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Graduate Program

The Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures provides a limited number of highly qualified graduate students with the opportunity to pursue intensive programs of study in Chinese, Japanese, and East Asian Studies.

The Graduate School offers an Accelerated AB/AM program which allows qualified Washington University undergraduates to complete a Master of Arts (A.M.) degree in a one-year program after completing the A.B. degree. The undergraduate and graduate degrees are awarded sequentially, with admission to the master’s degree, if approved, for the fall semester following completion of the undergraduate degree in the preceding December, May, or August.

EALC offers these Graduate Programs:

  • M.A. in Chinese
  • M.A. in Japanese
  • M.A. in East Asian Studies
  • Ph.D. in Chinese Language and Literature
  • Ph.D. in Japanese Language and Literature
  • Ph.D. in Chinese and Comparative Literature
  • Ph.D. in Japanese and Comparative Literature

The goal of these programs is to produce scholars well-trained in their chosen languages, firmly grounded in the linguistic and literary traditions they are studying, and thoroughly conversant with critical discourses (indigenous and western) relevant to their fields. In the completion of these programs at the Ph.D. level, candidates have extended first-hand exposure to the modern societies whose languages, literatures, and cultures they study and significant teaching experience in both the language and the literature classroom.