Undergraduate course information
Bachelor of Arts in International Studies combined degrees
Transferring into the combined degree with international studies
Majors
Bachelor of Global Studies
The Bachelor of Global Studies (C10264) is a new transdisciplinary degree focusing on the connections between the political, economic and cultural aspects of global phenomena, within the context of a chosen area of study. The program requires students to be able to engage in complex problem-solving regarding global phenomena from several different perspectives.
All students follow a core program in global studies, select a major, and either two sub-majors or one sub-major and an exchange semester:
- global studies core subjects (48cp)
- major choice (48cp)
- sub-majors and exchange semester (48cp).
In addition, students undergo a domestic work placement within a workplace that deals with global issues and practices in the first semester of the third year of the degree.
Bachelor of Arts in International Studies combined degrees
UTS: International Studies offers the degree of Bachelor of Arts in International Studies through combined degree programs only. Combined degrees have been established between UTS: International Studies and the faculties of Arts and Social Sciences; Business; Design, Architecture and Building; Engineering and Information Technology; Law; Nursing, Midwifery and Health; and Science.
The combined degree with international studies at UTS is designed to produce graduates who are primarily trained in a professional or practical discipline, but who also have a substantial knowledge and appreciation of a non-English-speaking culture.
In addition to their professional degree program, students who undertake the combined degree program follow an international studies major that concentrates on a specific country or region. Students learn about its language and culture, study its contemporary society and spend two semesters studying there.
The international studies component of any combined degree amounts to the equivalent of two years of full-time academic study or 96 credit points. It is studied concurrently with the major discipline of study in an integrated program. Combined degrees have been structured to facilitate the study of two separate programs at the same time.
Each combined degree program has a course coordinator in the appropriate faculty. Inquiries about a specific combined degree program should be addressed to the relevant course coordinator.
Combined degree students enrol at the University through the faculties.
Outlines of the combined degrees with the Bachelor of Arts in International Studies are provided in other sections of this handbook.
Undergraduate students studying for the Bachelor of Arts in International Studies study 96 credit points: four sequential subjects that focus on a relevant language and culture, one subject that introduces students to the study of social change, one subject that examines contemporary society, and two semesters at an institution of higher education in the country of their major.
- language and culture 1–4: four subjects, four semesters (4 x 8cp)
- 976001 Foundations in International Studies: one subject, one semester (8cp)
- contemporary society: one subject, one semester (8cp)
- in-country study 1–2: two subjects, two semesters overseas (2 x 24cp).
Transferring into the combined degree with international studies
Students admitted into a degree at UTS may apply to transfer into a combined degree with international studies via the University's internal course transfer process towards the end of their first year, provided it is in the same area of study. Transfers between different areas of study need to go through the Universities Admissions Centre. Approval to transfer is made by the student's faculty. Transferring students need to be aware that places in some majors in the Bachelor of Arts in International Studies are limited, and may already be capped at the time of the proposed transfer, due to the fact that combined degree students select their majors in a ballot that takes place in semester one of their first year of study at UTS. Thus, while every effort is made to accommodate transferring students in their preferred major, it may not always be possible to admit students into popular majors at the time of transfer. Popular majors subject to capping during the first-year ballot process may include France, French-speaking Switzerland and Spain. Note that UTS: International Studies reserves the right to allocate places in majors according to its resources and arrangements with overseas universities.
Majors
The majors available in the Bachelor of Arts in International Studies are listed below. Each major includes 32 credit points (four 8-credit-point subjects) of instruction in language and culture; 8 credit points of study of 976001 Foundations in International Studies; 8 credit points of study of contemporary society; and 48 credit points (two semesters) of study at a university or institution of higher education in the country of the major:
