博士 该学位旨在为学生做好学术和其他专业工作的准备，这些工作越来越需要跨人文和社会科学领域的传统学科领域进行研究和提供专业知识。在这个历史关头，我们对建立国家，地区和跨国研究之间的桥梁特别感兴趣。我们还寻求探索东亚内外的民族认同问题，研究东亚社会的性别特征，并参与和挑战现代性和全球化的传统西方人文和社会科学理论。除了3个核心研究生研讨会之外，该计划还围绕5个学科专业进行构建。尽管它们不会出现在学生的成绩单上，但它们既表明了系的专业知识领域，又表明了学生在毕业期间选择这些领域进行集中学习。随着时间的推移，随
The Ph.D. degree is designed to prepare students for academic and other professional careers that increasingly demand research and expertise across traditional disciplinary boundaries within the humanities and social sciences. At this historical juncture, we are especially interested in building bridges between national, regional and transnational studies. We also seek to explore issues of national identity within and beyond East Asia, to examine the gendering of East Asian societies, and to engage and challenge conventional Western humanistic and social scientific theories of modernity and globalization.