Honours
The Honours Coordinator for Asian Studies is Dr Olivier Ansart.
The honours IV program consists of three seminars and a 15,000-20,000 word thesis weighted at 50 per cent of the final result. As with the undergraduate Asian Studies major, all units and the thesis will be in English. However, we encourage students with Asian language proficiency to utilise sources in that language for their thesis research and to seek permission to substitute Asian-language honours-level coursework in their coursework component.
Students will enrol in ASNS4011, 4012, 4013 and 4014. These, however, are merely generic codes and for their coursework component, students should take three from the following pool of subjects, whose availability may vary from year to year:
- ASNS6900 Contemporary Asian Societies
- ASNS6901 Japan in the Western Imagination
- ASNS6902 Religion and the State in Modern Asia
- ASNS6903 Theory and Method in Asian Studies
- ASNS6904 Human Rights in Asia
- ASNS6905 Asian Popular Culture
- ASNS6938 The Chinese City from Text to Screen
- ASNS6976 Buddhism and State in Northeast Asia
- CHNS5982 Approaches to Research on Modern China
- CHNS6966 Society and State in China 1368-1911
- CHNS6975 Society and Individual in Post-Mao China
- JPNS6909 The Underside of Modern Japan
For unit of study descriptions, visit units of study online.
Students may cross-list up to two of the three coursework components from units of study offered in other departments and faculties. They should check the availability of those units with the different departments. All students should consult with the Honours Coordinator before deciding the units of study taken as coursework.
