Harvard's East Asian Languages and Civilizations

This is a huge department. Note the name is different - no longer Languages and Literatures, but Languages and Civilizations.

As always, I look at the courses on offer first (against, excluding cross-listings):

Area	Courses
East Asian Studies	18
East Asian Buddhist Studies	6
East Asian Film and Media Studies	9
China: Language Courses	25
China: History Courses	17
China: Literature Courses	15
Japan: Language Courses	15
Japan: History Courses	10
Japan: Literature Courses	11
Korea: Language Courses	13
Korea: History Courses	13
Korea: Literature Courses	4
Manchu: Language Courses	6
Mongolian: Language Courses	5
Tibetan and Himalayan Studies	0 (all cross-listed)
Uyghur: Language Courses	5
Vietnam: Language Courses	8
Vietnam: History Courses	1
Total	181

Observations:

1. Beyond Languages and Literatures (plenty here), there are also History focus, and also Buddhist studies (religion), and Film and Media studies.

2. In the Ph.D. programs, the language requirements are:

	China	Japan	Korea	Tibet
Literary Chinese	2nd yr	1st/2nd yr	1st/2nd yr	combined
Modern Chinese	4th yr			3 yrs
Classical Japanese		1st yr
Modern Japanese	3rd yr	4th yr	3rd yr
Modern Korean			3rd yr
Literary Tibetan				3rd yr
Modern Tibetan				1st yr

3. "A rough division of emphasis places Chinese and Japanese history after 1800 in the History Department and most courses in earlier periods in East Asian Languages and Civilizations."

4. Authors/Works appearing in course titles: Three Kingdoms, "The Greatest Chinese Novel" (=The Story of the Stone), The Tale of Genji. There are many courses covering Area-Periods (e.g. Tang China); I think because the need to cover such a broad tradition, it is hard for specific works to become the focus of a course.

5. "The departments in which the study of East Asia is pursued include Anthropology, East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Economics, History of Art and Architecture, Government, History, Linguistics, Music, and Sociology."

6. We already noted East Asian Buddhism as a field of study - for Christianity, clearly there is a Divinity School for that, would be interesting to see where are how Islam is treated in Harvard's Faculty of Arts and Sciences' departmental structure.