Bachelor of International and Global Studies*
*Subject to final approval
3 years full time
4 years full time (with Honours)
The Bachelor of international and Global Studies is a new degree to be offered for the first time in 2009. It replaces the degrees of Bachelor of Global Studies and Bachelor of International Studies. Drawing on the strengths of those two degrees, the Bachelor of International and Global Studies offers students a broad perspective on major issues in international and global studies, drawing on a range of disciplinary perspectives including politics, economics, anthropology, sociology, and cultural and linguistic studies. In recognition of the range of internationally-focussed career paths that students may wish to follow, this degree provides students with increased flexibility to reach across a range of subjects in their chosen areas of interest.
Students will concentrate on in-depth study through majors in a variety of fields including anthropology, sociology, government and international relations, political economy and area studies. In addition, students will undertake core units in International and Global Studies that are only available to Bachelor of International and Global Studies students.
Requirements of the degree: 144 credit points in total including:
- A Bachelor of International and Global Studies core major chosen from the list below;
- Core units in International and Global Studies (units coded INGS);
- A second major or elective units from Table A or B of the Arts Faculty Handbook.
Bachelor of International and Global Studies Core Majors:
Students will complete at least one major from this list.
- American Studies
- Anthropology
- Arab World, Islam and the Middle East
- Asian Studies
- European Studies
- Government and International Relations
- International Business*
- Political Economy
- Sociology
*Subject to final approval
An additional Honours year is available to suitably qualified students.
The best equipped graduates of the 21st century will be those with global competencies: the ability to think globally, to understand global dynamics and their impact on a particular region or nation, and the skills to communicate inter-culturally. Acquiring these competencies will give the graduates of this degree an advantage in any profession or area of industry they choose to enter, in Australia or internationally.
Dr Danielle Celermajer was formerly Director of Indigenous Policy at the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission, before moving to New York to complete her doctorate (summa cum laude) at Columbia University in political theory, international law and human rights. She taught human rights at Columbia and ran an international project on religion and human rights at the Columbia Centre for the Study of Human Rights, establishing a global network of scholars and activists working at the interface of religion and human rights.
In 2005 she returned to her alma mater, the University of Sydney with a view to developing the University’s human rights program and global linkages. She is currently writing two books, one on political apologies and transitional justice, and another in collaboration with Muslim and Christian scholars on women’s interfaith perspectives on sacred texts. Her major research interests are the relationship between secular and religious and global and local narratives of rights and justice, collective responsibility and societal responses to gross violations in the past, international justice, and Indigenous rights and neo-colonialism.
Dr Celermajer has written a book on political apologies, Sins of the Nation and the Ritual of Apologies and is editing a book on Hannah Arendt. Both books are to be published by Cambridge Scholars Press in 2009.
