This specialised degree provides students interested in Asian studies with a structured course of study and recognises particular combinations of subjects which focus on Asia. Students entering the degree are expected to request guidance from the Monash Asia Institute to ensure the most appropriate selection of subjects. The specialised degree can be entered upon enrolment for the first-year level or at the start of second year, after satisfactory completion of appropriate studies in the first year of the general BA. The normal prerequisite for entry to the specialised degree Bachelor of Arts (Asian Studies) at second-year level is a first-year sequence in an Asian language and at least one first-year sequence in one of the disciplines designated below.
The specialised Bachelor of Arts (Asian Studies) at pass level requires that students complete 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: 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, English, Geography and Environmental Science, History, Music, Politics, Visual Arts and Women's Studies. 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.
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