Where is it best to do International Studies?? (1 Viewer)

[omg_a]

Which is the best uni to do International studies??? at the moment, im thinking anu, but does anyone know about uts or unsw???

 

[xeuyrawp]

heya, all the international studies courses are great, but there are a few things to remember...

I was looking at ANU to do Japanese with Law. I talked to a few people, and they said that in BA/LLB, I couldn't do japanese, so the AsianStudies/LLB would have been better. I notice you do french, so it might be in the BA, unlike Japanese.

Now, I'm wanting to stay in Sydney, and the UTS BA(int.studies)/LLB looks good to me

 

[Mambomeg]

have you considered Usyd? the course is starting there next year, with the UAI expected to be in the low 90's. 2005 will be its first year, its run by the economics and business faculty which has international accredditation from AACSB, and Sydney uni has a good reputation and is known around the world, so it will i believe quickly become an internationally recognised course.
Just thought u should know all your options...
for more info visit www.econ.usyd.edu.au

 

[korry]

so what kind of career would you be looking at if you did this kind of course?

 

[s2ophie]

go for UNSW. I'm doing Bachelor of International studies in European studies and i would definately recommend it.

At UTS you don't do any international studies until second year and the IS is a supplementary degree to your other one which is your main one.

The USyd course looks interesting but i think it vastly differs from the UNSW course because it is business/economics based. At UNSW the degree is probably more wide ranging because you could the the businessy type stuff (economic, international business etc) or you could do more languages and history/politics or if you really wanted to you could do 3 languages.

ANU was my second choice. i chose UNSW over it because of the title (Bachelor of International Studies compared to Bachelor of arts (International Relations) and location. If i get into foreign affairs or diplomacy which is where i want to go i'll probably end up living in Canberra but Sydney is so exciting to live in!

There are a lot of threads that have been created on this which will help you so search for them (in this forum, the UNSW one, the UTS one and the ANU one) and if you have more specific questions ask me or pm me.

 

[omg_a]

well i want to combine with law (which makes it hard for usyd and unsw with those ridiculous uai cutoffs) and maybe specialise in international law, and either work inthe federal government here, or go and work overseas in international organisations or ngo's. that's the plan anyway.

 

[sneaky pete]

whichever one is closest to where you live

 

[omg_a]

sydney and canberra are both about 2 hours from where i live.

can u combine the unsw bachelor of international relations with law s2ophie??

 

[Lexicographer]

I like the UNSW course, it allows four different streams (European Studies, Asian Studies, Languages and some other one). The language major appealed to me as it allows you to study two languages (very randy). However, I have doubts regarding the employability of IS graduates from UNSW. Because it is an independent course, there are questions about what graduates do and where they do it - last time I spoke with the faculty they were extremely vague about what IS graduates are expected to do, and whether they will be more employable than Arts graduates.

Still, if you combine it with another degree you've got a killer course.

The UTS program, like s2ophie mentioned, doesn't start until second year. The way UTS degrees (and most other unis, I'd imagine) is that the core subjects of any degree are studied in first year, and all specialist subjects in subsequent years. So, most first year timetables are integrated. For International Studies every subject is specialised (since you enter your major immediately) so in first year you get all your dominant degree
(ie science for me) core subjects out of the way, then the next two years are specialty subjects (in dominant degree) and language+culture subjects (for international studies). Fourth year you spend overseas, and depending on your country major (Japan for me) you can pick any subject as long as it is somehow relevant to the culture of your country. Think arts. Fifth year you come back and finish off your dominant course, then you graduate.

 

[s2ophie]

sydney and canberra are both about 2 hours from where i live.

can u combine the unsw bachelor of international relations with law s2ophie??

yep at this stage law is the only thing you can combine it with