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Next 110-022 Asian Studies Honours Thesis

 110-021 Inventing Asian Traditions

Note

Formerly available as 158-219/319. Students who have completed 158-219/319 are not eligible to enrol in this subject.

Availability

2nd and 3rd year

Credit Points

12.5

Coordinator

J Kowallis & C Stevens

Prerequisites

50 points of study at first year.

Semester

1 (view timetable)

Contact

A 2-hour lecture/workshop and a 1-hour tutorial per week

Subject Description

This is the core course for the Interdepartmental Programme in Asian Studies, and aims to prepare students for more specialised studies on Asia. The course offers a comparative view of Asian societies through a critical approach to the texts and contexts within which knowledge about these societies is developed and transmitted. Religious, political, social and economic organisation are considered with a focus on Japan, Korea, China and Indonesia. The course will focus on the following themes: Orientalism, Inventing Religions; Inventing Nations; Inventing the Family; Asia's contemporary relationship with Australia and the West.

Assessment

Written work totalling 4000 words.

Prescribed Texts
  • L Hsun, H-Y Yang & G Yang (trans), Selected Stories. Foreign Languages Press 1989.
  • E Said, Orientalism. Penguin 1995.
  • G Evans, Asia's Cultural Mosaic. Prentice Hall 1993.
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