The Bachelor of Asian Studies Degrees 292
Specialist Bachelor of Asian Studies with Year-in-Asia 292
Bachelor Degrees with Honours 293
Combined Programs Leading to Two Degrees 293
Asian Societies and Histories 296
Asian Politics and International Relations 296
The ANU is a major world centre for teaching and research on Asia and is the leading centre for Asian Studies in Australia, unrivalled in the breadth of its interests and the depths of its expertise. The Faculty of Asian Studies cooperates with the Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, the Asia Pacific School of Economics and Management, the Faculty of Arts, Faculty of Economics and Commerce, Faculty of Law, and the National Institute of the Arts to offer the widest range of Asian Studies available in Australia, both at undergraduate and graduate levels. The ANU offers Asian regional language programs in:
It is also possible to study the classical forms of languages of the region including Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, Malay and Javanese. Other programs deal with the modern and early history of the societies of Asia, as well as the religions, politics, societies, economies, linguistics, literature and arts of the region.
There are some 200 Asian specialists at the ANU. The programs are backed up by library resources, which provide more than 70% of Australia's total Asian Studies resource material within the University Library and the National Library of Australia.
For mastery of a language and the ability to negotiate a culture with confidence, a significant period of in-country experience is valuable. The four-year specialist degrees offered by the Faculty open the door to this experience by including a Year-in-Asia devoted to language and disciplinary study. After gaining a good grounding in their first two years (three years for combined degrees) at ANU, students enrol in selected universities in China, India, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, the Middle East, Taiwan, Thailand or Vietnam for the third year (normally the fourth year for combined degrees) of their degree.
Scholarships are sometimes available to help students with fares and living costs during their Year-in-Asia. Students should check with the convener of their language program as to the availability of financial assistance for the year in which they will be away.
Apart from the Year-in-Asia, the Faculty of Asian Studies provides exciting opportunities to gain practical workplace experience in either Australia or Asia -- experience which counts towards the Bachelor of Asian Studies degree, or the undergraduate Diploma in Asian Studies. Coursework includes Engaging Asia: Working for Government, and three special work experience courses: Practical Assignment in Australia; Practical Assignment in Southeast Asia; and Practical Assignment in Korea. The Hindi Program offers two courses in the summer session delivered in India: Applied Hindi and Advanced Applied Hindi, and for the first time, the Arabic Program will be offering Applied Arabic in the Middle-East (Lebanon) as a summer course over the Christmas period 2002/2003.
Asian Studies students are eligible to apply for places in the Australian National Internships Program (see Table of Contents in this Handbook), which is a part of the Asia-Pacific School of Economics and Management. Three Internship courses are available to later-year students. Students apply separately to the Internships Program for selection and admission to these courses, which make a valuable and prestigious contribution to the Asian Studies degree. For more information visit the ANU web site at http://www.anu.edu.au/anip/
Combined Degrees offer a potent combination of language study to an advanced level, awareness of an Asian society, and professional qualifications. Asian Studies can be combined with Arts, Commerce, Economics, Engineering, Law, Science (including Forestry) and Visual Arts.
The Faculty sponsors a Distinguished Scholar Program, designed to stretch the abilities of high-achieving students by tailoring the undergraduate degree with a minimum of rules and restrictions. Entry to the program is competitive and for first-year students is based on Year 12 results and/or outstanding achievements in the student's chosen field. Entry for later-year students is based on academic achievement in their degree program. Students interested in the Distinguished Scholar Program should contact the Faculty Executive Officer, Asian Studies, or visit the ANU website at http://www.anu.edu.au/psi/dist_scholar.html
The Diploma of Asian Studies is an affordable part-time coursework program, delivered under the Higher Education Contribution Scheme. Students may choose a single Asian language program or a conceptual/analytical major in order to complete the Diploma. The Diploma is intended for both mature-age non-graduates and for graduates with a vocational interest in an aspect of Asian Studies who wish to upgrade qualifications in an Asia-related discipline.
As Australia moves toward closer economic and cultural ties with Asia, the demand for people with Asian language training and knowledge of the area is increasing.
Career prospects for Asian Studies graduates in both the public and private sectors are good. Asian Studies graduates find employment in marketing, international trade, banking and finance, teaching, tourism, and federal, state and overseas government departments.
Graduates who have combined their studies of Asia with vocationally oriented qualifications in, say, economics, political science or law, are especially well placed to find employment in Australia and overseas, and are well placed to benefit from career opportunities which are opening up as Australia's relations with the nations of Asia develop.
Asian language graduates obtain employment as translators and interpreters. There is a need for personnel who can communicate with non-English speakers, specifically in government departments dealing with immigration and ethnic affairs, foreign affairs, customs and excise, social welfare, health and consumer affairs. Further, a number of foreign language newspapers and radio programs employ translators.
Asian language graduates who complete a postgraduate Diploma of Education can teach languages in primary and secondary schools.
Asian Studies graduates are also employable in areas not directly related to their language and area studies because the training they obtain develops the ability to carry out research, communicate ideas and suggest solutions to problems. Employers value their high level of intellectual training.
The Faculty offers undergraduate programs in which the use and study of an Asian language has an integral role. The following undergraduate programs are available:
The Bachelor of Asian Studies degrees are built around two principles:
No previous knowledge of an Asian language is expected, but students who already have some knowledge of their chosen language may be allowed to start at a more advanced level after a placement test. Native speakers may enrol to take the language major in their own language, with permission from the Sub-Dean. In all cases, the minimum of 48 units of language-related study is required.
Students are encouraged to develop a deeper knowledge of modern and classical languages in the areas in which they specialise. It is possible to study a second Asian language. Students who wish to take a second full major in an Asian language must seek permission from the Sub-Dean.
Knowledge of the Asian region, with expertise in a disciplinary area or professional field, supports the acquisition and application of Asian language skills. The Faculty of Asian Studies offers a choice of non-language majors that develop relevant conceptual and analytical skills. Majors or specific study sequences offered by the Faculties of Arts, Economics and Commerce, Law and Science may also be taken as elective study in the degree. The combined degree programs in Arts, Commerce, Economics, Engineering, Law, Science and Visual Arts provide scope for more extensive disciplinary study.
This degree leads to advanced study of an Asian language with expertise in a discipline and knowledge of an Asian society. The degree program of 144 units must include:
either, at least the minimum course requirement for a language program taught in the Faculty;
or, alternatively, satisfying the Faculty of an equivalent level of skill and knowledge in a language approved by the Faculty.
The minimum levels of attainment are:
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The four-year specialist degrees incorporating a Year-in-Asia are:
Bachelor of Asian Studies (Arabic) 4550/5001
Bachelor of Asian Studies (Chinese) 4550/5006
Bachelor of Asian Studies (Hindi) 4550/5002
Bachelor of Asian Studies (Indonesian) 4550/5007
Bachelor of Asian Studies (Japanese) 4550/5008
Bachelor of Asian Studies (Korean) 4550/5003
Bachelor of Asian Studies (Thai) 4550/5004
Bachelor of Asian Studies (Vietnamese) 4550/5005
During the Year-in-Asia, students take the equivalent of 48 units in language and disciplinary studies at an overseas university and in some cases, prepare an individual study project.
The Year-in-Asia is intended for talented and dedicated students. Minimum admission requirements are set at a higher level than for the three-year degree, and students are expected to complete the first two years (three years for combined degrees) of the degree program at least at credit level to be eligible for the Year-in-Asia. Students who do not attain the required standard will be required to transfer to the three-year degree program. Conversely, students in the three-year degree who meet the required standard may apply to transfer to the four-year degree and participate in the Year-in-Asia.
The degree program of 192 units includes 144 units as described above for the Bachelor of Asian Studies (program code 3550), plus the Year-in-Asia, valued at 48 units. Students cannot count the course value of the same course towards both the degree of Bachelor of Asian Studies and a Specialist Bachelor of Asian Studies degree.
Students who transfer to the ANU from another University, where they have completed a Year-in-Asia, need to demonstrate that they were selected on a comparable basis to ANU students, and completed a comparable study program, if they intend to seek status (credit) for the Year-in-Asia.
The purpose of the Asian Studies Honours program is to encourage students of high calibre to deepen their involvement in a chosen field of study. A bachelor degree with honours is both a prestigious qualification in its own right and also the most effective means of qualifying for higher degree work.
Honours candidates may be invited to apply for the Honours year or, conversely, students may simply apply if they believe their level of academic attainment has been good enough. Normally, an overall distinction average is necessary, however the Honours Committee may exercise some leeway if exceptional circumstances exist. Honours candidates are also strongly encouraged to undertake Honours preparatory courses offered by the Faculty, prior to their Honours year.
The degrees with Honours involve additional coursework and a research dissertation of 15,000 to 20,000 words. For the Bachelor of Asian Studies (Specialist), Bachelor of Asian Studies and the combined programs leading to two bachelor degrees, this additional work requires one further full-time academic year.
The Faculty Honours Committee prescribes the program of study in the Honours year with maximum flexibility and concern for each individual student's interests. Honours study may be also undertaken with the advice and supervision of members of the Research Schools of Pacific and Asian Studies and Social Sciences. Students interested in Honours should visit the Faculty's website at http://www.anu.edu.au/asianstudies/hons.html or obtain a hard copy of the 'Honours in Asian Studies Guidelines' from the Faculty of Asian Studies Office.
Details of combined program structures are set out in the Combined Degrees section of this Handbook (see Table of Contents).
In combined programs, the Asian Studies component amounts to 96 units, comprising a major in an Asian language to the value of between 48-60 units (8 to 10 courses), and a conceptual/analytical (non-language) major to the value of between 36-48 units (6 to 8 courses), comprising courses taught in the Faculty or approved by the Sub-Dean. The course combinations for a language major and a conceptual/analytical major may comprise 8/8; 9/7; or 10/6.
In programs combined with the Specialist Bachelor of Asian Studies degrees, an additional 48 units are assigned to the Year-in-Asia.
The Faculty offers an undergraduate diploma program in an Asian language or a conceptual/analytical (non-language) major. The Diploma is intended for both mature-age non-graduates and graduates who wish to upgrade qualifications in an Asia-related discipline. The Diploma is offered on a part-time basis and it would not normally be possible to complete it in less than two years. Admission is based on normal requirements for university admission and no prior knowledge of the course is required.
The Diploma can be taken in each of the Faculty's Programs: Arabic, Chinese, Hindi, Indonesian, Japanese, Korean, Thai, Vietnamese, Asian History, Asian Politics and International Relations, Asian Religions, Contemporary Asian Societies and Japanese Linguistics.
Students enrolling in the Faculty for the first time are required to have their choice of courses approved at a personal interview with the Sub-Dean or a program adviser. Successful applicants will be told by letter of the days set aside for program approval and enrolment registration.
Students are advised to make informed decisions in choosing courses for their degree through careful reading of the syllabuses of courses in this Handbook, as well as through consultations with Sub-Dean and program advisers. The Sub-Dean is available to discuss program plans and matters relating to the overall direction and progress of an undergraduate program. More specific guidance about the content, assessment and conduct of particular courses is best sought initially from the lecturer in charge of the course, or the convener of the Program offering the courses.
Mid-year enrolment is possible but students wishing to begin their enrolment mid-year should consult with the Sub-Dean. A modified program will normally be necessary. Those who have no prior knowledge of an Asian language will normally be required to delay commencing language studies until the following year.
Students who have previously studied in an approved tertiary institution, whether in Australia or overseas, may be eligible for status (credit) towards the coursework requirements of any of the undergraduate programs offered by the Faculty.
Students who already have some knowledge of an Asian language may be allowed to start at a more advanced level after a placement test. If their knowledge of the Asian language was gained through study at an approved tertiary institution, then status for that study may be granted. Otherwise an exemption from elementary courses would normally be approved. While status counts toward the total of units required for a degree program, exemptions do not.
For courses other than Asian languages, the University's general status provisions apply (see Introduction section of this Handbook).
The Faculty welcomes part-time enrolments. The Bachelor of Asian Studies and some combined programs may be taken either full-time or part-time. Part-time students need to take account of the special requirements of successful language study: a high intensity of class contact is necessary, and some continuity must be maintained over a number of years. As the Year-in-Asia must be taken full-time, care and commitment are needed in planning a part-time program. Advice should be sought from the Sub-Dean.
Students wishing to enrol in a later-year course (that is, a course with a numeric code in the 2000 range or above) will often be required to have attained some level of competence defined as a prerequisite. The prescribed prerequisites may generally be waived in particular cases by the Convener of the relevant Program or by the Sub-Dean in consultation with the Convener. Students who wish to make special arrangements should seek the advice of the Convener of the Program in the first instance.
If no prerequisites are specified for a later-year course, it should be assumed that the course is not normally open to first-year students and advice should be sought.
Assessment in each course for which the Faculty is responsible will be decided after discussion in classes at the beginning of the course. In language courses, assessment is usually based on oral work in class, written homework and a final examination. In non-language courses, assessment is usually centred on essays, participation in tutorials and a final examination.
Dean, Asian Studies: Professor Tony Milner
Executive Assistant to the Dean: Ms Andrea Haese (phone: 6125 3207).
The Faculty Office is located in the foyer of Level 2 of the Asian Studies building (known as the Baldessin Precinct Building No.110). Please consult the Faculty office with questions about: admission, enrolment, status for studies taken elsewhere, degree program plans, admission to the Honours program and administrative arrangements for the Year-in-Asia programs. The Faculty Secretary Support Officer will normally be the first point of contact.
Faculty Executive Officer: Mr Gordon Hill, AM
Convener, Honours program: Dr Colin Jeffcott
Convener, Distinguished Scholars program: Dr Aat Vervoorn
Faculty Secretary
Support Officer: Ms Samantha Johnsen
(phone: 6125 0515)
The Faculty's programs are administered through six Centres, including a cognate centre in the Faculty of Arts -- the Centre for Arab and Islamic Studies. Please contact these Centres for all matters concerning: the day-to-day running of programs, courses offered in the programs, timetabling, tutorial groups and reading bricks.
The Centre offers most of the Faculty's conceptual/analytical (non-language) courses. Majors include Asian History, Asian Politics and International Relations, Asian Religions and Contemporary Asian Societies.
Asian Societies and Histories program
Head of Centre: Dr Aat Vervoorn
Centre Administrator: Appointment pending
The Centre is host to the Director of the Centre for Study of the Chinese Southern Diaspora and the Director of the ANU Centre for Korean Studies.
The Centre offers language majors in Chinese and Korean, which include courses dealing with languages, scripts, literature, linguistics and society. These courses are open to students taking Asian Studies degrees as well as to students enrolled in other Faculties. The aim is to equip students with the linguistic and cultural competence needed to function effectively in China, Taiwan, or Korea, and the education to enable them to understand these countries in depth.
Chinese program
Korean program
Head of Centre: Appointment pending
Centre Administrator: Ms Pam Wesley-Smith
Ms Wesley-Smith also administers the Faculty's two Graduate programs: East Asian Studies and Southeast/South Asian Studies.
The Japanese Program offers a comprehensive Japanese language program, together with courses in Japanese literature. The Centre also offers a major in Japanese linguistics for those who choose to combine this option with the Japanese language major. A primary aim of the Centre is to provide students with the linguistic and socio-cultural knowledge and skills necessary for successful communication with the Japanese.
Japanese program
Japanese Linguistics program
Head of Centre: Professor Jenny Corbett
The South and West Asia Centre offers language majors in Hindi, Sanskrit, Urdu, and, through the cognate Centre for Arab and Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts), Persian and Arabic, as well as a range of courses dealing with the literatures of the region. The Centre offers related courses in religion and history for the Asian Societies and Histories Program.
Arabic program -- delivered
in cooperation with the cognate Centre for Arab and Islamic Studies
Hindi program
Sanskrit program
Urdu and Persian programs
Persian is delivered by the cognate Centre for Arab and Islamic Studies.
Head of Centre: Dr George Quinn
Arabic program
Persian program
Director: Professor Amin Saikal
Centre Administrator: Ms Carol Laslett
The Indonesian language is the official language of a nation of over 200 million, with the world's largest Muslim population. It is the vehicle for a vibrant and quickly changing culture expressed through the mass media, schools and government, as well as being the common medium of everyday formal communication across the many local cultures of the country.
Thai, with over sixty million speakers, is the national language of Thailand and has a literary heritage extending back some 700 years. Lao is closely related, with about twenty million speakers it is spoken both in Laos and in north-eastern Thailand. The languages use similar writing systems.
In studying Vietnamese at the ANU, students study the language of one of Southeast Asia's oldest civilisations. In the modern context, Vietnamese is the national language of a country of growing political and economic significance for Australia. It is also the language of a dynamic community of 150,000 Vietnamese who have come to settle in Australia.
Thai program -- delivered by the National Thai Studies Centre
Head of Centre: Dr George Quinn
Administration: South and West Asia Centre -- in collaboration with the Centre for Arab and Islamic Studies: Middle East and Central Asia (Faculty of Arts)
Arabic is the mother language of over 250 million people in the Middle East (West Asia and North Africa), and one of the six official languages of the United Nations. Arabic is also the language of the Qur'an with special importance to all Muslims in the world numbering over one billion people.
Arabic is the language of an ancient civilisation, which contributed greatly to human knowledge. Its influence is strongly felt on such languages as Persian, Turkish, Urdu, Indonesian and Malay, among others. Many European languages still preserve hundreds of words of Arabic origin in various fields of knowledge. Arabic is also the living medium of a contemporary dynamic literature and culture. Its rich and magnificent poetry, classical and modern, is especially captivating.
Students may take a language sequence of eight courses (48 units), which provides the language core for the program in Islamic studies and complements courses in religious studies and other subjects in the Centre for Asian Societies and Histories, the Department of Linguistics and the Centre for Arab and Islamic Studies (Middle East and Central Asia).
Courses in Arabic use Modern Standard Arabic as the language of teaching, while gradually introducing students to the variety of Arabic dialects. In second and third year, students will have the opportunity to read contemporary literature and works in classical Arabic including readings from the Qur'an. Students thus gain a sound knowledge of Arabic grammar and experience in the study of modern and classical, secular and religious texts.
NOTE: For students who are not familiar with the basic terms and concepts of English grammar, it is strongly recommended that you enrol in the course Traditional Grammar CLAS1001, and take it concurrently with the first-year language course.
The Arabic Major may comprise courses from the following list:
ARAB1002 Introductory Arabic A
ARAB1003 Introductory Arabic B
ARAB2005 Contemporary Arabic Literature A
ARAB2006 Contemporary Arabic Literature B
and must include the following components: Media Arabic B and Contemporary Arabic Literature B
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A range of courses in religious studies, history, linguistics and politics are offered in the Faculties of Asian Studies and Arts. In particular, students might consider these courses, when offered:
In the Faculty of Asian Studies at the ANU, an Honours year is an opportunity for those who have completed a good pass degree to do independent research on a chosen topic in one of the world's leading universities in the study of Asia. As an Honours student you have access to the ANU's wealth of Asian expertise across disciplines and to the great holdings of the University and the National libraries. You will have expert supervisory guidance and you will share your experience with other Honours students in the Faculty, working in a variety of disciplines on many of the countries of Asia. As a member of the ANU Asia research community, you will also be in touch with the latest thinking on many issues as expressed by visitors and ANU people in the University's frequent seminars, special lectures and conferences on Asia. Students intending to take an honours degree should plan to take a preparatory course such as History and Theory (ASHI2010), the Pre-Honours Research Seminar (ASHI3010), or Knowledge and Society (ASHI3009), in the year prior to their honours year.
Administration: Centre for Asian Societies and Histories
This Faculty Centre teaches most of the Faculty's conceptual/analytical (non-language) courses. A non-language course is one that does not have a language prerequisite. Every Asian Studies degree must include at least 6 non-language courses (totalling 36 units) offered by the Faculty. The Faculty's non-language courses are also open to students of other Faculties.
The Asian Societies and Histories Centre offers a conceptual/analytical major totalling 48 units. There is great flexibility in constructing this major. Ideally the major will achieve two aims: it will support the study of a chosen Asian society, and it will give exposure to theoretical or disciplinary approaches. The major may focus on:
Students working towards a major in any of these areas are strongly urged to consult the convener of the relevant area (indicated below). The convener will help them design a personal selection of courses that best combines study of an Asian society with disciplinary or theoretical insights.
The conceptual/analytical major may not include more than 12 units at first-year level. With the approval of the Sub-Dean, a student may include in the major up to 12 units in relevant courses taught outside the Faculty.
The study of Asian History is concerned with how we think about other cultures, and how we understand the dynamics of political and cultural change. It raises challenging intellectual and moral questions. Historical study also provides insights into the foundations on which the modern nation-states of Asia are being constructed.
First year commencing courses for this major are:
For those contemplating careers in the public sector and non-government organisations, this area of study is vital to a broad understanding of key contemporary issues emerging in a cross-section of countries in the region. It provides an academic pathway for further study and analysis of the region.
First year commencing courses for this major are:
The Faculty offers a wide range of courses in the area of Asian religious tradition. They aim to give a solid grounding in the doctrines and texts of the great Asian religious traditions, as well as an understanding of how these are changing in response to the modern world.
First year commencing courses for this major are:
Offers an opportunity to study in depth the current issues facing Asian societies. Asia is the most dynamic, rapidly changing region in the world today. The social, economic and political changes now sweeping the Asian societies will decisively shape the future, while the region's powerful and diverse cultural traditions continue to challenge many western assumptions about how societies work.
First year commencing courses for this major are:
ASHI1002 Individual and Society in Asia A
The following courses will not be offered in 2002 but may be offered in future years.
Approaches to the Study of History ASHI3001
Chinese Foundations of Civilisation ASHI2203
Civilising Missions: Chinese Models & Local Realities in Japan, Korea & Vietnam ASHI2012
Colonialism and Resistance in Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines ASHI2064
Gender & Power in East Asia ASHI2016
How to Live in the Real World: Practical Learning in East Asia ASIA2264
India: The Classical Civilisation ASHI2172
India: The Emerging Giant ASHI2263
Knowledge, Power & Colonialism in Southeast Asia ASHI3005
Mainland Southeast Asia to 1900: Cambodia, Myanmar (Burma) Thailand and Vietnam ASHI2013
Malaysia: A Developing Multicultural Society ASHI2515
Middle Classes in Japan and the Asia Pacific Region ASHI2008
Modern Islamic Thought: West and Southeast Asia ASIA2816
North Korea: History and Politics, 1945-1990s ASHI2007
Orientalism and the Study of Asia ASHI3008
Origins of East Asian Civilisations ASHI2203
Pre Modern Japan: History and Culture ASHI2261
Reading Malay Political Culture ASHI3504
Readings in Modern Chinese History ASHI3210
Religion and Politics in India, Pakistan and Bangladesh: 1193-1858 ASIA2161
Religion and Politics in India, Pakistan and Bangladesh: 1858-present ASIA2163
Religion and Social Movements in Southeast Asia ASIA2173
Religion in Modern East Asia ASIA2265
Representing Asia on Film: East Asia ASHI2011
Society and Economy in China A: Historical Development ASHI2018
Society and Economy in China B: The People's Republic ASHI2019
State, Society and Politics in Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines ASHI2021
Thailand in the Age of Globalisation ASHI2024
Understanding the Asian Diaspora in SEAsia & the Pacific ASHI2025
Understandings of Postwar Japan ASHI2022
Students are encouraged to consider cross-Faculty course selections as they construct their degrees. The following is a list of non-Faculty courses agreed as compatible with Faculty majors as indicated:
Courses offered by the Faculty of Arts:
HIST2107 American Voices: Aspects of Social Thought in the United States 1900-1990 (S2/2002)
HIST2117 Technology and Society, 1800-2000
Courses offered by the Faculty of Arts:
MEAS2001 New States of Eurasia: Emerging Issues in Politics & Security
POLS2029 Politics in Japan (S1/2002)
POLS2070 Politics in Central & West Asia (S1/2002)
POLS2082 Japanese Foreign Policy and the Asian Pacific Region
Courses offered by the Faculty of Arts:
ANTH2004 Religion, Ritual and Cosmology (S2/2002)
ANTH2033 Religion & Society in India (S1/2002)
ARTH2056 Art and Architecture of Southeast Asia: Tradition and Transformation
Courses offered by the Faculty of Arts:
ANTH2009 Culture & Development (S1/2002)
ANTH2054 Anthropology and the Urban Experience
ANTH2060 Southeast Asia: Contemporary issues in Anthropological Perspective
ARTH2056 Art and Architecture in Southeast Asia: Tradition and Transformation
POLS2029 Politics in Japan (S1/2002)
POLS2070 Politics in Central & West Asia (S1/2002)
POLS2082 Japanese Foreign Policy and the Asian Pacific Region
Courses offered by the Faculty of Economics & Commerce
BUSN2023 Dynamics of Asian Business (S1/2002)
ECHI1005 Business & Economy in the Asia-Pacific Region (S1/2002)
ECHI2109 Asian Giants (S2/2002)
Students with an interest in Asian literature are encouraged to consider the literature offerings in their own language program/s, most of which have language prerequisites. Students may also wish to consider the following Faculty courses which do not have language prerequisites:
ASIA1002/2005 What is Literature? Asian Perspectives
ASIA1003/ASIA2004 Comparisons from Asian Literatures: Identity
ASIA1004/ASIA2002 Comparisons from Asian Literatures: Gender and Sexuality (S2/2002)
In the Faculty of Asian Studies at the ANU, an Honours year is an opportunity for those who have completed a good pass degree to do independent research on a chosen topic in one of the world's leading universities in the study of Asia. As an Honours student you have access to the ANU's wealth of Asian expertise across disciplines and to the great holdings of the University and the National libraries. You will have expert supervisory guidance and you will share your experience with other Honours students in the Faculty, working in a variety of disciplines on many of the countries of Asia. As a member of the ANU Asia research community, you will also be in touch with the latest thinking on many issues as expressed by visitors and ANU people in the University's frequent seminars, special lectures and conferences on Asia. In 2002, students intending to take an honours degree should plan to take a preparatory course such as: History and Theory (ASHI2010), the Pre-Honours Research Seminar (ASHI3010) or Knowledge & Society (ASHI3009) in the year prior to their honours year.
Administration: China and Korea Centre
Courses on China deal with languages, scripts, literatures, linguistics and society. These courses are open to students taking Asian Studies degrees as well as to students enrolled in other Faculties. The aim is to equip students with the linguistic and cultural competence needed to function effectively in China or Taiwan, and the education to enable them to understand these countries in depth.
In the undergraduate program on China, the core language is Modern Chinese. The language and pronunciation taught are those of Modern Standard Chinese or Putonghua (sometimes called Mandarin), the national language of China. Classical Chinese and Cantonese are also offered to more advanced students.
In order to enable students beginning Chinese to make rapid progress in the language, the basic major in Modern Chinese consists of double-value one-semester courses in the first year (Modern Chinese 1 and 2, each worth 12 units), followed by four 6 unit semester long courses in later years: Modern Chinese 3 to 6. In Modern Chinese 1 and 2 a solid foundation in the spoken and the written language is laid, so that by the end of the first year of study, students starting as beginners will reach basic all-round proficiency. Modern Chinese 3 to 6 build on this to reach greater fluency in reading, speech and writing. The emphasis is on introducing varieties of living Chinese and developing the ability to communicate independently in Chinese.
Students wishing to advance their language to a higher standard may continue with further reading courses, or enrol in the specialist Bachelor of Asian Studies (Chinese). This degree includes a year spent in immersion language studies in the Chinese world. More advanced courses in Modern Chinese are offered during the fourth year of the Bachelor of Asian Studies (Chinese) degree.
The Bachelor of Asian Studies (Chinese) is a four-year degree, while the Bachelor of Asian Studies (BAsianStudies) is a three-year degree requiring no overseas study. Qualified students may transfer from the three-year to four-year degree at the end of second year. In year three, while BAsianStudies students complete their degree, BAsianStudies (Chinese) students undertake a year at universities in China or Taiwan doing advanced language work and studying in their field of specialisation through Chinese. Year four of the BAsianStudies (Chinese) is spent back at ANU taking advanced courses in disciplinary, language and area studies.
The BAsianStudies and the BAsianStudies (Chinese) may be combined with degrees in Arts, Commerce, Economics, Engineering, Law, Science (including Forestry) and Visual Arts
First-year Chinese is taught on the assumption that students are starting from the beginning. Those who have studied enough of the language before may be allowed to begin at a level higher than Modern Chinese 1. Students whose previous education has been conducted largely in Chinese will not be allowed to enrol in Modern Chinese 1 to 6.
Students who have passed the first-year program in Chinese at the University of Canberra may be admitted to Modern Chinese 2 and may be granted status for Modern Chinese 1.
Classical Chinese is taught in a four-semester sequence. Some Classical Chinese is essential for students wishing to pursue serious studies in Chinese culture or in any aspect of China or Korea before the early 20th century.
The Chinese language major may comprise courses from the following list:
CHIN3024 Advanced Modern Chinese 1
CHIN3025 Advanced Modern Chinese 2
CHIN3026 Introduction to Cantonese
CHIN3105 Readings in Modern Chinese Literature and Thought
CHIN3108 Readings in Modern Chinese Society and Law
CHIN3114 Classical Chinese Poetry
CHIN3210 Advanced Readings in Chinese C
CHIN3211 Advanced Readings in Chinese A
CHIN3212 Advanced Readings in Chinese B
and must include: Modern Chinese 6 (or an advanced in-lieu course, normally CHIN3025 -- for those completing the Specialist degree).
A wide range of courses on contemporary, modern and traditional Chinese art, history, linguistics, literature, politics and society are offered in the Faculties of Asian Studies and Arts. In particular, students might consider these courses, when offered:
ASHI2011 Representing Asia on Film: East Asia
ASHI2016 Gender and Power in East Asia
ASHI2017 International Relations in Northeast Asia (S1/2002)
ASHI2018 Society and Economy in China A: A Historical Development
ASHI2019 Society and Economy in China B: The People's Republic
ASHI2026 The Politics of China (S2/2002)
ASHI2162 Chinese 'Renaissance': the Song Period (S2/2002)
ASHI2203 Chinese Foundations of Civilisation
ASHI3012 The Chinese Southern Diaspora
ASHI3210 Readings in Modern Chinese History
ASIA2264 How to Live in the Real World: Practical Learning in East Asia
In the Faculty of Asian Studies at the ANU, an Honours year is an opportunity for those who have completed a good pass degree to do independent research on a chosen topic in one of the world's leading universities in the study of Asia. As an Honours student you have access to the ANU's wealth of Asian expertise across disciplines and to the great holdings of the University and the National libraries. You will have expert supervisory guidance and you will share your experience with other Honours students in the Faculty, working in a variety of disciplines on many of the countries of Asia. As a member of the ANU Asia research community, you will also be in touch with the latest thinking on many issues as expressed by visitors and ANU people in the University's frequent seminars, special lectures and conferences on Asia. In 2002, students intending to take an honours degree should plan to take a preparatory course such as: History and Theory (ASHI2010), the Pre-Honours Research Seminar (ASHI3010) or Knowledge & Society (ASHI3009) in the year prior to their honours year.
Administration: South and West Asia Centre
Since Hindi is the official language of India and over the past 500 years has produced a rich, vigorous, and highly developed literary tradition, a knowledge of Hindi is essential for students interested in any aspect of the civilisation and society of modern and medieval India.
The aim of the Hindi program is to provide the ability both to communicate in spoken Hindi and to read a wide range of material written in Hindi, including novels, newspapers, and scholarly works. The emphasis in Introductory Hindi A and B is on the mastery of the fundamentals of Hindi usage, and in Basic Hindi Conversation A and B on the acquisition of basic conversational skills. The advanced Hindi programs are Centred on the reading of a variety of texts, including short stories and newspaper and magazine articles of current interest. As much class discussion as possible is conducted in Hindi. Students enrolled in the Bachelor of Asian Studies (Hindi) degree will spend a year in India in the third year, taking courses arranged by the South and West Asia Centre at a recognised Indian tertiary institution. The final-year honours course is conducted in Hindi and is Centred on comprehensive study within the field of Hindi language and literature.
In 2001, a full range of introductory-level study materials in Hindi will be available on the Faculty's web site.
Two 3-point courses in Urdu are also offered: Urdu Prose and the Urdu Gazal. Introductory Hindi B and Basic Hindi Conversation B are the prerequisites for both Urdu courses.
Urdu has a highly developed and thriving literary tradition and is both the official language of Pakistan and an important language in India. A familiarity with Urdu would be of particular value to those interested in the Islamic heritage of southern Asia. Although in grammar and basic word-stock Urdu and Hindi are identical, in script and literary vocabulary the two languages are quite different. Therefore, instruction in Urdu is primarily concerned with the reading of Urdu literature.
