Overview

Key Facts and Outcomes

The East Asian Humanities major is deliberately and insistently comparative and offers multiple disciplinary perspectives. It provides students with the opportunity to range across the rich diversity of East Asian cultures—Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Tibetan, and Mongolian--through the array of disciplines and specialties represented in the department, including literary, cultural, visual, and sound studies, religion, philosophy, film and media studies, disability studies, and environmental humanities.

Some courses focus on East Asia’s shared cultural heritages, others on humanistic responses to historical and sociological phenomena, others on systems of thought and belief, and yet others on the analysis and appreciation of the artistry of cultural invention.

The University of California, Berkeley major can be completed entirely through courses taught in English, with the option of taking courses in the original language at the advanced level. There are no language prerequisites.

Programme Structure

Courses Include:

Confucius and His Interpreters

Catastrophe, Memory, and Narrative: Comparative Responses to Atrocity in the Twentieth Century

Expressing the Ineffable in China and Beyond: The Making of Meaning in Poetic Writing

War, Empire, and Literature in East Asia

Bio-Ethical Issues in East Asian Thought

Key information

Duration

Full-time
- 48 months

Start dates & application deadlines

Starting 2027-08-18 00:00:00
- Apply before 2026-12-01 00:00:00

Language

English

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Credits

120 SCH

Delivered

On Campus

Campus Location

Berkeley, United States

Disciplines

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General requirements

First-year applicants are students who are currently in high school (with or without college coursework completed), or students who have graduated high school and have taken no college coursework post-high school.Students who apply to Berkeley should meet the following minimum requirements:

Meet the A-G subject course requirements. (Review the A-G Policy Resource Guide)

Have a 3.0 GPA in A-G courses taken in the 10th and 11th grade years. (3.4 GPA for non-residents)

Tuition Fees

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Non-residents

51204 USD / year

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Out-of-State

51204 USD / year

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Domestic

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In-State

13602 USD / year

≈ 13602 USD / year

Additional Details

Non-resident: Tuition: $6,801.00 + Non-resident Supplemental Tuition $18,801.00.

Living costs

Berkeley

United States

1750 - 2820 USD / month

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Key Facts and Outcomes

Programme Structure

Key information

Duration

Start dates & application deadlines

Language

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Credits

Delivered

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English requirements

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Additional Details

Living costs

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