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	SOAS:
		Since its formation in 1916, the School of Oriental and African Studies - or SOAS as it's better known - has built an enviable reputation around the globe for the calibre and quality of its courses, teaching and research.
		Part of the University of London, and located in the heart of the capital, SOAS continues to enhance its position as the world's leading centre for the study of a highly diverse range of subjects concerned with Asia, Africa and the Middle East.
		School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, London WC1H 0XG
	www.soas.ac.uk (127 words)

	African Studies Center \| African Studies Programs
		The Institute of oriental Studies at the University of Warsaw was established in 1922.
		The Harvard University Committee on African Studies is an interdisciplinary group of scholars appointed by the Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences to coordinate teaching and research and advance knowledge and understanding of Africa within Harvar d.
		SOAS (The School of Oriental and African Studies) is part of the Federal University of London and all of its degree courses are University of London programmes.
	www.africa.upenn.edu /About_African/ww_afstd.html (1493 words)

	JSTOR: School of Oriental and African Studies
		Since its formation in 1916, The School of Oriental and African Studies has built an enviable reputation for the calibre and quality of its courses, teaching and research.
		Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
		Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies
	www.jstor.org /journals/soas.html (393 words)

	Quality Assessment Report for School of Oriental and African Studies
		The School of Oriental Studies was established in 1916 by Royal Charter as a result of the 1908 Reay Committee, and was granted the status of a school of the University of London.
		Elementary and intermediate language courses and courses in African or Middle Eastern literatures are also available as options in some of the School's other MA degrees, which provide opportunities for graduate students to extend their knowledge and acquire linguistic skills in an area-based, disciplinary, or comparative context.
		The distribution of the units over the length of the degree programme reflects the nature of the study, so that in a language degree, the majority are language study; in combined language/cultural studies degrees there is a balance, and in a cultural studies degree, the emphasis is on the culture of the chosen area.
	www.qaa.ac.uk /reviews/reports/subjectLevel/q204_98_textonly.htm (4503 words)

	SOAS Bantu Conference London 2006
		School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
		The School of Oriental and African Studies is located next to Russell Square in Bloomsbury, in the heart of London.
		The School is the largest institution in the UK devoted to the study of African languages and cultures, and has a long tradition in Bantu studies.
	mercury.soas.ac.uk /users/lm5/BantuConference.htm (806 words)

	Aimhigher: School of Oriental and African Studies
		The School of Oriental Studies was established by Royal Charter in 1916 and was admitted as a school of the University of London.
		Today, the school's international reputation attracts students from nearly 100 countries, and some 40 per cent of the student population is in the Graduate School.
		The mission of the school is to be a centre of excellence in research and teaching relating to Asia and Africa, as expressed through a range of academic disciplines in the humanities and social sciences, and their interaction.
	www.aimhigher.ac.uk /universities___colleges___hei/london/school_of_oriental_and_african_studies.cfm (540 words)

	School of Oriental and African Studies - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.umd.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		The School of Oriental and African Studies (commonly abbreviated to SOAS) is a College of the University of London.
		SOAS was founded in 1916 as the School of Oriental Studies at 2, Finsbury Circus, London, England, the then premises of the London Institution.
		The school also houses two galleries: the Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art, one of the foremost collections of Chinese ceramics in Europe, and the Brunei Gallery, completed in 1995, which stages temporary exhibitions of both historical and contemporary materials which reflect subjects and regions studied at SOAS.
	en.wikipedia.org.cob-web.org:8888 /wiki/School_of_Oriental_and_African_Studies (1505 words)

	AIM25: School of Oriental and African Studies: SCHOOL OF ORIENTAL AND AFRICAN STUDIES ARCHIVES
		Construction of the first phase of the current premises, within the main University of London campus, began in 1938, when the present name of the School of Oriental and African Studies was adopted, and they were fully occupied by 1946.
		During the later 1950s the School concentrated on extending its accommodation, increasing its undergraduate numbers and developing the study of modern Asia and Africa with the establishment of new Departments of Geography, Economics and Politics.
		Development of postgraduate courses offset the decline in undergraduate numbers due to the development of higher education in Asian and African countries and a reorganisation of the undergraduate courses ensured that the 1960s was a period of growth.
	www.aim25.ac.uk /cats/19/2951.htm (775 words)

