Vikram Nehru and Peter Dutton to Be Featured in the Upcoming Talks in the East Asia Studies and SAIS Asia Policy & Career Roundtable Series on October 23, 2025 and November […]
Focus on East Asia
The Program in East Asian Studies offers a major and a minor that are interdisciplinary and interdepartmental. The program introduces undergraduates to the knowledge, language skills, and research methods they will need to enter various academic and professional paths relating to the East Asia Region, with a focus on China, Korea, and Japan.
- Degrees Offered BA
- Major East Asian Studies
- Minor East Asian Studies
Explore the Program
Major in East Asian Studies
This interdepartmental major allows students to choose a focus area from history, political science, sociology, history of science, technology, and medicine, history of art, or to design their own focus area.
Language and Culture Immersion
Thanks to partnerships with schools in China and Japan, study abroad opportunities abound.
Graduate Studies
Focus on East Asian studies while getting a degree from the department of history, sociology, political science, history of science and technology, and history of medicine (through the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine).
News & Announcements
The Jiang’s Collection on Tiananmen Square protests and the overseas Chinese prodemocracy movement.
Professor Jin Jiang was the East Asian Studies’ Yeung Family Distinguished Visiting Professor between 2023-2025. Prior to her departure for China in August 2025, Professor Jiang, donated to the East Asian […]
Fall 2025 Speaker Series
The EAS Speaker series for the Fall 2025 brings leading scholars and experts to our Homewood Campus for the EAS community to engage in engaging and thought-provoking conversations. The talks […]