The International Security Studies program provides specialist training in the international, internal, and transnational security challenges currently facing the Asia-Pacific region. As an Honours student you will have access to the wealth of expertise in international security studies across the ANU and to the great holdings of the University and the National libraries. You will have expert supervisory guidance and research training in the College of Asia and the Pacific. With a Bachelor of International Security Studies (Honours) degree, you will acquire in-depth contextual knowledge and develop the research skills you need to move on to a higher research degree and/or professional employment.

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Learning Outcomes

Upon successful completion, students will have the skills and knowledge to:

1. pose a significant research question relating to the study of security;

2. investigate this question creatively, critically, ethically, and independently, including through sophisticated use of appropriate theory and methodology as appropriate to the discipline, and place these investigations in the context of the relevant intellectual tradition; and

3. communicate their research and its findings through an appropriate medium.