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The Department provides a Ph.D. program focused on East Asian Studies, offering concentrations in Chinese, Japanese, and East Asian Cultural Studies. Students pursuing the doctorate may earn an M.A. en route to completing their Ph.D. The graduate curriculum prioritizes intensive language and textual analysis training while equally emphasizing historical, social, and cultural aspects of literary scholarship. Alongside conventional critical and theoretical approaches, the program fosters engagement with contemporary challenges to established methodologies. Faculty expertise spans key topics in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean literature and culture, while forging ties with UCI's broader academic community. Designed to equip students for both university teaching and scholarly research, the program mandates supervised teaching assistantships in relevant undergraduate courses within the Department.