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	Asian Studies WWW VL
		The Asian Studies WWW Virtual Library is designed for transmission speed, not fancy looks.
		A selection of links from this document is also republished by the Association for Asian Studies (AAS), Inc. The University of Michigan, USA.
		This research tool is produced by the Internet Publications Bureau, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies at The Australian National University (ANU), Canberra.
	coombs.anu.edu.au /WWWVL-AsianStudies.html (528 words)

	EALC Boulder — Asian Studies Program
		The study of Asia continues to be relevant in the global age.
		A degree in Asian Studies provides a broad base of knowledge that can be applied to any number of possible fields, including business, commerce, journalism, politics, publishing, the social sciences, and teaching at all levels.
		Asian Studies students have access to state-of-the-art language instruction technology at the Anderson Language Technology Center (ALTEC) and access to the East Asian Library, located in Norlin Library, the largest collection of East Asian materials in the Rocky Mountain region.
	www.colorado.edu /ealld/aprg.html (1171 words)

	Asian Studies
		Introduction to the major Asian religious, philosophical, and cultural traditions (Hinduism, Buddhism, Confucianism, Taoism, Shinto) with emphasis on the cultural roots of each religious tradition, the analysis of its principal teachings and practices, and the major cultural expressions in religious art, ritual, poetry, music, and scriptures.
		Considered as a comparative study of religious practice, this course seeks to understand thought and behavior in worship, iconography, pilgrimage, domestic and congregational performance, mythology and cosmology, trance, dance, sacrifice, ritual experience and other dimensions of religious life as well as the way that these facets of religious culture interrelate.
		The study of religion in a historically complex circumstance will provide the means to examine the processes of accommodation and tension that exist in a multi-religious environment.
	www.temple.edu /bulletin/ugradbulletin/ucd/ucd_asianstudies.html (3091 words)

	Asian Studies Program - School of Social Sciences - La Trobe University
		The Asian Studies Program at La Trobe University was established in 1994 to consolidate the university’s expertise on Asian languages, and to co-ordinate interdisciplinary studies of the Asian region.
		Asian Studies – the study of Asia and its languages – is as diverse as the different communities that make up the continent of Asia.
		The Asian Studies Program encourages its language students to consider undertaking some of their language studies overseas, in a country where that language is widely spoken.
	www.latrobe.edu.au /asianstudies (459 words)

	Murdoch University - School of Social Sciences & Humanities - Asian Studies at Murdoch
		Murdoch's School of Asian Studies is the oldest in the state and is the home of the Asia Research Centre, the premier research unit on contemporary Asia.
		Asian Studies has a rich diversity of units about Asia available for study and two separate undergraduate programs from which to choose.
		The Asian Studies staff are highly qualified, widely published and have a strong interest in social and political change in the Asian region.
	wwwsshe.murdoch.edu.au /asianstudies (655 words)

	Asian Studies Program : University of Vermont
		Asian Studies is an interdisciplinary program composed of sixteen faculty members in ten academic disciplines-- Art, Anthropology, Chinese language, Education, History, Japanese Language, Philosophy, Political Science, Psychology, and Religion.
		Students wishing to major in Asian Studies take a foreign language relevant to their particular concentration through the intermediate level, and take courses on Asia in at least three disciplines other than language.
		Asian Studies faculty cooperate with students organizations, such as the Asian Cultural Exchange and the Asian American Student Union, to bring to campus intellectual and cultural events related to Asia, including speakers, films, music and dance performances, art exhibits, and culinary demonstrations.
	www.uvm.edu /~asian (220 words)

	AsianWeek.com: Feature: The State of Asian American Studies in 2001 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		From the late 1960s, when Asian American studies programs were a fledgling interdisciplinary field at Bay Area universities, to the late ’90s when University of Texas students protested for a program, the struggle to institutionalize the study of the Asian Pacific Islander American community has swept across the nation.
		Currently, there are at least 43 undergraduate Asian American studies programs around the country and APIA students represent the largest minority group at many schools, with 23 percent at Stanford University and up to 30 percent at some of the University of California campuses.
		Mia Carter, interim director of the Asian American studies program at the University of Texas, Austin (UT) said that because of high numbers of APIAs at the university — some 21 percent of the school’s population — and the demand for Asian American studies courses by the students, UT began its program two years ago.
	www.asianweek.com /2001_08_31/feature_aastudies.html (887 words)

