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Doctor of Philosophy in Asian Studies
1. Language Requirements:
All Ph.D. candidates will be required to have a reading knowledge of a language relevant to their research, in addition to English, and the language of their primary Asian research materials.
Passing of language requirement(s) is a precondition for taking comps.
Language requirements details vary according to the field and supervisor.
Please contact your supervisor and the Graduate Advisor to find your language requirement.
*In effect: English +-primary target language + -secondary research language (+ optional additional European research language)
*The ‘3-year equivalent’ issatisfied by:
-passing a 3rd- year course
-passing achallenge exam (organized by the Graduate Advisor)
For each language required, a “Language Requirement form for Ph.D. Students” is required.
2.Course Requirements: minimum 12 credits, as follows:
1) Asia 570 001 (cohort seminar)
2) at least 3 credits of a theory/methodology course outside the department
3) at least 3 more credits of Pan-Asian and/or comparative/theoretical work inside the department
4) at least 3 credits region-specific theory/methodology inside the department
Course requirements (1)-(2) are to be completed in the first two years of PhD study (but ideally in the first year). Please see the permission to proseed to comprehensive exams form.
4. Dissertation Prospectus (Department-internal procedure)
Within two months of admittance to candidacy, the candidate must successfully defend a 10-page dissertation prospectus. This document must be approved by the Supervisory Committee in its entirety and the Graduate Advisor. These four individuals will be required to sign a “Approval of Dissertation Prospectus” form for the student’s file.
Ideally, the defense of this document should take place in a face-to-face discussion with the Supervisory Committee.
4. Thesis
For thesis guidelines please view the following website:
http://www.grad.ubc.ca/current-students/dissertation-thesis-preparation