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East Asian Studies

The MacMillan Center
320 Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse, 432.3426
research.yale.edu/eastasianstudies/
M.A.

Chair
Haun Saussy (Room 214, 451 College, 432.4753, haun.saussy@yale.edu)

Director of Graduate Studies
Edward Kamens (310 HGS, 432.2862, edward.kamens@yale.edu)

Professors
Kang-i Sun Chang (East Asian Languages & Literatures), Deborah Davis (Sociology), Koichi Hamada (Economics), Valerie Hansen (History), Edward Kamens (East Asian Languages & Literatures), William Kelly (Anthropology), Youngsook Pak (East Asian Studies; History of Art [Visiting]), Frances Rosenbluth (Political Science), Haun Saussy (Comparative Literature; East Asian Languages & Literatures), Helen Siu (Anthropology), Jonathan Spence (History), John Whittier Treat (East Asian Languages & Literatures), Byron Weng (Political Science [Visiting]), Mimi Hall Yiengpruksawan (History of Art)

Associate Professors
Christopher Hill (East Asian Languages & Literatures), Pierre Landry (Political Science), Fumiko Takeda (Economics [Visiting])

Assistant Professors
Aaron Gerow (East Asian Languages & Literatures; Film Studies), William Honeychurch (Anthropology), Reginald Jackson (East Asian Languages & Literatures; Theater Studies), Paize Keulemans (East Asian Languages & Literatures), Karen Nakamura (Anthropology), Lillian Lan-ying Tseng (History of Art), Jing Tsu (East Asian Languages & Literatures)

Senior Lecturers
Annping Chin (History), Koichi Shinohara (Religious Studies; East Asian Languages & Literatures)

Lecturers
Chi-Wah Chan, Aglaia De Angeli, Charles Kim, Charles Laughlin, Roderick Whitfield

Senior Lectors
Seungja Choi, Koichi Hiroe, Zhengguo Kang, Ninghui Liang, Yoshiko Maruyama, John Montanaro, Ling Mu, Michiaki Murata, Hiroyo Nishimura, Masahiko Seto, Mari Stever, Wei Su, Peisong Xu, William Zhou

Lectors
Hsiu-hsien Chan, Min Chen, Angela Lee-Smith, Li Li, Rongzhen Li, Fan Liu, Yu-lin Saussy, Jianhua Shen, Haiwen Wang

Fields of Study

The Master of Arts program in East Asian Studies offers a concentrated course of study designed to provide a broad understanding of Chinese, Japanese, or Korean history, culture, contemporary society, politics, and economy. This program is designed for students preparing to go on to the doctorate in one of the disciplines of East Asian Studies (i.e., anthropology; economics; history; history of art; language and literature including comparative literature, film studies, and theater studies; political science; sociology; etc.), as well as for those students seeking a terminal M.A. degree before entering the business world, the media, government service, or a professional school.

Course of Study for the M.A. Degree

The program is designed to be completed by successfully taking eight courses approved for graduate credit by the director of graduate studies over the course of one academic year. Normally, students entering the program are expected to have already completed the equivalent of at least two years of Chinese, Japanese, or Korean language, so that the three-year language requirement can be completed in the two terms spent at Yale. A program of study for completion of the degree in one year consists of at least eight term courses that normally include two terms of language study at Yale’s third-year level (unless the language requirement has already been met through previous study) and six other term courses selected from the current year’s offerings of advanced language courses and lecture courses or seminars in any relevant subject area, with the approval of the director of graduate studies.

Special Requirements for the M.A. Degree

Students must earn two Honors grades (“H”) over the course of their two terms at Yale. Honors grades earned in any Chinese or Japanese language class cannot be counted toward satisfying this requirement, except with the permission of the director of graduate studies.

Joint-Degree Programs

As the East Asian Studies M.A. degree is a one-year program, there are no joint-degree programs available. Students interested in pursuing additional degrees in the Yale professional schools should consider applying separately to those programs in order to complete such degrees before or after the East Asian Studies M.A.degree.

Program materials are available upon request to the Council on East Asian Studies, Yale University, PO Box 208206, New Haven CT 06520-8206; e-mail, eastasian.studies@yale.edu; Web site, http://research.yale.edu/eastasianstudies. Applications are available from the Admissions Office, Graduate School, Yale University, PO Box 208236, New Haven CT 06520-8236; e-mail, graduate.admissions@yale.edu.

Please consult the course information available online at http://research.yale.edu/eastasianstudies/academic.php and http://students.yale.edu/oci/ for a complete listing of East Asian-related courses offered at Yale University.

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