This programme is designed to equip students with essential skills in understanding modern Asia as a region, keeping in sight its sub-regional dynamics, and its relation to an increasingly interconnected world. This knowledge will not only help to upgrade their professional abilities but will also ensure that they are equipped with the necessary tools to understand the global and regional forces that shape our region. It will provide advanced training for students seeking to upgrade their analytical capacity, research and data collection skills as well as their communication and presentation capacities.
Course Description
There are four core courses:
- Asian Regional Governance
- The State and Economy in East Asia
- Political and Social Change in Southeast Asia and the Region
- Pop Culture in East Asia
Plus up to four electives from the following:
- Special Topics in Development Studies
- Research Design for the Social Sciences
- Authoritarian Resilience and Democratic Change in East Asia
- East Asia and the US: Conflict and Interdependence
- Environmental Challenges in Asia and the World
- Human Rights in Asia
- BRIC Countries and the Emerging Global Order
- Special Topics in Asian and International Studies
- Religion and Development
- International Organisations
- Women and Politics in Asia
- History of Sino-Japanese Relations
- Power and Culture in Buddhist Southeast Asia
- Development Policy and Advocacy
- Gender and Development
- Welfare Regimes and Social Protection in Asia
- Disaster Management, Development and Regional Governance in Asia
- Indonesia: Politics and Society
- Labour and Development
- Infrastructure Development in China
- AIS Postgraduate Internship
- Social Change and Urbanisation in Contemporary China
- Political Contention in Contemporary China
- Thesis (6 credit units)