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		2008-09 Bulletin of the Duke University Graduate School

East Asian Studies

Professor Lin, Director of Graduate Studies; Professors Allison, Gao, Gereffi, Horowitz, Lin, Liu, Niou, Zeng; Associate Professors Abe, Ching, Jaffe, Litzinger, Mazumdar, McKean, Nickerson, Partner, Yoda, Shi, and Weisenfeld; Assistant Professors Feng, Hong, Metzger, and Sachsenmaier

The Asian/Pacific Studies Institute (APSI) at Duke University administers an innovative and interdisciplinary Program in East Asian Studies. The Program offers broad choices and can be individually tailored. It meets the needs of students planning to enter professional careers such as the diplomatic corps, international law, education, and business as well as providing academic enhancement for mid-career professionals in these fields. The Program is also designed to prepare students who want to enter doctoral programs in the social sciences and humanities.

The Program encourages the crossing of traditional disciplinary boundaries through thematic seminars while retaining a firm grounding in a disciplinary base. The temporal focus of the Program is on the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, with fields of specialization available in Art and Art History, Cultural Anthropology, History, Modern Literature, Political Science, Psychology, Religion, and Sociology. The thematic foci of the Program include cultural and literary studies, development and policy studies, gender, sexuality and ethnicity, institutional transformation, and politics and society.

Degree Requirements

The master's degree in East Asian studies requires ten courses (30 credit hours, including an integrated required core course), of which at least eight (24 credit hours) must be in East Asian studies. These must be drawn from a list of approved courses, with no more than four taken in any one department. Fourth-year college-level East Asian language courses may be counted toward the eight-course requirement. In all, no more than two of the ten required courses may be lower level language (third year or below) or non-East Asian. In lieu of a thesis, the Program requires the completion of a capstone course and a research paper or annotated bibiography in area or topic of specialization. The degree is dependent on the acceptance of the research paper or annotated bibiography by the Graduate Committee and successful completion of an oral examination on this paper or bibiography by an MA advisory committee of three faculty members, two of whom must be APSI core faculty members.

Students are directed in their course of study by the APSI Director of Graduate Studies along with an individual faculty advisor. The capstone course is to be chosen with the help of the advisor, who must be a member of the core faculty of the Asian/Pacific Studies Institute.

At the conclusion of the Program, students must have attained advanced proficiency in one East Asian language, equivalent to three years of college-level study. It is strongly recommended that applicants complete at least one year of such language study before beginning the program at Duke. Students who are native speakers of an East Asian language are encouraged to take one year (two semesters) of another East Asian language.

Joint JD/MA Degree

The Asian/Pacific Studies Institute also administers a joint JD/MA degree. Admission to this program is contingent upon admission to the Duke Law School. Degree requirements for the MA portion are eight graduate courses focusing on East Asia (must be graded). Students also need to register for six units of research, which can be ungraded. While some law courses pertaining to East Asia can be counted as graduate courses, students must register them as Graduate School courses, rather than Law School courses.

Certificate in East Asian Studies

The Asian/Pacific Studies Institute offers a Certificate in East Asian Studies to allow graduate students at Duke to demonstrate their training and competence in East Asian Studies. To receive the Certificate, students enrolled in the graduate school or in the professional schools must formally apply for the program and must complete at least four courses from an approved list of courses in East Asian Studies, from at least two different departments or programs, together with minimum language proficiency (two years) in an East Asian language (Chinese, Japanese, or Korean).

