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Asian Studies

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College of Humanities Bachelor of Arts

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Asian Studies is a vibrant community of students, scholars, and faculty committed to a deep understanding of the peoples, politics, history, and languages of Asia. Through the rigorous study of languages, societal structures, and culture, students form a basis for understanding global issues and their impact within a region of Asia—Asia Pacific, China, Japan, Korea, Russia, South Asia, and Southeast Asia.

In this major, students gain descriptive, analytical, and methodological tools to help understand a region and culture of Asia. Coursework in our major and minor is grounded in language; students gain or expand on their proficiency in one of the Asian languages taught at the U—Chinese, Hindi-Urdu, Japanese, Korean, Russian, Samoan, Tongan, and Vietnamese. Alongside language, students select Asia focused classes from across campus. This interdisciplinary approach allows students the flexibility to pair their study with pre-health courses, a minor or second major, and exciting co-curricular activities related to their academic and career goals.