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Note: ‘ Semester 1’ stands for Fall semester and ‘ Semester 2’ for Spring semester.

Course EC Semester 1 Semester 2

First year

Common Core Course:

Critical Area Studies: Placing Your Research 10
Methodologies in the Social Sciences and Humanities 10

Students are strongly advised to opt to take the Methodologies course mentioned above. By taking this course, they fulfill the requirement that they should take in total at least 10 EC of courses from one of the research schools over the two years.
Alternatively, students may take 10 EC worth of national research school courses over the full duration of their enrolment (note that the number of credits per course offered by the research schools varies).

Research Project Preparation 1

Core Elective Courses

  • Students need to take at least 20 EC of Core Elective Courses (600-level, course code starting with 5474I).

  • Alternatively, students may take (600-level) courses from other Research MA programmes or national research school courses over the full duration of their enrolment (note that the number of credits per course varies).

Advanced Readings in Classical Chinese (ResMA) 5
Art and Power in Asia (ResMA) 10
China’s New Workers and the Politics of Culture (ResMA) 10
China's International Political Economy (ResMA) 10
Comparative Asian Linguistics (ResMA) 10
Economic Development and Social Change in Southeast Asia (ResMA) 10
Histories of Southeast Asia (ResMA) 10
LIAS PhD Seminar: Decolonisation in Academia 5
LIAS PhD Seminar: Listening and hearing in research 5
Material Culture, Memory and Commemoration along the Silk Roads in Central Asia (ResMA) 10
Topical Readings in Classical Japanese (ResMA) 10
Topics in Modern Chinese History (ResMA) 10
The Visual and Material Culture of Exchange in Asia and Europe, 1500-1800 (ResMA) 10
`Ulamâ' in the Modern Muslim World (ResMA) 10
Against Caste and Race: Identity and Resistance in a Global Context 5
Approaches to East Asian Cinema (ResMA) 10
Confucianism in Context (ResMA) 10
China and Global Cyberspace (ResMA) 10
China-Africa Relations in a Changing Global Order (ResMA) 10
Contemporary Indian Politics (ResMA) 10
Creativity and Culture in Contemporary China (ResMA) 10
Culture and Conquest: the Impact of the Mongols and their Descendants (ResMA) 10
Hands-on Museum Research Experience (ResMA) 10
LIAS PhD Seminar: Themes in Global Political Economy 5
Oral Traditions (ResMA) 10
Political Economy of South East Asia (ResMA) 10
Politics of Culture in Southeast Asia (ResMA) 10
The Politics of Destruction: Targeting World Heritage (ResMA) 10
Sinographics: Chinese writing and writing Chinese (ResMA) 10
Topical Readings in Historical and Literary Chinese Texts (ResMA) 10
Topics in Chinese Art History, Things and Paths: Approaches to Chinese Art and Material Culture (ResMA) 10
Word and Image in Premodern Japanese Culture (ResMA) 10

Elective courses

  • Choose two or more courses from the courses on offer in the regular MA programmes (levels 400-500) with a minimum of 20 EC in total

  • Alternatively, students may take maximally 10 EC worth of language or other skills courses such as methods or digital humanities courses at BA-level (100–400), unless similar courses were part of the previously completed programme which gave access to this programme.

  • Students may also replace Elective Courses by Core Elective Courses (take a 600-level course instead of a 500-level course).

  • See under tab "Elective courses" for a limited list and more information.

Second year, Semester 1

Research semester

During the first semester of their second year students need to do research worth minimally 20 EC and maximally 30 EC. As the semester must have a total load of 30 EC, the remainder may be filled by taking another course at at least 400 level in the case research is less than 30 EC.

Research Project (Fieldwork) (ResMA) 19-29

Second year, Semester 2

In this semester students write their research MA Thesis.

Research MA Thesis (Middle Eastern Studies, Asian Studies) 30

The writing process is supported through a bi-weekly Thesis Writing Seminar

Thesis Writing Seminar 0

First or second year, Semester 1

Additionally, students can apply to participate in a series of extra-curricular lectures