PhD South and Southeast Asian Studies at University of California, Berkeley

This program offers emphases in the following languages and cultural traditions: Hindi, Urdu, Indonesian, Sanskrit, Tibetan, Tamil, and Khmer. Literature is understood in the widest sense to include not only creative writing and cultural expression in the various genres but also sources concerning religion, philosophy, history, and the fine and performing arts. The analysis of cultural expression is also understood to include attention to social, anthropological, economic, and political contexts.

Faculty: Graduate Division  |  Department: South and Southeast Asian Studies  |  Duration: 6 years  |  Study mode: full-time  |  Location: Berkeley, CA, United States

What you will study

Curriculum Unit minimum: 24 Course List Code Title Units Required courses: SSEASN 294 Methods in South & Southeast Asian Studies 4 SSEASN 375 Methods and Problems in Teaching South and Southeast Asian Studies 3 Additional requirements: Four graduate seminars in the language and literature of emphasis; One history seminar; Electives Courses that satisfy the language requirement (which may count-in the case of South or Southeast Asian languages-toward the ten-course program requirement if taken at the upper-division or graduate level); Appropriate course work in the second and third fields to be covered in the Oral Qualifying Examination, as determined by the Academic Adviser and the second- and third-field faculty examiners.

Career pathways

Graduates enter career areas including Government, International.

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