The Hindi major may comprise courses from the following list:
HIND1006 Basic Hindi Conversation A
HIND1007 Basic Hindi Conversation B
HIND2004 Contemporary Hindi Literature
HIND2006 Advanced Hindi Conversation A
HIND2007 Advanced Hindi Conversation B
HIND2102 Nineteenth Century Hindi Literature
HIND2103 Twentieth Century Hindi Literature
HIND3002 Advanced Applied Hindi
HIND3006 Advanced Hindi Conversation C
HIND3007 Advanced Hindi Conversation D
HIND3501 Seminar on Hindi Language & Literature
SKRT1002 Introductory Sanskrit A
SKRT1003 Introductory Sanskrit B
SKRT2101 Specialised Sanskrit Texts A
SKRT2102 Sanskrit Literature in Translation
SKRT2105 Sanskrit Narrative Literature
SKRT2108 Readings in South Asian Cultures
SKRT3101 Specialised Sanskrit Texts B
SKRT3108 Advanced Readings in South Asian Cultures
A range of courses in religious studies, history, linguistics and politics are offered in the Faculties of Asian Studies and Arts. In particular, students might consider the following courses, when offered:
ASHI2025 Understanding the Asian Diaspora in Southeast Asia and the Pacific
ASHI2263 India: The Emerging Giant
ASIA2161 Religion and Politics in India: 1193-1858
ASIA2163 Religion and Politics in India, Pakistan and Bangladesh: 1858-present
In the Faculty of Asian Studies at the ANU, an Honours year is an opportunity for those who have completed a good pass degree to do independent research on a chosen topic in one of the world's leading universities in the study of Asia. As an Honours student you have access to the ANU's wealth of Asian expertise across disciplines and to the great holdings of the University and the National libraries. You will have expert supervisory guidance and you will share your experience with other Honours students in the Faculty, working in a variety of disciplines on many of the countries of Asia. As a member of the ANU Asia research community, you will also be in touch with the latest thinking on many issues as expressed by visitors and ANU people in the University's frequent seminars, special lectures and conferences on Asia. In 2002, students intending to take an honours degree should plan to take a preparatory course such as: History and Theory (ASHI2010), the Pre-Honours Research Seminar (ASHI3010) or Knowledge & Society (ASHI3009) in the year prior to their honours year.
Diploma Convener: Dr Tim Hassall
Administration: Southeast Asia Centre
The Indonesian language is the official language of a nation of over 200 million people, with the world's largest Muslim population. It is the vehicle for a vibrant and quickly changing culture expressed through the mass media, schools and government, as well as being the common medium of everyday formal communication across the many local cultures of the country.
Indonesian 1A and 1B are designed to give beginning students competence in the basic skills of self-expression, comprehension and reading. Indonesian 2A and 2B aim to develop a deeper understanding of the language. Emphasis is placed on the development of the skills gained in 1A and 1B plus a more explicit understanding of grammar and an awareness of the cultural and documentary character of the materials studied.
Students enrolled in the Bachelor of Asian Studies (Indonesian) will build on the language skills attained in Indonesian 2A and 2B by taking a year's study in Indonesia in courses arranged between the Southeast Asia Centre and approved Indonesian universities.
The alternative is to proceed to Indonesian 3A and 3B at the ANU. These courses develop spoken skills and increasing attention is given to English-Indonesian and Indonesian-English translation.
The literary and intellectual traditions of Indonesia and Malaysia are explored in courses such as Reading the Indonesian Media, Literary Activism and State Power in Contemporary Indonesia, and Reading Modern Malay. Indonesian literature is also examined in comparative perspectives in the course Comparisons from Asian Literatures -- Gender and Sexuality. Advanced students can undertake personalised reading programs through the courses Readings in Southeast Asian Culture and Advanced Readings in Southeast Asian Culture.
The Centre also offers three very attractive courses for later year (post-first-year) students. Introduction to Asian Performing Arts, and Authenticity, Identity and Technology are being offered jointly with the School of Music. Each involves a practical performance component (learning to play the gamelan) and examines the role of performance in Asian societies. For advanced students of Indonesian and Thai, the course Practical Assignment in Southeast Asia, requires students to be placed for six weeks with a voluntary organisation in Indonesia or Thailand. Assessment is based on an extended assignment, which describes and analyses the work of the organisation.
First-year Indonesian is taught on the assumption that students have no previous knowledge of the language. Those who have studied it before, or whose previous education has been conducted largely in Indonesian or Malaysian, must sit a placement test to determine their level of entry.
With more than sixty million speakers, Javanese is the language of the largest ethnic group in Indonesia and has produced a highly developed literary tradition since the tenth century. It has such a strong influence on the development of Indonesian vocabulary that some knowledge of Javanese is often necessary to read articles in contemporary Indonesian newspapers and periodicals. Several introductory courses in Javanese are offered for those with this interest.
The Malay language, spoken today with minor variations in the Malay Peninsula, Sabah, Sarawak, Brunei, Singapore and Southern Thailand, is the basis of modern Indonesian. Contemporary Malaysian (Malay as used in the press, media and literature) can be studied in the course Reading Modern Malay. Pre-modern Malay literature and its intellectual traditions can be studied in the course Reading Traditional Malay.
The Indonesian major may comprise courses from the following list:
INDN3004 Readings in Southeast Asian Culture
INDN3005 Advanced Readings in Southeast Asian Culture
INDN3006 Literary Activism and State Power in Contemporary Indonesia
INDN3007 Introduction to Asian Performing Arts: Performance, Genres and Intercultural Translation
INDN3008 Authenticity, Identity and Technology: The Poetics and Politics of Arts as Performance in Asia
INDN3010 Reading the Indonesian Media
INDN3101 Reading Traditional Malay
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INDN3006 Literary Activism & State Power in Contemporary Indonesia |
INDN3007 Introduction to Asian Performing Arts: Performance, Genres and Intercultural Translation |
A wide range of courses on contemporary, modern and pre-modern Indonesia and Malaysia -- covering the history, laws, politics, anthropology, economies, religions, music and art history of these countries -- are offered in the Faculties of Asian Studies, Law and Arts, and in the School of Music. In particular, students might consider the following courses, when offered:
ASHI2010 Representing Asia on Film: Southeast Asia
ASHI2011 Colonialism and Resistance in Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines
ASHI2021 State Society and Politics in Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines
ASHI2027 The Future of East Timor (S1/2002)
ASHI2262 Classical Civilisations of Southeast Asia (S1/2002)
ASHI2268 Law and Society in Southeast Asia (S2/2002)
ASHI2515 Malaysia: A Developing Multicultural Society
ASHI2516 Indonesia: Politics, Society and Development (S2/2002)
ASHI3008 Orientalism and the Study of Asia
ASHI3012 Chinese Southern Diaspora
ASHI3504 Reading Malay Political Culture
In the Faculty of Asian Studies at the ANU, an Honours year is an opportunity for those who have completed a good pass degree to do independent research on a chosen topic in one of the world's leading universities in the study of Asia. As an Honours student you have access to the ANU's wealth of Asian expertise across disciplines and to the great holdings of the University and the National libraries. You will have expert supervisory guidance and you will share your experience with other Honours students in the Faculty, working in a variety of disciplines on many of the countries of Asia. As a member of the ANU Asia research community, you will also be in touch with the latest thinking on many issues as expressed by visitors and ANU people in the University's frequent seminars, special lectures and conferences on Asia. In 2002, students intending to take an honours degree should plan to take a preparatory course such as: History and Theory (ASHI2010), the Pre-Honours Research Seminar (ASHI3010) or Knowledge & Society (ASHI3009) in the year prior to their honours year.
Convener: Professor Jenny Corbett
The Japan Centre offers a Japanese language major and a Japanese linguistics major in the comprehensive Japanese program. Courses in Japanese literature complement these offerings. A primary aim of the Centre is to provide students with the linguistic and socio-cultural knowledge and skills necessary for successful communication with the Japanese.
Japanese courses are available to students in a wide range of degree programs, and are also taken in a variety of combined degrees. The specialist four-year Bachelor of Asian Studies (Japanese) degree affords students the addition opportunity to participate in the Year-in-Japan Program, currently involving study for a year at one of eighteen selected Japanese universities.
The Japanese language program caters both to beginning students and to students who have previously studied the language.
The program features an accelerated schedule at beginning and intermediate levels, and a separation of courses focusing on spoken and written Japanese. These permit more concentrated study and faster progress for students wishing to achieve high levels of competence, as well as appropriate placement for those with existing knowledge of Japanese. The program structure also provides for individual flexibility in pacing the study of the language within the context of a particular degree.
Beginning students follow a sequence, which permits them to complete a major (at least 48 units) in the language in two years. Incoming students with some knowledge of Japanese are required to take an oral and written placement test. This test is designed to allow Program staff to make judgements about the oral and written level students are at and thus place them appropriately within the program. For those qualified, advanced level courses are available in both spoken and written Japanese.
The Year-in-Japan operates as a component of the specialist four-year Bachelor of Asian Studies (Japanese) degree, selection for which is based primarily on academic performance. Students undertaking the course typically spend their third year (later, in the case of combined degree students) studying in Japan. The program currently involves participation in an initial intensive orientation program, subsequent language and disciplinary study at a Japanese university, and an oral and written test on returning to ANU. Higher-level language courses focusing on academic Japanese and translation are available to returning students in their fourth year.
The Japanese language major may comprise courses from the following list:
JPNS2001 Japanese and Information Technology
JPNS3009 Introduction to Pre-Modern Japanese
JPNS3011 History of Japanese Language
JPNS3012 Teaching Japanese: Content
JPNS3013 Japanese-English Translation
JPNS3014 Teaching Japanese: Method
JPNS3018 Readings in Japanese A
JPNS3019 Readings in Japanese B
Students who begin their study of spoken Japanese with Spoken Japanese 4 or lower, must include Spoken Japanese 4 in their Language Major. Students who begin their study of written Japanese with Written Japanese D or lower, must include Written Japanese D in their language Major.
Note: JPNS3104 Japanese Pre-Honours Course -- is not a course considered part of the Language Major
Outside the Japanese Program, the Asian Societies and Histories Program offers courses in Japanese history and Japanese society. Further courses are offered in other Faculties relating to Japanese economics, law and politics. In particular, students might consider the following courses, when offered:
ASHI2008 Middle Classes in Japan and the Asia Pacific Region
ASHI2009 Modern Japanese Society (S1/2002)
ASHI2011 Representing Asia on Film: East Asia
ASHI2016 Gender and Power in East Asia
ASHI2017 International Relations in Northeast Asia (S1/2002)
ASHI2022 Understandings of Post-World War II Japan
ASHI2023 Japanese Economic Development since World War II (S2/2002)
ASHI2029 History of Modern Japan: Imperial Japan 1895-1945 (S2/2002)
ASHI2030 Samurai Society and Social Control in Japan (S1/2002)
ASHI2261 Pre-Modern Japan: History and Culture
ASIA2264 How to Live in the Real World: Practical Learning in East Asia
ASIA2265 Religion in Modern East Asia
ECON2008 Japanese Economy and Economic Policy (S2/2002)
LAWS2227 Japanese Law (check availability with Faculty of Law)
POLS2082 Japanese Foreign Policy and the Asian Pacific Region
In the Faculty of Asian Studies at the ANU, an Honours year is an opportunity for those who have completed a good pass degree to do independent research on a chosen topic in one of the world's leading universities in the study of Asia. As an Honours student you have access to the ANU's wealth of Asian expertise across disciplines and to the great holdings of the University and the National libraries. You will have expert supervisory guidance and you will share your experience with other Honours students in the Faculty, working in a variety of disciplines on many of the countries of Asia. As a member of the ANU Asia research community, you will also be in touch with the latest thinking on many issues as expressed by visitors and ANU people in the University's frequent seminars, special lectures and conferences on Asia. In 2002, students intending to take an honours degree should plan to take preparatory courses such as: Japanese Pre-Honours Course (JPNS3104), History and Theory (ASHI2010), the Pre-Honours Research Seminar (ASHI3010) or Knowledge & Society (ASHI3009) in the year prior to their honours year.
To complement its language program, the Japan Centre offers a program in Japanese linguistics. Linguistics courses cover descriptive and applied Japanese linguistics as well as translation; they may be combined to form a major in Japanese Linguistics, including courses offered in the Department of Linguistics (LING). The course Language in Asia also includes contributions from staff of the Japan Centre.
A major in Japanese Linguistics requires 48 units comprising:
the following courses (6 units each):
LING1001/2001 Introduction to the Study of Language (6 units)
JPNS2007 Japanese Linguistics (6 units)
plus at least one course (6 units) chosen from:
LING 2010
Phonetics -- Sounds of the World's Languages
(6 units)
LING2003 Introduction to Syntax (6 units)
remaining courses chosen from:
ASIA1001/2001 Language in Asia
JPNS2019 Japanese Phonetics and Phonology
JPNS3011 History of Japanese Language
JPNS3012 Teaching Japanese: Content
JPNS3013 Japanese-English Translation
JPNS3014 Teaching Japanese: Method
or; any two Faculty of Arts courses with the code LING or LANG.
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JPNS2019 Japanese Phonetics & Phonology |
JPNS3014 Teaching Japanese: Method |
Students interested in the Linguistics major or the major in Applied Linguistics offered by the School of Language Studies -- Faculty of Arts, should refer to the relevant section in the ANU Handbook. Students taking the Faculty of Asian Studies major in Japanese Linguistics should not plan to include these majors in their program. Courses taken in fulfilment of requirements for the Linguistics / Applied Linguistics Majors will not be counted in fulfilment of the Japanese Linguistics Major (and vice-versa).
In the Faculty of Asian Studies at the ANU, an Honours year is an opportunity for those who have completed a good pass degree to do independent research on a chosen topic in one of the world's leading universities in the study of Asia. As an Honours student you have access to the ANU's wealth of Asian expertise across disciplines and to the great holdings of the University and the National libraries. You will have expert supervisory guidance and you will share your experience with other Honours students in the Faculty, working in a variety of disciplines on many of the countries of Asia. As a member of the large, varied and vigorous ANU Asia research community, you will also be in touch with the latest thinking on many issues as expressed by visitors and ANU people in the University's frequent seminars, special lectures and conferences on Asia. In 2002, students intending to take an honours degree should plan to take preparatory courses such as: Japanese Pre-Honours Course (JPNS3104), History and Theory (ASHI2010), the Pre-Honours Research Seminar (ASHI3010) or Knowledge & Society (ASHI3009) in the year prior to their honours year.
Korea is a country rich with cultural heritage that stretches back thousands of years. Through periods of calm and turbulence, unique Korean cultural traditions were established and developed in the areas of literature, art, music, education, government and social values and structures. Korea is also an unparalleled success story in the economic and social history of the 20th century. Once unknown to the larger world, Korea is now one of the world's fastest growing economies. It is one of Australia's largest trading partners, but a range of active cultural interaction between Korea and Australia is yet to develop.
Korean is the official language of North and South Korea. Nearly 70 million people use the language as the main medium in education and all socio-cultural and business activities. While the majority of Korean speakers live on the Korean peninsula and islands, more than 5 million Korean speakers are outside Korea, particularly in China, Russia, Japan and the US.
The Korean Program at the ANU offers Korean language courses from a beginner's level to an in-country internship. These language courses are supplemented by a wide range of courses on Korea offered in the Centre for Asian Societies and Histories. Our aim is to equip students with the linguistic and cultural competence needed to function effectively in Korea, and the education to enable them to understand the country in depth.
The core of the Korean language courses are Spoken Korean 1 to Written Korean D. The aim of these courses is to give students with no previous exposure to the Korean language a good working competence in the modern language, including the ability to communicate orally with fluency and confidence, to read freely the standard modern written language, and to have practical writing proficiency. The normal pattern of completing the Korean language major is to undertake Spoken Korean 1 and 2 in Year 1, Spoken Korean 3 and 4 and Written Korean A and B in Year 2, and Written Korean C and D in Year 3.
The Bachelor of Asian Studies (Korean) is a four-year degree requiring one-year in-country training, while Bachelor of Asian Studies (BAsianStudies) is a three-year degree without overseas study. Qualified students may transfer from the three-year to four-year degree at the end of second year. Students enrolled in the Bachelor of Asian Studies (Korean) undertake their Year-in-Korea after completing Written Korean C. On returning from their Year-in-Korea, they take the course Korean Seminar B (or A), which is to maintain and develop further, particularly in their area of specialisation, students' Korean language skills.
A ten- or twenty-week internship course, Practical Assignment in Korea, is also available to those who completed the Year-in-Korea. This is a half-time placement with a private sector organisation in South Korea, during which the student undertakes an agreed project or duties that will provide experience in extending their linguistic and cultural competence in an organisational context.
The BAsianStudies and the BAsianStudies (Korean) may be combined with degrees in Arts, Commerce, Economics, Engineering, Law, Science (including Forestry) and Visual arts.
First-year Korean is taught on the assumption that students are starting from the beginning. Those who have studied the language before may be allowed to begin at a level higher than Spoken Korean 1.
Students with a background knowledge of Korean, who have less than secondary education from Korea are also able to study and/or major in Korean at the ANU. The normal pattern would be to undertake Written Korean A and B in Year 1, Korean for Background Speakers A and B and Classical Chinese 1 and 2 in Year 2, Korean for Background Speakers C and any language course offered within the Faculty of Asian Studies in Year 3. Korean for Background Speakers A, B, and C are designed to assist students to upgrade their literacy skills in a systematic way. Intending students should note that they need to take a placement test and obtain permission from the convener of the Program.
Background speakers enrolled in the Bachelor of Asian Studies (Korean) undertake their Year-in-Korea for Background Speakers after completing Korean for Background Speakers C, and on returning from their Year-in-Korea, they take the course Korean Seminar B (or A) to complete their Korean language major.
