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Japanese Studies

Description

The Department of Japanese and Korean Studies offers qualified applicants the opportunity to undertake the research degrees of MA (Research) or PhD within the broad field of Japanese Studies. All aspects of Japanese culture and society are encompassed, including language, history, politics, sociology, economics and law.

Postgraduate Japanese Studies aims to advance the knowledge and understanding of Japan, the Japanese people and the Japanese language. The department aims to provide distinct educational opportunities, developing Japanese skills that meet the needs of graduates who will actively engage in professional intercultural communciation and academic research in both the global and domestic arenas.

Supervision is offered by members of the Department's staff in their areas of research expertise. Areas include:
  • Gender Issues
  • Japanese Theatre
  • Cross-cultural Adaptation
  • Organisational Communication
  • Intercultural Business Communication
  • Educational Linguistics
  • Sociolinguistics
  • Japanese linguistics
  • Functional grammar
  • Computational linguistics
  • Language-based Intelligent Computing
  • Pedagogy
  • Sociology
  • Anthropology
  • Minorities
Studying Japanese at UNSW

Postgraduate study in Japanese Studies is through the School of Languages and Linguistics in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (http://www.arts.unsw.edu.au). Please refer to the table below for a list of research programs available at UNSW.



Japanese Studies can be studied as
 
Specialisation At the Level of Plan
Japanese Studies Research JAPNAR1221
   

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