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The Asian Studies
Program covers a vast region of the world from the Middle East, through
South Asia, to the Far East. The Asian Studies major is interdisciplinary
in nature with a foundation that rests on learning an Asian language.
Arabic, Chinese,
and Japanese languages
are regularly taught at Mount Holyoke College: Sanskrit is
also offered occasionally.
Students interested in Asian Studies may pursue an Asian Studies major
or minor, a Chinese language minor or a Japanese language minor. Many
of our students are double majors.
Learning an Asian language is an intellectual challenge. However, students
who acquire these languages are rewarded with access to richly varied
and historically different cultures. MHC offers an intensive summer
language program in Chinese at the Beijing Language and Culture University.
Additionally, there are semester- and year long Study Abroad programs
for students to learn Asian languages.
Besides languages, students who major in Asian studies are required to
take courses in at least three other disciplines. Courses that count
toward Asian studies degrees may be found in anthropology, art history,
economics, geography, history, international relations, philosophy, politics,
and religion, as well as film studies and gender studies.
The Asian studies major/minor enables students to experience Asian cultures
at many levels, through extracurricular events such as language tables
and clubs, guest lectures, performing and visual arts, film festivals,
and regional cuisine, as well as through study abroad for intensive language
and cultural immersion.
This training prepares Asian studies majors and minors to pursue careers
in fields as varied as education (teaching English as a second language,
elementary and secondary education), business (international law and
banking, travel organizations, publishing, public relations), media (journalism
and film) and the arts (museum careers, performing arts, visual arts),
government service (national security, diplomacy, political office),
and graduate study (anthropology, art history, business, comparative
literature, economics, history, languages, law, linguistics, politics,
religion, sociology, etc.).
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