Course
code: 2846 + Course fees: Local students -- RTS HECS-exempt places
available; international students -- $13,500 pa + Coordinator: Professor
Bruce Jacobs
This program, which normally requires one-and-a-half years of full-time study
or three years part-time, will enable students to focus their studies around a
research thesis on Asia. The coursework component is designed to encourage
interdisciplinary perspectives to broaden and deepen the understanding of Asia
and Australia -- Asia relations, thereby providing a fuller appreciation of the
context in which the research project will be conceptualised.
Note that the minimum pass grade for units in Master of Arts research programs
is 60C, ie a grade of credit or above is required in every unit and for the
thesis.
Applicants who have completed an honours degree with a grade of H2A or above, or a recognised masters qualifying program with a research component with a distinction average grade or above, and a grade of distinction or above for the research component, may be admitted to the MA in Asian studies by a combination of coursework and research. Previous study of an Asian language at university level is normally assumed.
Candidates are required to complete two of the following three units for a total of 24-points of coursework plus a 66 per cent thesis of 20,000 to 25,000 words.
The
thesis topic must be determined in consultation with the supervisor, who is to
be selected in consultation with the graduate coordinator.
Applicants for this program are required to submit a 1000-word research
proposal and are accepted into this program, subject to there being a suitable
member of staff willing to supervise the proposed research.
Candidates undertaking a 66 per cent research load will normally be required to enrol for all of the units in the coursework component on Clayton campus and may then apply for transfer to external candidature.
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