Head of department: Professor Bruce Jacobs
Graduate coordinators: Dr Gloria Davies (East Asia), Associate Professor Stuart Robson (Southeast Asia)
Students may undertake MA (research) and PhD studies within the department in the areas of Chinese and Indonesian language and studies, and in Korean linguistics. The department teaches subjects in the graduate diploma and the MA in Asian studies (see under Monash Asia Institute) and the MA in applied linguistics (see under Department of Linguistics). Members of the department also contribute to the MA programs in critical theory, and women's studies.
The department supervises theses of postgraduate students from other departments and programs when it has the relevant expertise and the other department agrees.
Bruce Jacobs Chinese politics and society; Taiwan politics and society.
Gloria Davies Chinese and diasporic literature, literature theory, Contemporary Chinese culture.
Lijian Hong Contemporary Chinese politics, government and military; historical studies in China.
Warren Sun History of the PRC, Chinese intellectual history, Chinese philosophy and Chinese literature.
Stuart Robson Javanese language and literature; early history of Southeast Asia; Classical Malay.
Barbara Hatley Modern Indonesian literature and theatre; women's studies; Javanese theatre and culture.
Young-a Cho Korean linguistics and teaching Korean as a foreign language.
Course code: 0020
Course fee: local students HECS; international students $A12,000 pa
Candidates may undertake the PhD degree through a thesis of no more than 100,000 words. Normally students seeking entry to the PhD should have a masters qualifying with a research component, masters degree or first class honours degree in a relevant field or discipline.
Course code: 0017
Course fee: Local students HECS; international students $A12,000 pa
Candidates may undertake the MA by research through a thesis of about 40,000-60,000 words. Normally, students seeking entry to the MA by research should have a first class honours degree, a second class, division A honours degree or a masters qualifying with a research component in a relevant field or discipline.
The department can provide postgraduate supervision in the areas of Chinese politics, culture, society, linguistics and literature, as well as Taiwan politics and society.
The department can provide postgraduate supervision in the areas of Classical Malay, Old and Middle Javanese literature, modern Indonesian literature and theatre, Javanese theatre and culture, Indonesian cultural history, sociolinguistics and women's studies.
The department can provide postgraduate supervision in the area of Korean linguistics, teaching Korean as a foreign language, Korean politics, Korean society and Korean history.