Nathan Campus

Online

Gold Coast Campus

CAMPUS

3 years full-time

6 (online only) years part-time

DURATION

COMMENCING IN

Trimester 1, 2

CREDIT POINTS

240

DEGREE CODE

1399

CRICOS CODE

077995D

ENTRY REQUIREMENTS

IELTS
(Academic)
6.5

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Prerequisites: Any General or Applied English subject (Units 3&4, C)

$31,000 per year

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FEE (INDICATIVE)

This degree will provide you with a deep understanding of policy, politics and power in the domestic and international spheres. You'll learn about political movements and institutions, processes of law making, diplomacy and global politics. You'll explore how democracy thrives or struggles to survive, and the strategies authoritarian leaders increasingly use to maintain their grip on power, among a range of other exciting topics in Political Science and International Relations.

In your second and third years, you'll gain valuable specialised knowledge by completing one or two majors in International Relations, Political Science and Public Policy; or Security, Conflict and Human Rights. Throughout your studies, you'll gain the skills and training needed for pursuing your own career pathway, including taking dedicated employability courses and having opportunities to complete a work placement, field study trip, or parliamentary internship.

Majors

• International Relations
• Political Science and Public Policy
• Security, Conflict and Human Rights

Second majors

You can choose to complement your studies with a second major:

• Asian Engagement
• Chinese Language
• Economics
• French Language*
• German Language*
• Indonesian Language*
• International Business (Extended)
• Islam-West Relations
• Japanese Language
• Korean Language*
• Spanish Language

* Available via cross-institutional study at University of Queensland. These languages are only available to students enrolled at the Nathan campus.

Honours

Honours is available for this degree (through an additional year of study).

From 2024, commencing students are referred to the Bachelor of Political Science and International Relations (1664).

Related degrees

• Bachelor of Advanced Government and International Relations (Honours) – 1654 

Attendance information

This program is offered full-time on-campus at the Nathan and Gold Coast campuses. Students may choose to study courses at other campuses, including online, where the program structure allows.

As a full-time student you will generally attend 12-16 hours of scheduled classes per week throughout the trimester.

Classes may be scheduled during the day and evening throughout the week.

If you are an International student on a student visa, you must ensure that you enrol in a way that will allow you to complete your enrolment within the expected program duration as stated on your Confirmation of Enrolment (CoE)