Program Overview

If you achieve excellent results while completing your Bachelor of Arts, here’s your chance to build your specialist knowledge even further.

You can complete this course over one year of study, or longer if you can take advantage of part-time study options. Over that time, you’ll expand your expertise in the subject area of your undergraduate degree.

As you complete your honours, you’ll develop and complete an individual original research project in an area of your interest. You can put what you learn into practice and further your analytical, research and applied knowledge skills to begin the transition from student to researcher.

Major: Asian Studies

This three-year degree offers you the opportunity to study the politics, history, societies, economies, media and religions of the Asian region. It's also possible to combine an Asian Studies major with a second major (or minor) in Indonesian or Japanese language to broaden your horizons even further!

If you love to travel, you can study with our international partners in southeast Asia and gain credit for your Murdoch degree.

Asian Studies helps you resolve complex issues in Australian and Asian contexts.  Working with world-leading scholars of the Asia region, you’ll develop important cross-cultural skills, knowledge and analytical proficiency that are valued by government and other employers.

3 reasons to study Asian Studies at Murdoch

• Study in-country programs in Indonesia, Japan and elsewhere, which are often supported by scholarships.
• Learn with world-leading academics in anthropology, sociology, politics, language, history, development and other disciplines.
• Gain high-priority professional and cultural skills that can shape your future career.

What you’ll learn

• How Asia has shaped the global present and will influence the world’s future.
• Interpret representations of Asia, and why they matter.
• Research skills to evaluate competing sources of knowledge and analyse complex issues.
• Effectively communicate ideas and persuade others.  
• Design and manage sophisticated projects.  
• Diverse skills to work with people from a range of cultural backgrounds.