East Asian Studies
专业介绍
The Master of Arts program is designed for students who seek specialized and individualized enhancement of their undergraduate education. The department offers an array of language courses at all levels in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean for the further development of language capability. Besides language instruction, the department offers a wide range of courses in modern Asian culture, with emphasis on the literature, film, and visual culture of China, Japan, and Korea. Many of these courses treat these subjects in the context of such global issues as socialism, colonialism, fascism, and modernization. In working out their individual course of study, those seeking the MA degree are expected to balance out the different components of the program. For those who are interested, some course work and guidance on pre-modern China is also available.
Upon successful completion of the program, graduates will:
- Acquire an interdisciplinary understanding and critical examination of East Asia within a global configuration.
- Gain an understanding of how received pasts-including the early and the early modern eras – interact in the modern present of contemporary societies.
- Develop critical awareness of political, institutional and the methodological implications, as well as the historical provenance of both disciplinary-based and area studies inquiry.