Thai Language Major

Total units 48 Units

Areas of interest Asian Languages, Asian Studies, Asia Pacific Studies, Language Studies, Asia-Pacific Studies
Major code THAI-MAJ

Academic career Undergraduate

Thai courses foster both students’ personal goals and Australian national interests by equipping graduates for deep and positive engagement with Thailand, Southeast Asia and other culturally diverse settings. Students develop Thai language skills in conjunction with an understanding of relevant social, political, cultural and historical contexts. The major employs an integrated, multi-disciplinary approach, supporting the growth of analytical and other scholarly skills. Over the course of the major, students can develop competencies that will enable them to access valuable native language resources, engage constructively in a broad range of social and professional contexts, and effectively share their academic insights.

Students in this major are encouraged to spend time studying at a tertiary institution in Thailand. This can be done either through intensive in-country study in the summer or winter breaks, or through a year of study in the Year in Asia program. Competitive scholarships are available to qualified students.

Learning Outcomes

On satisfying the requirements of this major, students will have the knowledge and skills at an Advanced level of Thai to:

1. Demonstrate confident, accurate recognition and production of Thai phonemes, including tones, to distinguish accurately between close pairs in listening and in speech and to use intonation appropriate to various scenarios.

2. Recognise and use transliteration; recognise various Thai script fonts and use a Thai computer keyboard.

3. Recognise and use a specialist vocabulary suitable for independent study on areas of personal academic interest.

4. Create sentence structures to support the expression of complex ideas and arguments.

5. Evaluate formal and informal texts, and interact independently with informants to elicit desired information.

6. Debate current issues in Thai culture with native speakers spontaneously and in a manner appropriate to all different levels of society.

Other Information

A student may not take a course that is a prerequisite or a lower level than a course which they have already passed.

Students that are commencing language studies who have prior knowledge of the language will be required to take a placement test before enrolling for the first time. Students will not be permitted to enrol in a course at a lower than the level they achieve in the placement test, and may be exempted from compulsory courses.

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Requirements

This major requires the completion of 48 units, which must include:

A maximum of 12 units of 1000 level courses.

6 units from completion of the following course(s):

Code	Title	Units
THAI3008	Thai 6	6

A minimum of 30 units must come from completion of courses from the following list:

Code	Title	Units
THAI1002	Thai 1	6
THAI1003	Thai 2	6
THAI2002	Thai 3	6
THAI2003	Thai 4	6
THAI3002	Thai 5	6
THAI2525	Learning Language Locally: Thailand	6-12
ASIA3083	Research Topics in South and Southeast Asian Languages A	6
ASIA3108	Research Topics in South and Southeast Asian Languages B	6

A maximum of 12 units may come from completion of courses from the following list:

Code	Title	Units
ASIA2103	Language in Asia and the Pacific (L)	6
ASIA2100	Linguistic Histories in Asia and the Pacific (L)	6
BURM1002	Burmese 1	6
BURM1003	Burmese 2	6
SKRT1002	Sanskrit 1	6
SKRT1003	Sanskrit 2	6
ASIA2098	Asian and Pacific Studies Internship	6-12

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