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Asian Studies

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The Asian Studies Minor is designed for undergraduates and can complement any of the undergraduate majors of Montclair State University. This minor offers students the opportunity to focus a segment of their university training on Asia and to engage in this dynamic global and interdisciplinary field of study. Students will gain in-depth knowledge of the cultural, social, political, economic, and global components of issues related to Asian nations and identities; they will learn to appreciate and analyze complex cultural objects (text, art, symbols, ceremonies, etc), as well as the traditions behind them. Through such a course of study, students can better understand the complexity of Asian nations and cultures and the diversity of Asian political and economic systems, while gaining insights into global cultural movements of people and ideas and into the global challenges posed by a dynamically changing region. This minor helps students see, through the lens of literature, religion, philosophy, culture, and politics, how worlds of diverse and interconnected meanings are formed. And by  concentrating on  Asia in the context  of  multidisciplinary and inter-regional  courses  students will have the opportunity for a more solid, in depth, comparative understanding of Asia as a discrete yet complex reality and as a critical, dynamic global force.

  (Details of the minor are below.)

Academic advising for minors

(and Gen Ed requirements):

Thursday April 10th, 4-5:30pm

Cohen Lounge, Dickson Hall

(Rescheduled)

Asian Studies Undergraduate Minor

The technical details of the new Asian Studies Minor are below. For more information, please contact Aditya Adarkar, adarkara A T mail.montclair.edu.

The Asian Studies minor will require a total of 18 credits. Those credits will be apportioned as follows: one required 200-level core course (3 credits) plus five electives from a list of approved electives (15 credits).
(All courses below are three credits.)

A. Required course
GNHU 217: Reading Asian Cultures (3 credits)

B. Electives: Choose five (5) courses from this list of electives. Elective courses must be selected from at least two different departments.

ANTH 130 Cultures of South Asia
ARHS 327 History of Oriental Art
ENLT 235 Contemporary Chinese Women's Literature
ANTH 431 Development of Indian Character and Culture
PHIL 237 Asian Philosophy
POLS 206 Politics and Government of China and Japan
POLS 340 Government and Politics of India and South Asia
RELG 212 Asian Religions
RELG 213 Buddhism
RELG 214 Classical Texts of Asian Religions
RELG 215 Hinduism
RELG 217 Taoism

Courses that may be used for the minor when pertinent to Asian Studies; courses may only be used with permission from the Coordinator of the Minor

ANTH 140 Non-western Contributions to the Western World
ANTH 414 Selected Issues in Anthropology
ARHS 220 Art in Non-Western Societies
ENLT 250 Special Topic: Comparative Literature
ENLT 316 African, Asian, and Caribbean Lit in English
ENLT 492 Seminar: Comparative Literature
GNHU 470 Seminar in Classical Humanities
POLS 416 Selected Topics in Political Science
RELG 350 Selected Study in World Religions
RELG 460 Seminar in World Religions
WMST 302 Selected Topics: Women's Studies

For more information, please contact the director of Asian Studies via email at

asst@mail.montclair.edu

or via telephone at (973) 655 7936.

Montclair State University, Montclair, NJ 07043