Master of Pacific and Asian Studies (Co-op)

Kaplan Group - University of Victoria

Canada,British Columbia

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24 Months

Duration

CAD 7,176/year

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CAD 156 FREE

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Canada, British Columbia

Type: University

Location Type: Urban

Founded: 1963

Total Students: 22,000 +

Int. Students: 4,300 +

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Main Campus Address

3800 Finnerty Rd, Victoria, BC V8P 5C2, Canada

Master of Pacific and Asian Studies (Co-op)

Program Overview

Students in the MA program must complete 15 units of coursework and thesis to earn their degree. All students must take a minimum of 6 units from the core courses offered by our department.

Students choose one of the following two options.

(1) The long thesis option
• 6 units of coursework
• 9-unit thesis (90-120 pages)

(2) The short thesis option
• 9 units of coursework
• 6-unit research paper (70-90 pages)

Students choose one of the two Study Streams:

(1) The Regional (Area) Studies Stream
This stream covers the mechanisms and values involved in social transformations. Students explore Asian and Pacific societies in the context of globalisation and modernisation, in relation to local social and cultural practices. Limited issues around cultural politics, state formation, and global vs. local relations often form the foundation of graduate work in this stream.

2) The Literary and Textual Studies Stream
Students in the Literary and Textual Studies stream work on cutting-edge topics on the critical role narratives play in shaping, preserving, challenging, or changing social organisations and traditions. These topics focus on such diverse areas as technology, gender, ethnicities, international relations, ideologies and propaganda, and more. Students create an original, analytical thesis demonstrating an argument about a specific topic in narrative, broadly encompassing the literatures, theatres, cinemas, languages, histories, religions, and philosophies of Asia. The student conducts original research utilising primary and secondary resources in both Asian and non-Asian languages, synthesising the results of this research into a rhetorical text (the Thesis).