Graduate Certificate in Asian Studies

The Graduate Certificate in Asian Studies can be earned by graduate students in any Boston University graduate degree program who fulfill the requirements below in addition to the requirements of their particular degree program.

Requirements

• Complete at least 16 credits of coursework (four standard courses) in courses primarily focused on Asia, with a minimum grade of B in each course.
• Concentration requirement: At least three of the four courses must focus on a subregional or substantive area (e.g., East Asia, Southeast Asia, South Asia, Central Asia; comparative government, cultural/archaeological preservation, Buddhism).
• Courses must be chosen from at least two departments or schools.
• No more than 4 credits can be in directed study or research, except with written permission of the Director of BUCSA.
• Students must complete a piece of significant independent work such as an MA or MFA thesis, doctoral dissertation, or two substantial research papers in graduate-level seminars.
• Reading knowledge of an Asian language relevant to the course of study. This is demonstrated by passing the language proficiency test of the student’s own department where it is required. For students in schools or departments that do not offer language proficiency testing, BUCSA will arrange an assessment of reading proficiency.
• Receive approval of completion from the Director of BUCSA and the student’s departmental faculty advisor. Students are expected to consult with the BUCSA Director at the beginning of their studies in order to ensure that their planned courses will fulfill the goals of the certificate program.

Pre-Approved Courses

(Note: Other courses my be applied to the Graduate Certificate with permission of the Director of BUCSA.)

Administrative Sciences

• MET AD 667 Innovation, Global Competitiveness, and National Economic Development
• MET AD 753 International Commerce: Pacific Basin and East Asia

Anthropology

• CAS AN 505 Asian Development: The Case of Women
• CAS AN 563/IR 563 Public Relations and Politics Across Cultures
• CAS AN 573 The Ethnography of China and Taiwan
• GRS AN 706 Comparative Family Systems in Asia
• GRS AN 718 Southeast Asia: Tradition and Development

Archaeology

• CAS AR 560 Civilizations of Central South Asia
• CAS AR 795 Politics, Nationalism, and Archaeology
• GRS AR 790 The Archaeology of Southeast Asia

Economics

• GRS EC 721 Topics in Development Economics

Education

• SED IE 593 Child Labor, Children’s Rights and Education

Gastronomy

• MET ML 634 Culture and Cuisine: Asia

History

• CAS HI 549 Nationalism in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
• CAS HI 589 Nature’s Past: Histories of Environment and Society
• GRS HI 850 History of International Relations Since 1945
• GRS HI 890 Modern Chinese History

History of Art & Architecture

• CAS AH 530 Chinese and Japanese Calligraphy: History, Theory, and Practice
• CAS AH 532 Japanese Print Culture
• CAS AH 726 Colloquium in Japanese Art

International Relations

• CAS IR 506 India: An Emerging World Power
• CAS IR 520/PO 562 The State and Public Purpose in Asia
• CAS IR 527/PO 527 Political Economy of China
• CAS IR 570/PO 569 Politics and Social Change in Postwar Japan
• CAS IR 577/PO 578 Foreign Policy of the People’s Republic of China
• CAS IR 577 The Foreign Policy of the People’s Republic of China
• CAS IR 579/PO 579 Japan in International Politics
• CAS IR 584 Muslim Republics in Central Asia and Caucasia
• CAS IR 585/PO 558 Problems and Issues in Post-Mao China
• CAS IR 586 Islam in South Asia Politics
• GRS IR 758/PO 785 Comparative Political Economy of China and India
• GRS IR 761/RN 759 Topics of International Relations and Religion
• GRS IR 764/PO 764 Seminar on China in the Contemporary World
• GRS IR 765/PO 759 Japanese Political Economy
• GRS IR 788/PO 789 International Relations of Asia-Pacific

Law

• LAW JD 875 Human Rights: Institutions and Authorities

Management

• GSM IM 834 Competing in China
• GSM IM 842 Bus Asia-Pacific
• GSM IM 845 Asian Field Seminar
• GSM IM 853 India Field Seminar

Medical Sciences

• GMS MA 720 World Religions and Healing

Music

• CFA MU 559 Performance and Practice of Bali, Indonesia and Indian Classical Music

Philosophy

• GRS PH 647 Asian Philosophy

Political Science

• GRS PO 789 The United States and the International Relations of the Asia Pacific

Public Health

• SPH IH 790 Leading Organizations to Achieve the Millennium Development Goals for Health
• SPH IH 885 Global Trade, Intellectual Property and Public Health

Religion and Theology

• CAS RN 675/AN 775 Culture, Society and Religion in South Asia
• CAS RN 687/AN 784 Anthropology of Religion
• CAS RN 688/AN 726 Oral Tradition as Verbal Art
• CAS RN 625 Topics in South Asian Religions
• CAS RN 725 Topics in South Asian Religion
• CAS RN 643 Islam in a Global Perspective
• CAS TT 815 Introduction to Chinese Philosophy
• GRS RN 660 Daoist Religion
• GRS RN 662 Chinese Medicine
• STH TS 837 Comparative Religious Ethics
• STH TS 846/TM846 Comparative and Historical Study of the Interaction of Religion and Society in East Asia
• STH TS 862 Global Ethics in Cultural Contexts
• STH TT 815 The Confucian Way
• STH TT 838/TX 852 Religious Thought East and West: Maimonides in Comparative Perspective
• STH TT 945 Spirituality, Medicine and Health