2022-23 Catalog ARCHIVED CATALOG: Content may no longer be accurate.
Asian Studies Minor
|
|
 Return to: Programs Sorted by Major/Minor
- Coordinators: Dr. Greg Lewis; Dr. Youn Soo Kim Goldstein
- Location: Lindquist Hall, Room 252
- Telephone: 801-626-6707
The Asian Studies Minor is an interdisciplinary program offered through several WSU Departments. The minor will cooperate with the BIS program to offer an emphasis in Asian Studies. Cooperating Departments and programs include Anthropology, Chinese, English, Foreign Languages, Geography, Health, History, Honors, Japanese, Philosophy, Political Sciences, Sociology, and Visual Arts.
- Prerequisite Courses: Completion of first and second-year courses in an Asian language, or equivalent proficiency.
- Grade Requirements: A grade of “C” or above in each course used toward the Asian Studies Minor (a grade of C- is not acceptable).
- Credit Hour Requirements: A minimum of 18 credit hours in addition to two years of college study of an Asian language, or the equivalent.
- Program Code: 7023
- CIPC: 050103
Courses taken which are part of the student’s major will not count as fulfillment of the minor requirement.
Learning Outcomes
- Students will demonstrate knowledge of diverse philosophical, communicative, linguistic, geographic, historic, or literary traditions in various regions in Asia, as well as of key themes, concepts, issues, and terminology in Asian Studies.
- Students will analyze cultural artifacts of various regions of Asia.
- Students will demonstrate the ability to effectively communicate their understandings of various regions of Asia in written, oral, or graphic forms.
- Students will describe how individual Asian nations influence and are influenced by social contexts, institutions, physical environments, history, and/or global processes.
- Students will apply basic concepts, theories, and/or methods of social science and/or humanities to a particular issue in various regions of Asia.
|
