• 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 UGRD
  • Course convener
    • Dr Timothy Hassall
  • Mode of delivery In Person
  • Co-taught Course
  • Offered in First Semester 2020
    Second Semester 2020
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All activities that form part of this course will be delivered remotely in Semester 2 2020.

The course is for students who have completed ASIA3083 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:

  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.

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On successful completion of this course, students will have the knowledge and skills to engage at an Advanced level of one of the major Southeast or South Asian languages taught in the School (Hindi, Indonesian, Thai, Vietnamese or Sanskrit).

 

Students with native speaker proficiency (may include cognate languages and dialects) must review the placement test site and contact the CAP Student Centre for appropriate enrolment advice. Students with previous “language experience or exposure” are required to take a language placement test to ensure enrolment at the most appropriate level.

 

Relevant past experience includes:

-      Previous study of the language (both formal and informal, for example but not limited to, at school, or, home, or through online activities, etc.)

-      Being exposed to the language in childhood via a family member or friend

-      Travel or living in a country where the language is spoken

-      The language being spoken in your home (even if you do not speak it yourself)

 

Students who are not sure if they need to take a placement test should seek advice from the course or language convenor. Students who intentionally misrepresent their language proficiency level may be investigated under the Academic Misconduct Rule 2015 as having failed to comply with assessment directions and having sought unfair advantage. This may results in a penalty such as reduced grades or failure of the course.


Students are not permitted to enrol in a language course below one that they have already successfully completed, except with permission of the language and/or course convenor.

Indicative Assessment

  1. Written critical reports x 5 (40) [LO 1,2,3,4]
  2. Research essay (50) [LO 1,2,3,4]
  3. Performance in discussions (10) [LO 1,2,4]

In response to COVID-19: Please note that Semester 2 Class Summary information (available under the classes tab) is as up to date as possible. Changes to Class Summaries not captured by this publication will be available to enrolled students via Wattle. 

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 a representative set of readings, as agreed with the supervisor, in academic and non-academic texts in the target language, and demonstrate the ability to analyze the subtleties and nuances that are found in the selected readings.

Inherent Requirements

Not applicable

Requisite and Incompatibility

You are not able to enrol in this course if you have successfully completed HIND3108, ASIA6108 or HIND6108, INDN3005, INDN6005, SKRT3108, SKRT6508, THAI3008, THAI6008.

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

Prescribed Texts

To be confirmed

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
2020 $3120
International fee paying students
Year Fee
2020 $4800
Note: Please note that fee information is for current year only.

Offerings, Dates and Class Summary Links

ANU utilises MyTimetable to enable students to view the timetable for their enrolled courses, browse, then self-allocate to small teaching activities / tutorials so they can better plan their time. Find out more on the Timetable webpage.

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.

First Semester

Class number Class start date Last day to enrol Census date Class end date Mode Of Delivery Class Summary
4664 24 Feb 2020 02 Mar 2020 08 May 2020 05 Jun 2020 In Person N/A

Second Semester

Class number Class start date Last day to enrol Census date Class end date Mode Of Delivery Class Summary
9620 27 Jul 2020 03 Aug 2020 31 Aug 2020 30 Oct 2020 In Person View

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