CES BA Optional Courses

हिंदी रूपांतरण

Category	Course Code	Course Title
Language and Literary Studies	ES 341 E	History of English Language
	ES 344 E	Language Culture and Cognition
	ES 345 E	Linguistic Analysis of Literary Texts
British Literature	ES 346 E	English Novel
	ES 347 E	English Poetry
	ES 348 E	English Essay
	ES 349 E	English Drama – I
	ES 350 E	English Drama – II
	ES 351 E	20th Century English Novel
	ES 352 E	20th Century English Poetry
	ES 353 E	20th Century English Drama
Literature in Other Englishes	ES 356 E	Literature in Indian English
	ES 358 E	American Writing in English
	ES 359 E	20th Century American Novel
	ES 360 E	20th Century American Drama
	ES 361 E	20th Century American Poetry
	ES 362 E	African Writings in English
	ES 363 E	Literature of New Zealand and Australia
	ES 364 E	Canadian Literature
	ES 365 E	Caribbean Literature
Literary Theory and Criticism	ES 366 E	Critical Approaches to Literature
	ES 369 E	Literature and Ideas
	ES 370 E	Arts and Ideas

A warm welcome to the modified and updated website of the Centre for East Asian Studies. The East Asian region has been at the forefront of several path-breaking changes since 1970s beginning with the redefining the development architecture with its State-led development model besides emerging as a major region in the global politics and a key hub of the sophisticated technologies. The Centre is one of the thirteen Centres of the School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi that provides a holistic understanding of the region.

Initially, established as a Centre for Chinese and Japanese Studies, it subsequently grew to include Korean Studies as well. At present there are eight faculty members in the Centre. Several distinguished faculty who have now retired include the late Prof. Gargi Dutt, Prof. P.A.N. Murthy, Prof. G.P. Deshpande, Dr. Nranarayan Das, Prof. R.R. Krishnan and Prof. K.V. Kesavan. Besides, Dr. Madhu Bhalla served at the Centre in Chinese Studies Programme during 1994-2006. In addition, Ms. Kamlesh Jain and Dr. M. M. Kunju served the Centre as the Documentation Officers in Chinese and Japanese Studies respectively.

The academic curriculum covers both modern and contemporary facets of East Asia as each scholar specializes in an area of his/her interest in the region. The integrated course involves two semesters of classes at the M. Phil programme and a dissertation for the M. Phil and a thesis for Ph. D programme respectively. The central objective is to impart an interdisciplinary knowledge and understanding of history, foreign policy, government and politics, society and culture and political economy of the respective areas. Students can explore new and emerging themes such as East Asian regionalism, the evolving East Asian Community, the rise of China, resurgence of Japan and the prospects for reunification of the Korean peninsula. Additionally, the Centre lays great emphasis on the building of language skills. The background of scholars includes mostly from the social science disciplines; History, Political Science, Economics, Sociology, International Relations and language.

Several students of the centre have been recipients of prestigious research fellowships awarded by Japan Foundation, Mombusho (Ministry of Education, Government of Japan), Saburo Okita Memorial Fellowship, Nippon Foundation, Korea Foundation, Nehru Memorial Fellowship, and Fellowship from the Chinese and Taiwanese Governments. Besides, students from Japan receive fellowship from the Indian Council of Cultural Relations.