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CCSEAS MA Courses

CCSEAS MA Courses

MA Courses

Course No. Course Adviser Course Title Course description Credits
EL401C P.Mukherji INTRODUCTION TO CHINESE LANGUAGE The course aims at introducing the structural features of Chinese language, both in terms of signs and sounds. This involves a categorical study of semantic and phonetic components of Chinese characters, theorizing tones, syntactic structures, homophones, phraseological features etc
4
EL403C M.Bhattacharya FUNDAMENTALS OF CHINESE/ENGLISH TRANSLATION An introductory course dealing with theory and practice of translation-texts based on Newspaper articles, editorials, and important speeches.
4
EL405C Dayawanti CHINESE NOVELS-I Study of a particular Novel and critically analyze the social, political and economic conditions reflected in the novel; the course also aims to enrich their literary and idiomatic expressions.
4
EL406C Geeta Kochhar CONSECUTIVE INTERPRETATION The course offers a basic knowledge on interpretation from Chinese to English and English to Chinese through exercises based on listening to news, discussions, and commentaries. Background knowledge of the contexts and understanding on China is provided; while the exercises are undertaken in Multimedia labs. Knowledge of extensive newspaper vocabulary and general knowledge is a requisite for the course.
4
EL407C P. Mukherji INTRODUCTION TO CHINESE LANGUAGE Lessons from Chinese texts, highlighting historical development of Chinese language and linguistic culture, spanning from antiquity till the modern times. Grammatical features typifying Chinese language and script will also form the focus of study and analysis.
4
EL409C Hemant Adlakha NEWSPAPER TRANSLATION (ENGLISH TO CHINES) A course in translation of news reports, editorials, articles, and speeches from newspapers and periodicals.
4
EL411C Dayawanti/D S Rawat CHINESE NOVELS-II Study of a particular Novel and critically analyze the social, political and economic conditions reflected in the novel; the course also aims to enrich their literary and idiomatic expressions.
4
EL412C Geeta Kochhar CONSECUTIVE INTERPRETATION The course is for interpretation from Chinese to English and English to Chinese through exercises based on listening to news, discussions, and commentaries. Multimedia labs are used to show videos on various topics ranging from politics, economy, society and culture of China. Knowledge of extensive newspaper vocabulary and general knowledge is requisite for the course.
4
EL501C B.R. Deepak HISTORY OF CHINESE LITERATURE The prerequisite course provides a comprehensive overview of the history of Chinese Literature focusing on the formative period of Chinese civilization. The course systematically exposes students to different phases of Chinese historical developments, dominant literary genres, prominent literary personalities and their representative works along with exhaustive annotations to the original texts from remote antiquity to Tang.
4
EL505C Dayawanti/ D.S. Rawat CHINESE NOVEL-I The course introduces an in-depth study of particular novel/novelettes: its social background, evaluation and characterization.
4
EL506C P.Mukherji READING AND TRANSLATION OF CONSTEMPORARY WRITINGS The course introduces reading from contemporary texts both in Chinese and English, followed by translation, viz., Chinese to English, and English to Chinese. Analysis of syntactic structures in source language and target language with focus on contrastive features would be an integral part of this course.
4
EL507C Hemant Adlakha SIMULTANEOUS INTERPRETATION Extempore and simultaneous interpretation through intensive exercises based on newspaper articles, important speeches, meetings, news and commentaries of Chinese radio broadcast and Chinese films.
4
EL510C B R Deepak HISTORY OF CHINESE LITERATURE The prerequisite course provides a comprehensive overview of the history of Chinese Literature focusing on the formative period of Chinese civilization. The course systematically exposes students to different phases of Chinese historical developments, dominant literary genres, prominent literary personalities and their representative works along with exhaustive annotations to the original texts from Tang to Qing Dynasty.
4
EL513C Hemant Adlakha SIMULTANEOUS INTERPRETATION Advanced level course in Interpretation (Chinese-English and English-Chinese) through intensive exercises based on important speeches, special articles from newspapers and periodicals, news and commentaries of radio broadcast, film shows and participation in actual interpretation.
4
EL514C D.S. Dayawanti CHINESE NOVELS-II The course introduces an in-depth study of particular novel/novelettes: its social background, evaluation and characterization.
4
EL515C Geeta Kochhar AN INTRODUCTION TO THE ECONOMY OF MODERN CHINA This course provides a comprehensive overview of the Chinese economy including its organization, structure, and performance since 1840 to date. The course will also evaluate different perspectives on the problems, challenges and potentials of the Chinese economy, and familiarize students with the economic environment of China
4

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.