东亚研究系承认其博士学位。该计划选择具有良好本科成绩并进行适当学术准备的学生。通常，至少需要三年以上的中文，日文或韩文的大学水平，以及亚洲文化方面的大量课程工作才能获得博士学位。<br>每个学生的课程都是与教职顾问和东亚研究研究生课程主任协商后确定的。适当时，可能会包括其他部门的课程。为了完成博士学位。要求，学生必须获得72分，相当于18门课程。其中，必须在东亚研究中取得40分，包括东亚研究主题中的独立研究，EAST-GA 1500，而其他点则可以通过东亚研究以外的课程来完成，例如定向阅读课程和研究学分（
The Department of East Asian Studies at New York University offers courses on China, Japan and Korea. The focus of the undergraduate program is primarily on language, history and literature and the way in which these three civilizations have interacted with the Western world to reconstitute received cultures into modern societies. By intensive study of Asian culture, the student is encouraged to reflect on the global interrelatedness of human society. At present, three language sequences are offered: a six-semester Chinese language sequence, a six-semester Japanese language sequence, and a six-semester Korean language sequence. Fourth-year study is also offered in all three languages. In addition, various courses in Asian culture are offered in the Program in East Asian Studies, while courses in history, politics, and art are available in other departments.<br><br>We also offer 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.