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Asian Studies Faculty
Marsha Smith, Sociology, Coordinator, Asian Studies

Naoko Gunji, Art History
Jen-Mei Ma, Chair of Asian Languages,
Norm Moline, Edward Hamming Chair of Geography
Nirmala Salgado, Religion
Mirchiru Shearer, Asian Languages
Van Symons, History; Friestat Chair
Bob Tallitsch, Biology
Peter Tong Xiao, Chair, Studio Art
Xiaowen Zhang, Political Science

Curriculum

With courses in fifteen different academic departments, the Asian Studies program has a distinctively wide range.  As seen by the courses and departments below, many different disciplines combine to form the Asian studies program.

ART
Studio Art of East Asia
Introductory Drawing in China

ART HISTORY
Non-Western Art In Perspective (PA,G)
Asian Art (PP,G)
Japanese Art (PP,G)

ASIAN STUDIES
Traditional Chinese Medicine (PH, G)
Asian Studies Field Experience
Research in Asian Studies
Senior Project for Asian Studies

BIOLOGY
Traditional Chinese Medicine

BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION
Organizational Behavior in Select Economies of East Asia / Seminar on U.S.-Japan Trade Relations

CHINESE
Elementary through Advanced Chinese (3 courses per year, total of 12 courses)
Chinese and Japanese Calligraphy
Chinese Culture (2 courses) (PH,G)
Chinese Literarti Art (PA)
 Readings in Chinese Literature

ECONOMICS
East Asian Markets (PS,Q)

GEOGRAPHY
East Asia

HISTORY
Traditional East Asia: China and Japan (PP)
Modern East Asia: China and Japan  (PP)
China: The Last Dynasty (1644-1912) (PP,G)
China: The 20th Century (PP,G)
Governance in Asia (PP,G)
Modern Japan (PP)

JAPANESE
Elementary through Advanced Japanese (3 courses per year, total of  6courses)
Chinese and Japanese Calligraphy
Ikebana

LIBERAL STUDIES
Eastern Religions
Gender and Privilege in China

MUSIC
Koto Ensemble / Music of East Asia

POLITICAL SCIENCE
Comparative Politics of East and Southeast Asia

PSYCHOLOGY
Social Psychology of Japan

RELIGION
Religions of East Asia (PH,G)
Women in Religion (when applicable)
Buddhism (PH,G)
Special Topics in Religion (when applicable)

SOCIOLOGY
Population Problems (when applicable)

WORLD LITERATURE
Japanese Literature