Global Studies (Conflict and negotiation), Bachelor

La Trobe University's Bachelor of Global Studies provides a solid foundation in global issues affecting key regions and countries worldwide. This program is designed to introduce students to international challenges and their policy responses, equipping them with essential tools to address future problems.Core subjects explore the history of international relations and geopolitics, along with contemporary security issues such as American power, China's rise, armed conflict, and terrorism. Students also examine emerging human and environmental security challenges, international cooperation and conflict, the dynamics of power, sovereignty, and security in 21st-century relations, and the role of international law, including humanitarian, environmental, and refugee law.

A major in conflict and negotiation will train you to analyse the causes, conduct and resolution of a wide range of conflicts around the world.

In this major you will explore how military, political, and legal actors negotiate the conduct and settlement of war, deliver social and criminal justice, as well as struggle against state oppression and environmental degradation.

Across a range of global cases, you will learn about how conflicts are waged and develop appropriate responses that negotiate a variety of competing interests.

This major will connect you to experts in peace building, legal systems, political theory, nationalism, social movements, democracy and democratisation, climate change, and the history of Indigenous struggles.