Regional Studies East Asia - Harvard University

Regional Studies East Asia from Harvard University is a Campus Master Area Studies degree that prepares you for a Liberal Arts career. The RSEA master's degree course is a flexible program designed to accommodate a wide range of interests and needs for graduate training in the languages and societies of the nations of East Asia that share the traditional Chinese cultural heritage. Although most students in RSEA concentrate their efforts on either China or Japan, there is significant and growing interest in Korea and Vietnam. From time to time, students wishing to concentrate on an Inner Asian culture are admitted as well. Similar variety characterizes the disciplinary and chronological foci of RSEA students. The economics, politics, and societies of contemporary and near-contemporary East Asia command the attention of a majority of the students, but a good many are primarily interested in historical and other phenomena of one or another traditional period of Chinese, Japanese, Korean or Vietnamese civilization, while others pursue the study of literature, fine arts, religion, music, thought, and other aspects of East Asian cultures. The typical applicant to RSEA has an undergraduate background in the study of East Asia and/or previous experience in East Asia itself. Most also have at least begun the study of an East Asian language. Such background and training are taken into consideration, but neither language nor other prior study is a prerequisite for admission to the program. The requirements for the A.M. degree are (1) a minimum of one year, and normally two years, in residence; (2) demonstration of competence in one East Asian language at the level of a completed third-year course; (3) completion of at least eight RSEA-approved half-courses in East Asian studies ; (4) submission of a research seminar paper, in lieu of a master's thesis, in which the student demonstrates the ability to make substantial use of materials written in an East Asian language. View more details on Harvard University . Ask your questions and apply online for this program or find other related Area Studies courses.