Humanities and Social Sciences

International students

Introduction Research Centres and Institutes Library Campuses Faculty Courses Study Areas Further Information

Welcome to the International pages of our Faculty’s website. Here, you’ll find information for

• students looking for exciting global connections to build into their study plans
• potential postgraduates exploring higher study and thesis supervision in areas where our Faculty has special capabilities
• members of our Faculty who are briefing students or travelling overseas and who want a single source of information about our international activities.

We offer a rewarding array of courses. Our teaching staff, of whom more than 30 are Fellows of the Australian Academies of Humanities or Social Sciences, are in-the-classroom teachers as well as redoubtable researchers. One of our Emeritus Professors won the Pulitzer Prize for history for a book about eighteenth-century America. Three others, Dennis Altmann, Peter Beilharz and Marilyn Lake have occupied the Chair of Australian Studies at Harvard University.

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Research Centres and Institutes

The Faculty works closely with a number of outstanding internationally recognised research centres and institutes, some of which based within the Faculty. These provide a vigorous intellectual forum for teaching and research, as well as facilitating cross-disciplinary collaborations and networks within a national and international context.

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Library

Our library is unsurpassed in Australia for the areas we specialize in.

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Campuses

And our campuses in Melbourne and six regional centres are set in quintessential examples of Australian landscapes of diverse ecosystems that are home to distinctive flora and fauna.

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Faculty Courses

In addition to the subjects you would expect to find in any faculty specializing in humanities and social sciences, we have areas that may be of special interest if you are coming from overseas. The Faculty offers a wide range of courses at both the undergraduate and postgraduate level.

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Study Areas

Studying Asia and the Pacific

International students find that we provide a great platform from which to launch into a study of the countries and cultures of Asia.

We are one of only two universities in Australia to teach the four great languages of Asia – Mandarin Chinese, Hindi, Indonesian and Japanese. As well as having an Asian Studies program for undergraduates, our extensive and distinguished faculty members supervise research about Asia across a range of disciplines. We have special interests in India and its South Asian neighbours and in China, but we teach about, research and work in Japan, Indonesia, Vietnam, Malaysia, Thailand, the Philippines, and the Pacific.

Australian Studies

With such strikingly Australian campuses, you’d be right to guess that we set special store by Australian Studies, an innovative interdisciplinary program exploring what makes Australia different from (and sometimes, similar to) the rest of the world.

The Australian Studies program allows students to work in fields ranging from archaeology to modern Australian politics, history and aboriginal studies, to which the Faculty is developing a growing commitment.

International Relations

We offer a highly prized Bachelor of International Relations (BIR) degree, which attracts some of the best students in Australia and a growing number of international students. For people who already have a first degree, we offer a Master of International Policy Studies (MIPS).

Our International Relations team is led by Professor Joseph Camilleri whose most recent of more than 20 books is Regionalism in the New Asia Pacific Order (Elgar, 2003).

As well as subjects purely devoted to International Relations, students have the opportunity to sample a rich selection of subjects in Asian studies, linguistics, development studies, peace studies, history and sociology.

Media and Communications Studies

Australia has a global reputation for media barons, journalists, actors and film-makers – people as diverse as Rupert Murdoch, John Pilger, Cate Blanchett and Peter Weir.

Our Faculty offers lively ways of investigating and participating in media – Bachelor degrees, and Graduate Certificates and Diplomas, in Media Studies or Journalism and a Master of Arts in Media Studies (by coursework). There are laid-out paths that suit the needs of most overseas students.

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