| First semester | 
                                                                                                                        
                                                                                            | Introduction to Asian Studies | 5 | 
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                                                                                            | Thesis Class | 5 | 
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                                                                                            | Sociology of Japan | 10 | 
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                                                                                            | Nation, State and Security in Post-war Japanese Political Thought | 10 | 
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                                                                                            | Economic Development and Social Change in Southeast Asia | 10 | 
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                                                                                            | Electives Choose from the following courses with a maximum of 10 EC | 
                                                                                                                        
                                                                                            | Beginners level language: Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Hindi, Indonesian, Russian, Tibetan, Turkish, Persian, Arabic | 10 | 
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                                                                                            | The politics of culture in Southeast Asia | 5.0/10.0 | 
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                                                                                            | History, Theory, Nation: Readings from the South | 10 | 
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                                                                                            | Chinese Linguistics | 10 | 
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                                                                                            | Using Language in context: Narrative and Interaction | 10 | 
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                                                                                            | Eurasian Studies | 10 | 
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                                                                                            | Writing Histories:  Modern Japan, Asia, and the World | 10 | 
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                                                                                            | Histories of Southeast Asia | 5 | 
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                                                                                            | Second semester | 
                                                                                                                        
                                                                                            | MA Thesis Asian Studies (60 EC) | 15 | 
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                                                                                            | Electives Select two of the following electives (max 15 EC) | 
                                                                                                                        
                                                                                            | Practicing Modernity:State and Society in Soviet and post-Soviet Central Asia and the Caucasus | 10 | 
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                                                                                            | Asia through consumption | 10 | 
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                                                                                            | Hands-on Research Experience in Museum Volkenkunde | 10 | 
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                                                                                            | Topics in South and Southeast Asian Art History | 5.0/10.0 | 
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                                                                                            | Political Economy of Southeast Asia | 5.0/10.0 | 
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                                                                                            | Life and Work in Contemporary China | 10 | 
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                                                                                            | New Diversities in Asia | 10 | 
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                                                                                            | Contemporary Indian Politics | 10.0 or 5. | 
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                                                                                            | Image/Text in Pre-modern Japan | 10 | 
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                                                                                            | Beginners level language 2: Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Hindi, Indonesian, Russian, Tibetan, Sanskrit, Turkish, Persian, Arabic | 5 | 
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                                                                                            | History and Heritage in South Asia | 10 | 
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                                                                                            | Areas and policies | 10 | 
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                                                                                            | Modern China: Sources of Chinese Foreign Policy | 10 | 
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                                                                                            | Chinese I | 10 | 
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                                                                                            | Chinese II | 5 | 
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                                                                                            | Indonesian Language 1 | 10 | 
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                                                                                            | Beginner’s level Japanese | 10 | 
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                                                                                            | Beginner’s level Japanese 2 | 5 | 
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