Combined Arts/Social Sciences - 8224

This program provides postgraduate students with the opportunity to study two complementary programs offered in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences to create a combined two year Masters program in professional and interdisciplinary areas.

The Combined Masters degree program offers students an interdisciplinary combination of programs that will substantially extend and deepen their existing skills, knowledge and understanding in professionally relevant areas of study and teach advanced skills in analytical thinking and research.

Students need to complete 96 units of credit to satisfy requirements for the award of the degree. They must enrol in at least one course per semester.

The combined degree may be constituted by a combination of any two of the following postgraduate programs offered by the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences with the exception of the combination of those listed in the exclusion list.

Students who combine two Masters of Education specialisations, need only do one research methodology and research project in their second Masters stream and can take any two additional MEd elective courses in their other stream, including additional research methodology courses.

Students who combine a Masters of Education (TESOL) specialisation with MA (Applied Linguistics), need only to take two LING electives in their MEd, not four, and can take any two additional MEd elective courses, including a research methodology course and/or EDST5888 Research Project.

The following combination is excluded:

Please click on the relevant program below for the academic rules:

Master of Arts
Master of Development Studies
Master of Education
Master of Educational Leadership
Master of Journalism and Communication
Master of Policy Studies
Master of Public Relations & Advertising

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1. A recognised Bachelor degree (or equivalent qualification) and requirements specific to the individual Master programs chosen.

2. A maximum of 18UOC (three courses) for each stream may be credited from previous postgraduate study.

This program is part of an articulated suite of programs. A student may exit from the program to take out a combined graduate certificate if 48uoc (24 in each of the constituent programs) have been satisfactorily completed and with a combined Graduate Diploma if 72 uoc (36 uoc from each of the constituent degree programs) have been satisfactorily completed. A student may exit the program with only one of the constituent degrees if the requirements for that program have been met but may not then take out the combined degree at a later date.