Sub-major - Global Studies
Western Sydney University
Sub-major
Code:
SM1040.1
Available to students in other Western Sydney University Courses :
YES, if the specialisation is available on your Home campus. Please ensure your course structure allows space for enrolment in the units in this unit set. Students must also meet any pre-requisite requirements. Consult your Course Advisor for further advice.
What does it mean to live in an increasingly globalised world? Global Studies offers students the opportunity to acquire key competencies in cross-cultural communication and global issues to act as socially aware global citizens in international settings. Global Studies addresses issues such as consumer and popular culture, global histories of food and technology, the interconnection of race, identity and transnational migration and intercultural pragmatics. Students have the opportunity to complete a semester of study abroad.
Sub-major
Structure
Students must complete 40 credit points from the following pools with no more than one unit at Level 1.
Note: Not all units will be offered each year. Units will be offered on a rotational basis.
Level 1 unit pool
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101737
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World Politics: An Introduction
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Level 2 unit pool
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101857
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Doing Business in China
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100871
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International Texts and Contexts
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Level 3 unit pool
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400087
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Applied Critical Methods
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101870
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Climate Change and Culture
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100992
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Communication: Power and Practice
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100858
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Culture and Globalisation
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101674
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Global Histories of Food
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101454
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Intercultural Pragmatics
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101468
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Islam, Media and Conflict
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101733
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Looking at Global Politics Through Film
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101732
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Media, The Everyday and Uneven Modernities
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101666
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Race, Identity and Globalisation
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101717
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The Italian Renaissance Unpacked
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101848
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Transnationalism and Migration
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101831
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Transport and the Making of the Modern World
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101669
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World Literature in Translation
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101830
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WWII in Asia and the Pacific
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