The Korean language major may comprise courses from the following list:
KORE2015 Korean for Background Speakers A*
KORE2016 Korean for Background Speakers B*
KORE3014 Korean for Background Speakers C*
KORE3016 Practical Assignment in Korea (6 units)
KORE3017 Practical Assignment in Korea (12 units)
and the major must include one of the following components:
Written Korean D, Korean for Background Speakers C, or Korean Seminar B (or A)
* course to be taken
by background speakers only
** course not to be taken by background speakers
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KORE2015 Korean for Background Speakers A |
KORE2016 Korean for Background Speakers B |
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KORE3552 Year-in-Korea for Background Speakers |
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Classical Chinese is offered in the Chinese program in a four-semester sequence. Some Classical Chinese is essential for students wishing to pursue serious studies in any aspect of Korea before the early 20th century.
Students taking the Korean language sequence may also draw supporting area studies from both China-related and Japan-related courses. In particular, the following courses might be of interest, when offered:
AREL2265 Religion in Modern East Asia
ASHI2005 Modern Korea (S2/2002)
ASHI2006 Gender and Korean History
ASHI2007 North Korea: History and Politics, 1945-1990s
ASHI2011 Representing Asia on Film: East Asia
ASHI2016 Gender and Power in East Asia
ASHI2017 International Relations in Northeast Asia (S1/2002)
POLS2082 Japanese Foreign Policy and the Asian Pacific Region
In the Faculty of Asian Studies at the ANU, an Honours year is an opportunity for those who have completed a good pass degree to do independent research on a chosen topic in one of the world's leading universities in the study of Asia. As an Honours student you have access to the ANU's wealth of Asian expertise across disciplines and to the great holdings of the University and the National libraries. You will have expert supervisory guidance and you will share your experience with other Honours students in the Faculty, working in a variety of disciplines on many of the countries of Asia. As a member of the ANU Asia research community, you will also be in touch with the latest thinking on many issues as expressed by visitors and ANU people in the University's frequent seminars, special lectures and conferences on Asia. In 2002, students intending to take an honours degree should plan to take preparatory courses such as: History and Theory (ASHI2010), the Pre-Honours Research Seminar (ASHI3010) or Knowledge & Society (ASHI3009) in the year prior to their honours year.
Administration: South and West Asia Centre
Classical Sanskrit is the main cultural language of South Asia. Sanskrit is invaluable for the study of the history and the cultural background of ancient India and her neighbours. It is of interest to students of historical and comparative linguistics and also provides a basis for the study of modern Indian languages. The first year is devoted to the study of grammar and the reading of selections from easy prose texts. Works studied in the second and third years represent a diversity of styles and subject matter.
NOTE: For students who are not familiar with the basic terms and concepts of English grammar, it is strongly recommended that you enrol in the course Traditional Grammar CLAS1001, and take it concurrently with the first-year language course.
The Sanskrit language major may include courses from the following list:
SKRT1002 Introductory Sanskrit A
SKRT1003 Introductory Sanskrit B
SKRT2105 Sanskrit Narrative Literature
SKRT2108 Readings in South Asian Cultures (from 2002)
SKRT3108 Advanced Readings in South Asian Cultures (from 2002)
and must include: 24 later-year units in Sanskrit
Supplementation of available Sanskrit courses to complete the major may include courses selected from Faculty offerings in Classical Chinese, Hindi/Urdu, Thai or other relevant regional languages.
A range of courses in religious studies, history, linguistics and politics are offered in the Faculties of Asian Studies and Arts. In particular, students might wish to select from the following list of courses:
ASHI2172 India: The Classical Civilisation
ASHI2262 Classical Civilisations of Southeast Asia (S1/2002)
In the Faculty of Asian Studies at the ANU, an Honours year is an opportunity for those who have completed a good pass degree to do independent research on a chosen topic in one of the world's leading universities in the study of Asia. As an Honours student you have access to the ANU's wealth of Asian expertise across disciplines and to the great holdings of the University and the National libraries. You will have expert supervisory guidance and you will share your experience with other Honours students in the Faculty, working in a variety of disciplines on many of the countries of Asia. As a member of the ANU Asia research community, you will also be in touch with the latest thinking on many issues as expressed by visitors and ANU people in the University's frequent seminars, special lectures and conferences on Asia. In 2002, students intending to take an honours degree should plan to take preparatory courses such as: History and Theory (ASHI2010), the Pre-Honours Research Seminar (ASHI3010) or Knowledge & Society (ASHI3009) in the year prior to their honours year.
Administration: Southeast Asia Centre (Thai Studies Centre)
Thai, with over sixty million speakers, is the national language of Thailand and has a literary heritage extending back some 700 years. Lao is closely related; with about twenty million speakers it is spoken both in Laos and in north-eastern Thailand. The languages use similar writing systems.
The major in Thai consists of Thai 1A, 1B, 2A, 2B, 3A and one of the following: Thai 3B, 3C or 3D. This sequence develops conversational fluency and leads to proficiency in written forms of Thai. A course in Lao is available to students with intermediate proficiency in Thai.
Bachelor of Asian Studies students are free to complement a Thai language sequence with courses relating to both South and Southeast Asia. The Thai Program's teaching team received the Vice-Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching in 1997. The National Thai Studies Centre, based in the Faculty of Asian Studies is an Australia-wide Centre for the study of Thailand, with extensive research in anthropology, economics, environment, demography, geography, history, linguistics and other fields. Library holdings are outstanding in these areas. Students of the Thai language may pursue advanced study through the reading of Thai-language texts in these disciplines.
Students enrolled in the Bachelor of Asian Studies (Thai) will be able to take language study in Thailand and attend programs at a Thai university, normally in the third year of their degree.
The Thai language major may comprise courses from the following list:
THAI2106 Seminar in Thai Linguistics
THAI2107 Comparative-Historical Tai Linguistics
SKRT1002 Introductory Sanskrit A
SKRT1003 Introductory Sanskrit B
SKRT2105 Sanskrit Narrative Literature
and must include the following components: Thai 3A and either Thai 3B or Thai 3C
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THAI3006 Thai 3C (Modern Thai Prose) |
THAI3003 Thai 3B (Traditional Thai Literature) THAI3007 Thai 3D (Reading Thai Sources) |
A range of programs dealing with the history, religions, politics, economies and art history of the Thai and Lao peoples are offered by the Faculties of Asian Studies and the Faculty of Arts. In particular students may wish to select from the following list of courses, when offered:
ASHI2013 Mainland Southeast Asia to 1900: Cambodia, Myanmar (Burma) Thailand and Vietnam
ASHI2024 Thailand in the Age of Globalisation
ASHI2041 Mainland Southeast Asia: Colonial & Postcolonial Predicaments (S1/2002)
ASHI2262 Classical Civilisations of Southeast Asia (S1/2002)
ASHI2268 Law and Society in Southeast Asia (S2/2002)
In the Faculty of Asian Studies at the ANU, an Honours year is an opportunity for those who have completed a good pass degree to do independent research on a chosen topic in one of the world's leading universities in the study of Asia. As an Honours student you have access to the ANU's wealth of Asian expertise across disciplines and to the great holdings of the University and the National libraries. You will have expert supervisory guidance and you will share your experience with other Honours students in the Faculty, working in a variety of disciplines on many of the countries of Asia. As a member of the ANU Asia research community, you will also be in touch with the latest thinking on many issues as expressed by visitors and ANU people in the University's frequent seminars, special lectures and conferences on Asia. In 2002, students intending to take an honours degree should plan to take preparatory courses such as: History and Theory (ASHI2010), the Pre-Honours Research Seminar (ASHI3010) or Knowledge & Society (ASHI3009) in the year prior to their honours year.
Administration: South and West Asia Centre
Urdu and Persian are the modern and classical languages of Islamic South Asia. Persian is offered through the Centre for Arab and Islamic Studies, Faculty of Arts, which is a cognate Centre of the Faculty of Asian Studies.
Urdu has a highly developed and thriving literary tradition and is both the official language of Pakistan and an important language in India. A familiarity with Urdu would be of particular value to those interested in the Islamic heritage of southern Asia. Although in grammar and basic word-stock Urdu and Hindi are identical, in script and literary vocabulary the two languages are quite different. Therefore, instruction in Urdu is primarily concerned with the reading of Urdu literature.
Persian language is spoken today primarily in Iran and Afghanistan, with significant populations of speakers in the Gulf States and Central Asian Republics. Historically, Persian has been a more widely understood language in an area ranging from the Mediterranean to India, and is associated with a rich historical and cultural legacy. No prior knowledge is required for the Introductory A program. A student may be admitted directly to a more advanced course if he/she is assessed by the lecturer as having sufficient prior knowledge. Persian language courses are approved Arts or Asian Studies courses. The course Iranian History and Culture can be taken in conjunction with the Persian language or as a separate Asian Studies course.
The Urdu/Persian major may comprise courses listed below:
HIND1006 Basic Hindi Conversation A
HIND1007 Basic Hindi Conversation B
HIND2006 Advanced Hindi Conversation A
HIND2007 Advanced Hindi Conversation B
HIND3006 Advanced Hindi Conversation C
HIND3007 Advanced Hindi Conversation D
PERS1001 Introductory Persian A
PERS1002 Introductory Persian B
PERS2003 Intermediate Persian A
PERS2004 Intermediate Persian B
SKRT2108 Readings in South Asian Cultures
SKRT3108 Advanced Readings in South Asian Cultures
and must include the following components: Urdu Prose, Urdu Gazal and Introductory Persian B
The Faculties of Asian Studies and Arts offer a range of programs dealing with the history, religions, politics and economics of Vietnam. In particular, students may wish to select courses from the following list, when offered:
ASIA2162 Islam History and Institutions
In the Faculty of Asian Studies at the ANU, an Honours year is an opportunity for those who have completed a good pass degree to do independent research on a chosen topic in one of the world's leading universities in the study of Asia. As an Honours student you have access to the ANU's wealth of Asian expertise across disciplines and to the great holdings of the University and the National libraries. You will have expert supervisory guidance and you will share your experience with other Honours students in the Faculty, working in a variety of disciplines on many of the countries of Asia. As a member of the ANU Asia research community, you will also be in touch with the latest thinking on many issues as expressed by visitors and ANU people in the University's frequent seminars, special lectures and conferences on Asia. In 2002, students intending to take an honours degree should plan to take preparatory courses such as: History and Theory (ASHI2010), the Pre-Honours Research Seminar (ASHI3010) or Knowledge & Society (ASHI3009) in the year prior to their honours year.
Convener: Mr Ton-That Quynh-Du
Administration: Southeast Asia Centre
In studying Vietnamese at the ANU, students study the language of one of Southeast Asia's oldest civilisations. In the modern context, Vietnamese is the national language of a country of growing political and economic significance for Australia. It is also the language of a dynamic community of 150,000 Vietnamese who have come to settle in Australia.
The Vietnamese program provides conversational and reading skills according to the needs of individual students, whether those needs centre around being able to communicate easily with Vietnamese people in Australia, working in the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, AusAID, Austrade, in education and training, in business or other international concerns, or pursuing academic studies and research in Vietnamese language, literature, or Southeast Asian history and area studies.
Vietnamese 1A, 1B, 2A, 2B, 3A and 3B constitute a major providing the basis for mastery of the language as a means of communication and as a tool for research. Proficiency in conversation and in reading and writing are both aims of the program.
In the first year, the focus is on communicative competence using correct grammar. The second year focuses on spoken Vietnamese with its idiomatic expressions. In the third year students read newspapers, debate current affairs, and study social and cultural issues.
Students enrolled in the Bachelor of Asian Studies (Vietnamese) degree undertake a year of study at an approved tertiary institution in Hanoi or Ho Chi Minh City.
Bachelor of Asian Studies students are free to complement their Vietnamese language sequence with courses relating to both Southeast Asia and China.
Vietnamese for Native Speakers is intended mainly for Australian of Vietnamese background who have some knowledge of spoken Vietnamese but who are not confident of their ability to read and write. After passing this course students may enrol in later-year Vietnamese courses.
The Vietnamese major may comprise courses listed below:
The Faculties of Asian Studies and Arts offer a range of programs dealing with the history, religions, politics and economics of Vietnam. In particular, students may wish to select courses from the following list, when offered:
ASHI2013 Mainland Southeast Asia to 1900: Cambodia, Myanmar (Burma) Thailand and Vietnam
ASHI2041 Mainland Southeast Asia: Colonial and Postcolonial Predicaments (S1/2002)
ASHI2203 Chinese Foundations of Civilisation
ASHI2413 Vietnam in the Twentieth Century
In the Faculty of Asian Studies at the ANU, an Honours year is an opportunity for those who have completed a good pass degree to do independent research on a chosen topic in one of the world's leading universities in the study of Asia. As an Honours student you have access to the ANU's wealth of Asian expertise across disciplines and to the great holdings of the University and the National libraries. You will have expert supervisory guidance and you will share your experience with other Honours students in the Faculty, working in a variety of disciplines on many of the countries of Asia. As a member of the ANU Asia research community, you will also be in touch with the latest thinking on many issues as expressed by visitors and ANU people in the University's frequent seminars, special lectures and conferences on Asia. In 2002, students intending to take an honours degree should plan to take preparatory courses such as: History and Theory (ASHI2010), the Pre-Honours Research Seminar (ASHI3010) or Knowledge & Society (ASHI3009) in the year prior to their honours year.
Students should note that alpha/numeric codes associated with all courses (subjects) except Chinese, Japanese and Asian Societies & Histories have changed, commencing 2002. For example: The code for Advanced Applied Hindi was SWAH3002 and is now HIND3002. Students who have completed SWAH3002 will not be able to make a valid enrolment in HIND3002
Three hours of lectures in the morning and workshop sessions in the afternoon five days per week in a city in northern India. The course will be held in January and February for a period of six weeks. Emphasis is on improvement of conversational skills in Hindi.
Two hours per week. To be taken concurrently with an advanced Hindi or Urdu course.
Prerequisite: Introductory Hindi B (HIND1003/SWAH1003) and Basic Hindi Conversation B (HIND1007/SWAH1007)
Syllabus: Practice in comprehension and use of the spoken language.
Two hours per week. To be taken concurrently with an advanced Hindi or Urdu course.
Prerequisite: Introductory Hindi B (HIND1003/SWAH1003) and Basic Hindi Conversation B (HIND1007/SWAH1007)
Syllabus: Practice in comprehension and use of the spoken language.
Two hours per week. To be taken concurrently with an advanced Hindi or Urdu course.
Prerequisite: Introductory Hindi B (HIND1003/SWAH1003) and Basic Hindi Conversation B (HIND1007/SWAH1007)
Syllabus: Practice in comprehension and use of the spoken language.
Two hours per week. To be taken concurrently with an advanced Hindi or Urdu course.
Prerequisite: Introductory Hindi B (HIND1003/SWAH1003) and Basic Hindi Conversation B (HIND1007/SWAH1007)
Syllabus: Practice in comprehension and use of the spoken language.
Prerequisites: Spoken Japanese 4 (JPNS2013) and Written Japanese D (JPNS2015) at credit level or above, or permission of the convener of the Program
Syllabus: This course aims to develop further competence in spoken and written Japanese through reading and discussion of such varying materials as articles from newspapers, magazines, or academic journals; book chapters; essays; fiction; drama; video; and so on. These materials will be selected so as to address a theme or themes relevant to understanding contemporary Japanese society.
Prerequisites: Spoken Japanese 4 (JPNS2013) and Written Japanese D (JPNS2015) at credit level or above, or permission of the convener of the Program
Syllabus: This course aims to develop further competence in spoken and written Japanese through reading and discussion of such varying materials as articles from newspapers, magazines, or academic journals; book chapters; essays; fiction; drama; video; and so on. These materials will be selected so as to address a theme or themes relevant to understanding contemporary Japanese society.
Prerequisite: Completion of Year-in-China (CHIN3550/CHIN3500) as Bachelor of Asian Studies (Chinese) student, or Modern Chinese 6 (CHIN3023) or equivalent
Syllabus: Reading and discussion of a variety of texts on modern China. Translations of Chinese into English. Most classes will be conducted in the Chinese language.
Prerequisite: Advanced Modern Chinese 1 (CHIN3024) or equivalent
Syllabus: A continuation of the work of Advanced Modern Chinese 1 and translation from English into Chinese.
Four hours of lectures throughout the semester (may include language laboratory sessions).
Persian Program. Centre for Arab and Islamic Studies: Middle East and Central Asia (Faculty of Arts)
Prerequisite: Intermediate Persian B (PERS2004) or equivalent, with permission of the lecturer
Syllabus: This course builds on the Introductory and Intermediate levels of Persian language and is aimed at developing the student's knowledge and improving their ability in reading, writing and speaking Persian. The grammar in this course will cover more about prefixes and suffixes as well as adverbs and prepositions. Selected texts will also be studied.
Proposed Assessment: Final examination 50%, attendance/class participation 25%, homework 25%.