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		The academic structure of the School consists of 5 regional departments concerned with the languages and cultures of Africa, the Near and Middle East, South Asia, South East Asia and East Asia respectively, and 11 disciplinary departments in humanities and social sciences.
		SOAS as a whole has a strong commitment to the study of a wide range of languages, literatures and cultures, many of which are taught nowhere else in the UK.
		The successful candidate for the Chair in African History will be required to pay special attention to teaching at MA level, although she or he will also participate in BA courses.
	www.h-net.org /jobs/display_job.php?jobID=29978 (1563 words)

	SOAS Dentokan Club
		Dentokan, which means 'the House of Traditional Teachings', was established by Roy Jerry Hobbs after several decades of martial study, including six years resident in Japan where he gained the trust and respect of both Japanese and Okinawan style-leaders.
		He has trained in Japan and Okinawa several times, and is internationally renowned as an historian of karate, an exponent of kata, and as a teacher of the martial arts in Africa.
		SOAS (School of Oriental and African Studies - University of London) has as its logo, a tree in full leaf, which resembles the sort of pine trees much admired in Japanese martial arts.
	www.dentokan.org /V3/EN/AboutUs.htm (260 words)

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		The course is topic-orientated, moving from general and introductory sessions on the concepts of philosophy and Africa to specific African cultural contexts of intellectual and philosophical discourse.
		The case study must, however, be based upon primary source material (that is, material either spoken or written by Africans) which can be analysed in its social and political context.
		Mudimbe / Appiah (1993): "The impact on African studies on philosophy", in Bates/ Mudimbe/ O'Barr (eds), Africa and the disciplines.
	pegasus.cc.ucf.edu /~janzb/afphil/docs/kressemacourse.htm (2872 words)

	Study Abroad Program - CIEE Study Center in London - School of Oriental and African Studies
		Description: The CIEE program at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) has two main goals: to provide a rigorous and creative academic experience focusing on studies in the regions of Africa, Asia, and/or the Middle East and to provide a critical, in-depth appreciation of London through cultural and leisure activities.
		The School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) was added as a host institution in 2006.
		The advantage of studying at SOAS is that students receive close supervision and have regular contact with faculty.
	www.studyabroaddirectory.com /listingsp3.cfm/listing/24265 (686 words)

	Yale University Library
		University of London - School of Oriental and African Studies
		Centre of African Studies - School of Oriental and African Studies
		H-Africa - for the discussion of Africa's history and culture and African studies in general.
	www.library.yale.edu /african/internet.html (2177 words)

	African Language, Literature, Studies Graduate Programs outside U.S.A.
		The one year graduate Diploma in Forced Migration and Refugee Studies is designed to meet the needs of individuals currently working with refugees, those who seek to enter that profession, and those whose research interests focus upon issues of forced migration.
		The MA Programme in African Languages and Cultures is a multidisciplinary study that offers students the opportunity to study the African continent from various angles.
		African Studies is an interdisciplinary field of study concerned with a wide range of aspects of human life on the African continent.
	www.gradschools.com /listings/out/african_out.html (1662 words)

	Asian Language, Literature, Studies Graduate Programs in United Kingdom and Ireland
		CIS, the Center for International Studies, is an official representative for 17 internationally recognized universities in Australia, England, Ireland, New Zealand and Scotland.
		The core course focuses on the study of Japan in a comparative perspective, and different disciplinary pathways are offered to suit the interests and ambitions of students.
		The degree also aims to increase the student's understanding of language through the study of the general principles of Linguistics, and to provide the students with experience in analyzing the grammatical structure of Japanese in the Chomskyan framework.
	www.gradschools.com /listings/UK/asian_UK.html (2225 words)

	England--School_of_Oriental_African_Studies (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.umd.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		The School of Oriental and African Studies, or SOAS, as it is popularly known, is a specialist’s dream and is the leading institution in the world dedicated to the study of Asia, Africa and the Middle East in all its facets.
		You can choose to focus on development studies, law, and comparative religions, or music and film and media as it relates to these distinct regions of the world.
		It's almost impossible to explain in words the educational and cultural experience that study abroad can be but you can be sure that Arcadia is there to help you get the most out of that experience.
	www.arcadia.edu.cob-web.org:8888 /cea/bsoa (305 words)

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		The School of Oriental and African Studies (often abbreviated to SOAS) was founded in 1916 as the School of Oriental Studies at 2, Finsbury Circus, the then premises of the London Institution.
		Africa was added to the school's name and remit in 1938 and the school shifted to Malet Street, Russell Square in 1941.
		The SOAS Department of Linguistics was the first linguistics department in United Kingdom, founded in 1932 as a centre for research and study in Oriental and African languages.
	soas.org (987 words)

