M.A. Sample Plan – Interdisciplinary Track
Fall of first year
ASIA 725, Critical Approaches to Asian & Middle Eastern Studies (required core course)
- Course numbered above 4001 2 3
- Course numbered above 4001 2 3
Language course numbered below 400 4
Spring of first year
- Course numbered above 4001 2 3
- Course numbered above 4001 2 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
- Course numbered above 4001 2 3
- Course numbered above 4001 2 3
Spring of second year
ASIA 993, Master’s Research and Thesis
- Course numbered above 4001 2 3
1 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.
2 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.
3 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.
4 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.