two language major for asian studies? (1 Viewer)

[mimiian]

two language majors for asian studies?

just curious that if you take Chinese or Japanese as one of your majors in asian studies, do you HAVE to study another language major as well? the enrollment package anu sent me says "if taking introductory Chinese or Japanese, students may follow a different path", i looked up the anu website and it says something similar. the usual path is taking one language major and one non-language major, right? Is it absolutely compulsory to study another language major for those students who take Chinese or Japanese?

 

[neo o]

Re: two language majors for asian studies?

just curious that if you take Chinese or Japanese as one of your majors in asian studies, do you HAVE to study another language major as well? the enrollment package anu sent me says "if taking introductory Chinese or Japanese, students may follow a different path", the anu website says something similar. the usual path is taking one language major and one non-language major, right? Is it absolutely compulsory to study another language major for those students who take Chinese or Japanese?

Your post doesn't make sense, to me anyway. I'm reading it as, "If I do one language, do I have to do a second?". Alot depends on whether you're doing straight asian studies or a combined degree. In a combined degree you must sit one non language subject and one language subject each semester (so, in your first year Language x 1 and 2 and Individual and Society A and B.) The exception to this is Chinese, which is double weighted, and as a result you'll ONLY be taking Chinese. From memory Japanese is split in to a spoken and written stream after your first year, though I may be wrong.

 

[mimiian]

sorry, my english isn't exactly good.

i am taking a combined degree. usually if you study asian studies you would take one lanuage major and one cognitive major, right? but is Japanese double weighted as well? if you take Japanese do you have to take a cognitive major anymore?

thanks for the info. extra thanks for taking the trouble to read my esl level english. feel free to correct me if i make any english mistake, i seriously need to improve my english now.

 

[neo o]

sorry, my english isn't exactly good.

i am taking a combined degree. usually if you study asian studies you would take one lanuage major and one cognitive major, right? but is Japanese double weighted as well? if you take Japanese do you have to take a cognitive major anymore?

thanks for the info. extra thanks for taking the trouble to read my esl level english. feel free to correct me if i make any english mistake, i seriously need to improve my english now.

I didn't mean to have a go at you, sorry. I just didn't quite understand what you were saying .

If you take Chinese OR Japanese you'll still have to do cognitive subjects. To tell you the truth, I'm not sure if you have to actually have a cognitive major though - you just have to do the subjects. Japanese isn't double weighted. If you do Japanese, you'll be doing the compulsary cognitive subjects (Individual in Society A and B) along with the language in your first year, then choosing your own subjects in later years. However, I'm very sure that Japanese is divided into spoken and written subjects, each worth 6 credit points (half of your asian studies subjects) each semester. I don't think that you have to (or can) do both written and spoken at once in one semester without approval.

The best person to talk to would be someone from the faculty either on PEA day or when you enrol, though I found the asian studies guys who enrolled me to be jerks.

 

[mimiian]

really thanks for the info. and really there is no need to say sorry neo_o, to be honest, sometimes i can't even understand myself when i write in english (especially in the hsc exam) .