East Asian Studies, Bachelor of Arts College of Letters & Science
The East Asian Studies major gives the student an understanding of East Asia and Southeast Asia through interdisciplinary studies, including courses on East Asian countries within the humanities and social sciences. Students are encouraged to pursue study abroad opportunities, as well as other guided studies pertaining to East and Southeast Asia.
The Program
The program offers core courses in East Asian humanities and social sciences, including history, comparative literature, languages, philosophy and religion, political science, sociology, as well as courses focused on Southeast Asia. Science courses that closely engage the student of East and/or Southeast Asia are also eligible to count towards the major.
Along with taking the lower division and upper division depth subject courses; the student may choose additional courses that concentrate on a special field of interest, such as anthropology or history, or special courses such as honor thesis, independent study, internships, and study abroad.
Programs, Internships, & Career Alternatives
To enhance the student’s understanding of East and Southeast Asia, our majors are strongly encouraged to participate in UC Davis’s Study Abroad Program, which gives students the opportunity to live and experience culture within East or Southeast Asia. Our majors are also encouraged to work with UC Davis’s Internship and Career Center, which provides customized assistance for EAS students to obtain legislative, legal, and business internships and careers. Likewise, the UC Davis Sacramento and Washington Centers arrange internships and run full-credit academic programs in Sacramento and Washington D.C., with a wide range of opportunities for our majors. Graduating EAS majors are prepared for employment in government agencies (such as Foreign Service), state agencies, international or non-governmental organizations (NGO, such as the United Nations), foundations, journalism, teaching, counseling, and companies with international business interests, trade, or finance. The broad-based and multidisciplinary components of this major program enhance career prospects in jobs that demand knowledge of the cultures of East and Southeast Asia.
Major Advisors
2216 Social Science & Humanities Building; 530-752-9241; Undergraduate Advisor.
The major requirements below are in addition to meeting University Degree Requirements & College Degree Requirements; unless otherwise noted. The minimum number of units required for the East Asian Studies Bachelor of Arts is 61.
| Code | Title | Units |
|---|---|---|
| Preparatory Subject Matter | ||
| Choose two: | 8 | |
| History of East Asian Civilization | ||
| History of East Asian Civilization | ||
| Korean Culture & Society: From Ancient Three Kingdoms to the Global K-Pop | ||
| Choose one: | 3-4 | |
| Arts of Asia | ||
or AHI 001DY DISCONTINUED | ||
| Chinese Business Culture | ||
| Modern Chinese Literature (In English) | ||
| Great Books of China (in English) | ||
| Literature of East Asia | ||
| Masterworks of Japanese Literature (in English) | ||
| Japanese Language & Culture (in English) | ||
| Introduction to the Literature of China & Japan | ||
| Introduction to Chinese Philosophy | ||
| Choose two (or the equivalent) of Chinese, Japanese, or other East Asian language study: | ||
| Choose a series: | 10 | |
| Elementary Chinese and Elementary Chinese | ||
| Elementary Japanese and Elementary Japanese | ||
| Preparatory Subject Matter Subtotal | 21-22 | |
| Depth Subject Matter | ||
| Choose 24 units: | 24 | |
| Buddhism in Global Culture | ||
| Meditation & Culture | ||
| Ethnology of Southeast Asia | ||
| Culture & Political Economy in Contemporary China | ||
| Buddhist Art | ||
| Early Chinese Art | ||
| Chinese Painting | ||
| Early Modern Chinese Painting | ||
| Art from China 1900 to the Present | ||
| The Arts of Japan | ||
