Disciplines
The School of Humanities and Social Sciences at UNSW@ADFA comprises academic staff in five scholarly disciplines:
- English -Students who complete a major in English will have an increased knowledge of both the Western literary heritage and their own contemporary culture. Thus, a student might read the Iliad in order to consider the ways in which concepts of heroism and leadership have changed over the centuries, whilst also studying current newspaper articles and films
- History - History seeks to understand individual and group behaviour and to explain the forces that have shaped human civilisation: social change, wars, revolutions and popular movements.
- Indonesian studies - The Indonesian language program provides students with the ability to speak, read, write and understand an educated, standard form of Indonesian. It also provides students with an understanding of both the Indonesian context of their language studies and the inevitable problems of cross-cultural communication that are inseparable from their position as outside observers.
- Politics - Politics explores the social, cultural, economic and institutional realities of making and enforcing decisions; its focus is organised power.
- Applied Ethics - Ethics is a major branch of philosophy, which examines right conduct and the good life. The courses in ethics taught by HASS have an applied focus, seeking to apply ethical theory to real-life situations.
and two areas of cross-disciplinary study:
- Strategic Studies
- Law, Force and Legitimacy