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 students 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.
The temporal focus of the Program is on the nineteenth
and twentieth centuries, with fields of specialization
available in Art and Art History, Cultural Anthropology,
History, Modern Literature, Political Science, Psychology,
Religion, and Sociology. Languages taught include Mandarin
Chinese, Japanese, and Korean. The thematic foci of
the Program include cultural and literary studies;
development and policy studies; gender, sexuality,
and ethnicity; institutional transformation; and politics
and society.
For more information regarding the
MA in East Asian Studies please contact:
Program Coordinator
2111 Campus Drive
Box 90411
Durham, North Carolina 27708-0411 apsi@duke.edu
Tel: 919-684-2604
Fax: 919-681-6247
New fall '06 students pose for a picture after orientation
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