Master of Middle Eastern and Central Asian Studies (Advanced)

The Master of Middle Eastern and Central Asian Studies (Advanced) requires the completion of 96 units, of which:

96 units must come from 6000-level, 7000-level and 8000-level courses

A minimum of 48 units must come from completion of 8000-level courses

The 96 units must consist of:

A maximum of 24 units from completion of the Introductory Courses from any of the following lists:

Arabic
ARAB6102 Introductory Arabic A
ARAB6103 Introductory Arabic B
ARAB6501 Intermediate Arabic A
ARAB6502 Intermediate Arabic B
ARAB6503 Advanced Arabic A
ARAB6504 Advanced Arabic B
ARAB6505 Introductory Course to Arabic Linguistics
ARAB6506 Research Project (Arabic)
ARAB6507 Introductory Course to Arabic Literature
ARAB6508 Special Topics in Arabic
ARAB6509 Directed Study Project (Arabic)
ARAB6510 Arab Current Affairs and Media Arabic
ARAB6511 Applied Arabic
Persian
PERS6001 Introductory Persian A
PERS6002 Introductory Persian B
PERS6003 Intermediate Persian A
PERS6004 Intermediate Persian B
PERS6005 Advanced Persian A
PERS6006 Advanced Persian B

Turkish
MEAS6503 Modern Turkey: History, Culture and Regional Relations
MEAS6504 Turkish Politics and Foreign Policy
TURK6001 Elementary Turkish A
TURK6002 Elementary Turkish B

A minimum of 24 units from completion of disciplinary courses from the following list:

MEAS8010 Turkish History: Ottoman State to Modern Turkey
MEAS8102 Islamic Radicalism
MEAS8109 Energy and Security in Central Asia and the Caucasus
MEAS8111 Islam, the West and International Terrorism
MEAS8112 Dynamics of Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
MEAS8113 The Gulf Strategic Environment
MEAS8114 Geopolitics of Central Asia
MEAS8115 Islam in World Politics
MEAS8116 Authoritarianism, Democratisation and Protest in the Muslim Middle East
MEAS8117 Islam in Central Asia
MEAS8118 Islam in Australia
MEAS8124 Introduction to Islamic Banking
MEAS8127 Islam and Sectarianism in the Middle East

12 units from completion of Research Training courses from the following list:

POLS8004 Postgraduate Training in Politics and Policy: Research Methods
POLS8042 Research Training: Scope and Methods
SOCR8006 Online Research Methods
SOCR8008 Qualitative Social Research

12 units from completion of Research Project courses from the following list:

ANIP6503 Australian National Internships Program Internship A (Graduate)
MEAS8100 Oil Religion Politics and Conflict in the Middle East
MEAS8105 Special Topic in Middle Eastern and Central Asian Studies
MEAS8108 Issues of Development in the Middle East
MEAS8121 Approaches to the Study of Modern Muslim Societies
MEAS8123 Special Topic in Modern Islam
MEAS8126 Contemporary Issues in Islamic Banking

24 units from completion of THES8103 Thesis

Students must have the written agreement of an identified supervisor in order to enrol in THES8103 Thesis in a specified semester one calendar year in advance of the start date of that semester.
Students who do not have the written agreement of an identified supervisor one calendar year in advance, or whose agreed supervisor either subsequently leaves the university or is on leave from the university, will be transferred to the Master of Middle Eastern and Central Asian Studies.

Unless otherwise stated, a course used to satisfy the requirements of one list may not be double counted towards satisfying the requirements of another list.