COURSES ON EAST ASIAN STUDIES OFFERED BY DEPARTMENTS AND PROFESSIONAL SCHOOLS

Asian and African American Studies

200S. Seminar in Asian and African Cultural Studies. C-L: see Asian & African Languages and Literature Studies 200S; also C-L: Cultural Anthropology 288S, Literature 200S

Art History

272S. Topics in Chinese Art

274S. Topics in Japanese Art

379. Fascism East and West: The Visual Culture of Japan, Germany, and Italy

Asian & African Languages and Literature

200S. Seminar in Asian and African Cultural Studies. African and African American Studies 200S, Cultural Anthropology, 288S, Literature 200S

205/206. Asian and African Languages and Literature

250S. Chinese Modernism in Post-Mao Era

252. Special Topics in Asian and African Literature

253 East Asian Cultural Studies, Cultural Anthropology 254

262. Modern Japanese Literature and Culture C-L: Cultural Anthropology 260

280S. Intellectuals/Culture/History: Modern China in Transition, Staff

288S. Seminar on Modern Chinese Cinema

Japanese

205S/206S. Seminar in Japanese, Yoda

291. Research Methods in Japanese C-L: Cultural Anthropology 290, History 292, Political Science 291, Sociology 291

Business Administration

400. Business After Communism

439. Cultural Setting of Business

456. Emerging Markets

482. Global Academic Travel Experience

Cultural Anthropology

208S. Postcolonial Anthropology

234S. Political Economy of Development: Theories of Change in the Third World C-L: Political Science 234S, Sociology 234S

254. East Asian Cultural Studies C-L: Asian & African Languages and Literature Studies 253

260. Modern Japanese Literature and Culture C-L Asian & African Languages and Literature Studies 262

288S.Seminar in Asian and African Cultural Studies C-L: Asian & African American Studies 200S, Literature 200S

290. Research Methods in Japanese C-L Japanese 291, History 292, Political Science 291

Sociology 291

300S. Popular Culture, Theories and Practices

Economics

242S. Chinese Economy in Transition C-L: Public Policy Studies 242S

265S. International Trade

268S. Current Issues in International and Development Economics

History

204S. Technology, Economic Development, and Social Change, 1750 to Present

207BS. Geographic Perspectives in History II: Asian and Pacific Worlds

276A. Labor, Immigration, and the Asian American Experience

292. Research Methods in Japanese C-L: Japanese 291, Cultural Anthropology 290, Political Science 291, Sociology 291

299S. Special Topics

343A. Before Modern Japan

343B. Modernity in the Japanese Archipelago

Law

207H¹ Comparative Intellectual Property

218H* The World Trade Organization: The Adjudication of International Trade Disputes

235H* Comparative Securities Law: China and Japan

237H* Human Rights: International Hong Kong, and Japanese Perspectives

242H* Health Care Regulation: Asian and Western Perspectives

245H* Privatization in Emerging Markets

260H* Merger and Acquisitions in China and Korea

270H* Foreign Direct Investment in China

336. Economic Regulations in Japan

352. International Business Transactions

375. International Intellectual Property

380. Research Methods in International, Foreign and Comparative Law

507. Chinese Company and Security Law

508. Chinese Law and Society

509. Chinese Legal History

512. Comparative Public Law and Policy: Ethnic Group Relations

605. Chinese for Legal Studies

650. Japanese for Legal Studies

665. Korean for Legal Studies

Political Science

211S. Current Problems and Issues in Japanese Politics

220S. Problems in International Politics

234S. Political Economy of Development: Theories of Change in the Third World C-L: Cultural Anthropology 234S, Sociology 234S

272. China and the World

291. Research Methods in Japanese C-L: Japanese 291, Cultural Anthropology 290, History 290, Sociology 291

351. Comparative Law and Politics: Ethnic Group Relations

Public Policy

242S. Chinese Economy in Transition. C-L: Economics 242S

284S. Public Policy Process in Developing Countries C-L: Political Science 267S

Sociology

222S. A-G. Proseminars in Comparative and Historical Sociology

225S. A-H. Proseminars in Organizations, Markets, and Work

228S. A-F. Proseminars in Stratification, Mobility, and Labor Force Behavior

234S. Political Economy of Development: Theories of Change in the Third World C-L: Political Science

234S. Cultural Anthropology 234S

291S. Research Methods in Japanese C-L Japanese291, Cultural Anthropology 290, History 292, Political Science 291

¹Course is taught at Summer Institute, Hong Kong