Four hours of lectures throughout the semester (may include language laboratory sessions).
Persian Program. Centre for Arab and Islamic Studies: Middle East and Central Asia (Faculty of Arts)
Prerequisite: Advanced Persian A (PERS3005) or equivalent, with permission of the lecturer)
Syllabus: This course will further develop the student's knowledge and improve Persian reading, writing and speaking skills. The course will deal with Persian literature, both prose and verse, including the three areas of Persian verse: the epic, the lyric and the dramatic, and consider poetic structure such as rhythm, rhyme and rank. Students will read selected texts from Persian prose and poetry.
Proposed Assessment: Final examination 50%, attendance/class participation 25%, homework 25%.
Prerequisite: Completion of Year-in-China (CHIN3550/ CHIN3500) or equivalent, and permission of the Program convener.
Syllabus: This course guides advanced students in extensive reading and in analysis and discussion of Chinese texts in a field of specialisation. The content of the course will be determined in the light of students' specific needs and the availability of teaching, and will prepare students for independent research in their field.
Prerequisite: Completion of Year-in-China (CHIN3550/ CHIN3500) or equivalent, and permission of the Program convener.
Prerequisite: Completion of Year-in-China (CHIN3550/ CHIN3500) or equivalent, and permission of the Program convener.
Syllabus: As for Advanced Readings in Chinese A. This course will involve an amount of work equivalent to Advanced Readings in Chinese A or B but spread over two semesters. Students must enrol in this course in each semester to complete the study requirement.
Fortnightly meetings with lecturers
Hindi, Sanskrit, Urdu and Persian Programs
Prerequisites: Two years' study of a South Asian language taught in the South and West Asia Centre, e.g. Hindi, Urdu, Persian (in relation to South Asia) or Sanskrit, completion of Readings in South Asian Cultures with at least a high credit result and permission of the Program convener.
Syllabus: The content of the course is decided by consultation between each student and the supervising lecturer. Students read widely in all aspects of the culture of the language studied, including literature, linguistics, anthropology, religious studies, politics and mass media. Texts studied should be primarily in one of the relevant languages with supplementary material in English. Students present short reports on their reading every fortnight.
Not offered at undergraduate level in 2002
Second semester -- graduate level only
Fortnightly meetings with lecturers
Indonesian, Thai and Vietnamese Programs.
Coordinator: Professor V. Hooker
Prerequisites: Completion of Year-in-Asia, or Distinction in third year language or permission of the Coordinator. Intending students will be expected to have a Distinction average in language.
N.B. Students are strongly advised to take a supporting course (focused on historical background culture, linguistics, anthropology etc) before enrolling in this vernacular language Reading Course.
Syllabus: The content of the course is decided by consultation between each student and the supervising lecturer. Students read widely in a vernacular language about Southeast Asian on one of the following: literature, socio-linguistics, religion, popular culture, political culture. Students present short reports on their reading every fortnight, prepare a Bibliography based on vernacular holdings in the ANU libraries and write a long essay analysing their reading topic.
Four hours of lectures in the morning and workshops and activities in the afternoon five days per week. The course will be held in Beirut -- Lebanon in January and February for a period of six weeks. Emphasis is on acquisition of conversational skills in Arabic. Themes covered include: education and literature, culture and society, politics and economics and trade and tourism.
Prerequisites: Introductory Arabic B (ARAB1003 / SWAA1003) or equivalent
Three hours of lectures in the morning and workshop sessions in the afternoon five days per week in a city in northern India. The course will be held in January and February for a period of six weeks. Emphasis is on acquisition of conversational skills in Hindi.
Prerequisites: Introductory Hindi B (HIND1003/SWAH1003) and Basic Hindi Conversation B (HIND1007/SWAH1007)
Prerequisite: Introduction to Asian Performing Arts: Performance, Genres and Intercultural Translation (INDN3007/SWAH3007)
Aim: To focus on theoretical debates concerning the construction of the performance genres studied in the first semester. Study will focus on four topics: authenticity, identity, polity and technology.
Syllabus: The course will examine questions such as: how are our identities relevant to certain genres of performing arts? What is a nation or an ethnic group? In what sense can we 'own' a certain artistic tradition? What do we know of the past and what claims can its performing arts make on our lives? Weekly participation in performance laboratory sessions will be a feature of the course leading to an end-of-semester public performance.
Two hours per week. To be taken concurrently with Introductory Hindi A.
Prerequisite: Concurrent enrolment in Introductory Hindi A (HIND1002/SWAH1002)
Syllabus: Development of conversational skills for practical use of the spoken language.
Two hours per week. To be taken concurrently with Introductory Hindi B
Prerequisite: Introductory Hindi A (HIND1002/SWAH1002) and Basic Hindi Conversation A (HIND1006/SWAH1006). Concurrent enrolment in Introductory Hindi B (HIND1003/SWAH1003)
Syllabus: Development of conversational skills for practical use of the spoken language.
32 contact hours for the semester
Asian Societies and Histories Program
Prerequisite: Individual and Society in Contemporary Asia A or B (ASHI1002 or ASHI1003) or Introduction to Religion B (RELS1003)
Syllabus: This course is concerned with the world views of selected Buddhist traditions -- their context, history, philosophy, manifestations and impact on Asian cultures. We will examine the Indian background of Buddhism, how it was translated into Tibet, China and Japan, and how major philosophical and religious movements in India were adapted to East Asian ideas and symbols.
The course will be concerned mainly with a history of ideas in Asian Buddhism, and its aim is to give students a conceptual grasp of important Buddhist ideas, myths and symbols. In additions to these theoretical concerns, we will examine the connection between theory and practice and the cross-cultural ramifications of Buddhist thought.
Three hours of lectures and one hour of tutorial a week
Prerequisite: Introductory Sanskrit (SKRT1002/SWAS1002)
Syllabus: Reading of selections from the Buddhacarita, a sutra or another Buddhist text.
First semester (subject to enrolment numbers)
Prerequisite: Modern Chinese 4 (CHIN3021) or equivalent. Native speakers of Cantonese are not eligible.
Syllabus: An introduction to spoken Cantonese with emphasis on comparison with Modern Standard Chinese.
Second semester (subject to enrolment numbers)
Prerequisite: Cantonese A (CHIN3201) or permission of lecturer. Native speakers of Cantonese are not eligible.
Syllabus: Follow on from Cantonese A and completes the introduction to Cantonese. Students who successfully complete the two-course program will have a working knowledge of Cantonese.
32 contact hours for the semester
Asian Societies and Histories Program
Prerequisites: Individual and Society in Asia (A and B) (ASHI1002/ASHI1003) or comparable courses.
Syllabus: In the 1980s, China has undergone enormous social, political and economic changes. This course examines what it is like to be an ordinary person living in China today and secondly, the directions in which Chinese peoples' lives have changed in recent years. Issues include: rural-urban differences, kinship and gender relations, human rights, cultural change and the impact of capitalism and globalisation. The course looks critically at different perspectives that have been used in studies of Chinese society, focussing in particular on the ways in which scholars have addressed the interplay between social continuity and change, relationships between individuals, society and the state, and the epistemological and political issues that arise in cross-cultural examinations of society.
32 contact hours for the semester
Asian Societies and Histories Program
Prerequisite: 16 units from courses in Asian History or History or English
Syllabus: Song dynasty China (960-1278) belongs to a period of profound change in most aspects of Chinese social, economic and political structure. In particular, there seems to have been continuing economic growth at a level which is very rare in world history before the modern period.
This course will begin with a brief study of these changes, but its main focus will be on the culture of the Song period. It will emphasise the creativity and variety of Song literature and art, and the contemporary debates about them. While almost all the surviving material concerns the culture of the literate elite, we will give attention also to evidence on popular culture and its connections with the high tradition.
The practice, doctrine and organisation of religions, at both the elite and the popular level, will be studied. Students will be guided to an informed understanding of the main schools of philosophical thought, and the major thinkers who helped to create them. Insofar as it is possible without specialised technical study, the course will also examine the development of scientific knowledge in the period.
32 contact hours for the semester
Prerequisites: Individual and Society in Asia A (ASHI1002) or Individual and Society in Asia B (ASHI1003) or a first-year course in History or Anthropology from the Faculty of Arts.
Syllabus: Australia, New Zealand, and the adjacent islands of the Pacific have become one of the key new frontiers of Chinese migration. The Chinese now represent the largest Asian minority in these countries, of roughly Southeast Asian dimensions.
In the age of globalisation, dual or multiple identity, which Chinese migrants have long been accustomed to negotiating, have taken on fresh significance. With the study of nationalism increasingly concerned with diasporas and multiculturalism, the course will focus on the Chinese in Southeast Asia and the Southwest Pacific. Taught normally by a visiting specialist scholar funded by the Jennifer Cushman Memorial Fund, the course will cover both theoretical issues of diasporic identities, and the particular experience of the Chinese in Southeast Asia and the Southwest Pacific.
Prerequisite: Introductory Arabic B (ARAB1003/SWAA1003) or equivalent
Prerequisite: Introductory Arabic B (ARAB1003/SWAA1003) or equivalent
Syllabus: This course develops the materials of Classical Arabic A.
Thirty hours of classes a semester
Prerequisite: Modern Chinese 2 (CHIN2020) or Written Japanese B (JPNS1015) or equivalent.
Syllabus: The basic grammar of Classical Chinese and introductory readings.
Thirty hours of classes a semester
First semester (subject to enrolment numbers)
Thirty hours of classes a semester
Prerequisite: Classical Chinese 2 (CHIN3031)
Syllabus: Readings in Classical Chinese history, philosophy and poetry from various periods.
Second semester (subject to enrolment numbers)
Thirty hours of classes a semester
Prerequisite: Classical Chinese 3 (CHIN3032)
Syllabus: Further readings in Classical Chinese history, philosophy and poetry from various periods.
32 contact hours for the semester
Asian Societies & Histories Program
Prerequisite: A first-year unit in Asian History or History or permission of the Head of the Centre.
Syllabus: The political and cultural history of the Indianised kingdoms of Southeast Asia, which flourished from the fourth to the fifteenth centuries. The unit will explore the processes of state formation, religious change, and the aesthetics of court culture. It will involve the study of the archaeology of the early kingdoms, inscriptions and literary works (in translation), and contemporary Chinese ethnographies (in translation).
Special attention will be given to questions of historiography. Interpretations of the rise of the Indianised state have been deeply influenced by the ideologies of colonial power and decolonisation. Further, the relative poverty of sources for this period compels an acute appreciation of problems inherent in the economy of sources.
Thai Program. National Thai Studies Centre: Southeast Asia Centre (Students from Linguistics Program in the Faculty of Arts studying LING3008 may co-study in this course)
Prerequisites: Thai IB (THAI1003/SEAT1003) and Linguistics LING2005
Syllabus: The Tai language family includes Lao, Nung (in Vietnam), Zhuang (in China), Shan (in Burma) and Khamti (in India), in addition to Standard Thai. The relationship of these languages and their derivation from a common proto language will be critically studied using comparative-historical methods. The question of the wider relationship of the Tai family to other languages will be considered.
NOTE: First-year students will normally take ASIA1004; later-year students ASIA2002
Two lectures and one tutorial per week
Asian Societies and Histories Program
Syllabus: The course will explore the construction and representation of gender and sexuality in a variety of Asian literatures. Materials range from ancient to contemporary texts, which will all be presented in accessible English translation. The course aims to develop a basic historical background through the use of comparative materials from ancient and medieval texts through to modern and contemporary, as a basis for comparing the portrayal of gender and sexuality in literary texts across Asia. The theoretical underpinning of the course will be drawn from recent critical writings in the areas of feminism and literary and cultural studies.
Gender dynamics involve a complex interaction between female and male representations of each other and themselves, the material form of their society and the shared perceptions of that society. The course will explore such issues as: images of the feminine and masculine, the seemingly universal pattern of female subordination in traditional societies, distinctions between politics and culture, prescriptions of sexuality, the relation between gender and class, and the relation of gender to colonialism and nationalism.
Prerequisite: Introductory Arabic B (ARAB1003/SWAA1003) or equivalent
Syllabus: This course is devoted to reading texts from modern Arab writers, both fiction and non-fiction, with continuing development of conversational skills.
Prerequisite: Introductory Arabic B (ARAB1003/SWAA1003) or equivalent or equivalent
Syllabus: This course is devoted to reading texts from modern Arab writers, both fiction and non-fiction, with continuing development of conversational skills.
Classes are conducted primarily in Hindi. Two hours of lectures per week. To be taken concurrently with Advanced Hindi Conversation A.
Prerequisites: Introductory Hindi B (HIND1003/SWAH1003) and Basic Hindi Conversation B (HIND1007/SWAH1007). Concurrent enrolment in Advanced Hindi Conversation A (HIND2006/SWAH2006)
Syllabus: The course is devoted to readings from contemporary Hindi literature and comprises:
(a) Reading of Hindi short
stories or a short novel
(b) advanced discussion of Hindi grammatical usage and literary style
(c) comprehension of lectures given in Hindi.
Second semester. To be delivered intensively -- arrangements TBA
Asian Societies and Histories Program
Lecturers: Professor Milner and Ms Broinowski. The course will also draw upon the expertise and experience of a range of senior members, and former senior members, of Government departments in Canberra.
Syllabus: The ambitious Asia Programs of the Australian National University were initiated fifty years ago to support the Australian Government's postwar national re-orientation toward Asia. The application of knowledge about Asia to Government's engagement with the region is more important today than ever before, with Asian economies and Asian confidence still recovering from the 1997-8 crisis. This course involves (a) a brief overview of the development of Australian Government policy toward the Asian region: and (b) an introduction to the practical work of a number of Government departments and organisations in implementing that policy.
The course will be of particular interest to students intending to pursue a career in Government.
Asian Societies and Histories Program
Coordinator: Dr Quinn. The course will be team-taught with contributions from ANU academics (Faculty of Asian Studies and RSPAS) as well as experts from off-campus. In tutorial classes there is round-table discussion of the issues raised in lectures, and in the first weeks of the course films and TV reports will be shown. Current events in East Timor will be discussed.
Syllabus. The course provides an introduction to the main political, economic, social and strategic issues that East Timor will face in the first years of its independence. The first part of the course provides an overview of East Timor's past and present as an essential context for the study of its future. The major component of the course assesses the nation's future problems and prospects in diverse domains, concentrating on politics, the economy, community development and military/strategic issues. The course concludes with discussion of media perceptions of East Timor and issues in the scholarly study of East Timorese society.
Prerequisite: Individual & Society in Asia A (ASHI1002) or Individual & Society in Asia B (ASHI 1003), or from the Faculty of Arts: an approved Gender based unit, or a first year unit in History, Politics or Anthropology,
Syllabus: This course is a cultural history course in which the organisation and activities of the people on the Korean peninsula are approached from the point of view of various beliefs and practices concerning gender. The Korean experience is perhaps ideal for a study of this kind, since from traditional times its society had been organised according to a cosmic, explicit doctrine of gender.
The course begins with consideration of the chief issues that have been raised in writings on gender history, including whether there is a virtually universal pattern of female subordination in traditional societies and beyond, distinctions between biology, politics and culture, prescriptions of sexuality, the relation between gender and class, and the relations of gender to colonialism and nationalism.
This is followed by consideration of traditional gender relations in Korea on the basis of a variety of materials, including literature, and the alleged transformation of gender relations between the Koryo and Chosen dynasties.
The main focus of the course, however, will be placed on the 20th century, where we will deal specifically with the question of gender in relation to invasion, colonial rule, nationalism movements and modernisation.
Two hours of lectures devoted to readings from pre-modern Hindi literature. Classes are conducted primarily in Hindi. To be taken concurrently with Advanced Hindi Conversation B (HIND2007 / SWAH2007).
Prerequisites: Introductory Hindi B (HIND1003/SWAH1003) and Basic Hindi Conversation B (HIND1007/SWAH1007)
Three hours of lectures a week
Prerequisite: Introductory Sanskrit B (SKRT1003/SWAS1003)
Syllabus: Reading of selections from the Bhagavad Gita or a Purana or a similar text.
One two-hour lecture and one-hour tutorial a week. Lectures will be taped
Co-taught by the Asian Societies and Histories Program and School of Humanities (Faculty of Arts)
Lecturers: Dr Forth and Dr Powers
Prerequisite: At least twelve units in History (Arts) or Asian History
Syllabus: This course explores long-standing and recent debates over the nature of history, historians, and the past. The course will consider a wide variety of historical texts, looking at notions of historical truth, history as a process, and how historians construct an historical past. In particular, it will focus on theory and writing of history since the linguistic turn. Topics will include: the Annales School; social history; Marxist theories of history; 'postcolonial' critiques of history; Foucault and the new cultural history; feminist histories; and postmodernism and history.
Prerequisites: Introduction to the Study of Language (LING1001), Spoken Japanese 4 (JPNS2013), Written Japanese D (JPNS2015) or permission of Program convener.
