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Tutorials are typically small seminar-style classes that are taught by East Asia faculty and teaching fellows, and form the core of the EAS concentration. All primary concentrators must take the sophomore and junior tutorial, while tutorial requirements vary for secondary and joint concentrators. Honors concentrators take a senior tutorial in which they prepare an honors thesis. Sophomore Tutorial
The Sophomore Tutorial in East Asian Studies (EAS 97) provides students with a broad introduction to the cultures, literatures, philosophies, religions, histories and societies of East Asia, especially China, Japan and Korea. EAS 97 also aims to introduce students to the major conceptual and methodological issues that occupy scholars in the field of East Asian Studies in the academy today. EAS 97 is a one semester spring course. Students emerge from the tutorial well grounded in the sub-disciplines and issues that orient the field as a whole, and equipped to proceed to further, more specialized studies. The Sophomore Tutorial in East Asian Studies is open to non-concentrators. There is no better way to sample the serious study of East Asia at Harvard. For more info please contact the Tutorial Office at 617-495-8365 East Asian Studies 97ab. Introduction to East Asian Civilizations Junior Tutorial
Junior tutorials build on the general foundation developed in sophomore tutorial and allow students to focus their field of study according to their primary country of interest and the particular topics they wish to pursue. Juniors take EAS 98 in the fall or a replacement course approved by the Head Tutor. East Asian Studies will offer two sections of EAS 98 in the fall of 2009-2010. Professor Susan Pharr will teach a Japan Social Science Tutorial, and Dr. Nara Dillon will teach a China Social Science Tutorial. For more information, please contact the Tutorial Office. East Asian Studies 98b. Junior Tutorial--State and Society in Contemporary Japan East Asian Studies 98d. Junior Tutorial--The Political Economy of Modern China Senior Tutorial
Senior tutorial is a full-year course for those seniors writing honors theses. Students work in individual tutorials with a faculty advisor and a tutor. Primary concentrators in the humanities track and joint concentrators in the language track are expected to employ some degree of primary language skills in the course of their research. Preparing for an honors thesis should begin in the junior year. Students should discuss potential thesis topics with professors and tutorial instructors and further explore these topics in papers written for tutorials or other courses. Harvard offers several grants to allow students to travel to East Asia in the summer between the junior and senior years. (Information on grant opportunities is available here and in the EAS office). As applications are due as early as late February, students should begin thinking about topics and writing a proposal early in the spring semester, or before. Copies of recent EAS theses can be found in the EAS tutorial office at 9 Kirkland Place. |