Asian Studies Certificate Program

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The Center for International Studies offers certificates in African, Asian, European, Latin American, and Southeast Asian Studies for students who wish to add an international dimension to their major, or who are interested in an international career or graduate work in area studies. The certificate is noted on your transcript upon graduation.

Students must complete either Option A or Option B below.

Option A

Complete the following requirements:

three courses in Chinese, Indonesian/Malay, Japanese, Khmer, Thai, or Vietnamese (or students may petition the BAIS Faculty Advisory Board through the BAIS coordinator to have a language they take elsewhere fulfill this requirement)
overall 2.5 GPA in certificate courses

INST 103 - Modern Asia Credit Hours: 5

Five courses in a minimum of three departments from the following:

A H 341 - History of Chinese Art Credit Hours: 4
A H 342 - Art of 20th-Century China Credit Hours: 4
ANTH 380 - Cultures of South Asia Credit Hours: 4
ANTH 385 - Cultures of Southeast Asia Credit Hours: 4
ANTH 386 - Problems in Southeast Asian Anthropology Credit Hours: 4
CLWR 311 - Islam Credit Hours: 4
CLWR 321 - Hinduism Credit Hours: 4
CLWR 331 - Buddhism Credit Hours: 4
CLWR 341 - Taoism Credit Hours: 5
CLWR 442 - Confucianism Credit Hours: 4
ECON 476 - Econ Of Kr, Jp & Sea Credit Hours: 4
FILM 473 - Film Topics Seminar Credit Hours: 1 to 5
GEOG 338 - Geography of Southeast Asia Credit Hours: 4
HIST 246 - The Rise of Modern Asia Credit Hours: 4
HIST 344C - History of Vietnam Credit Hours: 4
HIST 345A - Southeast Asia to c. 1750: The Creative Synthesis Credit Hours: 4
HIST 345B - Southeast Asia, c. 1750 to 1942:Change and Conflict Credit Hours: 4
HIST 345C - Southeast Asia, 1942 to the Present:The Search for Stability Credit Hours: 4
HIST 346E - Modern China since 1911 Credit Hours: 4
HIST 348A - Traditional Japan Credit Hours: 4
HIST 348B - Modern Japan Credit Hours: 4
HIST 445 - Studies in the History of Southeast Asia Credit Hours: 4
HIST 449 - Studies in the History of East Asia in Modern Times Credit Hours: 4
ILL 345(A-Z) - Modern Literature of Southeast Asia Credit Hours: 3
INST 350 - Focus on Malaysia Credit Hours: 5
INST 490 - Tun Razak Seminar: Southeast Asia Studies Credit Hours: 5
JPC 250 - Introduction to Japanese Culture Credit Hours: 4
JPC 450 - Japan:A Sociocultural Interpretation Credit Hours: 4
JPN 341 - Business Japanese I Credit Hours: 4
JPN 348 - Readings in Japanese Culture I Credit Hours: 4
JPN 349 - Readings in Japanese Culture II Credit Hours: 4
POLS 342 - East Asia in World Politics Credit Hours: 4
POLS 445 - Government and Politics of Japan Credit Hours: 4

Option B