The Bachelor of Arts offers both diversity and focus, and builds informed, skilful and critically aware citizens of the world. In addition to your major, you can sample from a wide range of study areas, giving you a comprehensive base across areas in the arts, humanities and social sciences. You'll develop a rich understanding of human difference and communication, the complexities of social organisation, and humankind's trajectory through the past and into the future. An understanding of the Asian region and the global impact of its countries, cultures and economies is of critical importance to all future professionals. This major takes an interdisciplinary approach to examine a range of issues relating to the history, politics, society, economy and culture of Asian countries, as well as the variety of expression of individual experience. You'll focus particularly on China, Japan, Indonesia, Korea, Malaysia and South Asia. Start of expanded content In your first year you'll be introduced to a relevant language (either Chinese, Indonesian, Japanese or Korean), together with a broad overview of major developments in Asia across the past 500 years. Throughout the major you'll have access to a broad range of elective units in order to tailor your studies to match your personal and career interests.