At a minimum, all applicants must meet program-specific academic/non-academic requirements, and English language requirements. Admission to ANU is on a competitive basis as the number of places available in a program is limited. Admission to Honours is also subject to supervisory capacity and approval from the relevant Delegated Authority within the Academic College.
Academic IELTS and IELTS Indicator: An overall score of 6.5 with a minimum of 6.0 in each component of the test.
TOEFL - internet based test : An overall score of 80, with a minimum of 20 in Reading and Writing and 18 in Speaking and Listening.
PTE Academic: An overall score of 64 with a minimum score of 55 in each of the communicative skills.
TOEFL - paper based test: A score of 570 with a TWE* score of 4.5.
Cambridge CAE Advanced (Post 2015): An overall score of 176 with a minimum of 169 in all sub-skills.
The Bachelor of Middle Eastern and Central Asian Studies (Honours) degree exemplifies the ANU commitment to research-led education. Building on the Bachelor of Middle Eastern and Central Asian Studies, it gives you high-level preparation for professional life or a higher degree by research through the development of an advanced knowledge of the research principles and methods and theoretical concepts of Middle Eastern and Central Asian studies, and through the design and implementation of a research project, typically a 20,000 word thesis, that leads to the development of new understandings or that provides solutions to complex problems.
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Program Requirements
The Bachelor of Middle Eastern and Central Asian Studies (Honours) requires the completion of 48 units, which must consist of:
12 units from completion of research training courses from the following list:
LING4009 Selected Topics in Methodologies for Researching Language
LING4010 Selected Topics in Empirical Approaches to Linguistics
LING4106 Advanced Readings Linguistics
LANG4004 Research Tools in Advanced Language Studies
POLS4011 Research Training: Scope and Methods
12 units from completion of disciplinary courses from the following list:
MEAS4001 Special Topics in Middle Eastern and Central Asian Studies (which may be taken twice)
MEAS4102 Islamic Radicalism
MEAS4109 Energy and Security in Central Asia and the Caucasus
MEAS4111 Drivers of Violent Extremism: The Local and the Global in the Middle East
MEAS4112 Dynamics of the Israel-Palestinian Conflict
MEAS4113 The Gulf Strategic Environment
MEAS4114 Geopolitics of Central Asia
MEAS4115 Islam in World Politics
MEAS4116 Authoritarianism, Democratisation and Protest in the Muslim Middle East
MEAS4117 Islam in Central Asia
MEAS4121 Approaches to the Study of Modern Muslim Societies
24 units from completion of THES4103 Thesis
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