	Faculty of Asian Studies - Faculty of Asian Studies
		Faculty of Asian Studies - Faculty of Asian Studies
		The Faculty of Asian Studies is part of the ANU College of Asia and the Pacific.
		Asian Analysis, a virtual magazine edited monthly from the Faculty of Asian Studies for the ASEAN Focus Group consultancy.
	asianstudies.anu.edu.au /wiki/index.php/Faculty_of_Asian_Studies (885 words)

	Colby College \| Academics \|Department of East Asian Studies
		The East Asian Studies Department contributes a new dimension to the traditional liberal arts curriculum by offering courses with a focus on this region and an East Asian Studies major and minor, a Chinese minor, and a Japanese minor.
		Study abroad during the junior year is strongly encouraged; see the study abroad page for information about the Associated Kyoto Program in Japan and various programs in China.
		In addition to gaining a solid grounding in language and literature, East Asian majors may choose from a variety of courses offered by affiliated faculty in such areas as art history, anthropology, government, history, music, and religion to complete their course requirements.
	www.colby.edu /eas (248 words)

	Department of East Asian Studies -- New York University
		By intensive study of Asian culture, the student is encouraged to reflect on the global interrelatedness of human society.
		In addition, various courses in Asian culture are offered in the Program in East Asian Studies, while courses in history, politics, and art are available in other departments.
		Rather than pursue the practice of area studies in the traditional sense, the program is committed to a critical and, whenever possible interdisciplinary examination of East Asia’s modernity in a global configuration.
	www.nyu.edu /pages/east.asian.studies (293 words)

	Hamilton College - Academics - Asian Studies
		Hamilton's Asian studies program begins with the conviction that a real understanding of this immense human tapestry requires an interdisciplinary approach to the continent's cultures, languages and society.
		Asian studies majors are encouraged to take advantage of Hamilton's unique study-abroad opportunities.
		The Asian Studies program sponsors a number of important cultural, educational and social events each year, many of them in conjunction with the student-run Asian Cultural Society and other departments.
	www.hamilton.edu /academics/department.html?dept=Asian+Studies (683 words)

	Asian Studies \| The WWW Virtual Library
		The Asian Studies WWW Monitor (ISSN 1329-9778) was established 21 April 1994.
		The Bangladesh WWW VL is a part of the Asian Studies WWW Virtual Library Project and of the South Asia WWW Virtual Library.
		It is a part of the Asian Studies WWW Virtual Library and of its specialist subsection, the East Asia WWW Virtual Library.
	vlib.org /AsianStudies (1408 words)

	Asian & Asian American Studies :: University of Massachusetts Amherst
		The Asian Studies track requires 6 credits from courses in Asian American studies and students in Asian American Studies are required to take 6 credits from courses in Asian Studies and/or Asian languages.
		ASIAN STUDIES 397: A one-semester colloquium (one or two credit, depending on instructor), featuring guest speakers, film screenings, and discussions focusing on topics demonstrating the intersections between Asian and Asian American Studies and the applications of a joint Asian/Asian American Studies perspective.
		ASIAN STUDIES 597/491: A one-semester senior seminar (three credits) that will build on the first colloquium (although you do not have to take 397 first) and offer the students an opportunity to undertake a research project in Asian or Asian American Studies, under the guidance of a faculty advisor.
	www.umass.edu /asianasianamstudies/description.html (1268 words)