| Undergraduate Seminar in Art History: Chinese | ||
| Undergraduate Seminar in Art History: Japanese | ||
| Daoist Traditions | ||
| Confucian Traditions | ||
| Chinese Film | ||
| Modern Chinese Drama | ||
| Modern Chinese Fiction (in English) | ||
| Western Influences on 20th-Century Chinese Literature (in English) | ||
| Chinese Poetry (in English) | ||
| Traditional Chinese Fiction (in English) | ||
| Poetry of China & Japan (in English) | ||
| Topics in Chinese Literature: Crime & Punishment | ||
| Topics in Chinese Literature: Women Writers (in English) | ||
| Topics in Chinese Literature: The Knight-Errant (in English) | ||
| Topics in Chinese Literature: The City in Fiction (in English) | ||
| Topics in Chinese Literature: The Literature of 20th-Century Taiwan (in English) | ||
| Topics in Chinese Literature: Popular Literature (in English) | ||
| Topics in Chinese Literature: Scholar & The Courtesan (in English) | ||
| Great Writers of China: Texts & Context (in English) | ||
| International Community Development: Asia | ||
| Hong Kong Cinema | ||
| Japanese Cinema | ||
| The Forms of Asian Literature | ||
| Japanese Literature on Film | ||
| World Textiles: Eastern Hemisphere | ||
| Introduction to Traditional Chinese Embodied Culture | ||
| Traditional Chinese Physical Culture | ||
| Daoist Philosophy in Traditional Chinese Movement Culture | ||
| Asian Theatre & Drama: Contexts & Forms | ||
| Cinema & Society in China | ||
| East Asian Studies Seminar | ||
| Economy of East Asia | ||
| Undergraduate Proseminar in History: China to 1800 | ||
| Undergraduate Proseminar in History: China Since 1800 | ||
| Undergraduate Proseminar in History: Japan | ||
| Classical China | ||
| High Imperial China | ||
| Late Imperial China | ||
| 19th-Century China: The Empire Confronts the West | ||
| The Chinese Revolution | ||
| History of the People's Republic of China | ||
| Special Topics in Chinese History to 1800 | ||
| Special Topics in Chinese History after 1800 | ||
| Sex & Society in Modern Chinese History | ||
| Aristocratic & Feudal Japan | ||
| Early Modern Japan | ||
| Modern Japan | ||
| Business & Labor in Modern Japan | ||
| Education & Technology in Modern Japan | ||
| History of Modern Korea | ||
| A History of Vietnam | ||
| Japanese Literature in Translation: The Early Period | ||
| Japanese Literature in Translation: The Middle Period | ||
| Japanese Literature in Translation: The Modern Period | ||
| Modern Japanese Literature: War & Revolution | ||
| Modern Japanese Literature: Hero & Anti-Hero | ||
| Japanese Culture Through Film | ||
| Modern Japanese Autobiographies (in English) | ||
| Poetry of China & Japan (in English) | ||
| Japanese Popular Culture | ||
| Traditional Japanese Drama | ||
| Love, Sexuality & the Family in Modern Japanese Literature | ||
| Tourism & Heritage in Japan | ||
| Introduction to Japanese Folklore | ||
| Japanese Literature on Film | ||
| Japanese Women Writers | ||
| The Supernatural in Japan | ||
| The “Other” in Modern Japanese Literature & Culture | ||
| The Culture of Japanese Food | ||
| Japan Travelogue: Ethnographic Writing on Japanese Culture & People | ||
| Sexuality & Love in Premodern Japanese Literature | ||
| Musics of East & Southeast Asia | ||
| Government & Politics in East Asia: Japan | ||
| Islam in Asia | ||
RST 170 | (Discontinued) | |
| Buddhist Art | ||
| Ch'an (Zen) Buddhism | ||
| Daoist Traditions | ||
| Sociology of Third World Development | ||
| Sociological Perspectives on East Asia | ||
| Markets, Culture & Inequality in China | ||
| Depth Subject Matter Subtotal | 24 | |
| Elective Requirement | ||
| Choose 16 units: | 16 | |
Any EAS special course1; any CHN or JPN upper division course; any Depth Subject Matter course; any upper division EAP course focusing on East Asia or Southeast Asia. | ||
| Elective Requirement Subtotal | 16 | |
| Total Units | 61-62 | |
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