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The following requirements are in addition to, or further elaborate upon, those requirements outlined in the Student Services section of this Web site.
Coursework Requirements
East Asian and South Asian Studies are by nature inherently interdisciplinary, and the cluster curriculum is based on the expectation that students from a range of disciplines––history, religion, political science, and art history will benefit from an interdisciplinary exchange early in their intellectual formation. In the first year, students will enroll in three seminars, one from each of the three groups, A,B and C. A second-year research seminar offers the opportunity to develop a dissertation topic addressing interdisciplinary concerns and literature.
Group A
- Religious Foundations of Asian Cultures
- Asia and Intellectual History
- Arts of India, China, and Japan
Group B
- Literature of Modern East Asian Studies
- Readings in South Asian Cultures
- Governance and Development in Asia
- Asian Modernities
- Colonialism and Imperialism in the Modern World
Group C
- Research Methods (core skills for conducting research in Asian Studies)
Second Year Research Seminar
First-year students in the religion, art history and history programs take seminars both within their departments and Asian Studies courses to establish core skills. Beyond the first year, Asian Studies cluster students are also expected to enroll in a second-year research seminar designed to provide an environment for engaging each other intellectually across disciplinary lines and to work independently with their advisers to produce a major research paper, to be coordinated with their home department's requirements. E.g. this seminar would provide history students a framework for their 580 independent research projects rather than an additional two credits. The cluster group will meet three times each in the winter and spring quarters to discuss research strategies and provide feedback on written work. This course provides structure for Asian Studies students to formulate a dissertation research agenda and share it with other like-minded scholars from various disciplines to encourage greater breadth, clarity and theoretical sophistication.
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