Asian Studies
Unit outlines will be available through Find a unit outline two weeks before the first day of teaching for 1000-level and 5000-level units, or one week before the first day of teaching for all other units.
| Unit of study | Credit points | A: Assumed knowledge P: Prerequisites C: Corequisites N: Prohibition | Session |
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Asian Studies |
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Major |
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| A major in Asian Studies requires 48 credit points from this table, including: | |||
| (i) 12 credit points of 1000-level core units | |||
| (ii) 12 credit points of 2000-level units | |||
| (iii) 18 credit points of 3000-level units | |||
| (iv) 6 credit points of 3000-level Interdisciplinary Project units | |||
Minor |
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| A minor in Asian Studies requires 36 credit points from this table, including: | |||
| (i) 12 credit points of 1000-level core units | |||
| (ii) 12 credit points of 2000-level units | |||
| (iii) 12 credit points of 3000-level units | |||
1000-level units of study |
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Core |
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| ASNS1601 Introduction to Asian Cultures |
6 | Semester 2 |
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| ASNS1602 Asia: Past, Present, Future |
6 | Semester 1 |
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Selective |
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| The following 1000 level units are elective units in the subject area rather than counting towards the requirements for a major in Asian Studies. | |||
| ASNS1200 Tibet and Central Asia: Nomads and Myths |
6 | Semester 1 |
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| ASNS1201 Intro to Tibetan Language and Culture 1 |
6 | Semester 2 |
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| CHNS1601 Understanding Contemporary China |
6 | N ASNS1101 |
Semester 1 |
2000-level units of study |
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| ASNS2002 Intro to Tibetan Language and Culture 2 This unit of study is not available in 2021 |
6 | P ASNS1201 |
Semester 1 |
| ASNS2003 Buddhism: Historical Perspectives |
6 | P 12 credit points at 1000 level in any of Asian Studies, Chinese Studies, Indonesian Studies, Japanese Studies, Korean Studies, History or Indian Subcontinental Studies |
Semester 2 |
| ASNS2004 Korean Popular Culture |
6 | P 12 credit points at 1000 level in the Asian Studies or Korean Studies major |
Semester 1 |
| ASNS2010 Buddhism in East Asia This unit of study is not available in 2021 |
6 | P 12 credit points at 1000 level |
Semester 2 |
| ASNS2011 Buddhist Thought and Culture |
6 | P 12 credit points at 1000 level in any of Asian Studies, Chinese Studies, Japanese Studies, Korean Studies or Indonesian Studies N BDST1602 |
Semester 1 |
| ASNS2613 Chinese Thought |
6 | P 12 credit points at 1000 level from Asian Studies or Chinese or Indonesian or Japanese or Korean Studies or Sanskrit or Philosophy N CHNS3641 |
Semester 2 |
| ASNS2618 Remaking Chinese Society, 1949-Present |
6 | A Students with no prior knowledge of modern Chinese history are encouraged to read an introductory textbook (e.g., Edwin E. Moise. Modern China: A History. Second edition. Longman, 1994) before the start of the semester. P 12 credit points at 1000 level from Asian Studies or Japanese Studies or Korean Studies or Chinese Studies or Indonesian Studies or Sanskrit or History or Ancient History |
Semester 1 |
| ASNS2626 Religious Traditions of South Asia This unit of study is not available in 2021 |
6 | P 12 junior credit points from Table A N RLST2003 |
Semester 2 |
| ASNS2627 India, China, Tibet: Cultural Relations This unit of study is not available in 2021 |
6 | P 12 credit points at 1000 level in Asian Studies or 12 credit points at 1000 level in History |
Summer Main |
| ASNS2634 Samurai and Merchants: Tokugawa Japan This unit of study is not available in 2021 |
6 | P 12 credit points at 1000 level each in either Asian Studies or History N ASNS2304 |
Semester 1 |
| ASNS2642 Modern Korea |
6 | P 12 credit points at 1000 level N ASNS2502 |
Semester 2 |
| ASNS2661 History of Modern Indonesia |
6 | P 12 Junior credit points in units of study listed in Table A |
Semester 2 |
| ASNS2663 Social Activism in Southeast Asia |
6 | P 12 junior credit points from Table A |
Semester 1 |
| ASNS2665 Understanding Southeast Asia |
6 | P 12 Junior credit points |
Semester 2 |
| ASNS2669 Field Study in Southeast Asia |
6 | P 24 credit points in the Asian Studies major Note: Department permission required for enrolment This unit requires departmental permission: students require approval to enrol in this course after having been through the selective interview process and been offered a place on this overseas field study. |
Intensive December |
| ASNS2672 Japan in East Asia |
6 | P 12 credit points at 1000 level |
Semester 2 |
| ARHT2640 Contemporary Asian Art This unit of study is not available in 2021 |
6 | P 12 credit points at 1000 level in Art History or 12 credit points at 1000 level in Asian Studies or 12 credit points at 1000 level in Critical Studies N ARHT2040 |
Semester 2 |
