Sample Ph.D. Program

• EALC Core Courses (3)
• • EALC 505: Introduction to East Asian Languages and Cultures
    (team-taught)
  • EALC 565: Bibliography and Research Methods in Chinese Studies
  • EALC 601, EALC 603: Series of courses on Professional Development
    (2 units each; total of 4 units) 
• Courses on East Asian Languages and Literatures (4)
• • EALC 543: Japanese Literary Criticism and Theory
  • EALC 555: Chinese Literary Criticism and Theory
  • EALC 512: Japanese Literature and Film
  • EALC 570: Narratives of Desire in Modern Chinese Literature
• Courses on East Asian Cultures and Civilization (4)
• • EALC 535: Proseminar in Chinese Visual Culture 
  • EALC 510: Contemporary Japanese Cinema
  • EALC 580: Literary and Artistic Movements in Modern China
  • AHIS 484: Studies in Chinese Art (cross-listed in EALC)
• Additional Courses in a Target Discipline or Field (3)
• • MDA 501: Introduction to Visual Studies: Methods and Debates
  • ENGL 502: Contemporary Literary and Cultural Theory
  • HIST 520: Modernity and Its Visual Cultures

• Year 1	First Semester (12 units) EALC 505 EALC 565 MDA 501	Secnd Semester (12 units) ENGL 502 EALC 535 EALC 555 SCREENING
  Year 2	Third Semester (12 units) EALC 512 EALC 510 AHIS 484	Fourth Semester (12 units) EALC 543 HIST 520 EALC 580
  Year 3	Fifth Semester (6 units) EASC 570 EALC 600a	Sixth Semester (6 units) GRAD 800 EALC 600b Qualifying Exam
  Year 4	One-year study abroad
  Year 5	794a	794b
  Year 6	794c	794d