Master of National Security Policy (Advanced)

The Master of National Security Policy requires the completion of 96 units which must consist of:

24 units from completion of the following compulsory courses:

NSPO8006 National Security Policymaking
NSPO8020 Research Methods in National Security Policy
NSPO8023 National security in the Indo-Pacific
NSPO8011 Foundations of National Security

A minimum of 30 units from completion of national security policy courses from the following list:

NSPO8007 National Security: Concepts and Challenges
NSPO8008 Ethical Challenges for National Security
NSPO8009 Cyber-intelligence and Security
NSPO8010 Civil-Military Relations
NSPO8012 National Security and Crisis Management
NSPO8014 Ethics and Technologies of War
NSPO8017 Malicious Networks: Transnational Terrorism and Crime
NSPO8018 The Evolution of National Security Policy since 1945
NSPO8021 Statecraft and national security in cyberspace
NSPO8022 Selected Topic in National Security Policy
NSPO8024 American National Security Policy
NSPO8025 Terrorism and National Security
NSPO8026 Energy and National Security
NSPO8027 Propaganda, Information War and National Security
NSPO8028 History and Policymaking

A maximum of 36 units from completion of strategy and policy courses from the following list:

CRWF8000 Government, Markets and Global Change
DIPL8006 Diplomacy, Politics and the United Nations
INTR8017 Issues in Australian Foreign Policy
INTR8062 Humanitarianism in World Politics
INTR8065 Writing International Relations
INTR8067 U.S. Security Policy in the Asia-Pacific
INTR8068 Making Foreign Policy
MEAS8111 Islam, the West and International Terrorism
MEAS8115 Islam in World Politics
POGO8045 International Policy Making in the Shadow of the Future
POGO8083 Policy Advocacy
REGN8007 Violence in the Contemporary World
STST8001 Strategic Studies
STST8002 The New Power Politics of Asia
STST8004 Australian Strategic and Defence Policy
STST8013 China's Defence and Strategic Challenges
STST8021 Intelligence and Security
STST8026 Nuclear Strategy in the Asian Century
STST8027 Insurgency & Counterinsurgency in an Age of Terror
STST8051 Great and Powerful Friends: Strategic alliances and Australian security

A maximum of 6 units from the following internship and experiential courses
ANIP6503 Australian National Internships Program Internship A (Graduate)
CRWF7000 Applied Policy Project
CRWF7001 Editor’s practicum: online public engagement, academic blogging digital disruption
CRWF8019 Public Policy and Professional Internship

24 units from completion of NSPO8031 National Security Policy Thesis

Students must achieve a minimum 70% weighted average mark in the first 48 units of courses attempted and have the written approval of a supervisor for the research component to remain enrolled in the Master of National Security Policy (Advanced). If the total number of units attempted exceeds 48 in the same teaching period in which the 48th unit is attempted, exactly 48 units will be used in the calculation of the weighted average mark with units from the course with the highest mark applied first followed by further units from courses in descending order of marks.

NSPO Students who do not achieve a minimum 70% weighted average mark or do not have the written agreement of an identified supervisor will be transferred to the Master of National Security Policy.