ethnicity, and wealth.
This degree responds to the challenges we face by providing a multidisciplinary perspective on global securities and the strategies we can adopt to respond to them. By grounding these concerns in the study of Asia and the Pacific and an awareness of the varied experiences of security, the Master of Global Securities and Strategy offers a detailed appreciation of policy making, a clear commitment to empowering the next generation of decision-makers, and an understanding of global and regional diversities.
Learning Outcomes
- Identify and critically analyse complex global security problems and their interconnections and relationships
- Demonstrate an active understanding that experiences of security and insecurity vary depending on the position/advantages/disadvantages of the actor being considered
- Propose and defend policy responses to contemporary and potential future challenges in the context of national and international decision-making
- Understand and critique existing disciplinary explanatory frameworks to understand security/insecurity and apply those frameworks to contemporary and emerging issues
- Develop and apply multidisciplinary explanatory frameworks to contemporary and emerging issues, demonstrating an appreciation of how different conceptual lenses can identify, highlight, and obscure, phenomena
- Articulate and communicate ideas clearly to both academic and non-academic audiences in a variety of formats.
Career Options
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REQUIREMENTS
Applicants must present one of the following:
- a cognate Bachelor degree or international equivalent with a minimum GPA of 5/7
- a cognate Bachelor degree or international equivalent with a minimum GPA of 4/7 and a Graduate Certificate or international equivalent with a minimum GPA of 4/7
- a Bachelor or international equivalent with a minimum 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
- a Graduate Certificate or international equivalent with a minimum 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
- a cognate Graduate Diploma or international equivalent with a minimum GPA of 4/7
- a minimum of 10 years full-time equivalent work experience at ANZSCO Skill Level 1 in a field related to the program
English Language Requirements
IELTS Academic and IELTS UKVI Academic [excluding One Skill Retake and IELTS Online] – Overall score of 6.5 overall with minimum 6.0 in each band.
TOEFL iBT Paper Edition and TOEFL iBT [excluding Paper Edition and Home Edition] – Overall score of 80 (Reading – 20; Writing – 20; Listening – 18; Speaking – 18).
Cambridge C1 Advanced – Overall score of 176 minimum 169 in each band.
PTE Academic and PTE Academic UKVI [excluding PTE Academic Online] – Overall score of 64 minimum 55 in each band.
EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION
The Australian National University (ANU) is a public research university and member of the Group of Eight, located in Canberra, the capital of Australia. Its main campus in Acton encompasses seven teaching and research colleges, in addition to several national academies and institutes.
