Asian Studies at Murdoch

• Want to combine travel with your study?
• Want to increase your employment prospects to include a wide range of interesting and exciting jobs not just in Australia but overseas?
• Want to get to know the fastest growing region in the world?
• Want to be where the action is?

Then Asian Studies at Murdoch is where you should be!

Can you imagine yourself as:

• Tour Manager for Andrew Lloyd Webber's production in China?
• Third Secretary for the Australian Embassy in Jakarta?
• Deputy Manager for BHP in Beijing?
• A surf tour guide for an eco-tourism business in Indonesia?
• Corporate lawyer in a leading legal firm in London?
• Creative Director of a television organisation in Singapore?
• Marketing Manager of a leading trading company in Tokyo?

These are just some of the exciting positions recently taken up by Murdoch Asian Studies graduates. Murdoch's flexible degree structure makes a double major with Asian Studies possible. This will give you a broader education, make you more employable and further expand your personal horizons. Popular combinations include: Law, Commerce, Communications, Politics, Sociology, Tourism, Environmental Science, and Media Studies.

The Asian Studies program at Murdoch University will give you the language skills and the cross-cultural awareness you need to succeed. Murdoch's School of Asian Studies is the oldest in the state and is the home of the Asia Research Centre, the premier research unit on contemporary Asia. Our graduates are helped in their success by Murdoch's reputation as one of Australia's leading teaching and research universities for Asian Studies, gaining sought-after positions in both business and government departments like Foreign Affairs, Defence, Education and Development Assistance. In both Australia and overseas, our graduates have also gone on to a wide range of exciting and challenging careers working in tourism, international affairs, marketing, and the media.

Murdoch offers insights into all aspects of Asia: history, politics, economics, societies, cultures and languages. You can study Chinese, Indonesian and Japanese and as part of your degree take part in Murdoch's innovative in-country study opportunities.

Get first hand experience of life in Asia; spend a year or semester in China, Japan or Indonesia!

Asian Studies has a rich diversity of units about Asia available for study and two separate undergraduate programs from which to choose. These are available full-time, part-time, or through our external mode of study.

You can take a Bachelor of Arts (Asian Studies) (3 years full-time or equivalent part-time) or a Bachelor of Asian Studies (Specialist) (4 years full-time or equivalent part-time).

Indonesian Studies

As an indication of Murdoch's strong reputation in Indonesian Studies, it is the founder and host of the national Australian Consortium for 'In-Country' Indonesian Studies (ACICIS), which has a membership of 20 universities nation-wide. ACICIS provides a smooth mechanism through which students can undertake a year's study in Indonesian universities. Units at Murdoch include anthropology, politics, history, religion, media and cultural studies.

Japanese Studies

Murdoch has one of the best Japanese Studies offerings in Australia, with a thriving in-country study program. Students study in five Japanese universities that have exchange arrangements with Murdoch. Since it started in 1990 Murdoch's Japanese Studies students have won over $2 million dollars in scholarships, the result of their exceptionally high academic standard. In addition to their language units, students also study the Japanese economy and business, as well as history, politics and contemporary culture.

Murdoch encourages students to think creatively about their study and career choices - you will find it is possible to combine the highly regarded Asian Studies degrees with almost any other degree offered at Murdoch. The choice is yours!

The Asian Studies staff are highly qualified, widely published and have a strong interest in social and political change in the Asian region. Murdoch University is a highly regarded teaching and research institution and the Asian Studies programme is known as one of the best places to study Asia in Australia and around the world. All of our staff have spent considerable time living and working in Asia - and if you enrol at Murdoch, you can do the same!