Upcoming Events
"Maritime Frontiers in Asia: Indigenous Communities and State Control in South China and Southeast Asia, 2000 BCE - 1800 CE" | April 12-13, 2013
The Teaching JAPAN Workshop | May 10, 2013
International Conference, “Reading, Textual Production, and Literati Culture in Late Imperial China” | May 31-June 1, 2013
About the Program
Welcome to the Asian Studies Program at Penn State.
Asian Studies offers undergraduate majors in Asian Studies, Chinese, and Japanese, and minors in those same fields. We also offer four semesters of Korean and Hindi.
Asian Studies offers dual-title PhD degrees in a number of fields. These interdisciplinary degree programs will draw on programmatic strengths in East Asian history, East-West comparative literature, religious studies, comparative politics, political economy, the literature and history of the Asian diaspora, comparative colonialism and ethnicity, and historical and cultural linguistics.
Our award-winning, widely published faculty has research interests in a wide variety of fields, including Islam in China, the Ryukyu Islands, architecture of the Indian city, Mughal political culture, East-West comparative literature, Confucian philosophy, contemporary Asian American fiction, medieval Japanese Buddhism, the history of Empire, the politics of democratization, and more. They come from a wide range of disciplines, including Applied Linguistics, Art and Art History, Classics and Ancient Mediterranean Studies, Comparative Literature, Economics, English, History & Religious Studies, International Affairs, Labor Studies & Employment Relations, Political Science, and Women's Studies.
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