Overview

This Engaging Asia degree at the Australian National University offers the comparative and self-reflective perspective necessary for intercultural leadership skills. Approaching the idea of international engagement from multiple angles and cultural viewpoints, this program critically evaluates how histories, geopolitics, diasporas, and popular culture shape relationships between Australia and Asia. In a world where many shared global challenges require nuanced understandings of environmental crisis, technological innovation, and public health, this degree gives you humanistic and social science tools to address these STEM sites of crisis in historically informed and culturally sensitive ways.

You can pursue advanced study in areas of international engagement, social change, political transformation, health crisis, and environmental challenges, while you have the opportunity to apply these regional understandings to such fields as business, diplomacy, tourism, environmental management, and public policy in courses offered across the ANU. In this program, you can develop long-term networks with leading experts in regional affairs.

The Australian National University is home to one of the largest concentrations of scholars focusing on Asia in the world. It offers world-class language training and provides notable opportunities for in-country experiences. In this degree, you build a flexible skill set for professional advancement that allows you to approach key challenges in the region with rigor, empathy, and nuance.

Employment Opportunities

This degree allows professionals in a wide range of fields, such as the public service, business, consulting, public health, journalism, and non-profit management, the capacity to take a leadership role in advancing an organisation's engagement with Asia.

Programme Structure

Courses include:

Engaging Asia: Australia and the Asian Century

Social Conflict and Environmental Challenges in Asia and the Pacific

National and Transnational Histories in Asia and the Pacific

Activism and Social Change in Asia and the Pacific

Approaching Asia and the Pacific: Concepts, Tools, Methods

Race, Culture and the Asian Body in the Age of Biotech

Cultural Creativity and Research in Asia and the Pacific

Disasters and Epidemics in Asia and the Pacific

Language and Power in Asia and the Pacific

Key information

Duration

Full-time
- 18 months

Start dates & application deadlines

Starting 2026-07-27 00:00:00
- Apply before 2026-05-15 00:00:00 , International
Starting 2027-02-23 00:00:00
- Apply before 2026-12-15 00:00:00 , International

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National: You can apply at any time throughout the year

Language

English

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Credits

72 alternative credits

Delivered

On Campus

Campus Location

Canberra, Australia

Disciplines

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Academic requirements

We are not aware of any specific GRE, GMAT or GPA grading score requirements for this programme.

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General requirements

CRICOS Code: 103371E

At a minimum, all applicants must meet program-specific academic/non-academic requirements, and English language requirements. Admission to most ANU programs is on a competitive basis. Therefore, meeting all admission requirements does not automatically guarantee entry.

Bachelor degree or international equivalent with GPA 5/7; or
Bachelor degree or international equivalent with GPA 4/7 and a
minimum of 3 years full-time equivalent work experience at ANZSCO Skill Level 1
in a field related to the program; or
Bachelor degree or international equivalent with GPA 4/7 and a
Graduate Certificate or international equivalent with a GPA of 4/7; or
Graduate Diploma or international equivalent with a GPA 4/7; or
48 units of courses in a postgraduate program with a GPA of 4/7;

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53700 AUD / year

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Living costs

Canberra

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1425 - 2504 AUD / month

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