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Program in Asian Studies
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Program Requirements
Program Requirements
Certificate in Asian Studies The Committee on Asian Studies
offers an interdisciplinary program designed to provide graduate
students with a broad and balanced understanding of the basic
institutions and problems of Asia through the coordination of
educational and research activities at the departmental level
in the humanities and social sciences. Both M.A. and Ph.D. candidates
in standard departments enrolled in this program will receive
upon completion of the requirements listed below, Asian Studies
Certificates in recognition of their special competence in the
field.
A certificate in Asian Studies will be awarded to a graduate student
concentrating on East Asia or South Asia and Southeast Asia under
the following conditions:
- Satisfactory completion of departmental requirements for a
graduate
degree in a specific discipline, including a thesis or
dissertation on an Asian topic.
- Twenty-four credits of course work in Asian Studies, which
should include an interdisciplinary seminar as offered, and six
credits taken outside the student's own department. The course
work will normally be applied toward satisfying the student's
departmental degree requirements.
- Demonstration of competence in one Asian language whenever
relevant according to standards to be determined by the Committee
on Asian Studies. Hindi, Sanskrit, Chinese, Japanese, Arabic,
and Persian are available. See the undergraduate catalog for specific
lower level courses.
M.A. in East Asian Studies In addition, the East Asian faculty
of the Committee offers the following special M.A. program in
Asian Studies: The Master of Arts in Asian Studies is designed
to enable students interested in East Asia -- China and Japan -- to
engage in intensive language and area studies training over a
period of two academic years. Students should expect to enter
the first academic year of this program with at least one full
academic year or the equivalent of the appropriate East Asian
language, and to take 2l months, i.e., two academic years and
the intervening summer, to complete all requirements for the degree.
To complete the program students will be:
- Required to take at least 24 non-language credits at the 500 level
or above, of which no more than 18 credits are taken in a single
department. Six credits can come from any school within the University.
- Required to achieve and/or demonstrate third-year competence
in Chinese or Japanese language;
- Required to complete a master's thesis, and undergo an oral
defense.
The University also offers a joint
M.B.A./ M.A. in East Asian Studies.
This is a three-year program and requires admission to
the Graduate School of Business Administration and to the Master
of Arts program in East Asian Studies. Students enrolled in this
program normally spend the first full academic year in the program
taking courses in the Graduate School of Business Administration,
and do not enroll in East Asian Studies courses in the Graduate
School of Arts and Sciences until the following summer or fall.
For additional information contact the Director, East Asia Center,
224 Minor Hall, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Va. 22903,
(804) 924-7836, or eastasia@virginia.edu.
This program is administered by the Committee for Asian Studies, which
is chaired by Gilbert W. Roy (Division of Asian and Middle Eastern
Languages and Cultures).
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