East Asian Area Studies

Bachelor of Arts
Master of Arts
Graduate Certificate
Courses of Instruction

Taper Hall of Humanities 331M
(213) 740-2991
Director:
Otto Schnepp, Ph.D.

Associated Faculty

Professors: Keiiti Aki, Ph.D. (Earth Sciences); Jonathan D. Aronson, Ph.D. (International Relations); Gordon M. Berger, Ph.D. (History); Arvind Bhambri, D.B.A. (Management and Organization); Dominic C.N. Cheung, Ph.D. (Comparative Literature and East Asian Languages and Cultures); William Dutton, Ph.D. (Annenberg); John Elliott, Ph.D. (Economics); Robert S. Ellwood, Jr., Ph.D. (Religion); Robert Friedheim, Ph.D. (International Relations); Murray Fromson (Journalism); Michael G. Fry, Ph.D. (International Relations); Charlotte Furth, Ph.D. (History); Peter Gordon, Ph.D. (Urban and Regional Planning); Mieko Han, Ph.D. (East Asian Languages and Cultures); David M. Heer, Ph.D. (Sociology); David James, Ph.D. (Cinema-Television); Michael Melnick, Ph.D. (Basic Sciences --Dentistry); Gerald Nadler, Ph.D. (Industrial and Systems Engineering); Jeffrey B. Nugent, Ph.D. (Economics); John S. Odell, Ph.D. (International Relations); William Rideout, Ph.D. (Education); Herbert Shore, Ph.D. (Theatre); Richard Toscan, Ph.D. (Theatre); John E. Wills, Jr., Ph.D. (History)

Associate Professors: H. C. Cheng, Ph.D. (Economics); Eugene Cooper, Ph.D. (Anthropology); William H. Davidson, Ph.D. (Management and Organization); Roger V. Dingman, Ph.D. (History); JoAnn Farver, Ph.D. (Psychology); George A. Hayden, Ph.D. (East Asian Languages and Cultures); Eric Heikkila, Ph.D. (Urban and Regional Planning); Hajime Hoji, Ph.D. (Linguistics and East Asian Languages and Cultures); Velma Houston, Ph.D. (Theatre); Eun Mee Kim, Ph.D. (Sociology); Nam-Kil Kim, Ph.D. (East Asian Languages and Cultures); Steven Lamy, Ph.D. (International Relations); Audrey Li, Ph.D. (East Asian Languages and Cultures); Loren G. Lipson, M.D. (Medicine); Peter Nosco, Ph.D. (East Asian Languages and Cultures); Richard Peiser, Ph.D. (Urban and Regional Planning); Patricia Riley, Ph.D. (Communication Arts and Sciences); Michael E. Robinson, Ph.D. (History); Stanley Rosen, Ph.D. (Political Science); Gary Seaman, Ph.D. (Anthropology)

Assistant Professors: Bettine Birge, Ph.D. (East Asian Languages and Cultures); Kendall Brown, M.A. (Fine Arts); Meiling Cheng, Ph.D. (Theatre); Soo-Young Chin, Ph.D. (Anthropology); Lon Kurashige, Ph.D. (History); Ann Lee, Ph.D. (East Asian Languages and Cultures); David Leiwei Li, Ph.D. (English); Edward Park, Ph.D. (Sociology); Eve Zimmerman, Ph.D. (East Asian Languages and Cultures)

Lecturer: Hisako Asano, M.F.A. (Fine Arts)

Adjunct Professor: Richard Drobnick, Ph.D. (Director, IBEAR, International Business)

Adjunct Associate Professors: Jack Lewis, Ph.D. (International Business); Vasisht K. Malhotra, Ph.D. (International Relations)

Emeritus Professors: Peter A. Berton, Ph.D. (International Relations); Rodger Swearingen (International Relations); Laurence G. Thompson, Ph.D. (East Asian Languages and Cultures); Henry H.Y. Tiee, Ph.D. (East Asian Languages and Cultures); George O. Totten III, Ph.D. (Political Science)

Librarians: Janice W. Hanks, M.L.S.; Joy Hyon Kim, M.L.S.; Kenneth Klein, Ph.D.

Programs

The East Asian Studies Center provides interdisciplinary studies of China, Japan and Korea. It offers an undergraduate major in East Asian Area Studies, a joint Journalism/East Asian Area Studies undergraduate major and the Master of Arts in East Asian Area Studies. Its faculty are professors from departments throughout the college and several professional schools who teach and do research primarily on East Asia. The center's interdisciplinary approach allows students to acquire unusually broad exposure to many ways of learning about the region.

The East Asian Studies Center promotes and coordinates teaching, research and development of academic programs concerning East Asia, regardless of discipline or school, on a university-wide basis. East Asia as used here means mainly China, Japan and Korea; it secondarily includes Southeast Asia, Central Asia and Siberia. Visiting scholars may also be named from among persons outside the university who wish to do research at USC and contribute to the goals of the center.

The center also advises students participating in the Year-in-Japan program of the California Private Universities and Colleges (CALPUC). Students may study in Japan for one year at either Waseda University in Tokyo or Nanzan University in Nagoya; a one-semester program is also available at Tokyo International University just outside Tokyo. Any undergraduate student of good academic standing is eligible to participate in these study-abroad programs, for full academic credit at USC.

USC financial aid is applicable to these study-abroad programs, and additional scholarship assistance is frequently offered through the center by local civic organizations.

The center also promotes and coordinates academic exchange with other institutions with which USC maintains cooperative relations in the United States and abroad. The center serves, for example, as headquarters for the USC/UCLA Joint East Asian Language and Area Studies National Resource Center. Graduate students with special interests in East Asia may take courses at UCLA through USC and may also work, where appropriate, with certain UCLA faculty. UCLA graduate students may similarly take courses at USC and work with USC faculty, for credit at UCLA in East Asian studies. The center facilitates cooperation and provides graduate fellowships to students at both institutions.

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