AAAS/MPA GRADUATE CERTIFICATE PROGRAM

Students interested in Asian and Asian American Studies can complete a Graduate Certificate while earning their MPA degree.

Like the MPA degree, the AAAS Certificate Program encourages work that is interdisciplinary, comparative, or global in methdology and theory, as well as work that is specialized locally or regionally. The program also supports work that examines the study of Asian and Asian American diasporas as complex nexuses of socio/geo/political regions, economies, histories, and ideas, across national and oceanic boundaries.

Graduate students in the Master in Public Administration Program (MPA) will have the opportunity to complete a Graduate Certificate in Asian and Asian American Studies while earning their MPA degree.

Requirements:

In order to complete the AAAS Certificate while earning the MPA with the normal 42-credit hour requirement, students must:

- Take two courses in Asian and Asian American Studies as their 8 elective credits toward the MPA

- Complete an internship with an Asian-oriented organization

- Write a Capstone Paper with an Asian/Asian American focus

Because the AAAS Program is global in perspective, students are required to have both Asian and Asian American components in their programs of study. This means that if students should take one course in each Asian and Asian American studies, or if students take both courses in Asian studies, their internships and/or capstone should be on Asian American studies.

A maximum of one independent study course with appropriate program faculty may count toward the certificate.

Courses:

Currently offered semiinars include, but are not limited to:

HIST 501L/SOC 690T Comparative State Formations, 1980 - present

HIST 576D Modern China Colloquium

HIST 576E Nationalisms in East Asia

IBUS 581A Globalization and International Management

PHIL 605L Buddist Ethics

SOC 690X Political Economy of Contemporary Asia