Australia and Asia: Enduring Anxieties
UndergraduateLTU-AST10012025
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- Study method
- 100% online
- Assessments
- 100% online
- Enrol by
- 23 Feb 2025
- Entry requirements
- Prior study needed
- Duration
- 12 weeks
- Price from
- $2,124
- Upfront cost
- $0
- Loan available
- HECS-HELP and FEE-HELP available
Australia and Asia: Enduring Anxieties
About this subject
On successful completion you will be able to:
- Critically reflect on the complexities of Australia’s historical and contemporary relationship with the Asian region.
- Demonstrate a broad understanding of the key drivers underlining the enduring anxieties about Australia’s past and future relationship with Asia through the subject’s assessments.
- Compare how Australia and Asia have responded to political, economic and social change since the 19th century, and how it has impacted relations.
- Employ research and communications skills to develop a clear, coherent and independent exposition of knowledge as it relates to Australia’s relationship with Asia.
- What is Asia?
- Asian Migration to Australia
- The Asian Values Debate
- The China Challenge
- The India Opportunity
- Food, Sport, and Film
- Australia in the Asian Century
This first year subject investigates the dynamics of Australia’s longstanding and complex relationship with the Asian region. We adopt a thematic approach while drawing on timely and relevant examples from across the region, including Japan, China, Indonesia, India, and more. The subject begins with a brief survey of Australia’s historical ties with Asia, then moves on to Australia’s contemporary regional setting. We explore Australia’s dense web of connections to Asia through personal, trade, security and cultural ties. We also consider the sources of tension that complicate the relationship, such as the threat of terrorism, rise of China, democratic rollback, and political instability, while unravelling the differences in history, culture and values that spur, at times, mutual suspicions and ambivalence about Australia’s place in Asia. We also explore efforts to improve Asia literacy and the role of migration and diasporic communities in Australian multiculturalism. The subject is delivered in StudyFlex mode and can be completed fully online or face-to-face at the Bundoora campus.
- Online activities (personal reflection + quizzes, 1600 words equivalent) (40%)
- Social media project (approx. 1250 words) (30%)
- Argumentative research essay (approx. 1250 words) (30%)
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Entry requirements
Others
Past La Trobe University students who have previously completed AST1IIC (Introduction to Asia: India and China) are ineligible to enrol in this subject
Additional requirements
No additional requirements
Study load
- 0.125 EFTSL
- This is in the range of 10 to 12 hours of study each week.
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What to study next?
Once you’ve completed this subject it can be credited towards one of the following courses
UndergraduateLAT-BUS-DEG
UndergraduateLAT-ART-DIP
UndergraduateLAT-HSC-DEG
Bachelor of Arts/Bachelor of Health Sciences
UndergraduateLAT-AHS-DEG
Bachelor of Psychological Science
UndergraduateLAT-PYS-DEG
UndergraduateLAT-HSC-DIP
Bachelor of Information Technology
UndergraduateLAT-TEC-DEG
UndergraduateLAT-CYS-DEG
UndergraduateLAT-ART-DEG
UndergraduateLAT-CRM-DEG
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