| ARHT2645 Arts in Imperial China This unit of study is not available in 2021 |
6 | P 12 credit points at 1000 level in Art History or 12 credit points at 1000 level in Asian Studies or 12 credit points at 1000 level in Critical Studies |
Semester 2 |
| CHNS2003 Gender and Women in Chinese Literature This unit of study is not available in 2021 |
6 | P 12 credit points at 1000 level in Chinese Studies or 12 credit points at 1000 level in Asian Studiesor CHNS2601 or CHNS2001 or CHNS3601 or CHNS3000 |
Semester 1 |
| CHNS2004 Introduction to Chinese Literature |
6 | P 12 credit points at 1000 level in Chinese Studies or 12 credit points at 1000 level in Asian Studies or 12 credit points at 1000 level in ICLSor CHNS2601 or CHNS2001 or CHNS3601 or CHNS3000 |
Semester 1 |
| CHNS2011 Religion and Martial-Arts Fiction This unit of study is not available in 2021 |
6 | P 12 credit points at 1000 level in Chinese Studies or 12 credit points at 1000 level in Asian Studiesor CHNS2601 or CHNS2001 or CHNS3601 or CHNS3000 |
Semester 2 |
| CHNS2613 Communication and Social Change in China This unit of study is not available in 2021 |
6 | P 12 credit points at 1000 level in Chinese Studies or 12 credit points at 1000 level in Asian Studies or CHNS2601 or CHNS2001 or CHNS3601 or CHNS3000 |
Semester 1 |
| CHNS2614 Understanding News About China |
6 | P 12 credit points at 1000 level in the Chinese Studies or Asian Studies major |
Semester 2 |
| HSTY2640 Twentieth-Century China |
6 | P 12 Junior credit points each in either History or Asian Studies N HSTY3071 or HSTY3072 |
Semester 1 |
| KRNS2641 Premodern Korean History and Culture |
6 | P 12 credit points at 1000 level in the Korean Studies or Asian Studies major N ASNS2641 |
Semester 1 |
3000-level units of study |
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| ASNS3001 Youth and Language in Southeast Asia This unit of study is not available in 2021 |
6 | P 12 credit points at 2000 level in Asian Studies or 12 credit points at 2000 level in Indonesian Studies N ASNS2001 |
Semester 1 |
| ASNS3111 The Material Culture of Asia |
6 | P 12 Junior credit points from Asian Studies or Japanese Studies or Korean Studies or Chinese Studies or Indonesian Studies or Sanskrit or History or Ancient History or International and Global Studies or Art History |
Semester 1 |
| ASNS3616 Japanese Cinema and Society |
6 | P 6 Senior credit points in Asian Studies or 18 Junior credit points including ENGL1011 N JPNS3675 |
Semester 1 |
| ASNS3618 Popular China This unit of study is not available in 2021 |
6 | P (12 Senior credit points of Asian Studies) or (12 Senior credit points of Chinese Studies) or (12 senior credit points of Anthropology) |
Semester 1 |
| ASNS3670 Mass Media in East Asia |
6 | P 12 credit points at 2000 level in Asian Studies or 12 credit points at 2000 level in Korean Studies N ASNS2670 or ASNS2600 |
Semester 2 |
| ASNS3690 Approaches to Research in Asian Studies |
6 | P 12 credit points at 2000 level in Asian Studies N CHNS3902 or INMS3902 or JPNS3902 or ASNS3902 |
Semester 2 |
| ARHT3646 Modern Art in East Asia |
6 | P 12 credit points at 2000 level in Art History or 12 credit points at 2000 level in Asian Studies or 12 credit points at 2000 level in Critical Studies N ARHT2646 |
Semester 1 |
| ARHT3663 Gender and Sexuality in Asian Art History This unit of study is not available in 2021 |
6 | P 12 credit points at 2000 level in Art History or 12 credit points at 2000 level in Critical Studies |
Semester 1 |
| CHNS3111 Global Chinese Literatures This unit of study is not available in 2021 |
6 | P 12 credit points at 2000 level in Chinese Studies or Asian Studiesor CHNS3000 or CHNS3601 |
Semester 2 |
| CHNS3633 Topics in Chinese Literature 2 |
6 | P 12 credit points at 2000 or 3000 level in Chinese Studies or Asian Studies or 6 credit points at 2000 or 3000 level in International and Comparative Literary Studies |
Semester 1 |
| CHNS3639 Chinese Cinema |
6 | P 12 credit points at 2000 or 3000 level in Chinese Studies or 12 credit points at 2000 or 3000 level in Asian Studies |
Semester 2 |
Interdisciplinary Project unit of study |
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| If you are completing two majors and both of your majors are from the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, please select the Interdisciplinary Impact unit of study for your first major, and the Industry and Community Project unit of study for your second major. | |||
| If you are completing two majors but only one of your majors is from the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, please select the Interdisciplinary Impact unit of study for that major. | |||
| If you are completing one major only and that major is from the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, please select the Interdisciplinary Impact unit of study for your major. | |||
| ASNS3999 Interdisciplinary Impact |
6 | P Completion of at least 90 credit points N Interdisciplinary Impact in another major Note: Department permission required for enrolment in the following sessions:Intensive December |
Intensive December Semester 1 Semester 2 |
| ASNS3998 Industry and Community Project |
6 | C Interdisciplinary Impact in any major. |
Intensive February Intensive July Semester 1 Semester 2 |