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Professors Kemper (Anthropology), Hirai (History), Strong (Religion), and Grafflin (History), Chair; Associate Professors Strong (Japanese) and Yang (Chinese)(on leave, fall semester and Short Term); Assistant Professors Maurer-Fazio (Economics), and Shankar (English); Ms. Miao (Chinese), Ms. Ofuji (Japanese), Ms. Hogan (Japanese), and Mr. Zhou (Chinese) Asian studies is an interdisciplinary program designed to acquaint students with the cultures, economies, histories, literatures, languages, and religions of Asian societies. The program offers a major in East Asian studies and a secondary concentration in South Asian studies (see below). Students majoring in East Asian studies may also pursue a secondary concentration in Chinese or Japanese. Students interested in majoring exclusively in Chinese or Japanese should consult the descriptions of those majors in this catalog under the Department of German, Russian, and East Asian Languages and Literatures. The East Asian studies major has the following requirements:
Courses 360. Independent Study. Independent research by an individual student under the direction of a faculty member. Students must submit a research proposal to both the faculty sponsor and the program chair prior to registration. Periodic conferences and paper(s) required. Students are limited to one independent study per semester. Staff. 457. 458. Senior Thesis. Students register for East Asian Studies 457 in the fall semester and for East Asian Studies 458 in the winter semester. Majors writing an honors thesis register for both East Asian Studies 457 and 458. Prerequisite: one course of appropriate preparatory work to be determined in consultation with the advisor. Staff. The following courses may be taken to fulfill the East Asian studies major requirements:
Chinese 101, 102. Beginning Chinese I and II.
Economics 229. Economics of Greater China. English 121G/Women's Studies 121G. Asian American Women Writers.
History 171. China and Its Culture.
Japanese 101-102. Beginning Japanese I and II.
Religion 208. Religions of East Asia: China. Secondary Concentration in South Asian Studies The secondary concentration in South Asian studies may be attained by completing six of the following courses: Anthropology 240, 244; English 395G; Religion 249, 250, 307, 308; South Asian Studies 360. In addition, the program recommends that secondary concentrators spend a semester abroad on the ISLE program in Sri Lanka, the SITA program in South India, or at some other program-approved study abroad program in South Asia. Students may petition the program to have courses taken in their study abroad program applied toward the fulfillment of secondary concentration requirements. Courses 360. Independent Study. Independent research by an individual student under the direction of a faculty member. Students must submit a research proposal to both the faculty sponsor and the program chair prior to registration. Periodic conferences and paper(s) required. Students are limited to one independent study per semester. Staff. Courses in South Asian studies:
Anthropology 240. Peoples and Societies of South Asia. English 395G. Postcolonial Literatures and Theory.
Religion 249. Religions of India: The Hindu Tradition.
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