Number and Types of Courses Required for the MA

EA LANG 200, "Proseminar: Approaches to East Asian Studies" is required, normally in the first year.
A minimum of three graduate seminars (four units each) in the student’s major language field (Chinese or Japanese) in the department will be required, for a letter grade. EA LANG 200 will not count toward the three required seminars. Students will have the option of taking additional seminars beyond the three required for the MA degree for two units, in which case no seminar paper is required. Each EALC seminar is structured with a 4 unit norm and 2 unit option.
8 additional units, in consultation with the Primary Advisor.

Students who will need to acquire a second language from scratch to satisfy PhD requirements (q.v.) will be advised to begin work on that language as early as possible.

apanese Specialization

Code	Title	Units
		Course List
A minimum of three graduate seminars (four units each)
JAPAN C225	Readings in Japanese Buddhist Texts	2,4
JAPAN 230	Seminar in Classical Japanese Poetry	2,4

JAPAN 232	Japanese Bibliography	2,4
JAPAN 234	Seminar in Classical Japanese Drama	2,4
JAPAN 240	Seminar in Classical Japanese Texts	2,4
JAPAN 242	Seminar in Medieval Japanese Texts	2,4
JAPAN 255	Seminar in Prewar Japanese Literature	2,4
JAPAN 259	Seminar in Postwar Japanese Literature	2,4

MA Thesis

An MA thesis, usually based on a previous research paper and limited to 50 pages, is required. If the MA thesis involves a translation, the translation may be added as an appendix, which will not count toward the page limit.

An MA Thesis Committee of three will be appointed by the Primary Advisor and the Director of Graduate Studies in consultation with the student. University regulations call for a chair, an inside member, and an outside member (or the less preferable alternative of a second inside member). The Committee will comprehensively analyze comments on the thesis, work done to date, and then recommend or not recommend advancement to the PhD program. A student may not advance to PhD coursework until permission to advance has been received and the MA thesis has been signed. Acceptance of the thesis does not automatically entail permission to proceed to the PhD, which is a separate decision.

Advancement to Candidacy for the MA Degree

Masters Students are not automatically advanced to candidacy; they must submit a formal application for advancement to candidacy no later than the end of the fifth week of classes of the semester in which they expect to receive the degree. 13

Mechanism for Continuation or Termination at the MA level A review of graduate students will take place in the middle and at the end of their first year and annually thereafter, and conveyed to the students in writing.

Academic good standing requires the maintenance of a 3.0 grade-point average in all upper division and graduate courses. A student with two or more Incompletes is academically ineligible to hold a student academic appointment.

At the end of the MA program, a determination will be reached regarding permission to advance to the PhD program.

If all requirements for the MA are not completed by the end of the fourth semester, the student will be warned that failure to complete the requirements by the end of the following semester may result in academic probation, in which case, the student cannot hold academic appointments or receive graduate fellowships. A student who has been put on academic probation will not normally be eligible to proceed to the PhD program until the condition is remedied.

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