GRADUATE CERTIFICATE IN ASIAN* AND ASIAN AMERICAN STUDIES*

The Program in Asian and Asian American Studies supports the study of Asia and transoceanic, transnational Asian diasporas of the world with emphasis on: studies of Asian histories, languages, and cultures within Asia as geographically defined; studies of Asian diasporas, with particular focus on Asians of the Americas.
The program encourages work that is interdisciplinary, comparative, or global in methodology and theory, as well as work that is specialized locally or regionally. The program also supports work that examines the study of "Asia" and Asian diasporas as complex nexuses of socio/geo/political regions, economies, histories, and ideas, across national and oceanic boundaries. The present membership of affiliated faculty benefits from the cross-national work and research agendas of Asianists and Asian Americanists in productive dialogue.

Program Requirements:

Program Goals and Learning Objectives:
1) The program expands both the conceptual and methodological approaches regarding Asia. The program seeks to produce research and scholarship that engages “Asia Across the World” in its many forms, including considerations of hybridities, transnationalisms, and global/local tensions.

2) The program supports learning that is interdisciplinary and engages cultural and social politics in multi-national and comparative contexts, as well as area-specific contexts.

3) The certificate will provide an opportunity for graduate students of all disciplines who wish to enhance their studies with a focus on topics related to Asia and Asian diasporas of the world as well as those who wish to specialize in Asian and Asian American Studies and would be likely to complete their dissertations in this area.

List of Seminars:
Students may choose from a list of seminars that are currently offered. It is anticipated that more will be created, both by our joint faculty hires and by other BU faculty who have joined or who have indicated an interest in joining the Program. Some seminars, designated with an asterisk below, will count towards the certificate even though they lack a specific Asian or Asian American focus; however, students will have to write their seminar/research paper on Asians or Asian Americans in order for it to count.

Herbert Bix
HIST 50lL/SOC 690T Comparative State Formations, 1890-present

John Chaffee
HIST 576C Women and Family in Chinese History
HIST 576D Modern China Colloquium
HIST 576B Imperialism in East Asia

Manas Chatterji
IBUS 581A Globalization and International Management

Fa-ti Fan
HIST 576E Nationalisms in East Asia

Charles Goodman
PHIL 605L Buddhist Ethics

Ravi Palat
SOC 690X Political Economy of Contemporary Asia
SOC 690Y: Asia in World-Historical Perspective

Mahua Sarkar
SOC 690 Seminar on Nationalism*
SOC 626 Seminar on Postcoloniality*

Shalini Shankar
ANTH NNN Language Matters in Asian Diasporas

Lisa Yun
ENG 593R Postcoloniality and Hybridity
ENG NNN Literature of Asian Diasporas

List of Graduate Faculty (Program faculty in departments with graduate programs)

Herb Bix (History/Sociology)
John Chaffee (History)
Manas Chatterji (SOM)
Arleen deVera (History/AAASP)
Fred Deyo (Sociology)
Fa-ti Fan (History)
Charles Goodman (Philosophy/AAASP)
Ravi Palat (Sociology)
Mahua Sarkar (Sociology)
Shalini Shankar (Anthropology/AAASP)
Nancy Um (Art History)
Lisa Yun (English)

*plus yearly Visiting Faculty from Asia
2005-06: Wanning Sun (by Independent Study only)

To apply, click here.

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