• Offered by School of Culture History and Language
  • ANU College ANU College of Asia and the Pacific
  • Classification Advanced
  • Course subject Asian Studies
  • Areas of interest Asian Languages, Asia Pacific Studies
  • Academic career PGRD
  • Course convener
    • Dr Timothy Hassall
  • Mode of delivery In Person
  • Co-taught Course
  • Offered in Second Semester 2018
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The course is for students who have completed ASIA6083 and have demonstrated an advanced level of proficiency in one of the major Southeast or South Asian languages taught in the School (Hindi, Indonesian, Thai, Vietnamese or Sanskrit). Enrolled students conduct an independent research project under the supervision of a member of academic staff, on a common theme that may change from semester to semester. Students will arrange to meet with their supervisor on a regular basis to create a project in their target language. Enrolment in this course is contingent on the availability of appropriate supervisors. 

Learning Outcomes

Upon successful completion, students will have the knowledge and skills to:

On satisfying the requirements of this course, students will have the knowledge and skills at an Independent level to:
1. Recognise and appraise a range of non-technical vocabulary in the chosen topic area, enabling them to understand in detail the content of academic, print media, or modern literary texts.
2. Recognise and appraise a range of phrase and sentence structures in the chosen topic area, enabling them to closely analyse the content of textual segments and express ideas in writing with precision.
3. Produce succinct written paraphrases of the arguments or the themes of written texts; criticise those texts and compose an argument in response through an extended research essay.
4. Demonstrate an understanding of cultural settings and references relevant to the chosen topic area, enabling both a sophisticated understanding of the texts at hand and a nuanced written response to them.

Other Information

Enrolment is contingent on appropriate supervisors being available to work with students.

This is a co-taught course. Any cap on enrolments in one course applies to both courses combined.

Indicative Assessment

Written critical reports x 5: 40% (LOs 1,2,3,4)

Research essay: 50%  (LOs 1,2,3,4)

Performance in discussions: 10% (LOs 1,2,4)

The ANU uses Turnitin to enhance student citation and referencing techniques, and to assess assignment submissions as a component of the University's approach to managing Academic Integrity. While the use of Turnitin is not mandatory, the ANU highly recommends Turnitin is used by both teaching staff and students. For additional information regarding Turnitin please visit the ANU Online website.

Workload

Fortnightly meetings with Course Coordinator or Supervisor. Students are expected to read approximately 10 academic and non-academic texts in the target language, each about 6,000 words, and demonstrate the ability to capture the various subtleties and nuances that run through the selected readings.

Requisite and Incompatibility

You are not able to enrol in this course if you have successfully completed ASIA3108 or HIND3108 or HIND6108 or INDN3005 or INDN6005 or SKRT3108 or SKRT6508 or THAI3008 or THAI6008.

You will need to contact the School of Culture History and Language to request a permission code to enrol in this course.

Specialisations

Fees

Tuition fees are for the academic year indicated at the top of the page.  

If you are a domestic graduate coursework or international student you will be required to pay tuition fees. Tuition fees are indexed annually. Further information for domestic and international students about tuition and other fees can be found at Fees.

Student Contribution Band:
1
Unit value:
6 units

If you are an undergraduate student and have been offered a Commonwealth supported place, your fees are set by the Australian Government for each course. At ANU 1 EFTSL is 48 units (normally 8 x 6-unit courses). You can find your student contribution amount for each course at Fees.  Where there is a unit range displayed for this course, not all unit options below may be available.

Units EFTSL
6.00 0.12500
Domestic fee paying students
Year Fee
2018 $3180
International fee paying students
Year Fee
2018 $4860
Note: Please note that fee information is for current year only.

Offerings, Dates and Class Summary Links

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The list of offerings for future years is indicative only.
Class summaries, if available, can be accessed by clicking on the View link for the relevant class number.

Second Semester

Class number Class start date Last day to enrol Census date Class end date Mode Of Delivery Class Summary
9205 23 Jul 2018 30 Jul 2018 31 Aug 2018 26 Oct 2018 In Person N/A
10012 23 Jul 2018 30 Jul 2018 31 Aug 2018 26 Oct 2018 Online N/A

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