Australian National University

Bachelor of Arts (Chinese Studies)

Select from a diverse range of majors across the creative arts, humanities, and social sciences, taught by world-class scholars, to create a degree that is expressly yours with the ANU Bachelor of Arts.

You will have the flexibility to engage in hands-on projects, take your studies abroad, or undertake an internship. You will gain valuable analytical and research skills transferable to the global workplace while developing expertise in critical analysis, written and oral communication, and the ability to drive global and local change.

Chinese Studies Major
Chinese civilization laid many of the foundations for what is now modern East Asia. With China's rise to global power, Australia is seeking to redefine its relationship with China and its own role in the Pacific. The Chinese Studies Major offers students an outstanding array of courses and guided research opportunities that engage deeply with China's contested pasts and imposing presence.

ANU's concentration of recognised Chinese Studies specialists offer courses in archaeology, business, culture, imperial and modern history, linguistics, literature, philosophy, modern and contemporary politics, social dynamics, and on Taiwan. The Major features a number of distinct pathways that students can follow or combine to build thematic expertise; for example, culture, history, and language of traditional China, modern China since the Opium Wars, or the politics and society of the present-day.