Offered By	Faculty of Asian Studies
Academic Contact	Dr Bao Duy Thai

In studying Vietnamese at the ANU, students study the language of one of Southeast Asia?s oldest civilisations. In the modern context, Vietnamese is the national language of a country of growing political and economic significance for Australia. It is also the language of a dynamic community of 150,000 Vietnamese who have come to settle in Australia.

The Vietnamese program provides conversational and reading skills according to the needs of individual students, whether those needs centre around being able to communicate easily with Vietnamese people in Australia, working in the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, AusAID, Austrade, in education and training, in business or other international concerns, or pursuing academic studies and research in Vietnamese language, literature, or Southeast Asian history and area studies.

Vietnamese 1A, Vietnamese 1A:In-Country,1B, 2A, 2B, 3A and 3B constitute the core of an eight course major providing the basis for mastery of the language as a means of communication and as a tool for research. Proficiency in conversation and in reading and writing are both aims of the program. Vietnamese 1A In-Country offers students the chance to start their study of Vietnamese in intensive mode at Danang University in Central Vietnam.

In the first year, the focus is on communicative competence using correct grammar. The second year focuses on spoken Vietnamese with its idiomatic expressions. In the third year students read newspapers, debate current affairs, and study social and cultural issues.

Students enrolled in the Bachelor of Asian Studies (Vietnamese) degree undertake a year of study at an approved tertiary institution in Hanoi or Ho Chi Minh City.

Bachelor of Asian Studies students are free to complement their Vietnamese language sequence with courses relating to both Southeast Asia and China.

Vietnamese for Nationals is intended mainly for Australians of Vietnamese background who have some knowledge of spoken Vietnamese but who are not confident of their ability to read and write. After passing this course students may enrol in later-year Vietnamese courses.

Requirements

The Asian Language Major (Vietnamese) may comprise courses from the Summary of Courses page and must include Vietnamese 3B.

The information published on the Study at ANU 2009 website applies to the 2009 academic year only. All information provided on this website replaces the information contained in the Study at ANU 2008 website.