	AIM25: School of Oriental and African Studies: Barnes, Leonard John
		He was educated at St. Paul's School in Hammersmith and served in the First World War in the King's Royal Rifle Corps.
		Barnes was a member of the Carr-Saunders Commission to Malaya in the late 1940s to enquire into education provision and the foundation of a university.
		He was employed as a consultant to examine how African countries were coping with modernisation and sociological problems.
	www.aim25.ac.uk /cgi-bin/search2?coll_id=202&inst_id=19 (403 words)

	AIM25: School of Oriental and African Studies: Guthrie, Malcolm
		After leaving school, he gained a BSc in metallurgy at Imperial College, London, thus perpetuating the strong engineering tradition of the Guthrie family.
		During his 1935 furlough he studied at the School of Oriental Studies (later the School of Oriental and African Studies).
		By 1950, Malcolm Guthrie was Head of the Department of African Languages and Culture at the School of Oriental and African Studies, a post he held for 18 years.
	www.aim25.ac.uk /cats/19/165.htm (608 words)

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		Ph.d, School of Oriental and African Study University of London.
		After the end of the war, in September 1946, he went to England, where he studied Chinese language and history at the School of Oriental and African Studies in the University of London, receiving the Ph.D. degree in 1951 for his dissertation on The Background and Early Life of An Lu-shan.
		From 1959 onward, inspired by an earlier interest in the comparative study of Indo-European languages as well as by the need for better teaching materials in Classical Chinese, he turned to historical linguistics, especially the problems of the grammar of the classical language and the reconstruction of at Old and Middle Chinese phonology.
	garnet.berkeley.edu /~jcl2/pulleybl.htm (523 words)

	Institute for Study Abroad, Butler University : IFSA-Butler Programs : England : SOAS, University of London
		This school of 3,000 students offers programs focused on Asia and Africa, including more than thirty different languages.
		SOAS is located in Russell Square in Bloomsbury, an area known for its lovely squares, elegant houses, and connections to the University of London.
		SOAS is a specialized school with uniformly excellent courses.
	www.ifsa-butler.org /programs/england/soas (215 words)

	CAIS at SOAS : The Circle of Ancient Iranian Studies at the School of Oriental & African Studies (SOAS) University of ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		CAIS at SOAS : The Circle of Ancient Iranian Studies at the School of Oriental & African Studies (SOAS) University of London
		The Circle of Ancient Iranian Studies at School of Oriental and African Studies (CAIS@SOAS), set up in 1998...to act as a forum for the exchange of information about the culture and civilisation of Iranian peoples.
		Although, the Circle's title is about Ancient Iran, but also focus on the early Islamic era of Iranian art, archaeology, culture, history and languages of the area known as the "Greater Iran", stretching from the Western China to Near East and from the Russian Steppes to southern territories of Persian Gulf.
	ssgdoc.bibliothek.uni-halle.de /vlib/ssgfi/infodata/001641.html (215 words)

	School of Oriental and African Studies.Bulletin Vol. LXV Part ...
		MARTIN KRAMER (ed.): The Jewish discovery of Islam: studies in honor of Bernard Lewis.
		ANNA A. Masnavi: a study of Urdu romance.
		MARJATTA PARPOLA: Kerala Brahmins in transition: a study of a Namputiri family.
	www.ttk.gov.tr /data/2002/soas65-2.htm (657 words)

	News & Events - The New School for Social Research
		The aim of this conference is to challenge the theoretical and empirical claims that underpin the current wave of globalization, and in particular the drive to institute a world wide system of unrestricted trade and capital flows.
		John Weeks, School of Oriental and African Studies, "Exports and Foreign Investment in Latin America"
		Massoud Karshenas, School of Oriental and African Studies, "Exchange rates, Labour Markets and Manufacturing Exports from a Global Perspective"
	www.newschool.edu /gf/news/02-03/cepaconf_spring03.htm (309 words)

	School of Oriental and African Studies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		MA in Modern Turkish Studies: Students normally take three courses and offer a dissertation of 10,000 words on an approved topic in the major Turkish area subject chosen for study.
		For all degrees, the full-time program is one academic year (early October to late June) for candidates taking four courses and one whole calendar year for those doing three courses plus a dissertation.
		R.H. Tripp, Chair, Center of Near and Middle Eastern Studies (School of Oriental and African Studies)
	fpnew.ccit.arizona.edu /mesassoc/Directory/SOASLondon.htm (404 words)

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