Offered By	ANU College of Asia and the Pacific
Areas of Interest	Asian Languages

This exciting and innovative program has been developed in response to the urgent and growing demand for students of Pacific studies throughout Australia and the region. Australia is fully engaged in the contemporary Pacific through aid, policy-making, the federal police, business, education, tourism, trade, and cultural exchanges.

Prerequisites

Learning a language of the Asia Pacific Region:

The core tenet of the BAPS program is that the Asia Pacific Region cannot be fully understood without an understanding to an advanced degree of a language of the region. No previous knowledge of a regional language is expected, but students with some language background may be placed into a higher level (native speakers are excluded from specialising in their native language.)

Requirements

The Pacific Languages Major consists of:

• four courses (24 units) of a relevant language
  
• Pacific Pidgins
• Pacific Languages Introduction
• French

• two additional language courses (12 units) of any language spoken in the region
• French
• Hindi
• Japanese
• Indonesian
• Tetum
  

• two other relevant courses
• Relevant courses, while broadly understood, must be confirmed by the convenor of the Pacific Studies Program and the convenor of the primary language program.

The Pacific Studies and Pacific Languages majors usefully complement majors in International Relations, Asian Studies, Development Studies, Politics, International Business, Strategic Studies, Human Ecology, French, Hindi, and Japanese. They also provide a specific regional focus to more general fields of study such as Politics, Anthropology, and Geography.

*Pacific Languages Major: Students taking the Pacific Studies Contextual Major may combine that program with any of the Language Majors offered in the College, the French Major offered in the College of Arts and Social Science, or the 'Pacific Languages Major'. The Pacific Languages Major consists of four courses (24 units) of any language (eg. French, Hindi, etc), and two relevant courses taught within the College or elsewhere at the ANU (eg., Language in Asia, Cross Cultural Communication, etc). Relevant courses, while broadly understood, must be confirmed by the convenor of the Pacific Studies Program and the convenor of the primary language program.

 

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