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Copyright © Monash University 1996
ISBN 1320-6222
Authorised by Academic Registrar, April 1996
Monash provides more students with access to Asian studies than any other university in Australia, through its Bachelor of Arts (Asian Studies) and by offering within the faculties of Arts, Education, and Business and Economics, a large range of undergraduate courses in Asian studies (Northeast, South and Southeast Asia) and ten Asian languages, including honours Chinese, Indonesian, Japanese and Thai. The university also offers some hundred and fifty courses at postgraduate level, within a diploma and Master of Arts in Asian Studies and provides flexible interdisciplinary studies and Asian content within non-Asian Studies courses.
Students in the Faculty of Arts can pursue their interest in Asian studies in a number of ways. They can undertake a general BA which concentrates on Asian studies by taking appropriate major and minor sequences in Asian languages and studies selected from the subjects listed below or by selecting particular units with Asian content. Alternatively, they can enrol in the specialised Bachelor of Arts (Asian Studies).
The structure of the specialised Bachelor of Arts (Asian Studies) at pass level is a double major: one major in an Asian language and one major in a discipline with some Asian content. The language major can be chosen from the following languages: Cambodian, Chinese, Indonesian, Japanese, Korean, Thai, and Vietnamese. The discipline major with Asian content can be chosen from the sequences available in the following departments and centres: Anthropology and Sociology, Economics, Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies, Geography and Environmental Science, History, Music, Politics and Visual Arts. Within the discipline major, students are required to take at least two units (minimum value of fourteen points) with an Asian focus or content, which must be relevant to the region (Northeast Asia, South Asia or Southeast Asia) in which the selected major Asian language sequence is spoken. These Asia-focused subjects need not be sequential.
Students must take a minimum of fifty-two points over three years in each of their major sequences. For the remaining forty points, which must include at least twenty-four points at first-year level (including at least one other first-year sequence), students may select subjects from other disciplines. Students are encouraged to take Asia-related subjects taught in the departments of Asian Languages and Studies, Japanese Studies and other departments.
Students who wish to enrol in this degree at second-year level but have not taken an Asian language sequence in their first year would need to pass an approved summer school course either between first and second year or between second and third year, or complete the third-year major sequence in the language after completing the rest of their subjects.
Students will also be able to take an honours year in this program.
The BA (Asian Studies) may also be taken as a combined degree with several other Monash degrees. Details of the available courses can be obtained from Monash Asia Institute.
+ Dr Ian Copland, director, Centre of South Asian Studies, room 605, telephone 9905 2201.
+ Dr Joan Grant, executive officer, Monash Asia Institute, Performing Arts Centre, telephone 9905 5281.
+ Professor D P Chandler, research director, Centre of Southeast Asian Studies, room S521, telephone 9905 4993.
+ Professor Bruce Jacobs, Department of Asian Languages and Studies, room S520, telephone 9905 2233.
+ Dr Zaniah Marshallsay, Centre of Malaysian Studies, room 5525, telephone 9905 3587.
+ Associate Professor Ross Mouer, Director, Japanese Studies Department, room 418, Telephone 9905 2271.
