Philosophy; thoughts; theories and related research methodologies; research integration methods; practicing writing research proposals and planning research

Exchange of attitude and useful information for composing thesis; practice writing thesis proposal

Analysis and synthesis of methodologies and content of studies related to Thai studies and Thai regional studies, methodology and contents of social, economy, politics, language, arts, wisdom, culture, religion and tradition; applied methodology in Thai studies, new knowledge in Thainess

Development of the eastern part of Thailand physical; Environment, population, settlement, occupation, culture, society, culture society in eastern region; changing of community from the politic economic and cultural; role of eastern region and social development

Principles of research synthesis; development of research topics from the results of meta analysis; search and evaluation of research literature related to the research problem; practice writing articles in Thai and English for publication in journals

Special topic in social sciences; special topic in humanities, special topic in culture, special topic in religious and philosophy, special topic in contemporary

Importance of language, literature and ethnic groups and Thai society, diversity of languages and ethnic groups in Thailand, relationship between language and literature and Thai studies, role of language and literature in Thai society and culture, literature of ethnic groups in regions of Thailand, research to create new knowledge on language, literature and ethnic groups

Concepts and modernity theories; positivism concept, realism concept, structure–agency concept, historical materialism of Karl Marx’s, neo–marxist and post–marxist thoughts, post–modern, post–colonialism, subaltern

Urban development concepts, urban concepts, changing of the rural to urban, just city and capitalism, social relations of urban, people in the city, urban study of Thailand

Evolution of political economy thoughts; evolution of political economy in Thailand; social of nation state; Thailand’s deep state; changing of society and cultural; modernity in Thailand; neo–liberalism in Thai society

Definition and importance of ethics, important problems in ethics, ethical theory, metaethics, descriptive ethics, normative ethics, applied ethics, ethical problems in Thai society, methods for studying virtues and morals in Thai society

Definition and importance of art and religion, concept of art and religion, history of art and religion in Thai culture, relationship between art and religion in Thai culture, role of art and religion in Thai culture, current issues of art and religion in Thai society

Buddhism and local faith, society, culture and Thai state; Thai Buddhism and Buddhist new movement in Thai society; Thai understanding and practicing Dhamma; principle and method of Thai Buddhist meditation; Thai Buddhism and the world community.

Concept of cultural studies, concept of cultural space, physical space, social space, relative space, space and gender and identity, space as a cultural artifact ,space and social and cultural life, creating a cultural practice area, area research in Thai studies

Concept and theory for cultural review; Thai cultural character, identity and plurality; Thai cultural globalization, transnationalism and localism; comparative Thai and foreign culture.

Concept and theory on innovation and management; Thai cultural innovation; cultural resource and database; cultural management; cultural product and enterprise; culture for aging and digital society, and new normal

Cultural studies, culturalism, industrial culture, mass culture, popular culture, cultural transnationalism, cultural ecology, cultural anthropology, cultural relativism, cultural diffusion, cultural resource management, biocultural anthropology, multiculturalism, cultural pluralism, cultural evolutionism, acculturation, transculturation, cultural transnationalism, ethnocide, cultural materialism, folk culture, digital culture

Compare of the cultural diversity in Thai – Chinese, common character and cpecific character in culture, living together of people’s in multicultural societies

Purpose of research; literature reviews, analysis and synthesis; confidence evaluation of reviewed literature; research aims and objectives; research methodologies; research proposals; research conducts; result processing and analysis; result synthesis; discussions; citations and international bibliographic systems; full research report compilation; research article authoring; abstract preparation; oral presentations; ethics and code of conducts of researchers; ethics in publishing academic works