This Major investigates everyday power in Asia and the Pacific through a focus on gender, media and culture. Using critical concepts from a range of disciplines, students uncover how gender norms, changing media landscapes, and creative practices influence political debates and public cultures. Exploring how concepts of gender in Asia and the Pacific may differ from conventional Western views, this Major analyses how ideas about gender shape justice, equality, social status, and leadership in different societies. Especially in situations when top-down political change may be limited, worlds of creative expression and everyday technology can reveal key transformations at work. The Major thus analyses how vibrant Asian and Pacific popular cultures and media spread social norms, challenge established authorities, and imagine new futures. Through analytical, practice-based, and creative approaches, this Major gives students crucial tools to promote critical thinking on the politics of everyday life in Asia and the Pacific.
Learning Outcomes
- Demonstrate a nuanced and self-reflective understanding of theories of gender, media and culture, especially in the context of Asian and Pacific societies;
- Apply the conceptual vocabulary of gender, media and cultural studies to show critical thinking on issues faced in Asia and the Pacific, using both scholarly and applied approaches;
- Develop and apply critical thinking skills to enable reflection on the cross-cultural processes and multidisciplinary approaches through which current knowledge about gender, media and culture in Asia and the Pacific has developed;
- Communicate complex ideas in writing, speech, and multimedia, justifying methods and approaches as appropriate;
- Collaborate effectively with others through processes designed to promote relationship-building, creative experimentation, time management, and self-reflection.
Relevant Degrees
Requirements
The Asian and Pacific Culture, Media, and Gender Major requires the completion of 48 units, which must include:
12 units from the following courses:
ASIA2311 / GEND2001 Gender and Cultural Studies in Asia and the Pacific
ASIA3032 Digital Asia: Technology and Society
A minimum of 12 units and a maximum of 18 units from the following advanced courses:
ASIA3012 Readings in Asian Societies and Histories
ASIA3031 Cultures in Korean Society
ASIA3039 Research Project in Asian and Pacific Studies
PASI3002 Gender and Sexuality in the Pacific
PASI3005 Pacific Islands Field School
PASI3012 Readings in Indigenous Studies
A maximum of 24 units of Asian and Pacific Culture, Media, and Gender Studies courses from the following list:
ASIA2006 Gender in Korean History
ASIA2014 China: Language, Discourse, and Political Culture
ASIA2058 Japanese Popular Culture: Manga, Anime, Film and the Visual Arts
ASIA2072 Taiwan: History and Culture
ASIA2074 Popular Culture in East Asia
ASIA2088 Culture and Environment in Indonesia
ASIA2099 Social Power in China: Family to Family-State
ASIA2112 Special Topics in Asian and Pacific Studies
ASIA2116 India's Culture Wars
HUMN2004 Global Vietnam: Gender, Labour and Migration
INTR3002 Global Governance in the Asia-Pacific
A maximum 12 units of advanced language courses focusing on Asian and Pacific Culture, Media, and Gender from the following list:
ASIA3108 Research Topics in Asian and Pacific Languages
CHIN3024 Advanced Modern Chinese A
CHIN3025 Advanced Modern Chinese B
CHST3211 Reading China: Past and Present
CHST3212 Reading Chinese Literature: Theory and Criticism
FREN3108 Imagining the French Empire: French Colonialism on Film
JPNS3005 Advanced Japanese: Issues in Contemporary Japan
JPNS3006 Advanced Japanese: Language in Context
JPNS3007 Advanced Japanese: Readings in Culture and Society
JPNS3008 Advanced Japanese: Readings in Literature
KORE3015 Advanced Korean: Film and Society
KORE3018 Advanced Korean: Literature and Media
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