MA in East Asian Studies

The Asian/Pacific Studies Institute (APSI) at Duke University administers an innovative and interdisciplinary Master's Program in East Asian Studies. The Program offers broad choices and can be individually tailored. It meets the needs of student 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. It offers comprehensive coverage of East Asian politics, societies, history, and cultures, with particular strengths in politics and society; literature; modern history; comparative history and culture; film, media and visual studies; comparative studies of capitalism; and religious studies. Duke's interdepartmental concentrations in Japanese history and East Asian colonialism, and in modern Chinese literature, film and cultural studies are among the deepest in the nation. Duke also has close ties with East Asia faculty at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC), and students can receive credit for courses at either institution.

For more information regarding the MA in East Asian Studies please contact:

Program Coordinator
323A Trent Drive Hall
Box 90411
Durham, North Carolina 27708-0411
apsi@duke.edu
Tel: 919-684-2604
Fax: 919-681-6247

New fall 2009 students pose for a picture after orientation
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