The University of Washington (UW) in the US is to offer a new East Asia Studies master of arts degree program from next year that includes a Taiwan Studies track.
The new MA program is "the first Taiwan Studies-related graduate degree at a major university in North America," the university said in a statement on Dec. 19.
"The East Asia MA at the University of Washington offers students the opportunity to develop a substantial understanding of East Asian culture, history, society and contemporary issues while focusing their coursework on China, Japan, Korea or Taiwan," it said.
The inaugural cohort is to begin taking classes at the Seattle-based university in autumn next year, with applications open until Jan. 31, the program's Web site said.
Before the program was announced, the Taiwan Studies MA program at the University of London's School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) was the first and only such Taiwan-focused postgraduate degree in the English-speaking world.
UW's new program fills an "academic gap" for students who wish to specialize in Taiwanese studies at the postgraduate level, but who previously would have had to take more general East Asia classes, said James Lin (林于翔), an adjunct assistant professor who teaches in the university's Department of History.
Alongside William Lavely, the director of UW's East Asia Center, Lin has been a major driving force establishing the new Taiwan Studies track.
Although Taiwan-related classes and events have been organized by UW's Henry M Jackson School of International Studies since 2017 under the "Taiwan Studies Program" nomenclature at WU's East Asia Center, UW's announcement this month formalizes the courses into a distinct MA track.
The program has also received "generous support" from Taiwan's Ministry of Education and Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Chiang Ching-Kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange, and others, according to the program's Web site.
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