Master of Arts - Asian Languages: Chinese

The SILC graduate program in East Asian Languages and Civilizations: China provides a research-intensive, inter-disciplinary, area-based program of study in the traditional and modern languages and cultures of China. Students may focus on literature, literary criticism, comparative cultural studies, cultural history, religious texts, or linguistics. In every case students will be expected to acquire a solid grounding in classical and modern Mandarin Chinese.

The M.A. program prepares students to pursue further academic training and graduate work, or to teach in the K–16 sequence, or to go on to professional schools in such fields as law, business or journalism, or to perform well in jobs involving China or Chinese. The M.A. in Chinese is offered in two concentrations: Literature, Linguistics, and Culture (Area 1); and Pedagogy (Area 2). Area 1 seeks to prepare students for further academic training, for entrance to professional schools in such fields as law, business or journalism, and for a general level of knowledge about the languages and cultures of China as an asset to a professional career. Area 2 is intended for students whose major interest is in teaching modern Chinese in K-16 environments.