+ ANY1020 Anthropology of social change
+ ANY2190/COS2110 Comparative social structures (proposed to be offered next in 1997)
+ ANY2130 Race and sexual politics
+ ANY3230 Culture and conflict in Indonesia
+ ANY3490 Society and culture in mainland Southeast Asia
+ ANY3510 A comparative examination of cultures in South and South East Asia
+ COS3430 The Third World
+ COS3350 Nationalism in non-Western societies
+ COS3370 Comparative sociology of `development' (proposed to be offered next in 1997)
+ CAM1120 Intermediate Cambodian (Khmer), Part 2
+ CAM2210 Intermediate Cambodian (Khmer), Part 1
+ CAM2220 Intermediate Cambodian (Khmer), Part 2
+ CHI1120 Beginning Chinese, part 2
+ CHI1111 Intensive beginning Chinese (summer school), part 1
+ CHI1122 Intensive beginning Chinese (summer school), part 2
+ CHI1210 Intermediate Chinese, part 1
+ CHI1220 Intermediate Chinese, part 2
+ CHI1310 Advanced intermediate Chinese, part 1
+ CHI1320 Advanced intermediate Chinese, part 2
+ CHI1410 Advanced Chinese, Part 1
+ CHI1420 Advanced Chinese, Part 2
+ CHI1470 Chinese for dialect speakers, part 1
+ CHI1480 Chinese for dialect speakers, part 2
+ CHI1510 Advanced Chinese, Part 3
+ CHI1520 Advanced Chinese, Part 4
+ CBL1010 Business Chinese 1
+ CBL1020 Business Chinese 2
+ CHI2210 Intermediate Chinese, part 1
+ CHI2220 Intermediate Chinese, part 2
+ CHI2310 Advanced intermediate Chinese, part 1
+ CHI2320 Advanced intermediate Chinese, part 2
+ CHI2410 Advanced Chinese, part 1
+ CHI2420 Advanced Chinese, part 2
+ CHI2430 Chinese readings in a discipline area, part 1
+ CHI2440 Chinese readings in a discipline area, part 2
+ CHI2450 Chinese business communication, part 1
+ CHI2460 Chinese business communication, part 2
+ CHI2470 Chinese for dialect speakers, part 1
+ CHI2480 Chinese for dialect speakers, part 2
+ CHI2510 Advanced Chinese, Part 3
+ CHI2520 Advanced Chinese, Part 4
+ CBL2010 Business Chinese 3
+ CBL2020 Business Chinese 4
+ CHI3310 Advanced intermediate Chinese, part 1
+ CHI3320 Advanced intermediate Chinese, part 2
+ CHI3330 Chinese newspaper readings, part 1
+ CHI3340 Chinese newspaper readings, part 2
+ CHI3410 Advanced Chinese, part 1
+ CHI3420 Advanced Chinese, part 2
+ CHI3430 Chinese readings in a discipline area, part 1
+ CHI3440 Chinese readings in a discipline area, part 2
+ CHI3450 Chinese business communication, part 1
+ CHI3460 Chinese business communication, part 2
+ CHI3470 Chinese for dialect speakers, part 1
+ CHI3480 Chinese for dialect speakers, part 2
+ CHI3510 Advanced Chinese, part 3
+ CHI3520 Advanced Chinese, part 4
+ CHI3530 Chinese readings in a discipline area, part 3
+ CHI3540 Chinese readings in a discipline area, part 4
+ CBL3010 Business Chinese 5
+ CBL3020 Business Chinese 6
+ ASN1020 Introduction to Asian civilisations, part 2
+ CHS2550/3550 Second language acquisition and attrition
+ HSY2120/3120 Modern China
+ HSY2170/3170 Traditional China
+ HSY2180/3180 The making of the Asian world (proposed to be offered next in 1997)
+ HSY2210/3210 Japan: origins to 1800 (proposed to be offered next in 1998)
+ PLT2630/3630 China: revolution versus pragmatism
+ ECO3890 Economic development of East Asia
+ MUS3880 Music of China, Japan and Korea
+ DTS2050/3050 Asian theatre: an introduction
+ ASN1010 Introduction to Asian civilisations, part 1
+ ASN1020 Introduction to Asian civilisations, part 2
+ ENH2710/3710 Orientations: reading Asia
+ HSY2500/3500 Faith, power and revolution: Islam in modern history
+ HSY2680/3680 The struggle for freedom in India
+ INM1120 Beginning Indonesian, part 2
+ INM1210 Intermediate Indonesian, part 1
