East Asian Studies

Department of History
201 Humanities
(831) 459-2982
http://history.ucsc.edu

Program Description

Students interested in pursuing an education in East Asian studies at UCSC may select from among the following programs:

• A minor in Chinese or Japanese studies, with a major in any discipline in any division. The student is expected to acquire a speaking and reading ability in Chinese or Japanese sufficient to pursue advanced studies in China or Japan and use Chinese or Japanese source material for research. A student who wishes to complete the East Asian studies program should enroll in beginning Chinese or Japanese no later than the sophomore year. Students seeking further information about the minor should contact the History Department office, located at 201 Humanities. Requirements for the minor are outlined below.
• A major or minor in the Chinese or Japanese concentration of language studies. Requirements for this are found at the language studies website. Requirements for this major may be found under Language Studies in the catalog and at the language studies web site,http://ling.ucsc.edu/.
• An individual major in East Asian studies is another option. Students may pursue intensive study in the Chinese or Japanese languages, including study abroad, to gain a broad social, political, and cultural understanding of China or Japan. Students interested in this option should contact their college advising office and the director of East Asian studies.

Requirements for the Minor

Language. Completion of the Chinese or Japanese language sequence through either Chinese 108 or Japanese 105.

Required courses. One of either of the East Asian Studies Core Courses: History 40A, Early Modern East Asia, or History 40B, The Making of Modern East Asia.

Three additional upper-division courses in East Asian studies, one of which may be an individual study (course 199). Up to two of these courses may be from an Education Abroad Program, upon review and approval of said courses by the director of East Asian studies. Since the goal of these upper-division context courses is to give students an interdisciplinary grounding in East Asian studies, students are strongly encouraged to fulfill these course requirements outside their major whenever possible. Distribution of the upper-division courses must be approved by the program director.

Check the Schedule of Classes or consult with the program coordinator for courses added during the academic year that meet the requirement.

Study Abroad

Study abroad, though not a requirement, is strongly encouraged. At present there are UC Education Abroad programs in China, Japan, Hong Kong, Korea, and Taiwan. For more information on the program, see the UC Education Abroad Program.

Faculty

More information can be obtained from faculty involved in the program: Noriko Aso (History), Dilip K. Basu (History), Raoul Birnbaum (History of Art and Visual Culture), Nancy Chen (Anthropology), Alan S. Christy (History), Christopher Connery (Literature), Sakae Fujita (Language Program), Hiroshi Fukurai (Sociology), K. C. Fung (Economics), Per Gjerde (Psychology), June Gordon (Education), John Hay (History of Art and Visual Culture), Gail B. Hershatter (History), Emily Honig (Feminist Studies and History), Minghui Hu (History), Junko Ito (Linguistics), David Keenan (Language Program), Lisa Rofel (Anthropology), Dana Y. Takagi (Sociology), Alice Yang (History).