Overview
About the program
The Department of East Asian Studies at the University of Toronto is a place for learning and research about the cultures of China, Japan, and Korea, and their interactions with one another and the rest of the world.
An emphasis is placed on interregional and interdisciplinary work, including the fields of history, literature, philosophy, cinema, and cultural studies in modern and premodern times. Prospective students must come to the program with strong skills in at least one East Asian language.
Programme Structure
Courses include:
- Chinese Cultural and Historical Studies
- Memory and Trauma in Critical East Asian Historical Perspective
- Modern Korean History Seminar
- Comparative Historical Socialisms in East Asia and Beyond
- Identity and Diaspora in Modern Taiwanese Literature
- Korean Literary Translation
- Mid-century Modernism in the Koreas: Literature, War, and Decolonization
- The City, Body, and Text in Modern Japanese Literature
- Mahayana Sutra Literature
- Writing Women in Premodern China
- The Rhetoric of Photography
Key information
Duration
- Full-time
- 48 months
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Area & Cultural Studies Asian studies View 3 other PhDs in Asian studies in CanadaAcademic requirements
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Other requirements
General requirements
- Normally, completion of the MA program in the Department of East Asian Studies, or its equivalent from a recognized university, with an average grade of at least A–.
- Statement of approximately 500 words (two pages) setting out the student's main fields of interest and proposed course of study.
- Three letters of recommendation from scholars who have knowledge of previous academic work.
- Programs are based on the study of original texts. This presupposes knowledge of the relevant languages.
- A 10- to 15-page sample of the applicant's academic writing in English.
- Applicants educated outside Canada whose primary language is not English, and who graduated from a university where the language of instruction and examination was not English, must provide results of an English-language proficiency examination as part of their application.
Tuition Fee
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6390 CAD/yearTuition FeeBased on the tuition of 6390 CAD per year during 48 months. -
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6390 CAD/yearTuition FeeBased on the tuition of 6390 CAD per year during 48 months.
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