Curriculum

Degree Structure

Curriculum 2013 – Students ID 56-60 Click Here

Curriculum 2018 – Students ID 61 onwards

The new curriculum of the BAS degree, introduced in 2018, is made up of 132 units; 30 of these units are TU Foundation Courses, 57 units are BAS Core Courses, 36 units are Prescribed Advanced Studies Modules and 9 units are Elective Courses.

TU Foundation Courses : 30 units

TU100 Civil Education
TU101 Thailand, ASEAN, and the World
TU102 Social Life Skills
TU103 Life and Sustainability
TU104 Critical Thinking, Reading, and Writing
TU105 Communication Skills in English
TU106 Creativity and Communication
TU113 Fundamentals of Philosophy and Religions
TU116 Man and Arts: Visual Art, Music and Performing Arts
TU117 Development of the Modern World

BAS Courses: 102 units

BAS courses consist of courses from our Core, Prescribed Advanced Studies Modules, and Electives. Students will learn interdisciplinary skills, and subjects from three main academic modules: Art, Language and Literature, History and Culture, and Politics and Social Sciences.

BAS Core – 57 units

BS 101 Academic Reading
BS 111 Academic Writing
BS 200 Public Speaking
BS 201 English in a Global Context
BS 220 Introduction to British Literature
BS 230 Introduction to American Literature
BS 250 British History 1
BS 251 British History 2
BS 252 Britain and the United States in Southeast Asia
BS 260 American History 1
BS 261 American History 2
BS 270 British Government and Politics
BS 271 Introduction to Social and Political Science
BS 280 American Government and Politics
BS 320 Masterpieces of British and American Literature
BS 321 Empire in British and American History and Literature
BS 340 Western Art
BS 350 British and American Thought
BS 390 Internship

Prescribed Advanced Studies Modules – 36 units

Students must take 6 units (2 courses) from each of the following Studies Modules: Art, Language and Literature, History and Culture, and Politics and Social Sciences. Also, students are required to take a further 6 courses (18 units) from any of the three Studies Modules, selected according to their interests.

Art, Language and Literature

BS 313 Social Media in British and American Society
BS 323 Modern Literature
BS 324 Ethnicity and Identity in British and American Literature
BS 325 Postcolonialism in Literature/Postcolonial Studies
BS 333 Theatre in Britain
BS 334 British and American Poetry
BS 335 Theatre in the United States
BS 343 Modern and Contemporary British and American Arts
BS 423 Gender in British and American Literature
BS 424 Selected Topics in British Literature
BS 425 Selected Topics in American Literature
BS 434 Selected Topics in Contemporary Literature
BS 444 Selected Topics in Art

History and Culture

BS 353 Introduction to Cultural Studies
BS 354 American Film and Society
BS 355 Social and Labour History of the United States
BS 363 Popular Culture in Britain and the United States
BS 364 British Cinema and Society
BS 365 Immigration in the United States
BS 453 Images of Asia in Western Media
BS 454 Race and Class Identities in Britain
BS 455 Selected Topics in Cultural Studies
BS 463 African-American History and the Civil Rights Movement
BS 464 Selected Topics in British History
BS 465 Selected Topics in American History

Politics and Social Sciences

BS 273 Introduction to International Relations and Global Politics
BS 274 British Foreign Policy
BS 275 American Foreign Policy
BS 373 Ethics
BS 374 The United States and the Asia-Pacific
BS 375 The Economics of Britain and the United States
BS 383 Introduction to Political Economy
BS 384 Britain and Europe
BS 385 Democratic Theories
BS 473 Globalisation
BS 474 International Political Organisations
BS 475 Selected Topics in Social Science
BS 483 Selected Topics in British Politics
BS 484 Selected Topics in American Politics

Electives – 9 units

Students must take 9 units (3 courses) from the list below or they can enroll in courses offered by other International Programmes at Thammasat University.

BS 206 Spanish for Communication 1
BS 207 Spanish for Communication 2
BS 306 Advanced Academic Reading and Writing
BS 316 Creative Writing Skills
BS 317 Writing and Persuasion in the Digital Context
BS 406 Interpreting
BS 407 Rhetorical Strategies for Effective Communication
BS 497 Independent Studies