东亚区域性研究是美国高校设置的交叉学科的专业，课程跨度较大，可以自由选择感兴趣的科目：政治、历史、文学、艺术、金融、经济、传媒学、公共政策、国际关系、社会学、电影学、甚至建筑学。只要所学科目和东亚关系紧密，获得批准后，即可选修。
下面是耶鲁的东亚文化研究的一部分课程，大家参考一下：
Chinese Culture, Society, and History
Archaeology of China
JApan: Culture, Society, Modernity
Agrarian Societies
Research Seminar in Japan Anthropology
Research Seminar in Japan Anthropology
Archaeology of China
Globalization Space
Elementary Modern Chinese I
Elementary Modern Chinese for Advanced Learners I
Elementary Modern Chinese II
Elementary Modern Chinese for Advanced Learners II
Intensive Elementary Modern Chinese
Intermediate Modern Chinese I
Intermediate Modern Chinese for Advanced Learners I
Intermediate Modern Chinese II
Intermediate Modern Chinese for Advanced Learners II
Advanced Modern Chinese I for Advanced Learners
Advanced Modern Chinese II for Advanced Learners
Advanced Modern Chinese III
Advanced Modern Chinese IV
Chinese through Film
Readings in Contemporary Chinese Texts I
Readings in Contemporary Chinese Texts II
Readings in Modern Chinese Texts I
Readings in Modern Chinese Texts I
Chinese Composition
Introduction to Literary Chinese I
Introduction to Literary Chinese II
Advanced Readings in Modern Chinese Literature
Man and Nature in Chinese Literature
Women and Literature in Traditional China
Introduction to Chinese Civilization
Intertextuality
The Dream of the Red Chamber
Chinese Diaspora and the Americas in Fiction and Film
Readings in Classical Chinese Prose
Readings in Classical Chinese Poetry
Independent Tutorial
Man and Nature in Chinese Literature
Women and Literature in Traditional China
Introduction to Literary Chinese I
Advanced Readings in Modern Chinese Literature
Introduction to Literary Chinese II
Readings in Classical Chinese Prose
Chinese Erotic Novel Jin Ping Mei
Translating the Analects with Commentaries
Topics in Sinophone Literature
Methods and Approaches Modern Chinese Literature
Directed Readings in Chinese
Chinese and Japanese Christian Literature
Contemporary Chinese Society
Asian Humanities: Text and Object
Chinese Law and Society
History of China, 1550-Present
Next China
下面我们再来看看英国剑桥大学东亚研究专业。剑桥大学的东亚研究专业主要研究三个国家：中国、日本和韩国。
现在的研究项目有：
• In the fields of Shennong (Prof. R. Sterckx)
• Wealth and poverty in Traditional China (Prof. R. Sterckx)
• Women and books in Japan from the 17th to the 19th Centuries (Prof. P. Kornicki)
• Bibliography of Japanese History up to 1912 (Prof. P. Kornicki)
• Mental Representation of WH-words in non-native grammars of Chinese (Dr B. Yuan)
• The History of the Maritime Customs Service (Prof. H. v d Ven)
