About the subject

Asian Studies

Asian Studies is a new interdisciplinary, regional group of subjects launched in the autumn of 2011. Asian Studies concentrates on Asian nations, people, societies, languages and cultures.

On the BA level the new subject group is a combination of previously independent subjects: East Asian Studies, South Asian Studies, Asia-Pacific Studies, Altaic Studies, Indoeuropean Studies and Turkic Studies. Iranian Studies will be part of the African and Middle Eastern Studies to be launched in 2012.

The new subject group is a versatile and international centre of Asian Studies in Finland. The new subject group builds on solid expertise of the area, interdisciplinary, proficiency in Asian languages and skilled research.

Bachelor's degree (BA) includes one major language module (Chinese, Korean, Japanese, Turkish, Hindi, Sanskrit) and courses on Asian history, culture and contemporary society. For Master's degree (MA) students can choose to focus on one of the following area tracks within the programme:

• East Asian Studies
• Altaic Studies
• South Asian Studies
• Indoeuropeistics

Student graduating from BA studies can continue to MA studies according to the language studies. MA studies are also open for other students from different universities with different BA studies. This will, however, depent on previous studies and wil decided case by case.

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