+ INM1220 Intermediate Indonesian, part 2
+ INM1610 Readings in Malaysian language, part 1
+ INM1620 Readings in Malaysian language, part 2
+ INM2210 Intermediate Indonesian, part 1
+ INM2220 Intermediate Indonesian, part 2
+ INM2310 Advanced Indonesian, part 1
+ INM2320 Advanced Indonesian, part 2
+ INM2330 Introduction to Malaysian language, part 1
+ INM2340 Introduction to Malaysian language, part 2
+ INM2610 Readings in Malaysian language, part 1
+ INM2620 Readings in Malaysian language, part 2
+ INM3310 Advanced Indonesian, part 1
+ INM3320 Advanced Indonesian, part 2
+ INM3330 Introduction to Malaysian language, part 1
+ INM3340 Introduction to Malaysian language, part 2
+ INM3410 Indonesian for special purposes, part 1
+ INM3420 Indonesian for special purposes, part 2
+ INM3430 Beginning Javanese, part 1
+ INM3440 Beginning Javanese, part 2
+ INM3450 Beginning Sundanese, part 1
+ INM3460 Beginning Sundanese, part 2
+ INM3470 Introduction to Classical Malay, part 1
+ INM3480 Introduction to Classical Malay, part 2
+ INM3610 Readings in Malaysian language, part 1
+ INM3620 Readings in Malaysian language, part 2
+ ASN1020 Introduction to Asian civilisations, part 2
+ INS2010/INS3010 Indonesian societies and cultures
+ INS3110 Introduction to regional and classical literatures of Indonesia
+ INS3210 Literature and society in Indonesia
+ INS3310 Indonesian theatrical traditions
+ INS3410 Gender and its representations in Indonesian society
+ ANY3230 Culture and conflict in Indonesia
+ ANY3490 Society and culture in mainland Southeast Asia
+ GES3710 Southeast Asia
+ HSY2710/3710 The island world of Southeast Asia
+ HSY2190/3190 Unity in diversity: the emergence of modern Indonesia
+ HSY2720/3720 Nationalism and revolution in Southeast Asia
+ INS2150/3150 Understanding Malaysian society and culture
+ MUS1050 Introduction to Asian music, dance and theatre
+ MUS2480 Performance studies: Indonesian gamelan
+ MUS3830 Music of Southeast Asia I: Indonesia (proposed to be offered next in 1999)
+ PLT2750/3750 Gender in Asian politics
+ PLT3930 Southeast Asian politics
+ VSA2670/3670 Asian cinema (proposed to be offered next in 1997)
+ KOR1120 Introduction to Korean, part 2
+ KOR2210 Intermediate Korean, part 1
+ KOR2220 Intermediate Korean, part 2
+ KOR3310 Advanced intermediate Korean, part 1
+ KOR3320 Advanced intermediate Korean, part 2
+ KOR3330 Readings in contemporary Korean, part 1
+ KOR3340 Readings in contemporary Korean, part 2
+ ASN1020 Introduction to Asian civilisations, part 2
+ KOS2010/3010 Korean politics and economy
+ KOS2020/3020 Korean society
+ INM2340 Introduction to Malaysian language, part 2
+ INM2610 Readings in Malaysian language, part 1
+ INM2620 Readings in Malaysian language, part 2
+ INM3330 Introduction to Malaysian language, part 1
+ INM3340 Introduction to Malaysian language, part 2
+ INM3610 Readings in Malaysian language, part 1
+ INM3620 Readings in Malaysian language, part 2
+ INS2150/3150 Understanding Malaysian society and culture
+ THA1120 Beginning Thai, part 2
+ THA1210 Intermediate Thai, part 1
+ THA1220 Intermediate Thai, part 2
+ THA2210 Intermediate Thai, part 1
+ THA2220 Intermediate Thai, part 2
+ THA2310 Advanced intermediate Thai, part 1
+ THA2320 Advanced intermediate Thai, part 2
+ THA3310 Advanced intermediate Thai, part 1
+ THA3320 Advanced intermediate Thai, part 2
+ THA3330 Specialised readings in Thai A
+ THA3340 Specialised readings in Thai B
+ THA3350 Thai for business communication A
+ THA3360 Thai for business communication B
+ ASN1020 Introduction to Asian civilisations, part 2
