Curriculum

The PhD program includes 2 years of coursework. On average, graduate students take 5 to 6 years to graduate.

All courses are taught in English. Apart from the required courses, which include Introduction to Transcultural Studies, Academic Writing, and Multidisciplinary Approaches to Taiwan Studies, we offer a broad range of electives that can be divided into the following modules:

1. Globality and migration
2. Visuality and performance
3. Memory, media and materiality

Recent courses offered under these modules include:

Contemporary culture and globalization
World literature and theories of the world
Social change and the modern world
Seminar on Sinophone cinema
Seminar on eco-cinema
Sinophone literary studies in the East Asian context
Introduction to STS and cultural studies
Social memory and digital humanities

For up-to-date information about courses, please see below: