The Program in Asian Studies
is an area studies program that is designed to develop a student's
competence in the language, history, culture, and the contemporary
political and economical settings of a particular country or cultural
region. The program is focuses on Asia, broadly defined as including
East Asia, South Asia, and the Middle East. The curriculum combines
area or country-specific courses that give students the requisite cultural
immersion with more general comparative course work. This is intended
to provide students with the necessary intellectual tools, concepts
and theories to understand their particular disciplinary concentrations
as well as be able to pull from various disciplines the skills to
evaluate not only Asia's past, present, and future but the role
of Asia within the context of the world. Students are to select
linguistic and thematic specializations in line with their intellectual
interests and career goals and design their program of students
accordingly.
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