Best Graduate Programs in East Asian Studies in New York - Updated 2020

The Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures offers a PhD (MA/MPhil/PhD) program with an interdisciplinary approach to the literature, culture, history, and languages of East Asia (China, Japan, Korea, and Tibet) and a particular emphasis on critical methodology and comparative study. An array of East Asian courses in other areas such as political science, sociology, anthropology, art, law, history, and business is also available, as are interdisciplinary programs with the departments of Religion and History and the Interdepartmental Committee in Comparative Literature and Society.

Master of Arts in Journalism and East Asian Studies. 42 points total are required, 22 in Journalism, including a 2-point Directed Reading for the witing of the Master thesis, and 20 in East Asian Studies. Writing, Research and Reporting I, JOUR-GA 1021 (4 points) Writing, Research and Reporting II, JOUR-GA 1022 (4 points) 2 Specialized Reporting Electives (8 points) Approved Journalism Elective (4 points) Directed Reading, JOUR-GA 1299 (2 points).

As a reflection of these developments, many students and scholars pushed for the expansion of Asian Studies and Asian American Studies at their campuses. In the late 1990s, students at UMass Amherst engaged in numerous forms of activism, including protests and occupying the administration building, to demand the creation of an Asian American Studies program.