Major:  Southeast Asian Studies

Course Description

ENGL500        Writing for Graduate Studies

Students will study the academic English to advance and broaden their knowledge in order to be able to keep pace with the requirements of the Graduate School assignments and progressive work. The course enables them to understand how human being utilizes oral and written language to interact with each other in the learning environments.  Furthermore, students will do their best to explore different styles of academic writing and develop basic skills in conducting academic research based on comparison and analysis of various case studies. Significantly, students will build on their foundation knowledge through their own research in various topics assigned and verified by professor of the course and strength in an academic essay writing style.

MGT 505         Fundamentals of Management

This course will provide students with the fundamental principles and skills needed for the field of Management. It refreshes students in the process of accumulating managerial responsibility at their workplace with updated theories and managerial cases. The course also discusses various topics related to management theory, history of management, organizational culture, planning and practical applications for managers who work in small and large organizations. Finally, it enables students to learn how to use management and leadership skills in a decision making process.

NATS 510        Global Environment Awareness

This course introduces students to concepts and theories related to world environment. It discusses a natural process of an ecological system, economic and social development in equilibrium to environmental conditions. Importantly, it brings updates about human activities and environmental pollution causing major problems from draught, inundation, desertification, contaminated soil, air and water to ozone depletion. The course also raises awareness of essence in environmental preservation through various debates about climate change, natural resource protection and conservation and sustainable development from an environmental perspective.

ECON 515       Fundamentals of Economics

This course, in its traditional sense, does not deal with economic issues. It focuses on the principles of economics necessitated for practical applications in the economics. The course also provides basic knowledge in Microeconomics and Macroeconomics used as economic tools of analysis. This is to be accomplished by raising certain key problems or issues relevant to the economics principles, teaching the tools necessary for analysis, and finally applying these tools to analyze the problems.

STAT 520        Fundamentals of Statistics

This course is designed for students who have never taken statistics before. It starts with the introduction of the elementary concept of statistics and descriptive statistics and ends with inferential statistics. By the completion of the course, students will learn how to present qualitative and quantitative data from using graphs to summary values. They also learn basic probability theory in order to understand the concept of inferential statistics. The students need to have an increased understanding of inferences, confidence intervals and hypothesis testing along with practices through the final step of the course, as these are vital for them to resume their studies in the field of academic research from Research Methodology course necessitating a requisite of Fundamentals of Statistics.

RESR 525        Research Methodology

This course targets at offering skills and techniques in research to the course followers. The major themes with regard to the course include problem statement development, hypothesis formulation and the practical aspects of research methods to attain the intended and desired research outcomes. It, of course, looks into research proposal, a research scheme and literature review. Essentially, it discusses the citation of documents or the ways to tell the sources of information, surveys, interviews and questionnaires. Moreover, it introduces a comparative aspect of research methods from social discipline to science and business on the basis of the use of the distinctive use of qualitative and quantitative approaches. Ultimately, the course members are expected to be able to develop their own themes and conduct the research for the class, together with the presentation of the written report from research findings.

LAW 513         International Law

This course provides students with an introduction to law in its global context in this age of trans-national and inter-jurisdictional practice, with particular focus on public international law and its significance to Australian law. Additionally, private international law and comparative law will be covered and the nature and objectives of these areas highlighted and distinguished. The course commences with an introduction to the development and nature of public international law as well as distinctive elements of international legal reasoning. It then addresses key features of international law, with topics chosen from: the sources of international law with emphasis on customary international law and the law of treaties; adjudication and enforcement of international law; the structure of the international community and participants in the international legal system; the peaceful settlement of international disputes; state responsibility; jurisdiction and immunity; international maritime law and the law of the sea; the use of force; international human rights; the law of armed conflict and International Criminal Law.

MGT 530         Governance, Management and Leadership Dynamics

This is an upper level course of management and leadership which looks at how managers and leaders behave and make a decision to deal with an organizational change and a crisis situation. Students will be expected to actively participate in the debate on studies relevant to the themes such as advanced management skills, leadership dynamics and leadership styles. The subtheme on Effective Governance is also introduced for the course followers in order for them to increase an understanding about responsibility, decision making and accountability in the field of management and leadership. A combination of readings and class discussions with hands-on exercises will familiarize students with the variety of approaches one might take to management and leadership. To advance the students’ knowledge in the discipline, case studies on corporations, business firms and public institutions are incorporated into the course.

POL 530          Fundamental Theories of International Relations

The course will describe main theories of international relations and discuss strengths and weaknesses of these theories. Another focus of the course is the relevance (or lack thereof) of such theories in the era of globalization and rapidly changing relations among states and non-state actors.

HIST 670        Classical Civilization

This course will examine the classical civilizations of the Mediterranean with special focus on those of the Greek and the Roman.

IR 554             History of Foreign Relations in the Asia-Pacific

The course provides a comprehensive overview on the historical relations among the major powers of the Asia-Pacific region including the superpower USA and the regional powers Russia, China and Japan. The relations are studied in the Asia-Pacific regional context including the sub-regions of Northeast Asia and Southeast Asia. The course will identify the foreign policy profiles of these powers and major foreign policy issues. The course objective is to familiarize participants with historical and contemporary international relations in the Asia-Pacific.

HIST 654        History of Asian Civilizations

This course examines the contributions of Asian cultures, from prehistoric to modern times, to philosophy, science, and art.  It focuses, in particular, on India, China and Southeast Asian cultural innovations, including early mathematics, epic stories (the Ramayana/Reamker), music, and shadow puppetry. 

PHIL 655        Asian Philosophy

This course will familiarize students with the major disciplines in Asian philosophy, in particular political philosophy, moral philosophy, religious philosophy, aesthetics, and Eastern and Continental approaches to philosophy.

ANTH 673      History of Anthropology

This course overviews the history and development of the field and study of anthropology in Europe and North America from the 1800s to the present.

MUS 675         History of Music

This course will overviews the history of music beginning with the Gregorian chants to the European classical period.

HIST 697         Comprehensive Exam

                        Complete two courses prior to written and oral comprehensive exams

HIST 698        Master’s Research Report

The research report option will require students to perform an action research project in an organization or community in Cambodia and to write a report, reflecting upon and documenting the experience in the context of historical theory and teachings. 

HIST 699        Master’s Thesis

The Master’s Thesis is offered on a letter-grade basis only. The candidate must select a topic and write a scientific research and study related to Southeast Asian studies.