Toward the end of the spring semester in sophomore year, we will ask you to indicate your choice of track and country for junior tutorial, although you do not formally enroll until the next semester. Concentrators do move between tracks occasionally. The tutorial on Vietnam and one or two semesters of the Korea tutorial may be a joint humanities-social science tutorial, depending on enrollment and student interests. The junior tutorials in the social sciences offer students a variety of avenues for the study of East Asian society and political economy, with a particular focus on the contemporary era and modern history. Depending on enrollments and student interest, four tutorials are typically offered which focus respectively on China, Japan, Korea and Vietnam.
Students generally choose the country whose language they are studying.
These tutorials will also introduce students to the methods and theoretical perspectives of the social science disciplines of anthropology, economics, history, political science, and sociology. The junior tutorials in the humanities expose students to the richness and variety of traditional and modern East Asian history, literature, and culture. Tutorials are typically offered which focus respectively on China, Japan, Korea and Vietnam. Again, depending on enrollment and interest, we usually offer a section of the China tutorial focused on literature and a section focused on the history of thought. These tutorials also introduce students to the methods and theoretical perspectives of literary, cultural, and historical studies.