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ABOUT CEAS DEGREES

BACHELOR'S DEGREE PROGRAM IN EAST ASIAN STUDIES

Undergraduate degrees in East Asian Studies are adminstered through the Department of East Asian Languages & Cultures

MASTER'S DEGREE PROGRAM IN EAST ASIAN STUDIES

Stanford's interdisciplinary M.A. program in East Asian Studies permits the student to construct a course of study suited to individual intellectual interests and career needs. Applications are invited from four types of prospective students:

• 1. Those who wish to concentrate on East Asia for the Ph.D., but have not yet decided on the particular discipline in which they prefer to work.
  2. Those who have settled on a discipline, but want to obtain intensive area studies and language training before beginning their doctoral program.
  3. Those who wish to specialize in East Asian Studies in preparation for careers in fields such as law, business, pre-collegiate teaching, journalism, or government service. It should be stressed that, in addition to the M.A. in East Asian Studies, additional training in a professional discipline is usually essential to finding employment in the professions.
  4. Those who already possess other professional training or experience and now want to deepen their understanding of East Asia.

The M.A. program allows students a great deal of flexibility in combining language training, interdisciplinary area studies, and a disciplinary concentration. Students are required to demonstrate third year level proficiency in the Chinese, Korean or Japanese, according to their research-area focus (either through coursework at Stanford or testing at the 4th year or higher in language-placement exams), to take the one-unit core course in East Asian Studies, and to complete at leat nine area studies graduate courses, three of which must be in a single department. An M.A. thesis, usually an expansion of a paper written for a graduate seminar or colloquium, is required.

The program is typically completed within 1 to 3 years, depending on the course load taken and the foreign language level of the student. You do not need to have knowledge of Chinese, Japanese, or Korean prior to the start of the program. Advanced language students or students who are native speakers of Chinese, Japanese, or Korean can potentially complete the program within one year.

Applicants are reminded that completion of the CEAS M.A. program does not constitute automatic admission to a departmental Ph.D. program. Acceptance into doctoral programs is determined by the appropriate departmental admissions committee.

DUAL AND JOINT DEGREE PROGRAMS WITH OTHER DEPARTMENTS

Many graduate students in the M. A. program in East Asian Studies plan to pursue careers other than university teaching. Because a background in East Asian Studies alone is often insufficient qualification for work in many non-academic professions, CEAS MA students may be interested in supplementing their East Asian Studies degree. Students can apply in their first year to a number of MA programs on campus, including departments such as East Asian Languages and Cultures, Anthropology, the Stanford Teacher Education Program in the School of Education and the MBA in the Graduate School of Business to name a few. Please keep in mind that the program requirements for each degree do not overlap and are completely separate and must be fulfilled separately. Application and acceptance to any other M.A. program are entirely independent of the East Asian Studies M.A. program and getting into the CEAS M.A. program does not mean acceptance into the other schools or a higher priority in the admissions process for those schools.

East Asian Studies and Law:
Students interested in receiving a law degree can apply to the Stanford Law School and if accepted, complete the joint degree program where they can work towards an M.A. in East Asian Studies and a Doctor of Jurisprudence (J.D.) degree simultaneously, with a substantial number of courses allowed to count toward both degrees. The Law School is the only degree program with CEAS where the units taken can count towards both degrees. Students must apply separately for admission to the School of Law and the East Asian Studies program. Learn more about the School of Law and its joint degree programs.

DOCTORAL PROGRAMS RELATED TO EAST ASIA

Ph.D. degrees with a concentration on East Asia are awarded by the following individual departments and profesional schools at Stanford: