Graduate Research Study Areas
In Arts, research Masters and PhDs programs are offered across discipline areas in the Humanities, languages and Social Sciences.
- PhD and Masters Major Fields of Study
- Research Masters by Thesis Only
- Research Masters by Advanced Seminars and Shorter Thesis
PhD and Masters Major Fields of Study
Major Fields: Asian Studies
Specialisations:
- Arabic studies
- Applied Linguistics and Linguistics
- Asian popular culture
- Australia-Japan relations
- Chinese and Japanese history
- China and Taiwan
- Endangered Languages in the Asia-Pacific
- Gender in China, Japan, Indonesia and Thailand
- Health systems in Asia
- Islam: philosophy, literature and gender
- Japanese art and architecture
- Languages and cultures of China, Indonesia and Japan
- Political analysis, particularly in SE Asia
- Social geography in Asia
Major Fields: Culture and Communication
Specialisations:
- Art history
- Australian Indigenous studies
- Creative writing
- Cultural management
- Cinema and cultural studies
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English, including:
- Medieval, 17th, 18th and 19th century literature
- Australian, Australian Indigenous and American literatures
- Popular literature and culture
- Literary theory
- Media and communications
- Publishing and communications
- Theatre studies
Major Fields: Historical and Philosophical Studies
Specialisations:
- Archaeology
- Australian studies
- Classics
- Cultural materials conservation
- History, including:
- Aboriginal history
- Ancient World Studies
- Australian history
- European, American and British history
- Gender, immigration, social and urban histories
- Material culture and museology
- South-East Asian history
- History and Philosophy of Science
- Jewish studies and Hebrew
- Philosophy, including:
- Ancient, Medievel and contemporary European philosophy
- Epistemology and metaphysics
- Feminism
- Logic and the philosophy of mathematics
- Philosophy and public ethics
- Philosophies of mind, religion and language
- Social and political philosophy
Major Fields: Languages and Linguistics
Specialisations:
- French studies, including literature, cinema and culture
- German studies, including literature, culture and philosophy
- Italian studies, including medieval and renaissance studies, contemporary literary and cultural studies
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Linguistics and applied linguistics, including:
- Applied linguistics and language acquisition
- Australian languages
- Endangered languages
- Language description, typology and theoretical linguistics
- Language testing and assessment
- Language in society
- Russian and Slavic studies
- 19th and 20th century Spanish studies
Major Fields: Social and Political Sciences
Specialisations:
- Anthropology, including:
- Socio-cultural anthropology
- Ethnographic and comparative research
- Criminology, including:
- Cultures of crime
- Governing crime
- Internationalisation of criminal justice
- Politics of crime
- Development studies
- Gender studies
- Political science, including:
- Australian politics
- Governance, policy and networks
- International relations and comparative politics
- Political theory
- Political communication
- Social movements
- Social theory
- Sociology, including:
- Media and new technologies
- Organisational sociology
- Social policy
- Social relations
- Sociology of risk and uncertainty
Research Masters by Thesis Only
Select an area of study to view detailed discipline information in the University of Melbourne Handbook.
Research Masters by Advanced Seminars and Shorter Thesis
Select an area of study to view detailed discipline information in the University of Melbourne Handbook.
Specialisations:
- Applied Linguistics
- Art History
- Australian Studies
- Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics
- Gender Studies
- Media & Communications
- History
- History and Philosophy of Science
- International Justice
- International Politics
- Linguistics
- Philosophy
- Policy Studies
- Social Theory