Graduate Degrees, page 2
East Asian Languages and Cultures
College of Letters, Arts and Sciences

East Asian Literary and Cultural Studies Concentration

Course Requirements

A student's total graduate course work must be at least 60 units including the doctoral dissertation. Of the 60 units, students must have: at least 24 units from the list under the East Asian literary and cultural studies core curriculum; and eight units earned from 400 Classical Chinese I and 402 Classical Chinese II. Students with M.A. degrees who have already been credited with 24 units or six courses (four of which must be at the 500 level or above) must accumulate 28 additional units before being admitted to the oral examinations. All students must have at least four years (or equivalent) of their language of specialization. Only the fourth year of the language of specialization may be applied to the 60 units. No more than five courses at the 400 level may be applied to the total requirement of 60 units. Students are encouraged (with advisor's approval) to take courses from other departments.

Screening Procedure and Qualifying Examination

The screening procedure for continuation of candidacy for the Ph.D. degree consists of recommendations to the Literary and Cultural Studies Screening committee from those regular faculty who have instructed the candidate in his or her graduate course work to date; a student is either allowed or not allowed to continue in Ph.D. candidacy on the basis of cumulative course and examination work and these recommendations. The screening procedure must be completed prior to the student's completion of 24 units of graduate course work or fourth semester of degree candidacy (whichever comes first). The successful procedure is completed by formation of a Guidance Committee.

The qualifying procedure (which permits a graduate student to advance to the dissertation stage) consists of three field examinations and an oral dissertation topic presentation to the graduate faculty accompanied by a written dissertation proposal of 25-30 pages. In the qualifying examination, candidates will ordinarily select three of the following fields: (1) Topics in Pre-modern Chinese Literature: (2) Topics in Pre-modern Japanese Literature; (3) Topics in Modern Chinese Literature; (4) Topics in Modern Japanese Literature; (5) Topics in Chinese Thought and Civilization; (6) Topics in Japanese Thought and Civilization. If approved by the Guidance Committee, students may be allowed to define one of their three fields from outside the above list. The qualifying procedure is completed by the formation of a Dissertation Committee.

Foreign Language Requirement

All doctoral candidates must have: (1) four years of their language of specialization; (2) one year of Classical Chinese (EALC 400, EALC 402); (3) a reading knowledge of French or German. Chinese majors must also complete two years of modern Japanese. The successful completion of EALC 400 and EALC 402 Classical Chinese satisfies the second language requirement for students of Japanese. Additional language work may be required by the guidance committee in view of the student's proposed field of research. All language requirements must be completed at least 60 days before the qualifying examination is taken.

Dissertation

Successful completion of the qualifying examination constitutes approval of the dissertation topic. The final copy of the dissertation must conform to the regulations of the Graduate School. The defense of the dissertation takes place after the readers have approved the dissertation in its final form. The format of the defense will be determined by the student's committee but normally consists of a brief lecture presenting the thesis and its conclusions followed by questioning from the committee.

East Asian Literary and Cultural Studies Core Curriculum

RequirementsUnits
EALC 500Advanced Classical Chinese4
EALC 501History of Chinese Literature4
EALC 502Advanced Classical Chinese4
EALC 503Chinese Poetry4
EALC 504Selections from Modern Chinese Literature4
EALC 506Selections from Classical Chinese Literature4
EALC 515Classical Japanese Poetics4
EALC 520Modern Japanese Literature4
EALC 540Japanese Thought: Cultural Topics4
EALC 541Seminar: Japan4
EALC 543Seminar: Japanese Literature4
EALC 545Japanese Literary Criticism and Theory4
EALC 551Seminar: China4
EALC 553Seminar: Chinese Literature4
EALC 555Chinese Literary Criticism and Theory4
EALC 565Bibliography and Research Methods in Chinese Studies4
EALC 610Seminar: Buddhism and the Literary Arts in Japan4
EALC 615Seminar: Topics in Edo Literature4
EALC 650Research Seminar in Chinese Documents4
EALC 794abcdzDoctoral Dissertation2-2-2-2-0

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