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Exchange nomination and application system for the Fall semester of the academic year 2017/18 is available from March 8th 2017 10:00 (GMT+1) to May 3rd 2017 16:00 (GMT+1).

IMPORTANT:

1. All exchange students must be nominated online by their home university (we do not accept nominations by email)

2. You should only nominate students intending to study at Sciences Po in September 2017 (Fall semester) for one or two semesters of study

3. Successfully nominated students will receive an email advising them to complete and submit their application online and upload supporting documents (there is no need to send hard copies by post);

4. The deadline for nominations and for completed student applications is May 3rd 2017

5. When nominating your student(s) online, you must indicate whether your students must take the majority of their classes in one or two specific disciplines. This only applies to students nominated for the undergraduate exchange programme in Paris

6. Letters of acceptance will be sent directly to our partners universities from May 15th 2017

* Please note that students will be required to register for courses online in early July. Instructions on course registration will be sent to students nearer the time to their Sciences Po email addresses.

Students intending to take part in the exchange programme beginning in January 2018 can only be nominated from September 2017 onwards.

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.