PhD East Asian Languages and Civilizations at University of Pennsylvania

The cross-disciplinary Ph.D. program in East Asian Languages and Civilizations is designed to train graduate students who can teach and conduct independent research in a variety of humanistic disciplines using Chinese, Japanese, Korean, or Mongolian, or occasionally other languages of East Asia. Our region is defined roughly as China, Japan, Korea, Mongolia, and Inner Asia.

Faculty: School of Arts and Sciences  |  Duration: 23 course units  |  Study mode: full-time  |  Location: Philadelphia, PA, United States

What you will study

Requires 23 course units in total. Listed required courses include EALC 7641 Readings in Classical Japanese I; EALC 8621 Advanced Classical Chinese I or; EALC 7621 Introduction to Classical Chinese I; EALC 8659 Japanese for Sinologists Elective Coursework; EALC 9950 Dissertation Additional Requirements First Year Review Language Requirement Students must demonstrate proficiency in a European or other Asian research language Total Course Units.

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