Academic
Curriculum
April Enrollment
*For more information, check the ANU website.
**To be eligible to take the ANU courses, students must meet standards for academic ability and English proficiency.
September Enrollment
*For more information, check the ANU website.
**To be eligible to take the ANU courses, students must meet standards for academic ability and English proficiency.
Academic and English Hurdle
To be eligible to take ANU courses, students must meet standards for academic ability and English proficiency. Hurdle requirement is assessed only once at the end of the semester when students have undertaken courses and received grades for a total 32 RU credits. Withdrawn grades are not included in this calculation.
As indicated, the hurdle assessment is conducted only once. Students who do not meet the standards cannot continue coursework in the dual degree program and are not eligible to earn an ANU Bachelor of Asia-Pacific Affairs degree. Students in this situation will work to graduate by completing their second and subsequent years of study in the Single Degree Track, which consists of all RU courses. The student will obtain a bachelor’s degree from RU in Global Liberal Arts once all degree requirements are completed.
Academic Hurdle
The Academic Hurdle requires students to earn a RU GPA of at least 2.0, which is calculated based on the student’s grades for all RU courses taken up to the end of the semester when the Hurdle requirement is assessed.
English Hurdle
GLA recognizes a number of English language tests as meeting the program’s English language requirements. The minimum TOEFL iBT® / IELTS scores required are as below. For further information on our English requirements, please contact the GLA Office.
TOEFL iBT®︎
An overall score of 80, with a minimum of 20 in Reading and Writing and 18 in Speaking and Listening. (MyBest scores™ are not accepted.)
IELTS (Academic Module)
An overall band score of 6.5 with a minimum of 6.0 in each component of the test.
RU and ANU courses
College of Global Liberal Arts,
Ritsumeikan University（RU）
Foundation Courses
College Writing 1&2 / Critical Thinking 1&2 / Foundations in Research Skills 1&2
Introductory Courses
Introduction to Art History / Innovation and Knowledge Management / Algorithms and Programming / Cultural Studies / Communication Design / Market Economy / Education / Historical Methods / Global History /Japanese History / Journalism / Literature / Religion / Anthropology / Scientific Thinking / Science and Technology / Biology / Physics / Philosophy: Values and Society / Philosophy : Knowledge and Reality / Politics / International Relations / Psychology / Research Methods in Social Sciences / Sociology / Historical Sociology
Intermediate Courses
Global Art History / Histories in Modern and Contemporary Art / Global Management
Studies / Applied Data Curation / Computational Musicology / Technology and Environmentalism in Culture Studies / Human Factors in Interaction Design / Institutionalism and Economic Growth / History Workshop / Asia and the World in Historical Perspective / Historiography / Material Culture and Global History / Ocean a nd Society: The Blue Bridge in the Asia Pacific / Global Media Cultures / Issues in Ethics / Japanese Philosophy / Contemporary Japan / Neuroscience / Cognitive Psychology / Classical Social and Political Theory / Contemporary Social and Political Theory / Global Historical Sociology
Special Lectures
Special Lecture (Arts and Humanities) / Special Lecture (Social Sciences) / Special Lecture (Science and Technology)
Advanced Courses
Research Seminar / Thesis
Japanese Language Courses
Others
Liberal Arts Experience/ Career Design
1&2 / Internship 1&2&3
College of Asia and the Pacific,
The Australian National
University（ANU）
Introductory Courses in Asia-Pacific Affairs
The Origins of Political Order in Asia /Understanding Peace and Conflict / Pacific Encounters: An Introduction to Pacific Studies / Introduction to International Security Studies
Politics and Government
The Politics of China / Asia's Changing Politics in Comparative Perspective / Taiwanese Society and Politics / Indonesia:Politics, Society and Development, etc.
International Relations and
Security
International Relations in the Asia-Pacific / US Foreign and Security Policy in Asia / (In)Stability on the Korean Peninsula / The Politics of Nuclear Weapons / Theories of War: An historical and global perspective, etc.
Conflict and Peace-building
Human Rights in Asia / Gender and Cultural Studies in Asia and the Pacific / Peace and Conflict Studies / Australia and Security in the Pacific Islands, etc.
History and Cultural Identity
Asian Economies / Islam in Southeast Asia / Culture and Modernity in Asia: Anthropological Perspectives / Pacific Studies in a Globalizing World / Australia in Oceania in the 19th and 20th centuries, etc.
Capstone Courses in Asia-Pacific Affairs
Humanitarianism: Principles, Politics and Practice / Global Governance in the Asia-Pacific / Politics and Development in the Contemporary Pacific / Australia's Security in the Asian Century
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