Syllabus: The goals of the course are to see how the principles of historical and comparative linguistics are reflected in the history of Japanese. We will look at several important phonological and syntactic phenomena, (and at how they might be accounted for in various frameworks) both native and Western. Students will acquire a sense of the depth of the language, and an understanding of what is involved in doing historical linguistic research.
Syllabus: This course focuses on the changes brought by the imperialist expansion on the political, cultural, and economic fabric of Japanese society. With its successes in the Sino-Japanese War in 1895 and the Russo-Japanese War in 1904-05 Japan emerged as a great power in world history. Japan challenged the colonial interests of the Western powers in Asian continent and developed its expansionist ambitions. Starting from colonial bases in Taiwan and Korea, Japan launched a programme of military, economic and cultural expansion, first on the Asian mainland, and then in the islands of Southeast Asia and the Pacific. Although this programme of expansion ended more than 50 years ago, Japan's activities in Asia in the first half of this century remain unfinished business in a political sense. Even beyond the boundaries of the Japanese empire, the rest of Asia was affected in one or the other way by the Japanese military interlude, and those territories occupied by Japan experienced fundamental transformations. The issue of collaboration and the questions of reparations and of textbook history remain profoundly sensitive across the Asian continent. Through lectures, discussions and films, students will gain a better understanding of these historic changes and Japan's political and economic relations with its Asian neighbours today.
Two lectures and one tutorial weekly
Asian Societies and Histories Program
Syllabus: This course introduces students to some of the central issues that Asian nations have been facing in modern times, by focussing on the relations between the individual and the socio-political order, and between tradition and change. Major themes include the interaction of indigenous and western concepts of the rights and responsibilities of the individual, ideas relating to family and gender, and the impact of globalisation on the social and working lives of individuals. The course examines the major religious and cultural traditions of Asia and aims to develop a comparative understanding of Asian cultures and societies.
Two lectures and one tutorial weekly
Asian Societies and Histories Program
Lecturers: Dr Wells and Dr Reynolds
Syllabus: This course will continue discussion of the issues developed in First semester but will focus specifically on religion, colonialism and nationalism. Each of these three themes will be considered in their transcultural aspect and studied as instances of globalisation and localisation. Case histories from across the region -- South, Southeast, and East Asia -- will illustrate popular as well as elite perceptions of religion, colonialism and nationalism.
32 contact hours for the semester
Asian Societies and Histories Program
Prerequisite: A first-year course in Asian History or Anthropology, Economics, Economic History, History, Geography, Political Science or Sociology
Syllabus: The syllabus will focus on current political, economic and social issues and the post-independence developments that have given rise to the present situation. It will also deal with the cultural and intellectual aspects of these issues.
Syllabus: An introduction to spoken Indonesian covering the core vocabulary and grammar of the language, question-answer interaction and a practical command of four commonly occurring conversational topics/situations.
Prerequisite: Indonesian 1A (INDN1002/SEAI1002)
Syllabus: Further practice in spoken Indonesian with special emphasis on the mastery of the most frequent verb-forms and a practical command of four commonly occurring conversational topics/situations. A start is made on developing reading skills.
NOTE: The prerequisite for entry to Indonesian 2A is at least a high pass in Indonesian 1B, or permission of the convener of the Program.
Prerequisite: Indonesian 1B (INDN1003/SEAI1003) at the level of a high pass or permission of the convener of the Program
Four hours of lectures throughout the semester (may include language laboratory sessions).
Persian Program. Centre for Arab and Islamic Studies: Middle East and Central Asia (Faculty of Arts)
Prerequisite: Introductory Persian B (PERS1002) or equivalent, with permission of the lecturer.
Four hours of lectures throughout the semester (may include language laboratory sessions).
Persian Program. Centre for Arab and Islamic Studies: Middle East and Central Asia (Faculty of Arts).
Prerequisite: Intermediate Persian A (PERS2003) or equivalent, with permission of the lecturer.
32 contact hours for the semester
Asian Societies and Histories Program
Convener and principal lecturer: Dr Lankov. Other ANU specialists in the history, politics and international relations of the region will also contribute to the course.
Syllabus: This course will examine the international relations of Northeast Asia over the last hundred years, from the height of 'old' imperialist rivalry to the post-Soviet world. This region has been critical to global security since the 1930s. The main focus will be on the interactions of China, Japan, Korea, Russia/the USSR, the European powers and the United States through two centuries of upheaval and change.
Coordinator: Mr Widodo. It is planned to include lectures and workshops by visiting artists as well as by lecturers in the Institute of the Arts, the Faculty of Asian Studies and the Faculty of Arts.
Syllabus: Case studies and 'experiences' of attending or performing particular genres in the performance laboratory will be discussed and analysed in the context of intercultural translation. This will include issues such as: What is 'performance'? How do we read, understand and experience performances from other cultures? How do we translate performances? What are issues of inter-cultural performance?
The semester will conclude with a public performance by students based on their work in the performance laboratory.
Two hours of lectures and one one-hour tutorial a week
Co-taught by: Asian Religions Program/Faculty of Arts.
Syllabus: Methods in the study of religion. The question of religious evolution. Historic religions. The three Semitic religions (Judaism, Christianity and Islam), studied from the point of view of their historical relationships and their present situation in the world. Contemporary religious revivalism and fundamentalism. Women and religion.
Two hours of lectures and one one-hour tutorial a week
Asian Societies and Histories Program
Syllabus: Anthropological and philosophical approaches to religion. An introduction to Indian and Chinese religious traditions. A discussion of Eastern and Western views of religion from a philosophical perspective. Religion and ideology in the world today.
Syllabus: This course assumes no previous knowledge of the language. It covers the Arabic script and sound system and basic grammar rules. The teaching uses an audio-visual and audio-lingual approach, and is designed to develop the four skills of listening, speaking, reading and writing in an integrated way by the use of dialogues in realistic situations, class interaction and oral and written drills.
Prerequisite: Introductory Arabic A (ARAB1002/SWAA1002) or permission of Coordinator
Syllabus: This course extends Introductory Arabic A. Students will develop their conversational skills, study samples of modern Arabic literature and the press, and undertake translation from and into Arabic. As in the previous course, grammar is explained in its functional aspect using basic structures of Arabic in realistic situations.
Two hours of lectures a week throughout the semester. To be taken concurrently with Basic Hindi Conversation A
Prerequisite: Concurrent enrolment in Basic Hindi Conversation A (HIND1006/SWAH1006)
Two hours of lectures throughout the semester. To be taken concurrently with Basic Hindi Conversation B
Prerequisites: Introductory Hindi A (HIND1002/SWAH1002) and Basic Hindi Conversation A (HIND1006/SWAH1006). Concurrent enrolment in Basic Hindi Conversation B (HIND1007/SWAH1007)
Four hours of lectures throughout the semester (may include language laboratory sessions).
Persian Program. Centre for Arab and Islamic Studies: Middle East and Central Asia (Faculty of Arts)
Four hours of lectures throughout the semester (may include language laboratory sessions).
Persian Program. Centre for Arab and Islamic Studies: Middle East and Central Asia (Faculty of Arts)
Prerequisite: Introductory Persian A (PERS1001) or equivalent, with permission of the lecturer)
First semester (subject to enrolment numbers). Prospective students should contact the Faculty Secretary, Asian Studies, before enrolling.
(Incompatible with AREL2815 Trends in Modern Islamic Thought)
Co-taught by: Asian Societies and Histories program/Centre for Arab and Islamic Studies: Middle East and Central Asia (Faculty of Arts)
Convener: Dr Hajjar with Professor Saikal
Syllabus: Students will be presented with a survey of the history of Islam from the seventh century to the present day. The unit also examines the development of the central institutions of Islam in the context of that history. Special attention will be paid to those institutions and events (The Koran, the Holy Law and the Caliphate) which determine the substance and allusions of modern political debate in Muslim communities in the Middle East and Southeast Asia
One lecture (one hour) and one tutorial (one and a half hour) of classes a week.
Prerequisite: Written Japanese B (JPNS1015) and Spoken Japanese 4 (JPNS2013) or permission of the Program convener. No previous knowledge/skills of Japanese word-processor is required. English word-processor skills are preferred but not essential.
Syllabus: The course aims to provide the students with the opportunity (i) to further develop Japanese writing and reading competence, and (ii) to develop Japanese communication skills using information technology. The course introduces the students to relevant knowledge needed for dealing with Japanese word-processors, email and internet systems, and also studies the formal Japanese language focussing on reading and writing skills using these facilities.
By the end of the course, successful learners will be expected to be able to:
(i) obtain further advanced
knowledge/skills of reading and writing Japanese passages on various
topics;
(ii) summarise Japanese articles on various topics;
(iii) produce formal Japanese passages using a Japanese word-processor;
and
(iv) use Japanese email and internet systems.
Assessment will be based on assignments, practical exercises and projects using information technology, and submitted by email.
Asian Societies and Histories Program
Lecturers: Professor Corbett, Professor Drysdale
Syllabus: The economy of Japan since World War II; the course is concerned with the political economy of Japan and focuses on post-World War 2 economic growth, the development of economic institutions and on economic policy issues.
Three hours of classes a week.
Prerequisite: Written Japanese B (JPNS1015) and Spoken Japanese 4 (JPNS2013) or permission of the convener of the Program
Syllabus: The course aims to provide a systematic treatment of modern Japanese grammar for intermediate/advanced students of the language. All major aspects will be covered, ranging from inflection and grammatical word classes (particles, etc), to grammatical derivation (causative, passive, etc) and clause and sentence construction. Lectures will be supplemented by regular exercises, with the objective of consolidating and extending students' grammatical knowledge and proficiency.
Note: Those who have completed Year-in-Japan are not permitted to enrol in this course.
Prerequisites: Introduction to the Study of Language (LING1001/LING2001) or permission of the convener of the Program. Some knowledge of Japanese is desirable but not essential.
Syllabus: The course will examine certain characteristic features of modern Japanese from a general linguistic perspective. A selection of topics will be discussed in conjunction with relevant literature.
Prerequisites: Introduction to Study of Language (LING1001/LING2001) and Spoken Japanese 2 (JPNS1013) or equivalent
Syllabus: The first half of the course will focus on then pronunciation of Japanese vowels and consonants and will include practical exercises on the description and production of long and short vowels and double consonants, the mora nasal, devoicing, accent patterns etc. The second half of the course will be devoted to the description of structural aspects of the Japanese sound system.
Preliminary reading: To be drawn from prepared reading brick
One hour of class a week and one hour of class a fortnight throughout the year.
Available to third year students (fourth year combined degree) who have been judged by the Japan Centre as potential honours students. The course has two goals:
(a) Develop research techniques
(Bibliographies and Japanese-language materials: Indexes, Personal
Names, Biographies, Genealogies, Dictionaries, Encyclopaedias, Translations,
Japanese Libraries and Research Institutions, Internet search.)
(b) Teach classical Japanese grammar and introduce students to pre-
and early twentieth-century texts.
The course will be team taught by the Japan Centre staff and other scholars involved in Japanese Studies at the ANU, with a view to introducing students to potential supervisors and to the areas of research available at ANU.
We will also discuss content and presentation of an honours thesis and speak to current and past students as well as look at the structures of past theses.
Students must enrol in this course, each semester, to complete the study requirement.
Prerequisites: Year-in-Japan (JPNS3550/JPNS3500) or permission of Head of Centre
Syllabus: Extensive reading in contemporary Japanese texts on social, religious, historical, and cultural themes, and discussion of issues raised. No English translation involved. Essays in Japanese will be required.
Lecturers: Mr Ikeda, Dr Hendriks
Prerequisites: Completion of Year-in-Japan (JPNS3550/JPNS3500) or an equivalent level of competence or permission of Program convener.
Syllabus: The aim of the course is to develop Japanese-English translation skills and to familiarise students with available reference and technological resources. Students will translate original Japanese and English texts from a range of fields and genres (economic, political, technical, medical, journalistic, etc) and will be introduced to major lexicographical and other reference materials.
32 contact hours for the semester
Asian Societies and Histories Program
Prerequisites: One successful year of university study.
Syllabus: The course focuses on the ways in which contemporary societies produce knowledge and are in turn shaped by knowledge systems. It considers how traditional knowledge systems and modern scientific systems function and interact, paying particular attention to ideas regarding how knowledge is generated, communicated, accumulated, and institutionalised.
Perspectives on knowledge to be explored include religious experience and social tradition as knowledge; scientific knowledge and ideas of development and progress; links between knowledge, power and control; and knowledge as systems of shared meaning or understanding. The course examines the experience of a range of Asian societies as well as drawing on western experience. In assignments it will be possible for students to concentrate on countries in which they have a particular interest.
This course satisfies the pre-honours requirement for students planning to do an honours degree in Asian Studies.
Prerequisite: Background knowledge of Korean to be assessed by a placement test and the permission of the convener of the Program
Syllabus: This course is designed to assist students to upgrade their literacy skills in a systematic way. While expanding and refining the student's language resource, this course pays particular attention to developing all-round language skills, to the choice of the right word, and to writing in different genres.
Prerequisite: Korean for Background Speakers A (KORE2015/CHIK2015) or background knowledge of Korean to be assessed by a placement test and the permission of the convener of the Program
Syllabus: A continuation of the work in Korean for Background Speakers A.
Prerequisites: Korean for Background Speakers B (KORE2016/CHIK2016) or equivalent
Syllabus: A continuation of the work in Korean for Background Speakers B, including the acquisition of Sino-Korean characters, Hanja.
Prerequisite: Completion of Year-in-Korea (KORE3550/CHIK 3500/CHIK3550), Year-in-Korea FBS (KORE3552/CHIK3552) or permission of the convener of the Program
Syllabus: Extensive readings and discussion in Korean of Korean texts on economic, political, legal, cultural and other topics. Written Korean-English, ad Korean summaries of English language texts. Basic interpreting skills. The selection of material to be studied each year will take account of the needs of the students.
Prerequisite: Completion of Year-in-Korea (KORE3550/CHIK 3500/CHIK3550), Year-in-Korea FBS (KORE3552/CHIK3552) or permission of the convener of the Program
NOTE: First-year students will normally take ASIA1001; later-year students ASIA2001
May be delivered intensively/flexibly over two weekends, complemented by assignment work.
Prerequisite: Introduction to the Study of Language (LING1001/LING2001)
Syllabus: The course aims to familiarise students with the linguistic situation in Asia. It investigates the major languages of the region from the perspective of their genetic status, their historical development and interaction, their major typological features, and their present-day social position. Sample topics discussed will include writing-systems, the role of classical varieties, patterns of borrowing, honorifics, and language standardisation, with illustration from the range of Asian languages taught at the ANU. Students enrolled in ASIA2001 will be required to undertake additional reading and assignments.
First semester (subject to enrolment numbers)
Thai Program. National Thai Studies Centre/Southeast Asia Centre
32 contact hours for the semester
Asian Societies and Histories Program
Syllabus: The purpose of this course is to introduce students to the legal cultures of Southeast Asia, an area of immediate importance to Australia. Legally speaking the area is one of the most complex in the world for law; it comprises: Burmese, Thai, Khmer and Java-Bali laws (the so-called Indian group), the Malay and cognate laws (the Islamic group), the Vietnamese (the Chinese group); on the European side we have Spanish, Portuguese, French, Dutch and English laws. These laws exist today in varying combinations, occasionally in harmony, often in mixed or hybrid forms and, not infrequently, in conflict.
Part 1 of this course provides an historical outline of these systems. In Part 2 we choose from among a number of contemporary issues which include the following: Constitutional law; Family law; Women and religious law (Islam); Laws applicable to the overseas Chinese; Customary law of the land; Current law reforms in selected states; Islamic law in Southeast Asia; Colonial law and Legal pluralism.
First semester (subject to enrolment numbers)
Prerequisites: Indonesian 2B (INDN2003/SEAI2003) or equivalent, or permission of Coordinator
Syllabus: With emphasis on the study of Indonesian-language texts the course examines how state power is projected in the realm of language and literature and how this power has been resisted in post-independence Indonesia. After surveying the state-managed propagation of the Indonesian language and state-defined norms of correctness and good style, the course looks at several case studies of literary censorship, focussing on ideas in the texts and the political/religious rationales for the censorship of them. The case studies are drawn from activist drama, public poetry, and polemical prose fiction with special emphasis on comedy as an activist weapon. The course is team-taught.
Asian Histories and Society Program
Incompatible with ASHY 2013 and 2014 delivered in 1999
Prerequisite: Individual and Society in Asia A (ASHI1002) and B (ASHI1003), Introduction to Religions B (RELS1003) or two introductory units in history, politics, anthropology from listings in the Faculty of Arts, or equivalent units from other universities.
Syllabus: Through historical examples from Vietnam, Burma, Thailand, Laos, and Cambodia, this course will emphasise the study of mainland Southeast Asia in a comparative framework, with particular attention to political culture, the production of knowledge, concepts of `civilisation', and emerging civil societies in the twentieth century.
