Bachelor of Global Security

This Course is archived with an end date of 25/11/2024

Overview

The Bachelor of Global Security provides understandings of contemporary challenges to security, including terrorism, political violence, transnational crime, global poverty, climate change and environmental stress, and analyses their political, historical and social context. Graduates will have the skills to respond to such challenges in the short-term, and develop robust solutions. … For more content click the Read More button below. The aim of this course is to equip students with knowledge concerning the nature and complex intertwined causes of security threats so that they can assess a range of types and levels of security threats and offer analyses to work towards effective interventions and long-term solutions to these challenges

The Bachelor of Global Security provides understandings of contemporary challenges to security, including terrorism, political violence, transnational crime, global poverty, climate change and environmental stress, and analyses their political, historical and social context. Graduates will have the skills to respond to such challenges in the short-term, and develop robust solutions. Such skills are highly sought after in many public and private sector organisations - security, law enforcement and defence agencies and consultancies, and organisations concerned with aid, human security, development, and human rights.

The aim of this course is to equip students with knowledge concerning the nature and complex intertwined causes of security threats so that they can assess a range of types and levels of security threats and offer analyses to work towards effective interventions and long-term solutions to these challenges

Contacts

Academic Chair

Admission requirements

Entry requirements (onshore)

English language requirements

Learning outcomes

Solve real-world human, environmental, political, cyber, terrorism and/or other security challenges.

Explain and analyse the political and social contexts in which security policies, institutions, actors and agencies operate.

Critically evaluate competing strategies, theoretical understandings, and sources of knowledge that inform approaches to global security.

Effectively communicate ideas, synthesise complex information, and make evidence-based arguments in relation to global security.

Design and manage self-directed projects of increasing sophistication, involving ethical and independent inquiry.

Act as global citizens, contributing as informed participants within scholarly, professional and other communities, working with diverse people and ideas to address security challenges.

Wield valuable skills that prepare graduates for professional futures, such as ethical practices, creative problem solving, analytical thinking, effective communication, and the ability to work constructively independently and with others.

Structure
72 credit points

Course Core12 credit points

First-Year Core Unit3 credit points

Specified Core Electives6 credit points

ART200

3 cp

The Power of Perfect Text: Writing for Professional Contexts

ART208

3 cp

Presenting in Public: Writing and Performing for Professional Contexts

Wandju Boodja (Welcome to Country)

MSP200

3 cp

Building Employability Skills

MSP202

3 cp

The Search for Everything: Data Analytics and Storytelling in the Twenty-First Century

Final-Year Core Unit3 credit points

Major24 credit points

Options36 credit points

Students complete 12cp of Global Security Electives, plus any combination of a Second Major, Co-Major, Minor or General Electives, to achieve an overall total of 36cp.

Global Security Specified Electives12 credit points

Second Major24 credit points

Students may complete a Second Major from any of the following. Other Second Majors may be completed with the approval of the Academic Chair

Overview

Contacts

Admission requirements

Learning outcomes

Structure72 credit points

Structure
72 credit points