EAPS/EALC Graduate Certificate in East Asia, The Center for East Asian and Pacific Studies, U of I


EAPS/EALC Graduate Certificate in East Asia
	The Center for East Asian and Pacific Studies (EAPS) and the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures (EALC) offers a Graduate Certificate in East Asia (EAPS/EALC-GCEA) for graduate students at the University of Illinois. The EAPS/EALC-GCEA is designed to serve students conducting MA or PhD research with a significant (greater than 40%) focus on East Asia. This program is not designed to serve students in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures. EAPS/EALC-GCEA students have the benefit of a team-taught core course designed to introduce graduate students to interdisciplinary trends and frontiers in the scholarship on East Asia, as well as of the EAPS community of both on- and off-campus scholars. EAPS offers over 85 U of I East Asianist faculty affiliates, over 40 East Asianist Off-Campus Affiliates, and a National Resource Center Consortium with Indiana University’s East Asian Studies Center. The EAPS/EALC-GCEA appreciates that students have a core disciplinary home and community of scholarship but is committed to working with students so that they connect to the scholarly literatures on East Asia and to the local and national community of East Asianists. The Certificate Program is designed to facilitate this integration both through its formal requirements and through the intellectual interaction and resources it promises. by attending EAPS events and participating in EAPS Learning Communities. Members of a rotating 3-person EAPS/EALC-GCEA Faculty Committee (including at least one faculty member from EALC) will meet with EAPS/EALC-GCEA students yearly to discuss their certificate program and to facilitate GCEA students’ connection with campus resources. At least two EAPS/EALC-GCEA students will serve on the EAPS Graduate Advisory Committee which advises EAPS on all matters concerning graduate students.

	Requirements: 1. Registration in a graduate degree program at the U of I. 2. Completion of the EAPS/EALC East Asia Certificate Seminar (AS/EALC 550), a semester-long 3-credit course in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures. This course will be S/U. 3. Completion of at least 3 EAPS/EALC-GCEA approved courses in addition to AS/EALC 550 (1 for MA candidates) with significant (greater than 40%) East Asia content in addition to AS 550. These courses may focus on one or more East Asian countries/cultures. 4. Attendance at a minimum of 10 EAPS events (5 for MA candidates) during the course of their residency at UIUC. Students will be responsible for tracking their own attendance and submitting the tracking document to EAPS no later than finals week of spring semester each year. Large events such as conferences may count as more than one “event.” 5. Participation in a yearly meeting with members of the 3-person EAPS/EALC-GCEA Faculty Committee. 6. Presentation of research in the “Asian Thesis Series,” an informal EAPS brownbag, before graduation.

	AS/EALC 550 East Asia Graduate Certificate Seminar (for non-EALC majors) SPRING 2010 Tuesdays, 1:00-3:50 pm AS 550 is a team-taught core course designed to introduce graduate students to interdisciplinary trends and frontiers in the scholarship on East Asia – and to the wealth of human resources at the U of I and in the region. This seminar was piloted in Spring 2006 (see http://www.eaps.uiuc.edu/archive/seminars/arch_seminars.htm for details). Sessions will include focused discussions of: colonialisms/post-colonialisms; transnational popular culture; social welfare; global historical perspective; area studies; modernity etc. The seminar will allow students to think and speak about their own burgeoning (or in some cases more fully developed) research interests and to have helpful feedback from interdisciplinary student and faculty colleagues. The required work is dedicated to facilitating this process. The Center for East Asian and Pacific Studies (EAPS) offers a Graduate Certificate in East Asia (EAPS/EALC-GCEA) for graduate students (Both MA and Ph.D). The EAPS/EALC-GCEA is designed to serve students conducting MA or PhD research with a significant (>40%) focus on East Asia. EAPS offers over 80 U of I East Asianist faculty affiliates, over 40 East Asianist Off-Campus Affiliates, and a National Resource Consortium with Indiana University’s East Asian Studies Center. EAPS appreciates that students have a core disciplinary home and community of scholarship but is committed to working with students so that they connect to the scholarly literatures on East Asia and to the local and national community of East Asianists. The Certificate Program is designed to facilitate this integration both through its formal requirements and through the intellectual interaction and resources it promises. Completion of AS/EALC 550, the above-described EAPS East Asia Graduate Certificate Seminar, is required for the EAPS/EALC Graduate Certificate in East Asia. For more information, please contact: EAPS Associate Director Anne Prescott (aprescot@uiuc.edu)

	The Center for East Asian and Pacific Studies at University of Illinois 230 International Studies Building, 910 S. Fifth Street Champaign IL 61820 phone: 217.333.7273 fax: 217.244.5729 eaps@uiuc.edu