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Master of International Studies
Regional Focus: Asia
Students should choose courses from more than one academic discipline to complete their major field and are encouraged to discuss these choices with the M.I.S. Program Director. Special Topics courses included on the lists may vary each semester.
Students select one of the four concentrations below and take four courses (12 credits) from that focus area. Other relevant courses may, with permission of the Program Director, be used to fulfill the required number of credits.
| Group A: Modern Asian History | |||
| Hist | 253 or 254 | Seminar: History of Sino-Soviet Relations | |
| Hist | 288 | Modern SE Asia | |
| Hist | 289 | Seminar: Modern Japanese History | |
| Hist | 289 | Readings Seminar: Modern Japanese History | |
| Hist | 293 | Readings Seminar: Modern East Asian History (prerequisite: Hist 289, 295 or 296 | |
| Hist | 295 | Readings Seminar: Late Imperial China | |
| Hist | 296 | Readings Seminar: 20 th Century China | |
| Hist | 297 | US-East Asian Relations | |
| Hist | 298 | Readings/Research Seminar: Special Topics in Korean History | |
| Group B: Contemporary Asian Politics and Society | |||
| Educ | 220 | Education and Modernization in Asia | |
| IAff | 322 | Taiwan : Internal Development and Foreign Policy | |
| Hist | 298 | Readings/Research Seminar: Special Topics in Korean History | |
| PSc | 235 | Comparative Politics of Industrialization | |
| PSc | 270 | Politics of China | |
| PSc | 271 | Politics of China (prerequisite: Psc 270) | |
| PSc | 273 | Asian Industrialism | |
| PSc | 288 | Political Economy of South Asian Development | |
| PSc | 288 | Politics of Japan | |
| Group C: International Relations of Asia | |||
| Required Course: | |||
| PSc | 275 | International Politics of East Asia | |
| Supporting Courses (select three): | |||
| Hist | 253, 254, or 255 | Seminar: History of Sino-Soviet Relations | |
| Hist | 260 | US-Russian-Chinese Relations | |
| Hist | 297 | Central Asian History | |
| IAff | 322 | Taiwan : Internal Developments and Foreign Affairs | |
| IAff | 325 | U.S.���South Asia Relations | |
| IAff | 328 | Special Topics in Asian Studies | |
| PSc | 272 | Foreign Policy of China | |
| PSc | 289 | China 's Military and Security | |
| PSc | 289 | Japanese Foreign Policy | |
| PSc | 289 | US-China Relations | |
| PSc | 289 | Asian Security | |
| PSc | 289 | Asian Regionalism | |
| Group D: Asian Economics | |||
| Required Courses: | |||
| Econ | 269 | Economy of China | |
| Econ | 271 | Economy of Japan | |
| Supporting Courses: | |||
| Econ | 295 | APEC and Economies of the Asia Pacific | |
| PSc | 235 | Comparative Politics of Industrialization | |
| PSc | 236 | Political Econ-Dev Countries | |
*Other related Asian politics and society courses m ay, with permission of the Program Director, be used to fulfill the required number of credits. **Special Topics courses (IAff 218, 238, 258, 288, 308, 318, 328, 338, 358), may, with permission of the Program Director, be used to fulfill the required number of credits for the Regional Major Field in Asia. |
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