Discover how to conduct, commission and evaluate social sciences research from world-leading experts with cutting-edge modelling and methodologies, to address real-world policy and societal issues.

This master’s degree offers three specialisations within the program: Cultural and Environmental Heritage, Museums and Collections and Museum Education and Heritage Interpretation. Our local and national links mean you’ll regularly hear from senior institutional staff in classes, and can learn on the ground through our internship program.

If you’re fascinated by the Middle East and Central Asia, transform your passion into a specialised qualification at Australia’s premier institute for international studies. Through this program, you'll gain a deep regional grounding from multiple interdisciplinary perspectives, including contemporary politics, international relations, modern history, political economy, development studies, sociology, and religious and cultural studies. 
 

This master's degree provides the theoretical grounding and practical skills you need for the advanced study of history, plus the opportunity to tailor a program according to your interests. If you are a secondary school teacher, you can focus on areas in the national curriculum for history.

This master's degree offers a comprehensive understanding of tourism within the realm of heritage and management. Through our global network of cultural institutions, students gain valuable theoretical and practical skills, enabling critical analysis of global issues within the heritage tourism domain.

This master's degree is a practice-focused, cross-disciplinary degree aimed at artists who want to develop a more ambitious, independent contemporary art practice. The program is unique as it supports hands-on learning development in workshop, studio, and digital environments by progressing students through courses that support individual practice-led research opportunities.

Our leading Master of Art History and Curatorial Studies program offers courses in a range of fields including Australian and Asian art; 19th – 20th century Australian and European art and design; modernism and postmodernism; curatorial practice, all taught by our specialist art historians.

ANU is one of the world’s leading archaeological teaching and research universities, offering you opportunities to engage in fieldwork across Australia, the Asia Pacific region, and Europe. It is also the only university in Australia with both Biological Anthropology and Archaeology teaching and research programs.

This master's degree provides a humanities and social science lens to understand overlapping threats to social, ecological, political, economic, and health systems. It offers Australia’s only combined biological and cultural approach to grasp these planetary scale problems while foregrounding anthropology’s unique ethnographic method, which centres grounded and people-focused perspectives and values.