+ HSY2180 The making of the Asian world (proposed to be offered next in 1997)
+ HSY2460/3460 Cambodia, Thailand and Vietnam since 1945 (proposed to be offered next in 1997)
+ HSY2720/3720 Nationalism and revolution in Southeast Asia
+ MUS3860 Music of Southeast Asia II: Thailand (proposed to be offered next in 1998)
+ ANY3490 Society and culture in mainland Southeast Asia
+ ANY3510 A comparative examination of cultures in South and South East Asia
+ THS2160/3160 Civilisation of Thailand (proposed to be offered next in 1997)
+ VTN1120 Beginning Vietnamese, part 2
+ VTN2210 Intermediate Vietnamese, part 1
+ VTN2220 Intermediate Vietnamese, part 2
+ VTN3310 Advanced intermediate Vietnamese, part 1
+ VTN3320 Advanced intermediate Vietnamese, part 2
+ VTN3330 Vietnamese for special purposes, part 1
+ VTN3340 Vietnamese for special purposes, part 2
+ VTN1520 Advanced Vietnamese, part 2
+ ECO2500 Imperialism and development in Asia
+ ECO3550 Business in Asia
+ ECO3890 Economic development in East Asia
+ HSY1060 The transformation of Asia, c. 1800 to the present day
+ HSY2120/3120 Modern China
+ HSY2170/3170 Traditional China (proposed to be offered next in 1997)
+ HSY2180 The making of the Asian world (proposed to be offered next in 1997)
+ HSY2190/3190 Unity in diversity: the emergence of modern Indonesia
+ HSY2210/3210 Japan: origins to 1800 (proposed to be offered next in 1998)
+ HSY2220/3220 Japan: 1800 to the present (proposed to be offered next in 1998)
+ HSY2460/3460 Cambodia, Thailand and Vietnam since 1945 (proposed to be offered next in 1997)
+ HSY2470/3470 The religious quest: Judaism, Christianity and Islam
+ HSY2480/3480 The religious quest: Eastern faith and illumination
+ HSY2500/3500 Faith, power and revolution: Islam in modern history
+ HYS2680/3680 The struggle for freedom in India
+ HSY2710/3710 The island world of Southeast Asia
+ HSY2720 Nationalism and revolution in Southeast Asia
+ JPL1120 Comprehensive Japanese IA: part 2
+ JPL1130 Business Japanese IA: part 1
+ JPL1140 Business Japanese IA: part 2
+ JPL1150 Comprehensive Japanese IA, off campus: part 1
+ JPL1160 Comprehensive Japanese IA, off campus: part 2
+ JPL1210 Comprehensive Japanese IB: part 1
+ JPL1220 Comprehensive Japanese IB: part 2
+ JPL1230 Business Japanese IB: part 1
+ JPL1240 Business Japanese IB: part 2
+ JPL1250 Comprehensive Japanese IB, off campus: part 1
+ JPL1260 Comprehensive Japanese IB, off campus: part 2
+ JPL1310 Comprehensive Japanese IC: part 1
+ JPL1320 Comprehensive Japanese IC: part 2
+ JPL1330 Business Japanese IC: part I
+ JPL1340 Business Japanese IC: part 2
+ JPL1350 Comprehensive Japanese IC, off-campus: part 1
+ JPL1360 Comprehensive Japanese IC, off-campus: part 2
+ JPL1710 Accelerated Japanese: part 1
+ JPL1720 Accelerated Japanese: part 2
+ JPL2210 Comprehensive Japanese IIB: part 1
+ JPL2220 Comprehensive Japanese IIB: part 2
+ JPL2230 Business Japanese IIB: part 1
+ JPL2240 Business Japanese IIB: part 2
+ JPL2250 Comprehensive Japanese IIB, off campus: part 1
+ JPL2260 Comprehensive Japanese IIB, off campus: part 2
+ JPL2310 Comprehensive Japanese IIC: part 1
+ JPL2320 Comprehensive Japanese IIC: part 2
+ JPL2330 Business Japanese IIC: part 1
+ JPL2340 Business Japanese IIC: part 2
+ JPL2350 Comprehensive Japanese IIC, off-campus: part 1
+ JPL2360 Comprehensive Japanese IIC, off-campus: part 2
+ JPL2410 Japanese IID: part 1
+ JPL2420 Japanese IID: part 2
+ JPL2810 Accelerated Japanese II: part 1
+ JPL2820 Accelerated Japanese II: part 2
+ JPL3070 Theory and research in Japanese studies A
+ JPL3090 Theory and research in Japanese studies B
+ JPL3310 Comprehensive Japanese IIIC: part 1
