博士 是一个更专业的学位：其目的是训练学生从事大学和大学一级的教学和研究职业。在读博士 该课程将使人们对东亚语言有更深入和更广泛的理解（在某些情况下，必须达到流利的两种语言）。他们将接受有关特定领域的研究技能和理论构建的专门培训。但是他们也将熟悉独特的要求和快乐的教学，这需要广度，创造力以及专业知识。
The Ph.D. is a more specialized degree: its purpose is to train students for careers in teaching and research at the college and university level. Students in the Ph.D. program will attain a deeper and broader understanding of East Asian languages (practical fluency in two is required in some cases). They will receive specialized training in the research skills and theoretical constructs of a particular field. But they will also become acquainted with unique demands and joys of teaching, which requires breadth and inventiveness as well as expertise.