艺术硕士课程是为寻求专业化和个性化的本科教育的学生而设计的。该系提供各种语言的中文，日语和韩语课程，以进一步发展语言能力。除语言教学外，该系还提供有关亚洲现代文化的广泛课程，重点是中国，日本和韩国的文学，电影和视觉文化。这些课程中的许多课程都是在社会主义，殖民主义，法西斯主义和现代化等全球性问题的背景下处理这些主题的。希望获得硕士学位的学生在制定自己的学习课程时，应平衡计划的各个组成部分。对于有兴趣的人，还提供一些有关前现代中国的课程和指导。为了完成MA的要求，学生必须在课程中获得32分，包括必修的第一年
The Department of East Asian Studies of New York University offers a doctoral and master's program in East Asian Culture. The graduate program is concerned with culture, media, and questions of representation as they relate to the formation of East Asian societies such as China, Japan and Korea in modern times. Rather than pursue the practice of area studies in the traditional sense, the program is committed to a critical and, whenever possible, interdisciplinary examination of East Asia's modernity in a global configuration. While the program will emphasize how received pasts interact in the modern present of these societies, the principal emphasis will be on the question of modernity in search of its own historicity as both an historical and theoretical problematic.<br>In the course of their study, students will be challenged to develop a critical awareness of the political, institutional, and methodological consequences, as well as the historical provenance of both disciplinary-based and area studies inquiry. Working with their advisers and other faculty inside and outside the department, students will be encouraged to design their programs around literary and film studies, as well as studies of other media and forms of representation, theoretical or intellectual debates, historiographical inquiry, questions of gender and sexuality, social and political movements, or any combination of the above.