	Brown University Department of East Asian Studies
		East Asian Studies is a multidisciplinary department teaching and creating new knowledge about that part of the world geographically located in East Asia, embracing the western rim of the Pacific Ocean, and whose society is based on the Confucian tradition.
		East Asian Studies is committed to the study of Chinese, Japanese and Korean as the essential foundation of expertise on these cultures.
		East Asian Studies is a key component in the partnering of international studies with individual cultures.
	www.brown.edu /Departments/East_Asian_Studies (189 words)

	Asian Studies - Chinese
		Chinese is one of the major Asian languages being introduced over the next few years in primary and secondary schools, and is forecast as being the Asian language of greatest demand for the foreseeable future.
		Students enrolling in Chinese have the opportunity to do the equivalent of their one year’s Chinese language study (for credit to their degree) by spending a semester in China as part of the School's 'Study-in-Asia' program.
		Students undertake intensive Chinese language study to develop spoken, listening, reading and writing skills to a high level.
	www.asianstudies.arts.uwa.edu.au /courses/chinese (1074 words)

	Asian Studies
		Language study also plays a key role in the Asian Studies concentration because mastery of a language enables one to grasp ideas of another culture through the very words in which they were originally expressed.
		Asian Studies concentrators are strongly encouraged to continue their study of Asia in programs abroad.
		Honors in Asian Studies will be awarded to concentrators with at least an 88 average in the concentration who complete 550 with a grade of A- or better.
	academics.hamilton.edu /asian_studies/home/default.html (1558 words)

	Asian Studies Program
		The Asian Studies Program is delighted to co-sponsor with the Shodo Journal an exhibition of modern Japanese calligraphy at the Thomas Center in downtown Gainesville.
		Their panel, entitled "Asians and Asian-Americans in Florida," explored issues of immigration, cultural difference, the idea of "diversity," economic issues, Asians in the academy, and more.
		About Us The Asian Studies Program at UF began in 1986 with seven core faculty members and sustained with a series of gifts from anonymous donors.
	www.clas.ufl.edu /asian (702 words)

	Asian Studies Graduate Schools, Graduate Program Asian Studies, Masters Asian Studies, Ph.D. Asian Studies
		About the field of Asian Studies: Studying another culture can be a complicated undertaking, but many people start with the language and literature of that culture.
		Studies in Asian language, literature and culture prepare students to begin building an understanding of the rich heritage of a large percentage of the world population.
		Asian studies may also encompass a range of other issues related to Asian culture including: history, politics, philosophy, art, and religion.
	www.gradschools.com /programs/asian_language_studies.html (346 words)

	St. Lawrence University: Asian Studies
		The combined major in Asian studies makes it possible to earn a major in history, government or religious studies that incorporates courses in several departments to ensure an integrative approach to the study of Asia.
		All courses described by ICU as three-credit courses that focus on Japan or Asia are accepted as equivalent to a course at St. Lawrence for the interdisciplinary major in Asian studies.
		Religious studies majors who wish to do a combined major with Asian studies must fulfill the regular religious studies major requirements, though they must take a minimum of eight courses rather than the standard nine.
	www.stlawu.edu /programs/asian-studies.html (955 words)

	Carleton College: Asian Studies
		Asian Studies at Carleton promotes a wide variety of courses and programs aimed at appreciating and understanding the richness, variety and values of past and present Asian cultures.
		Concentrations in East Asian Studies and in South Asian Studies provide an opportunity for students majoring in traditional departments to bring focus to their choice of electives.
		Asian Studies is an inherently interdisciplinary endeavor at Carleton.
	apps.carleton.edu /curricular/asst (210 words)

	ACI - Asian Studies Minor - Introduction (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The Asian Studies program provides students with opportunities to focus on this region through an interdisciplinary minor inclusive of course work and individual research.
		As a means to complement work in a student’s major field, the Asian Studies curriculum allows students to investigate Asia from a variety of disciplinary perspectives and enables them to cultivate useful analytical tools.
		Through an Asian Studies minor, students from the humanities, social sciences, business, and other disciplines can therefore add an area of studies dimension to their disciplinary expertise.
	www.albertson.edu /academics/asianstudies/default.asp (147 words)

