Asian studies - Faculty of Arts

Offered by the School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics

Campus availability: Clayton

Relevant courses

2430 Diploma in Arts (Asian Studies)
2431 Diploma in Arts (Chinese Studies)
2445 Diploma in Arts (Indonesian Studies)
2446 Diploma in Arts (Japanese Studies)
2366 Diploma in Languages (Chinese)
2370 Diploma in Languages (Indonesian)
2372 Diploma in Languages (Japanese)
2373 Diploma in Languages (Korean)
0002 Bachelor of Arts (and associated double degrees)
3910 Bachelor of Arts (Global)
1366 Bachelor of Arts (Languages)
0202 Bachelor of Letters

The School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics offers a major sequence in Asian studies. The interdisciplinary major is available to all students and has a particular relevance for those studying an Asian language. It enables students to study specific issues across a range of Asian countries, cultures and societies and provides a broad comparative perspective across these areas of study.

The major in Asian studies draws on units not only in the School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics, but also on units offered by most other schools. The units may be:

broadly Asian-focused
related exclusively to an individual country or region such as China, Japan, Korea or Southeast Asia
focused on a specific issue in a discipline such as history, politics, theatre studies, anthropology or English (provided the unit has a strong Asian component or otherwise allows for a marked Asian focus in a significant part of the unit).

Sequences

First year sequence

A first year sequence in Asian studies consists of HSY1050, and HSY1060 or JPS1090.

For the purposes of a minor or major a first-year sequence in Asian studies can be replaced by a first-year sequence in any Asian language or a combination of any Asian language unit and one first-year level Asian studies unit.

Minor sequence

Students complete a standard minor chosen from the units below.

For the purposes of a minor a first-year sequence in Asian studies can be replaced by a first-year sequence in any Asian language or a combination of nay Asian language unit and one first-year level Asian studies unit.

In addition, a minor may include up to two Asian language units (usually at first-year level).

Major sequence

Students complete a standard major chosen from the units below.

For the purposes of a major a first-year sequence in Asian studies can be replaced by a first-year sequence in any Asian language or a combination of any Asian language unit and one first-year level Asian studies unit.

In addition, a minor may include up to three units from an Asian language may be counted towards the major in place of Asian studies units. The Asian studies units that can be replaced with language units will normally be first or second year level units.

Units

First-year level

HSY1050 Asian civilisations: The cycle of empires
HSY1060 Asian civilisations: Crisis and transformation
JPS1090 Understanding contemporary Japan

Second/Third-year level

NOTE: Units marked with this symbol (*) cannot be included in an Arts double degree course. Further, non-Arts units are prohibited for students fulfilling a core Arts requirement, for example, non-Arts units cannot count towards the 96 point Arts core necessary to qualify for the Bachelor of Arts degree.

ANY3230 Culture and conflict in Indonesia
ASN2010/ASN3010 Global change and changing identities
ASN2020/ASN3020 War and memory in the Asia Pacific: Legacies of World War II
ASN2030/ASN3030 Narratives in a globalising Asia: From oral literature to the modern novel
ASN2170/ASN3170 Women in Asia: Gender, tradition and modernity
ASN3071 Theory and research in Asian studies
CLS2160/CLS3160 Chinese literature and modernity
DTS2050/DTS3050 Asian theatre
ECC2500/ECC3500 Imperialism and development in Asia***
ECC2520/ECC3520 The economic history of Australia in Asian business***
ECC2550/ECC3550 Business in Asia***
ECC2890 Economic development of East Asia*
ENH2710/ENH3710 Orientations: Reading Asia
FTV2110/FTV3110 Independent cinema in Southeast Asia
FTV2120/FTV3120 Malaysian cinema
FTV2670/FTV3670 Asian cinema
HSY2100/HSY3100 The great divide: Religion and genocide in 20th century India***
HSY2105/HSY3105 Religion and genocide in 20th century Asia
HSY2110/HSY3110 Centres of power: Great cities of Asia***
HSY2140/HSY3140 Faith and power: Islam in history and society
HSY2190/HSY3190 Modern Indonesia: Nation and State
HSY2460/HSY3460 The Vietnam war
HSY2710/HSY3710 The island world of Southeast Asia
HSY2725/HSY3725 Nationalism and revolution in Southeast Asia
INS2020 Islam in the Malay world
JPS2110/JPS3110 Japanese society in the new millennium
JPS2130/JPS3130 Introduction to Japanese sociolinguistics
JPS2140/JPS3140 Touring Japanese culture (in Japan in summer semester)
JPS2150/JPS3150 Japanese culture: Identity and tradition
JPS2190/JPS3190 Japanese management and the economy
JPS2530/JPS3530 Japanese language acquisition and use
JPS2590/JPS3590 Introduction to Japanese linguistics
JPS2710/JPS3710 Australia-Japan relations
KOS2010/KOS3010 Korean politics and economy
KOS2020/KOS3020 Korean society and culture
MUS2480 Performance studies: Indonesian Gamelan
MUS3330 Music of North and South India
MUS3450 Asian performance studies
MUS2490/MUS3490 Indonesian Gamelan - special studies
MUS3830 Music of Southeast Asia 1: Indonesia
MUS3860 Music of Southeast Asia 2: Thailand
MUS3880 Music of China, Korea and Japan
PHL2850/PHL3850 Topics in Indian philosophy
PLT2631/PLT3631 China: Revolution versus pragmatism
PLT3930 Southeast Asian politics
RLT2480/RLT3480 The religious quest: Eastern faith and illumination
VSA2670/VSA3670 Asian cinema**
VSA3750 Indonesian and Southeast Asian cinema**

** Not offered from 2007.

*** Not offered from 2009.

Contact details

Enquiries (Clayton): Room S423, fourth floor, South Wing, Menzies building

Telephone +61 3 9905 2281 or +61 3 9905 2223

Email lcl.enquiries@arts.monash.edu.au

Visit http://www.arts.monash.edu.au/lcl