An analysis of Japanese poetry or a look back at Australia's involvement in the Vietnam war.
These are just some of the subject areas being tackled in Australian schools under the new National Curriculum that's being introduced across the country.
Asia - and specifically Australia's involvement with Asia - is one of the cross-curriculum priority areas.
And while experts say it's too soon to assess what the longer-term effects may be, they're already starting to see some effects in Australian schools.
Peggy Giakoumelos has the story.
The new National Curriculum aims to incorporate Asian knowledge in subject areas as broad as mathematics, history and geography.
This is not meant to be at the expense of what until now have been largely European perspectives, but in addition to them.
There will also now be more of an emphasis on teaching of Asian languages.
Executive Director of the Asia Education Foundation, Kathe Kirby, is enthusiastic about the new priorities.
"In ten years time every young person will exit schooling with knowledge of the cultures and peoples and countries of the Asian region. Every young person during their schooling will have access to continuous study of one of the priority Asian languages. and that every school will be linked to a school in the Asian region. I would like to see also every teacher emerging from teacher education being excited and skilled and interested in how they're going to be providing their young people that they're about to teach with curriculum that's going to be reflective of the world in which they live."
Dr Phil Lambert is the General Manager of the Australian, Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority.
He says the shift in the curriculum is an attempt to reflect Australia's changing demographics and to make students aware of Australia's place in the region.
"We have to play a significant role in making sure that every young person that leaves our schools, they have an understanding of where they are located the changing nature of the world and the significance of China and India in the world and growing so. And you won't get that through simply watching the TV or through if you like an approach to teaching and learning which is of another time."
The process of introducing a National Curriculum began in 2008.
Since then changes have been gradually introduced, with the final roll-out expected to be finalised by early next year.
Keren Caple, from the Australian Institute for Teaching and School Leadership, says it's too early to tell what impact the new curriculum will have on students, especially in the area of engagement with Asia.
She says teachers and schools, as well as students, are still getting used to the new curriculum.
"I think we've got a little while to go before we've won over the hearts and minds of every teacher and school leader across the country and it is a part of what they do all day every day. However when we look at some of the resource materials that we've developed the use of technology to deliver both Asian languages and intercultural understanding, we find that they're incredibly popular. People are attracted to those kind of resources than they are around things like numeracy and literacy where there seems to be a lot of support. So I think a metric is interest and I think we have a lot of interest in teachers and school leaders across the country than we did previously."
Kathe Kirby, from the Asia Education Foundation, says while it's early days there has been some evidence that the new curriculum is starting to have an impact.
"I think if we were to say as a country we now have about 18 percent of our young people, foundation to Year 10 who are studying an Asian language, with under six percent at year 12. It's taken a long time. We got to a time now where it is a sweet spot. We've had a government commitment through The Australia and Asian Century White Paper. We've got state government commitments in this area. But we can't go away from here just feeling self satisfied at having got to this point, because we've got to look at those numbers of student participation in Asian languages and also what's happening in our classrooms as being the real indicators of success."
