1. MA language requirements: 
    • Completion of the fourth year (i.e., 400-level) coursework in one East Asian language or passing the UIUC proficiency test at the T4 level in the language.
  2. Passing a comprehensive examination on work done in the Department or finishing an M.A. thesis approved by the adviser.
  3. MA course requirements: (Refer to The Definition of Discipline, Area and Field for the interpretation of these terms.)
  4. Please find more details at our webpage on Graduate Program Procedures.

 

Hours Courses Notes
4 EALC 500 Proseminar
8 Major field requirements

500-level courses in the major field

  • One course must be a research seminar in which the student produces a research paper using Asian language sources
20 Electives

400- or 500-level courses (each course may only fulfil one of the three requirements below in order to encourage a breadth of training in East Asian Studies)

  1. a second area
  2. a second discipline
  3. Students who major in the modern period should take one pre-modern course; and those whose field is pre-modern should take a modern course                                                                                   

* Relevant non-East Asian courses are encouraged
Total = 32