+ JPL3320 Comprehensive Japanese IIIC: part 2
+ JPL3330 Business Japanese IIIC: part 1
+ JPL3340 Business Japanese IIIC: part 2
+ JPL3350 Comprehensive Japanese IIIC, off-campus: part 1
+ JPL3360 Comprehensive Japanese IIIC, off-campus: part 2
+ JPL3410 Japanese IIID: part 1
+ JPL3420 Japanese IIID: part 2
+ JPL3510 Japanese IIIE: part 1
+ JPL3520 Japanese IIIE: part 2
+ JPL3610 Japanese for engineers and scientists
+ JPL3750 Reading Japanese texts A
+ JPL3752 Reading Japanese texts B
+ JPL3910 Accelerated Japanese III: part 1
+ JPL3920 Accelerated Japanese III: part 2
+ JPL3990/4990 Language study abroad program
+ JPS1090 Understanding contemporary Japan
+ JPS2110 Japanese society
+ JPS2130 Japanese sociolinguistics
+ JPS2150 Japanese culture
+ JPS2160 Japanese popular culture
+ JPS2190 Japanese economics
+ JPS2210/3210 History of Japanese science and technology
+ JPS2530/3530 Introduction to the teaching of Japanese as a foreign language
+ JPS2570/3570 Modern Japanese literature
+ JPS2590/3590 Japanese linguistics
+ JPS2710/3710 History of Australia-Japan relations
+ JPS2810/3810 Australia-Japan social relations
+ JPS2910/3910 Australia-Japan economic relations
+ DTS2050/3050 Asian theatre: an introduction
+ HSY2210/3210 Japan: origins to 1800
+ HSY2220/3220 Japan: 1800 to the present
+ JPS3071 Theory and research in Japanese studies A
+ JPS3072 Theory and research in Japanese studies B
+ JPS3081 Critical debate in contemporary Japan A
+ JPS3082 Critical debate in contemporary Japan B
+ JPS3110 Japanese society
+ JPS3130 Japanese sociolinguistics
+ JPS3150 Japanese culture
+ JPS3160 Japanese popular culture
+ JPS3190 Japanese economics
+ MUS3880 Music of China, Japan and Korea (proposed to be offered next in 2000)
+ PLT3860 America, Japan and China: Asian-Pacific competitors?
+ JPS1020 Understanding contemporary Japan
+ JBL1020 Business Japanese 2A
+ JBL1030 Business Japanese 1B
+ JBL1040 Business Japanese 2B
+ JBL1050 Business Japanese 1C
+ JBL1060 Business Japanese 2C
+ JBL2010 Business Japanese 3B
+ JBL2020 Business Japanese 4B
+ JBL2030 Business Japanese 3C
+ JBL2040 Business Japanese 4C
+ JBL3010 Business Japanese 5C
+ JBL3020 Business Japanese 6C
+ MUS1050 Introduction to Asian music, dance and theatre
+ MUS1060 Gamelan performing arts
+ MUS2260/3260 Asian music: three great traditions
+ MUS2480/3480 Performance studies: Indonesian gamelan
+ MUS3330 Music of north and south India
+ MUS3830 Music of Southeast Asia I: Indonesia (proposed to be offered next in 1999)
+ MUS3860 Music of Southeast Asia II: Thailand (proposed to be offered next in 1998)
+ MUS3880 Music of China, Japan and Korea (proposed to be offered next in 2000)
+ PLT2250/3250 East Asia and the politics of difference
+ PLT2290 Australia and Asia
+ PLT2470/3470 Politics of development
+ PLT2630/3630 China: revolution versus pragmatism
+ PLT2750/3750 Gender in Asian politics
+ PLT3860 America, Japan and China: Asia-Pacific competitors?
+ PLT3930 Southeast Asian politics
+ VSA3750 Indonesian and Southeast Asian film and television
It is also possible to have particular combinations of subjects approved as special major or minor sequences. Thus, for example, a student prepared to argue that the combination of GES2652 (Development theory and practice) and PLT2290 (Australia and Asia) is a particularly valuable association of subjects could ask to have them approved as the second-year component of a special minor sequence in either politics or geography. Similar special arrangements can be made from time to time which allow prerequisites and corequisites to be waived.