Four class hours, and one hour in the language laboratory a week
Prerequisite: Introductory Arabic B (ARAB1003/SWAA1003) or equivalent
Syllabus: This course is devoted to the language and style of the Arabic press and radio. The material covers ordinary news items, printed or broadcast. The course provides students who have mastered basic grammar, with an introduction to the language of the Arabic media and develops their basic listening and interpreting skills.
Four class hours, and one hour in the language laboratory a week
Prerequisite: Introductory Arabic B (ARAB1003/SWAA1003) or equivalent
Syllabus: This course develops further the materials of Media Arabic A (ARAB2003 / SWAA2003).
Five hours of lectures and five of tutorials each week
Syllabus: This is the first half of a one-year intensive beginners program in modern standard Chinese (Putonghua). The main aim of this semester is to enable the students to make a good start in spoken Chinese while also beginning to learn the script.
Five hours of lectures and five of tutorials each week
Prerequisite: Modern Chinese 1 (CHIN1020) or equivalent
Syllabus: This course completes the intensive beginners program in modern standard Chinese, continuing work in the spoken language while putting more emphasis on the written language than in Modern Chinese 1. Students who complete the year successfully will have a good grasp of the fundamentals of written and spoken Chinese.
Prerequisite: Modern Chinese 2 (CHIN2020) or equivalent
Syllabus: This course, with Modern Chinese 4 (CHIN3021), is designed to raise students' competence in reading, writing and speaking through the use of a variety of approaches and media, including texts and audio and video recordings.
Prerequisite: Modern Chinese 3 (CHIN3020) or equivalent
Syllabus: A continuation of the work in Modern Chinese 3 (CHIN3020).
Prerequisite: Modern Chinese 4 (CHIN3021) or equivalent
Syllabus: This course, with Modern Chinese 6 (CHIN3023), is designed to enable students to reach advanced levels of competence in reading, speaking and writing modern Chinese. A wider range of texts will be read and discussed in Chinese. There will be a study of selected aspects of Chinese grammar.
Prerequisite: Modern Chinese 5 (CHIN3022) or equivalent
Syllabus: A continuation of the work in Modern Chinese 5 (CHIN3022) and an introduction to the original complex forms of simplified Chinese characters and language variation used in Taiwan.
Prerequisites: No previous knowledge of Japan or Japanese is required
Syllabus: Readings will cover poetry, fiction and critical material. The course will explore the social and literary environment which produced certain texts, treating Japanese modern literature as a window onto Japanese society and its concerns. The course will focus on such issues as: the evolution of modern Japanese literature; the development of new styles; elements of continuity with the past; the formation of the Japanese canon (both in Japan and in the West through translation); the dichotomy between pure and popular literature; and the impact of the West on post-Meiji work.
32 contact hours for the semester
Asian Societies and Histories Program
Prerequisite: A first-year course in History, Asian History, Politics, or Anthropology.
Syllabus: This course is an introductory course on modern Japanese society, which provides students with basic understanding and introduces key issues and various perspectives to analyse these issues. While it covers major economic and political events after the Meiji restoration of 1868 to the present, its main focus is on the consequences of these events on social, intellectual and cultural aspects. The course aims to provoke questions about assumptions behind the perspectives, such as the notion of an East/West dichotomy and the totality of national culture. It also tries to see the historicity of conventional understandings of modern Japanese society. It sets out to examine when, how and why these understandings were constructed, and it considers the implications of recent events. Students will be encouraged to bring in a comparative perspective in tutorials and essays.
Lecturers: Dr Quinn and Mr Widodo
Prerequisite: Indonesian 1B (INDN1003/SEAI1003)
Syllabus: The basics of modern spoken Javanese, including mastery of the honorific levels, phonology, grammar and the role of the language in modern Indonesia.
Lecturers: Dr Quinn and Mr Widodo
Prerequisite: Modern Javanese A (JAVA2005/SEAI2005)
Syllabus: Further practice in spoken Javanese. Reading of fiction and non-fiction in modern Javanese.
32 contact hours for the Semester
Asian Societies and Histories Program
Prerequisites: A first-year course in history, politics, anthropology, religious studies or permission of the lecturer
Syllabus: The course will introduce students to the history of modern Korea, with a focus on Korean nationalism. The course is divided into three periods, the Early Modern Period (1800-1910, the Colonial Period (1905-1945), and the Era of Division (1945 to the present), and examines the chief internal and external forces which shaped the Korean nation up to the late 1980s. In particular, the course examines the ferment in education, religion, and the political and economic ideologies, as the nation falls under Japanese colonial rule and then splits into two states as a result of World War II and the subsequent Cold War.
Prerequisites: Introductory Hindi B (HIND1003/SWAH1003) and Basic Hindi Conversation B (HIND1007/SWAH1007)
Syllabus: The course is devoted to readings from nineteenth-century Hindi literature. Classes are conducted primarily in Hindi. To be taken concurrently with Advanced Hindi Conversation D (HIND3007/SWAH3007).
Reading of nineteenth-century Hindi literature:
(a) advanced discussion
of Hindi grammatical usage and literary style
(b) comprehension of lectures given in Hindi.
Asian Societies and Histories Program
Syllabus. This course introduces the structure and workings of the political system of China. It examines the development of China's revolution before and since the establishment of the People's Republic in 1949. The course includes such topics as the role of the Communist Party and other formal and informal political groups. It also examines such issues as: political leadership in china, state and society, the role of the military, political dissent and opposition, the politics of post-Mao reform, nationalism and China's foreign policy, the growing importance of provincial politics, the importance of ethnic minorities, the prospects for change, and the values and interests involved in policy-making and social control.
First semester/second semester/summer session
Asian Societies and Histories Program
Prerequisite: Two years successful university study.
The aim is to give students towards the end of their degree an opportunity to apply in a work environment the knowledge and skills they have acquired. This involves a ten week full-time (12 units) or half-time (6 units) placement with either a public sector or private sector organisation in Australia, during which the student undertakes an agreed project or duties that will provide experience in using and further developing their Asian Studies knowledge in an organisation context, while learning about the operations of the organisation itself.
During the placement the student will receive advice and direction from a designated supervisor within the organisation and a supervisor from the Faculty. Details of the project to be undertaken will be agreed by the supervisors in consultation with the student.
Assessment will be based on: (1) a learning journal kept by the student reflecting on tasks undertaken, the organisation and the knowledge and skills acquired, and an overall evaluation of the placement; and (2) a report on the student's performance by the organisational supervisor during the placement.
Students wanting to undertake an assignment should apply to the Coordinator no less than three months in advance. Placements will be subject to availability.
Prerequisite: Completion of Year-in-Korea (KORE3550/CHIK3500/CHIK3550) or Year-in-Korea FBS (KORE3552/CHIK3552) and permission of the Coordinator. Intending students should apply to the Coordinator no less than four months in advance. Placement will be subject to availability of a hosting organisation in Korea.
Syllabus: The aim is to give returning students from their Year-in-Korea an opportunity to apply in a work environment their Korean language skills and knowledge about the culture.
The course involves a twenty week (12 units), or ten week (6 units), half-time placement with a private sector organisation in the Republic of Korea. During the placement, the student undertakes an agreed project or duties that will provide experience in extending their linguistic and cultural competence in an organisational context, while learning about the operations of the organisation itself. While in Korea the student will receive advice and direction from a designated supervisor within the organisation and a supervisor from the Faculty. Details of the project to be undertaken will be agreed by the supervisors in consultation with the student.
Assessment will be based on a learning journal maintained by the student reflecting on tasks undertaken, the organisation and the knowledge and the skills acquired, and an overall evaluation of the placement, and a report on the student's performance by the organisational supervisor during the placement.
First semester/second semester/summer session/winter session. Six weeks participation in an approved professional organisation in Indonesia or Thailand
Indonesian Program and Thai Program
Coordinators: Professor V. Hooker and Dr Diller
Prerequisite: Distinction (or above) in a second year Asian language course or equivalent and permission of the coordinator, or completion of any third year language course and permission of the coordinator. May be taken at any time after completion of second year language courses (or equivalent) with prior approval of the coordinator. Ability to finance travel to and from destination and pay for a visa and living expenses for the period of participation in the organisation. Students will not receive remuneration for their participation in the organisation.
Syllabus: Students will be required to attend four weeks of regular briefing sessions before departure. These will cover the background of the organisations with which they will work, current in-country situation, and basic skills such as letter writing in the target language and business etiquette.
Before departure students will select an assignment topic in consultation with the coordinator. While participating in the organisation they will collect material for their topic and may begin writing it.
Asian Societies and Histories Program
Prerequisites: At least 30 units taught in the Centre for Asian Societies and Histories OR equivalent OR permission of the instructor.
Syllabus: This seminar is designed for third-year students intending to do honours in the Faculty of Asian Studies. Students will be introduced to planning a research project, to a variety of research techniques and to a range of disciplinary approaches. Academic staff in the Faculty will be invited to share their expertise with the class.
First semester (subject to enrolment numbers)
Second semester -- Offered in alternate years with INDN3016/SEAI3006 Literary Activism and State Power (subject to enrolment numbers).
Prerequisite: Indonesian 3B (INDN3003/SEAI3003) or equivalent.
(a) Brief history
and survey of the role of the media in contemporary Indonesia
(b) Reading and translating extracts from the Indonesian print media
on a variety of topics and in a variety of styles
(c) Attention will be given to the regional press
Asian Societies and Histories Program
Prerequisite: The permission of the Head of the Centre for Asian Societies and Histories, based on evidence of strong ability and motivation.
Syllabus: An individual course of readings on a topic identified by the student in consultation with the coordinator. The focus will be on English language material but students with particular Asian language skills will be encouraged to use them where possible. Weekly meetings to discuss material covered will be on a one-to-one basis.
Asian Societies and Histories Program
Prerequisite: The permission of the Head of the Centre for Asian Societies and Histories, based on evidence of strong ability and motivation.
Syllabus: An individual course of readings on a topic identified by the student in consultation with the coordinator. The focus will be English language but students with particular Asian language skills will be encouraged to use them where possible. Weekly meetings to discuss material covered will be on a one-to-one basis.
Prerequisites: Enrolment in Asian Studies Honours, or permission of the convener of the Program
Syllabus: The course draws on pre-modern, modern, or contemporary materials, as appropriate, with a view to developing students' research and bibliographic skills in advanced studies in the humanities and social sciences.
Prescribed texts: Materials will be selected after consultation between the lecturer and each student.
Prerequisites: Enrolment in Asian Studies Honours, or permission of the convener of the Program
Syllabus: The course draws on pre-modern, modern, or contemporary materials, as appropriate, with a view to developing students' research and bibliographic skills in advanced studies in the humanities and social sciences.
Prescribed texts: Materials will be selected after consultation between the lecturer and each student.
Prerequisites: Enrolment in Asian Studies Honours, or permission of Head of Centre
Syllabus: The course draws on pre-modern, modern, or contemporary materials, as appropriate, with a view to developing students' research and bibliographic skills in advanced studies in the humanities and social sciences.
Prescribed texts: Materials will be selected after consultation between the lecturer and each student.
Prerequisites: Enrolment in Asian Studies Honours, or permission of Head of Centre
Syllabus: The course draws on pre-modern, modern, or contemporary materials, as appropriate, with a view to developing students' research and bibliographic skills in advanced studies in the humanities and social sciences.
Prescribed texts: Materials will be selected after consultation between the lecturer and each student.
Thirty two hours of classes a semester
Prerequisite: Modern Chinese 4 (CHIN3021) or permission of the convener of the Program
Syllabus: Extensive reading in modern Chinese literature and thought and discussion of the texts. The main emphasis will be on contemporary writing.
Thirty two hours of classes a semester
Prerequisite: Modern Chinese 4 (CHIN3021) or permission of the convener of the Program
Syllabus: Extensive reading in contemporary Chinese texts on law and discussion of legal and social issues raised.
Fortnightly meetings with lecturers
Hindi, Sanskrit, Urdu and Persian Programs.
Prerequisites: Two years' study of a South Asian language taught in the South and West Asia Centre, e.g. Hindi, Urdu, Persian (in relation to South Asia) or Sanskrit, with at least a high credit result in the second semester of the second year or in the Applied Hindi summer course and permission of the convener of the Program.
Syllabus: The content of the course is decided by consultation between each student and the supervising lecturer. Students read widely in all aspects of the culture of the language studied, including literature, linguistics, anthropology, religious studies, politics and mass media. Texts studied should be primarily in one of the relevant languages with supplementary material in English. Students present short reports on their reading every fortnight.
Not offered at undergraduate level in 2002
First semester -- at graduate level only
Fortnightly meetings with lecturers
Indonesian, Thai and Vietnamese Programs.
Coordinator: Professor V. Hooker
Prerequisites: Completion of Year-in-Asia, or Distinction in third year language or permission of the Coordinator. Intending students will be expected to have a Distinction average in language.
N.B. Students are strongly advised to take a supporting course (about historical background, culture, linguistics, anthropology etc) before enrolling in this vernacular language Reading Course.
Syllabus: The content of the course is decided by consultation between each student and the supervising lecturer. Students read widely in a vernacular language about Southeast Asia on one of the following: literature, socio-linguistics, religion, popular culture, political culture. Students present short reports on their reading every fortnight, prepare a bibliography based on vernacular holdings in the ANU libraries and write a long essay analysing their reading topic.
(Incompatible with ASHI2010 Asia and Australia in the Visual Media I -- now defunct)
32 contact hours for the semester
Prerequisite: A first or later year unit dealing with Asian or Australian society, or one year of an Asian language, or the Faculty of Arts course FILM1001 Introduction to Film Studies A & FILM 1001 Introduction to Film Studies B
Syllabus: The course will take as its texts feature films plus some documentaries by both Western and Southeast Asian directors to explore the following issues:
First semester (subject to enrolment numbers)
32 contact hours (Delivered in seminar format)
Asian Societies and Histories Program
Prerequisite: Taken only by later year students with permission of Course convener
Syllabus: This course treats the development of Japanese Culture from earliest times to the early 19th century in the context of the major political and social forces that moulded the country's history. The course covers major periods and cultural epochs of Japanese history, but particular attention will be paid to samurai culture and systems of social control from the 12th century onwards. The themes to be covered include the formation and the evolving conceptions of Japan's identity, politics, economic development, social trends, and religion, as well as Japan's interaction with Asian and European civilisations.
To provide students with a basic factual knowledge in Japanese history and to assist them in understanding modern Japanese society in its historical context;
To develop the ability to assess and think critically about historical issues
Prerequisite: Introductory Sanskrit B (SKRT1003/SWAS1003)
Syllabus: Reading of selections from the Mahabharata and the Ramayana
Prerequisite: Introductory Sanskrit B (SKRT1003/SWAS1003)
Syllabus. Reading of selections from the Hitopadesa or Jatakamala or a similar text.
Prerequisite: Year-in-India (Hindi) (HIND3550/SWAH3500/SWAH3550) or permission of the Program convener.
Syllabus: Treatment of topics in Hindi language and literature. This course is intended to build upon the experience gained by students in the Year-in-India, and will be conducted in Hindi. It will be tailored to the needs of individual students and will involve an extensive essay written in Hindi.
Four hours of classes and one hour of language laboratory study a week
Prerequisite: Spoken Japanese 2 (JPNS1013) or equivalent.
(a) Grammar and
vocabulary
(b) structure and usage drills
(c) listening comprehension
(d) speaking skills
Syllabus: This course introduces students to modern spoken Korean and to its writing system, Hangeul. It lays the foundations for later Korean language courses.
Prerequisite: Spoken Korean 1 (KORE1020/CHIK1020) or equivalent
Syllabus: Spoken Korean 2 completes the beginner's course in modern Spoken Korean. The emphasis is firmly on the acquisition of an ability to use the language, and by the end of the course students will be able to conduct a simple daily conversation and to find their way around in Korea.
Prerequisite: Spoken Korean 2 (KORE1021/CHIK1021) or equivalent
Syllabus: This course extends the students command of modern Spoken Korean. While focussing on various themes relevant to daily lives, this course introduces basic functions in Korean; including requesting, offering, thanking, apologising, asking for and giving directions.
Prerequisite: Spoken Korean 3 (KORE2020/CHIK2020) or equivalent
Syllabus: This course continues to pursue more complex themes in daily life, such as money matters, immigration, education and employment, this course also provides a systematic practice of a wide range of functions in Korean.
First semester
Three hours of classes per week
Prerequisites: Completion of Year-in-Japan (JPNS3550/JPNS3500) or an equivalent level of competence or permission of Program convener.
Syllabus: This course focuses on the teaching of Japanese to English-speaking learners from the viewpoint of the linguistic and sociocultural content of Japanese language courses. The broad areas of sound, writing, grammar, vocabulary and discourse are surveyed from this perspective, with detailed consideration of specific topics and analysis of learner errors.
