The Center for East Asian Studies (CEAS) is the focal point connecting East Asia to the UW-Madison. One of the UW-Madison’s eight federally funded National Resource Centers, CEAS is dedicated to all aspects of research, education and outreach related to China, Japan, and Korea.
CEAS began in 1962 as the East Asian Studies program, building on more than sixty years of research and teaching on China, Japan, and Korea at the UW-Madison. Over the years it has grown from fewer than a dozen faculty members teaching thirty graduate-level courses to more than seventy faculty members teaching nearly three hundred courses at both undergraduate and graduate levels.
The doctoral minor in East Asian Studies is offered to students who are enrolled in a doctoral program at the UW-Madison and are interested in focusing their studies on East Asia. Students interested in obtaining this minor should consult with the Center's Associate Director, who serves as the advisor for the minor in East Asian studies.
All Graduate School students must utilize the Graduate Student Portal in MyUW to add, change, or discontinue any doctoral minor. To apply to this minor, please log in to MyUW, click on Graduate Student Portal, and then click on Add/Change Programs. The Associate Director and Advisor will review your application for admittance, and reach out to you if there are any further questions. Please contact the Associate Director and Advisor prior to submitting your application in the Graduate Student Portal.
Courses
Students earning an interdisciplinary PhD Minor in East Asian Studies must take a minimum of 12 credits in East Asian area studies. The credits must be earned in at least three departments other than the major department, and courses must contain a minimum of 25 percent East Asian content. UW–Madison Graduate School regulations concerning the use of courses required for the student's major as part of the minor are to be observed when selecting courses. For more information about courses that can count for the Minor, please contact East Asian Studies. Because the instructor and content of a course may change over time, please consult the Center for East Asian Studies for confirmation on whether a course may count for a doctoral minor.
| Code | Title | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| Agricultural and Applied Economics | ||
| A A E/INTL ST 374 | The Growth and Development of Nations in the Global Economy | 3 |
| A A E/ECON 474 | Economic Problems of Developing Areas | 3 |
| Anthropology | ||
| ANTHRO 300 | Cultural Anthropology: Theory and Ethnography | 3 |
| ANTHRO 330 | Topics in Ethnology | 3-4 |
| ANTHRO 357 | Introduction to the Anthropology of Japan | 3 |
| ANTHRO 490 | Undergraduate Seminar | 3 |
| ANTHRO 940 | Seminar-Problems in Cultural Anthropology | 3 |
| Art History | ||
| ART HIST 307 | From Tomb to Temple: Ancient Chinese Art and Religion in Transition | 3 |
| ART HIST 308 | The Tastes of Scholars and Emperors: Chinese Art in the Later Periods | 3 |
| ART HIST 372 | Arts of Japan | 3-4 |
| ART HIST 375 | Later Japanese Painting and Woodblock Prints | 3-4 |
| ART HIST 411 | Topics in Asian Art | 3-4 |
| ART HIST 475 | Japanese Ceramics and Allied Arts | 3 |
| ART HIST/RELIG ST 478 | Art and Religious Practice in Medieval Japan | 3 |
| ART HIST 575 | Proseminar in Japanese Art | 3 |
| ART HIST 576 | Proseminar in Chinese Art | 3 |
| ART HIST 875 | Seminar in Japanese Art | 3 |
| ART HIST 876 | Seminar in Chinese Art | 3 |
| Asian Languages and Cultures | ||
| All upper-level/graduate-level courses on East Asia offered by the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures may be taken as part of the East Asian studies doctoral minor. 1 | ||
| Communication Arts | ||
| COM ARTS 458 | Global Media Cultures | 3 |
| Curriculum and Instruction | ||
| CURRIC 564 | Advanced Problems on the Teaching of World Languages | 3 |
| Dance | ||
| DANCE 560 | Current Topics in Dance: Workshop | 3 |
| Economics | ||
| ECON 364 | 4 | |
| ECON 464 | International Trade | 3 |
| ECON 467 | International Industrial Organizations | 3 |
| ECON 475 | Economics of Growth | 4 |
| History | ||
| HISTORY 336 | Chinese Economic and Business History: From Silk to iPhones | 3-4 |
| HISTORY/ASIAN 337 | Social and Intellectual History of China, 589 AD-1919 | 3-4 |
| HISTORY/ASIAN 341 | History of Modern China, 1800-1949 | 3-4 |
| HISTORY/ASIAN 342 | History of the Peoples Republic of China, 1949 to the Present | 3-4 |
| HISTORY/ASIAN 454 | Samurai: History and Image | 3-4 |
| HISTORY/ASIAN 456 | Pearl Harbor & Hiroshima: Japan, the US & The Crisis in Asia | 3-4 |
| HISTORY 600 | Advanced Seminar in History | 3 |
| HISTORY 725 | Seminar in East Asian History | 3 |
| HISTORY 753 | Seminar-Comparative World History | 3 |
| HISTORY 854 | Seminar in Modern Chinese History | 3 |
| HISTORY 855 | Seminar in Japanese History | 3 |
| International Business | ||
| INTL BUS/M H R 403 | Global Issues in Management | 3 |
| INTL BUS/MARKETNG 420 | Global Marketing Strategy | 3 |
| INTL BUS/REAL EST 430 | International Real Estate | 3 |
| INTL BUS/FINANCE 445 | Multinational Business Finance | 3 |
| INTL BUS/FINANCE 745 | Multinational Business Finance | 3 |
| Journalism and Mass Communication | ||
| JOURN 621 | 4 | |
| Law | ||
| LAW 872 | Legal Issues Involving North America and East Asia | 2 |
| LAW 940 | Law and Contemporary Problems (The State in Economic Development) | 2 |
| LAW 940 | Law and Contemporary Problems (Chinese Law) | 2 |
| LAW 953 | Selected Problems in Business Organization-Seminar | 1 |
| Literature in Translation | ||
| LITTRANS 368 | Modern Japanese Fiction | 3 |
| LITTRANS 373 | Topics in Japanese Literature | 3 |
| Music | ||
| MUSIC/FOLKLORE 402 | Musical Cultures of the World | 3 |
| MUSIC/FOLKLORE 515 | Proseminar in Ethnomusicology | 3 |
| MUSIC/FOLKLORE 915 | Seminar in Ethnomusicology | 3 |
| Political Science | ||
| POLI SCI 346 | China in World Politics | 3-4 |
| POLI SCI 421 | The Challenge of Democratization | 3-4 |
| POLI SCI 324 | Chinese Politics | 3-4 |
| POLI SCI 601 | Proseminar: Topics in Political Science | 3 |
| Public Affairs | ||
| PUB AFFR 857 | Political Economy of Corruption and Good Governance | 3 |
| Religious Studies | ||
| Numerous East Asia–related religious studies courses are available. See cross-listings under East Asian Languages and Literature and Languages and Cultures of Asia | ||
| Sociology | ||
| SOC 496 | Topics in Sociology | 3 |
| SOC 918 | Seminar in Comparative Sociology of Contemporary Capitalism | 3 |
| Theatre and Drama (Asian Theatre) | ||
| THEATRE 351 | Fundamentals of Asian Stage Discipline | 3 |
| THEATRE 526 | The Theatres of China and Japan | 3 |
| THEATRE 911 | Seminar-Problems in Theatre and Drama | 3 |
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See course listings for Asian Languages and Cultures.
Please visit the department website for a complete listing of CEAS faculty by department and geographic area.