Asian Studies and Language

The Asian Studies Discipline offers three and four year sequences in Japanese language studies as part of the Bachelor of Arts/Teaching, Arts, Management, Commerce and Computing, the combined award Bachelor of Arts/Associate Diploma of Business (Office Admin) and as extended major sequences in the Bachelor of Arts/Bachelor of Business.

The Asian Studies units are designed to develop in the student some understanding of the major social, political and language features of contemporary China and Japan.

Units Available

Asian Studies

First Year

HA501 Introduction to China and Japan

HI503 Australia and the Asia Pacific in the 20th Century

HX509 Japan: Economy and Society

HX519 The Global community and Mobile Citizenship

HX518 Going Global: Making Sense of Globalization

HX525 Me, Myself, I - Managing Cultural Diversity

HX529 Insurgency Movements in the Pacific and SE Asia

HX531 Asia in Focus

Subsequent Years

HA601 Working in the Asia Pacific

HH621 Asian Philosophies

Japanese Language

First Year

HJ500 Introduction to Japanese 1A

HJ501 Introduction to Japanese 1B

Subsequent Years

HJ600 Japanese 2A

HJ601 Japanese 2B

HJ700 Japanese 3A / HJ711 Contemporary Japanese 3A

HJ701 Japanese 3B / HJ712 Contemporary Japanese 3B

HJ702 Japanese for Tourism and Industry 1 / HJ713 Advanced Japanese 4A

HJ703 Japanese for Business and Industry 2 / HJ714 Advanced Japanese 4B