Three hours of classes per week
Prerequisites: Teaching Japanese: Content (JPNS3012) or permission of Program convener.
Syllabus: This course focuses on methodological aspects of teaching Japanese as a foreign language. Topics include approaches to language teaching, program and task design, the teaching of culture, and materials evaluation; the course may also include a practical teaching component.
Asian Societies and Histories Program
Prerequisites: 12 units of non-language study offered by either the Faculty of Asian Studies or the Faculty of Arts
Syllabus: The course will explore the relationships between technology and society, covering indigenous technological traditions, western influences and current trends and policies. While much of the course will relate specifically to China, Japan, Korea and Indonesia, the issues covered will have wider applicability. Students will have the opportunity to focus their work on countries and issues in which they have a particular interest.
(a) the social
impact and historical significance or particular innovations
(b) interrelationships between technology, society, and state and
the environment
(c) the roles of the state and the private sector in supporting
and controlling technological change
(d) the conditions required for successful innovation and technological
development.
First semester (subject to enrolment numbers)
Five class hours and one tutorial a week
Thai Program. National Thai Studies Centre/Southeast Asia Centre
Five class hours and one tutorial a week
Thai Program. National Thai Studies Centre/Southeast Asia Centre
Thai Program. National Thai Studies Centre/Southeast Asia Centre
Thai Program. National Thai Studies Centre/Southeast Asia Centre
Thai Program. National Thai Studies Centre/Southeast Asia Centre
Thai Program. National Thai studies Centre / Southeast Asia Centre
Thai Program. National Thai Studies Centre/Southeast Asia Centre
Prerequisite: Completion of or concurrent enrolment in Thai 3A (THAI3002/SEAT3002)
Thai Program. National Thai Studies Centre/Southeast Asia Centre
Prerequisites: Introductory Hindi B (HIND1003/SWAH1003) and Basic Hindi Conversation B (HIND1007/SWAH1007)
Syllabus: The course is devoted to readings from twentieth-century Hindi literature with continuing development of conversational skill through classes conducted primarily in Hindi. To be taken concurrently with Advanced Hindi Conversation C (HIND3006/SWAH3006).
Reading of twentieth-century Hindi literature
(a) advanced discussion of Hindi grammatical usage and literary style
32 contact hours for the semester
Asian Societies and Histories Program
Syllabus: How have we come to understand 'contemporary Japan' as we do in the 2000s? What have been the most contentious political, ideological, economic and social issues with which the Japanese people and foreign observers have grappled in the postwar period? This course aims to understand post World War development in Japan, and to study the various perspectives that shape this understanding. One of the most dominant perspectives in English language literature has been modernisation theory. It became dominant in the 1950s and 1960s particularly in the United States, and it greatly influenced the formation of 'knowledge of Japan' in English speaking countries, such as the United States, and in Australia. What was it, who promoted it, and why? Who opposed it, and why? What was the difference between its reception in Japan and other countries, and how did this influence `knowledge' of postwar Japan? By posing these questions, the course also aims to revisit and evaluate political, ideological, economic and social change during the postwar period in Japan. Previous study of the course Modern Japanese Society is not compulsory, but it is highly desirable. Previous study of history, politics or anthropology would also be useful.
Prerequisite: Introductory Hindi B (HIND1003/SWAH1003) and Basic Hindi Conversation B (HIND1007/SWAH1007)
Prerequisite: Introductory Hindi B (HIND1003/SWAH1003) and Basic Hindi Conversation B (HIND1007/SWAH1007)
32 contact hours for the semester
Asian Societies & Histories Program
Course Coordinator: Mr Jacob Ramsay
Prerequisites: Individual & Society Asia A (ASHI1002)/Individual & Society in Asia B (ASH1003), or the permission of the course convener
Syllabus: ?Resistance, is a dominant theme in Vietnamese history. Tied closely to the theme of ?resistance, are notions of unity, adversity and tradition. Recent scholarship suggests, however, that ?resistance, is part of a modern narrative developed in conjunction with Vietnamese nationalism during the formative years of anti-colonialism, prior to World War II, and adapted to political ends in the thirty years of war and revolution, between 1945 and 1975. Perceptions of community, change, tradition and modernity will form the backdrop for an investigation into ?resistance,, to which the development of Vietnamese nationalism and the formation of Vietnamese nationhood will be linked.
The course will deal with the French colonial period (1862-1954), the thirty years of revolution and war (1945-1975), and the post-1975 period of national unity. Emphasis will be placed on the colonial setting, and the role played by political and social movements in shaping Vietnamese nationhood, and the narrative of ?resistance., Students will be encouraged to develop a critical awareness of how political ?realities,, such as ?resistance,, are shaped and perceived. Issues to be raised are: Western intellectualism in the colonial setting, the development of a Vietnamese national identity, and Vietnamese historiography.
Syllabus: An introduction to contemporary spoken and written Vietnamese. This course introduces the tones, essential syntax and the writing system of the Vietnamese language. By working through a series of graded and contextualised dialogues the students will begin to develop reading, writing, listening and speaking skills. The context of language use includes greetings, the individual, the family, time and date. Attention is given to the social and cultural context of language use.
Vietnamese Program Coordinator: Mr Quynh-Du
Prerequisite: Vietnamese 1A (VIET1002/SEAV1002) or equivalent
Syllabus: This course builds on the previous course, VIET1002. It deals with the question of tense, usage of conjunctions and more complex particles. The context of language use covers comparisons, directions, distances and modes of transport, the human body and basic health terms. Attention is given to the social and cultural context of language use.
Prerequisite: Vietnamese 1B (VIET1003/SEAV1003) or equivalent
Syllabus: An intermediate level of Vietnamese with an emphasis on active oral and writing skills. This course consolidates and builds on the foundation set in the first year. It focuses on active production of language in selected contexts to promote active recall of vocabulary items and their usage in the appropriate context using the correct grammatical form in accordance with accepted conversational conventions. A reading program forms a part of the course.
Prerequisite: Vietnamese 2A (VIET2002/SEAV2002) or equivalent
Syllabus: This course is an intermediate level of Vietnamese with an emphasis on active oral and writing skills. It focuses on communicating in Vietnamese in the context of daily life activities in Vietnam and places an emphasis on areas of accommodation, travel, social customs and education. A reading program forms an integral part of the syllabus.
Prerequisite: Vietnamese 2B (VIET2003/SEAV2003) or equivalent
Syllabus: The course focuses on language usage at an advanced intermediate level in a number of selected settings directly relevant to life in Vietnam. Contexts of language use include aspects of life in Vietnam such as education system, family, social institutions and tourism. A reading program including selected writings by twentieth-century Vietnamese authors forms a part of the course.
Prerequisite: Vietnamese 3A (VIET3002/SEAV3002) or equivalent
Syllabus: The course focuses on language usage at an advanced intermediate level in a number of selected settings directly relevant to life in Vietnam. Contexts of language use include aspects of life in Vietnam such as culture, religion, social institutions, recreation and sports. A speaking weekly program forms a part of the course.
Prerequisite: Interview with the coordinator
Syllabus: This course is designed for Vietnamese native speakers who can speak the language but have no formal experience in reading and writing Vietnamese. Students will be taught the writing system, tones, tone markings and diacritics, and practice reading and writing.
After this course, students may progress to later-year Vietnamese courses.
Prerequisites: Concurrent enrolment in, or previous completion of, Spoken Japanese 1(JPNS1012) or permission of the Program convener.
Prerequisites: Spoken Japanese 1 (JPNS1012) and Written Japanese A (JPNS1014). Concurrent enrolment in, or previous completion of Spoken Japanese 2 (JPNS1013), or permission of the Program convener.
Three hours of classes per week
Prerequisites: Spoken Japanese 2 (JPNS1013) and Written Japanese B (JPNS1015) or equivalent. Concurrent enrolment in or previous completion of Spoken Japanese 3 (JPNS2012), or permission of the Program convener.
Prerequisites: Spoken Japanese 3 (JPNS2012) and Written Japanese C (JPNS2014). Concurrent enrolment in or previous completion of Spoken Japanese 4 (JPNS2013), or permission of the Program convener.
Prerequisite: Spoken Korean 2 (KORE1021/CHIK1021) or equivalent. Students with background spoken Korean may enrol in this course with the permission of the Program convener.
Syllabus: This course begins with fundamentals of written Korean grammar, and raises the student's competence in reading and writing through the use of graded written materials.
Prerequisite: Spoken Korean 3 (KORE2020/CHIK2020) and Written Korean A (KORE2009/CHIK2009) or equivalent. Students with background spoken Korean may enrol in this course with the permission of the Program convener.
Syllabus: This course continues to raise the student's competence in reading and writing through the use of graded written materials. Texts include authentic materials drawn from brochures, newspapers and magazines and supplemented by oral and written exercises.
Prerequisites: Spoken Korean 4 (KORE2021/CHIK2021) and Written Korean B (KORE2010/CHIK2010) or equivalent. Students with background spoken Korean who completed Written Korean B may not enrol in this course. If they wish to continue Korean they should enrol in Korean for Background Speakers A.
Syllabus: This course continues to raise the student's competence in written Korean. More emphasis is put gradually on active reading and writing -- extracting the gist of a long text, writing to achieve a purpose, etc. This course includes the acquisition of approximately 200 Hanja, Sino-Korean characters.
Prerequisites: Written Korean C (KORE3012/CHIK3012) or equivalent.
Syllabus: A continuation of the work in Written Korean C (KORE3012/CHIK3012). This course includes the acquisition of a further 200 Hanja, Sino-Korean characters.
Equivalent of a full year totalling 48 units
Available only to students taking the Bachelor of Asian Studies (Chinese) degree
Prerequisites: Modern Chinese 4 (CHIN3021) at credit level and permission of the convener of the Program
Syllabus: Intensive language study for the first half year followed by study through Chinese in the students field of specialisation, taken at a higher educational institution in China and/or Taiwan. Throughout the year students may also work on a research project using Chinese material, in preparation for writing it up after their return as the Year-in-China Project course.
Available only to students taking the Bachelor of Asian Studies (Chinese) degree
Prerequisite: Year-in-China (CHIN3550/CHIN3500)
Syllabus: This course involves further supervised work on the independent study project prepared in China or Taiwan, leading to the writing of a report of approximately 5,000 words. It will involve bibliography, special readings, preparation and delivery of a work-in-progress seminar, and the submission of the report.
First and second semesters and summer session
(Equivalent of a full year totalling 48 units)
Available only to students taking the Bachelor of Asian Studies (Hindi) degree
Prerequisites: at least 24 units in Hindi at credit level and permission of the convener of the Program
First and second semesters and summer session
Equivalent of a full year totalling 48 units
Prerequisite: completion of at least 96 units towards the Bachelor of Asian Studies degree of which at least 28 units are in Sanskrit at credit level, and permission of the convener of the Program.
Syllabus: A combination of intensive Sanskrit language study, disciplinary study and a study project, to be arranged with a university or equivalent institution in India.
Equivalent of a full year totalling 48 units
Available only to students taking the Bachelor of Asian Studies (Indonesian) degree
Prerequisites: 24 units in Indonesian at high credit level, and permission of the convener of the Program
Syllabus: Students enrol in courses of study at an approved Indonesian university (in 2002 Gadjah Mada University in Yogyakarta and Muhammadiyah University in Malang).
Available only to students taking the Bachelor of Asian Studies (Indonesian) degree
Prerequisite: Year-in-Indonesia (INDN3550/SEAI3550/SEAI3500)
Syllabus: This course involves supervised work on a study project prepared in Indonesia, and is tailored to the needs of individual students. It will involve bibliography, special readings, preparation of a work-in-progress seminar, and writing a report of approximately 6,000 words in Indonesian.
Equivalent of a full year totalling 48 units
Available only to students taking the Bachelor of Asian Studies (Japanese) degree
Prerequisites: Sixteen courses including completion of Japanese language major. Selection will be based on overall academic record which must include a Credit average in Japanese language courses and other courses completed.
Syllabus: A combination of Japanese language study and approved study in a discipline. This work will be undertaken in Japan under arrangements made between the ANU and a Japanese university. An oral and written test will also be taken on returning to Australia.
Equivalent of a full year totalling 48 units
Available only to students taking the Bachelor of Asian Studies (Korean)
Prerequisite: Written Korean C (KORE3012/CHIK3012) at credit level and permission of the convener of the Program
Syllabus: A combination of intensive Korean language study and study through Korean in their field of specialisation. This will be undertaken at a Korean university under arrangements approved by the Dean of the Faculty. Students may prepare for a research project using Korean material during the year. This can be written up as the six unit Year-in-Korea Project after their return to the ANU.
First semester/second semester
Available only to students taking the Bachelor of Asian Studies (Korean)
Prerequisite: Korean for Background Speakers C (KORE3014/CHIK3014) at credit level and permission of the convener of the Program
Syllabus: A year's study in their field of specialisation through Korean. This will be undertaken at a Korean university under arrangements approved by the Dean of the Faculty. Students may prepare for a research project using Korean material during the year. This can be written up as the six unit Year-in-Korea Project after their return to the ANU.
First semester/second semester
Available only to students taking the Bachelor of Asian Studies (Korean) degree
Prerequisite: Year-in-Korea (KORE3550/CHIK3500/CHIK3550) or Year-in-Korea FBS (KORE3552/CHIK3552)
Syllabus: A supervised work on the independent study project prepared in Korea, leading to the writing of a report approximately 5,000 words. It will involve bibliography, special readings, preparation and delivery of a work-in-progress seminar, and the submission of the report.
First and second semesters and summer session
Equivalent of a full year totalling 48 units
Available only to students taking the Bachelor of Asian Studies (Thai) degree
Thai Program. National Thai studies Centre / Southeast Asia Centre
Prerequisites: Thai 2B (THAI2003/SEAT2003) and Lao (LOAT3001) plus more advanced Laotian study at credit level and permission of Program convener.
Syllabus: A combination of intensive Thai and Lao language study, approved Lao university courses in language/literature and in a discipline, together with preparation for a study project. This work will be undertaken in Laos under arrangements made between the ANU and a Lao university.
First and second semesters and summer session
Equivalent of a full year totalling 48 units
Available only to students taking the Bachelor of Asian Studies (Thai) degree
Thai Program. National Thai studies Centre/Southeast Asia Centre
Prerequisites: Thai 2B (THAI2003/SEAT2003) at credit level and permission of Program convener.
Syllabus: A combination of intensive Thai language study, approved Thai university courses in language/literature and in a discipline, together with preparation for a study project. This work will be undertaken in Thailand under arrangements made between the ANU and Thai universities.
First semester/second semester
Available only to students taking the Bachelor of Asian Studies (Thai) degree
Thai Program. National Thai Studies Program/Southeast Asia Centre
Prerequisite: Year-in-Thailand (THAI3550/SEAT3500/SEAT3550)
Syllabus: This course involves further supervised work on the study project prepared in Thailand, and thus will be tailored to the needs of individual students. It will involve a bibliography, special readings and an extensive report written in Thai.
Available only to students taking the Bachelor of Asian Studies (Arabic) degree
Arabic Program. Centre for Arab and Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts) and South and West Asia Centre
Prerequisites: Permission of Head of Centre
Syllabus: An initial course in colloquial Arabic (Egyptian or Levantine); (ii) continuing Arabic language study, and an intensive course in Arabic during the last ten weeks; (iii) attendance at and reports on a series of seminars at academic institutions in Amman, Beirut, or Cairo; (iv) and the preparation of an annotated translation (from Arabic into English) with an introduction in Arabic.
Available only to students who have completed the Year-in-the-Arab-World (ARAB3550/SWAA3500/SWAA3550)
Arabic Program. Centre for Arab and Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts) and South and West Asia Centre
Syllabus: This course involves further supervised work on the annotated translation begun during the year in the Arab World. The text will have been selected in consultation with the Centre, and the annotated translation should demonstrate that the student has gained mastery over the language used in discourse in his/her chosen area of study, and the ability to position a given text in the relevant scholarly literature.
First and second semesters and summer session
Equivalent to a full year totalling 48 units
Available only to students taking the Bachelor of Asian Studies (Vietnamese) degree
Coordinator: Convener Vietnamese Program
Prerequisites: A high credit in Vietnamese 2A (VIET2002/SEAV2002) and 2B (VIET2003/SEAV2003) and permission of Head of Centre
Syllabus: February-June: intensive language course at a Vietnamese university either in North or South Vietnam; July-August: intensive language course or travel in Vietnam and independent study; September-January: advanced language study and lectures in the student's discipline.
Available only to students taking the Bachelor of Asian Studies (Vietnamese) degree
Coordinator: Convener Vietnamese Program
Prerequisite: Year-in-Vietnam (VIET3550/SEAV3500/SEAV3550)
Syllabus: This course involves further supervised work on the study project prepared in Vietnam, and thus will be tailored to the needs of individual students. It will involve a report in one of the student's disciplines of approximately 6,000 words in English using primary sources in Vietnamese and a bibliography.