Overview | Summary of Courses

Offered By:	ANU College of Asia and the Pacific
Academic Contact:	Geng Song

Description

The minor is a cross-College program that aims at deepening the students’ understanding of contemporary cultures, especially popular cultures, of Asia and the Pacific and cultivating among them an awareness of and interest in cross-regional and interdisciplinary studies of culture from a theoretically-informed perspective. It introduces new approaches to various forms of popular culture, such as magazines, advertising, movies, manga/anime, TV dramas, games & gadgets, fashion, pop music/entertainment, and online communities, etc. and thus challenges the traditional division between “high” and “low” cultures. It also seeks to give value to the cultures of diverse ethnic, religious, gender, sexual, and other minorities that are often excluded from dominant national frameworks. By introducing a wide range of critical methods, including gender studies, Postcolonialism, postmodernism, globalisation studies, and diasporic studies, the program seeks to explore the dynamics between cultural production, media technology, and political discourses, etc.

 

Learning Outcomes

Upon completion of a Bachelor degree with a minor in Inter-Asia Cultural Studies, graduates will be able to: 

• Speak and write about theories, factual content and research approaches relevant to Inter-Asia Cultural Studies

• Identify relevant regional and international literature relevant to history of Inter-Asia Cultural Studies.

• Determine the processes through which current knowledge about Inter-Asia Cultural Studies has been developed.

 

Course Lists

The course lists in the "Requirements" section below is a definitive list and includes all courses that can be counted towards the major, whether or not they are offered in the current year. For a list of courses that will be offered in the current year, please see the Summary of Courses page.

Requirements

This minor requires the completion of 24 units, which must include:

6 units from the completion of one of the following courses:

ASIA1025             Individual and Society in Asia and the Pacific A (6 units)

ASIA1030             Individual and Society in Asia and the Pacific B (6 units)

 

6 units from the completion of the following course:

GEND1002           Reading Popular Culture (6 units)

 

12 units from the completion of courses from the following list:

ASIA2006             Gender and Korean History (6 units)      

ASIA2014             China through film and TV (6 units)         

ASIA2074             Popular Culture in East Asia (6 units)      

ASIA2078             Modern Arts in Taiwan (6 units)                 

ASIA2166             East Asian Women and War (6 units)        

ASIA3610             Globalising Southeast Asia: Capitalism, Media, and 21st Century Cultures (6 units)           

INDN2008            Popular Cultures in Southeast Asia (6 units)        

INDN3007            Introduction to Southeast Asian Performing Arts: Performance Genres & Intercultural Translation (6 units)

PASI1010            Talking the Pacific: Melanesian pidgins and creoles in social context (6 units)

PASI2001            Learning Oceania: an Introduction to Pacific Studies (6 units)

PASI3001             The Contemporary Pacific: Culture, Society, Politics and Development (6 units)              

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