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Fall of first year

ASIA 725, Critical Approaches to Asian & Middle Eastern Studies (required core course)

  1. Course numbered above 4001 2 3
  2. Course numbered above 4001 2 3

Language course numbered below 400 4

Spring of first year

  1. Course numbered above 4001 2 3
  2. Course numbered above 4001 2 3
  3. Course numbered above 4001 2 3

Language course numbered below 400 4

Summer after first year

Students who after first year are not yet ready to go into the third-year level of the language they are studying will need to do an intensive summer language program.

Fall of second year

ASIA 991, Research & Writing in Asian and Middle Eastern Studies

  1. Course numbered above 4001 2 3
  2. Course numbered above 4001 2 3

Spring of second year

ASIA 993, Master’s Research and Thesis

  1. Course numbered above 4001 2 3

These eight courses are ones the student will select, depending on their interests, in consultation with a faculty advisor. For the first semester that advisor will be the Director of Graduate Studies (DGS); subsequently it will be a specific DAMES faculty member whom the student will choose during the first semester.

At least three of the eight courses selected by the student must be in the Department of Asian & Middle Eastern Studies (DAMES), but students may also take courses in a variety of other departments.

At least three of the eight courses selected by the student must be numbered above 700, but grad students may also take any course numbered above 400. Courses numbered 400-699 are for both advanced undergraduates and graduate students; courses numbered 700 and above are for graduate students only.

Depending on a student’s initial language placement level, they may need to take some undergraduate language courses (numbered below 400), which will not count toward their degree. Once they reach the 400 level of a language, the courses in that language may be counted among the eight courses they select for their degree. This sample plan shows a student taking undergraduate language courses in first year only, which is a common scenario, but some students will need to take them in second year too; other students will not need them at all.