he Bachelor’s Degree Programme in British and American Studies (BAS) is the first humanities-based undergraduate international programme offered by the Faculty of Liberal Arts, Thammasat University. The programme was developed in full recognition of the growing importance of the need to understand the cultures of the United Kingdom and the United States, both in their own right and as major influences on the rest of the world, especially on the region of Southeast Asia. Such an understanding is deemed necessary for effective integration and application of specialized knowledge in the multicultural community of the present era of globalization.