Courses

GSSD students undertake two core courses and four elective courses from a specially selected range. Courses are scheduled to suit part-time and full-time students, and include evening sessions and intensive options. For academic advice on which courses you should chooses, please contact Brendan Taylor; Brendan.Taylor@anu.edu.au; tel 61 (2) 61259928.

GSSD Courses 2009

Two compulsory 12-unit core courses

Semester 1
STST8001 Strategic Studies
Course Guide
updated 10.02.09
Semester 2
STST8002 Key Security Challenges in the Asia Pacific
Course Guide
updated 9.07.09

And four 6-unit elective courses from:

First Half of 2009
Semester 1


STST8051
Great and Powerful Friends: Strategic Alliances & Australia's Security (NEW)
Course Guide
updated 10.2.09
Semester 1


STST8021

Intelligence and Security
Course Guide
updated 10.2.09
Autumn

STST8027

Insurgency & Counterinsurgency in an Age of Terror**
Course Guide
updated 10.2.09
Autumn

STST8013
China's Defence and Strategic Challenges**
Course Guide
updated 10.2.09
Second Half of 2009

Semester 2
STST8004
Australian Strategic and Defence Policy
Course Guide
updated 7.7.09
Semester 2


STST8010
Strategic Concepts
Course Guide
updated 7.7.09
Winter

STST8026
Nuclear Strategy in the Asian Century**
Course Guide
updated 18.8.09
Spring

STST8016
Transnational Security**
Course Guide
updated 7.7.09
** These courses are delivered in intensive format over one week.

Cross Campus Electives

One of the four 6-unit electives may also be chosen externally.

Course Code
Course Name
CRWF8000 Government, Markets and Global Change
CRWF8008 China and the World
ANTH8032 Law, Order and Conflict in the Pacific
MEAS8111 Islam, the West and International Terrorism
MEAS8112 Dynamics of Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
INTR8032 Global Security 1
LAWS8296 Peacekeeping and Peace Building
INTR8040 Ethnicity and Conflict in Asia and the Pacific
INTR8057
War and Peace in Asia
INTR8058 Politics of Islam in Southeast Asia
INTR8060 China - Global Engagement and Domestic Transformation (not offered 2009)
MEAS8100 Oil, religion, politics and conflict in the Middle East
MEAS8113 The Gulf Strategic Environment
Note: Some of these cross-campus electives may have an upper limit on enrolments and may become unavailable once that capacity is reached.

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