Advanced Studies in Islam and International Affairs

Postgraduate | 2026

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EDUC 5081
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Course ID
206262
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Adelaide City Campus
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Level of study
Postgraduate
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Unit value
6
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Course owner
Adelaide University
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Course level
5
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Work Integrated Learning course
No
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Course overview

To advance students' cognitive and communication skills to transmit knowledge, and ideas to others of the genealogy of the evolving role of Islam in contemporary international affairs through the prisms of both Islamic and Western discourses.

Course learning outcomes

  • Explain the genealogy of the evolving role of Islam in contemporary international affairs
  • Demonstrate substantial and critical knowledge of classical and contemporary Islamic paradigms of International Relations
  • Critically analyse the Western International Relations and Area Studies perspectives on the role of Islam in contemporary geopolitics and geo-economics
  • Have a better understanding of Islamic discourses and of Muslim's relationship with the West in their proper colonial and postcolonial contexts
  • Critically analyse the role of Islam as a political identity and Muslims as a political community in shaping the notion of the Ummah (global Muslim community)

Prerequisite(s)

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Corequisite(s)

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Antirequisite(s)

  • must not have completed EDUC5274 Advanced Studies in Islam and International Affairs at the University of South Australia

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