Linguistics is concerned with the essential questions of what language is and how it is related to the other human faculties. Linguists seek to determine what is unique and what is universal in languages, how language is acquired, and how it changes. Linguistics provides a link between the humanities and the social sciences. The studies of Japanese and Chinese linguistics applies the general tools of linguistics to a study of the Japanese and Chinese languages respectively. Read More....

Literature is a body of writings in prose or verse. The study of literature seeks to reveal its fullest meaning by applying one or more literary theories to a reading of a short story, novel, play or poem. Academics in the School have expertise in feminist, postcolonial and postmodernist critiques of classical and contemporary literatures of China, Indonesia and Japanese.