Minor in Asian Studies

The minor in Asian studies provides students with a general introduction to the history and culture of Asian countries through a combination of courses in Asian art history, cinema, economics, history, literature, philosophy, and politics.

Students interested in the minor must submit a completed Application for a Program of Minor Study to the School of Humanities main office (Durst Family Humanities Building, Room 2020). The student is assigned a minor advisor in Asian studies after consultation with the coordinator of the Asian Studies Program.

Academic Requirements for the Minor in Asian Studies
Five courses, as follows:

1. Two courses must be at the 3000 or 4000 level.
2. One course must be in history. The remaining four courses may be selected from Asian art history, cinema, economics, literature, philosophy, and politics.

Courses available for the minor in Asian studies include:

School of Humanities:

ARH 2795/Introduction to East Asian Art

ARH 3760/Chinese Calligraphy: History and Practice

ARH 4710/Exoticism in Modern Art

CIN/TFI 3757/New Waves of East Asian Cinema

CIN/TFI 3760/Japanese Cinema

CIN/TFI 3763/Contemporary Asian Cinema

HIS 2600/History of Modern Japan

HIS 2830/Modern East Asia

HIS 3310/Politics and Literature in 20th-Century China

HIS 3505/Chinese Intellectual and Cultural History

HIS 3510/China in the Modern Age

HIS 3770/Traditional China

LIT 3215/South Asian Literature

PHI 2430/Classical Buddhist Philosophy

PHI 3285/Philosophy of Modernity in Contemporary China

PHI 3290/Chinese Philosophy: From Confucius through the
    Neo-Confucian Synthesis of the Sung Dynasty

PHI/GND 3295/Women in China

School of Natural and Social Sciences:

ANT 2400/Anthropology of South Asia

ANT 3610/Gender and Popular Culture in South Asia

ECO 3500/Wealth and Poverty in the Global Economy:
    The Economic Development of the Third World

POL 3425/Southeast Asian Politics

Updated Feb. 29, 2008