	Asian Studies Center - College of Arts&Sciences - Georgia State University
		The Asian Studies Center at Georgia State University contributes to metropolitan Atlanta, Georgia, and to the national and international community by coordinating cultural, artistic and scholarly activities related to Asia and Asian Americans through travel, teaching and research.
		The recently established Asian Studies major will encourage development of professorships with an Asian emphasis in different departments and recruitment of students and faculty with an interest in Asian area studies.
		The Asian Studies Center also promotes Asian student life at Georgia State University and integration of the University with the life of the larger Asian community.
	www.gsu.edu /asianstudies (197 words)

	ASU Center for Asian Research - Home Page
		The Center promotes Asian Studies at ASU and fosters greater understanding of Asia through a wide variety of research and outreach activities including teacher training, curriculum development, scholarly conferences, public symposia, film series, and exhibitions.
		The Center for Asian Research is part of the School of Global Studies and the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.
		A.T. Steele lecture by Dr. Juliane Schober of the Department of Religious Studies on Tuesday, February 13, 2007, at noon in Coor 5536.
	www.asu.edu /clas/asian (261 words)

	Asian Languages and Cultures
		The Asian Studies Program was established in 1969 to cultivate, promote, and coordinate the study of all aspects of Asia.
		In addition to administering the undergraduate minor and the graduate certificate in Asian studies, the program also encourages research, develops curricula, and sponsors lectures and other cultural activities intended to enhance the understanding of Asia.
		The East Asian House, located on the Douglass campus, has been established as a residence for students interested in combining the study of the Chinese or Japanese language with an exposure to East Asian cultures.
	www.rci.rutgers.edu /~easian/asianstudies/index.html (252 words)

	AsianWeek.com: Bay News: Students Demand South Asian Studies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Concerned that a delay would be detrimental to the momentum already generated by the South Asian studies task force, students, who represents some 1,000 South Asians on campus, presented their arguments for the center to Chancellor Arthur Carnesdale last Friday.
		In February 2001, she attended a South Asian youth conference that addressed community issues and South Asian studies movements at different universities.
		UCLA’s Asian American studies department tends to focus on East Asian Americans, said Tina Bhaga, a first-year graduate student in the department.
	www.asianweek.com /2001_10_26/bay_sastudies.html (781 words)

	Department of East Asian Studies
		The Department of East Asian Studies at the University of Alberta offers degree programs at the undergraduate and graduate level in Chinese and Japanese language, linguistics, and literature.
		Renamed the Department of East Asian Studies in 1994 to reflect the expanded range of topics covered in its courses, the department has continued to grow steadily and now boasts record enrolments in its language and culture courses.
		The Department of East Asian Studies would like to include all of EAST ASIA in its programs, that is, China, Japan, Taiwan, and Korea.
	www.arts.ualberta.ca /~eastasia (639 words)

	Department of Asian Studies
		The Department of Asian Studies was formed in 1994 to provide a focus within The University of Texas at Austin for the creation and dissemination of knowledge about Asia, principally East Asia (China, Japan, and Korea) and South Asia (India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal, and Afghanistan).
		The Asian Studies newsletter highlights some of the past year's events, changes, and student accomplishments.
		On November 28, the Department of Asian Studies and the Center for East Asian Studies hosted a panel discussion on the North Korean nuclear test.
	www.utexas.edu /cola/depts/asianstudies (277 words)

	Asian Studies Program, University at Buffalo
		By studying Asian civilizations and contemporary societies and the Asian experience in North America, we come to understand a significant part of humanity and acquire insight into ourselves.
		Students who combine a Major in Asian Studies with another field through a Double Major or a Joint Major are particularly well suited for vocations which require disciplinary/ professional training coupled with Asian language skills and cultural understanding.
		Students who are native speakers of an Asian language may test out of the language requirement and be required to offer in its place two additional, three-hour courses in the Upper elective category or two semesters of an Asian language other than their own.
	www.asianstudies.buffalo.edu /degreePrograms/index.shtml (607 words)

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