The Bachelor component of the course includes a range of traditional and innovative teaching and assessment methods to maximize student learning and consolidate competences in a simulated policy environment.

Traditional learning activities include:

Face-to-face lectures
Tutorial sessions
Online forum activities
Set readings lists
Pre-recorded visual lectures with supplementary information which can be accessed online
Virtual tutorial discussions using web-seminar software
Face-to-face workshops (scenario-based exercises as 'wargaming' sessions)
Interactive digital tutorial modules

These learning activities are designed to provide learning opportunities across a range of mediums suitable to different types of learners.

The Masters component develops students' advanced discipline-specific knowledge in the field of security and strategic studies, as well as a range of analytic, evaluative and communications skills. It then directs them to critically apply their knowledge to real world security issues.

Students will develop a range of communication skills. These include academic writing skills, presentation skills and report and policy-based writing. This reflects a pedagogy grounded in praxis, where theoretical knowledge and research is informed by contemporary experience in order to inform evaluation of security-related decisions and policies.

Most units involve lecture and discussion classes, or seminars. Most of the units use a blended learning/flipped classroom approach providing students with additional opportunities to apply their knowledge and skills to case studies and debates around existing security issues and policies.