ASIAN STUDIES

Welcome to UMBC’s Asian Studies program, which offers an inter-disciplinary major, minor and certificate. Please visit the links below for more information, and feel free to contact individual faculty members to discuss your options in the new program.

Samurai

Samurai of the Choshu domain, in Japan, during the Boshin War, 1868.

Skyline

Contemporary Pudong Skyline, Shanghai, People’s Republic of China.

Page

A page from the Hunminjeongeum Eonhae (lit. The Correct/Proper Sounds for the Instruction of the People), 1443, Korea

Harihara

Harihara—the combined deity form of Vishnu (Hari) and Shiva (Hara), India

Rice Fields

Rice fields (Longji Terrace), Longshen County, Guilin, China

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WHAT'S NEW

NEW ASIA (Asian Studies) MAJOR REQUIREMENTS (for students entering the program Fall 2013 or later). (Read more)

ASIA (Asian Studies) COURSES FOR SUMMER 2013. (Read more)

ASIA (Asian Studies) COURSES FOR FALL 2013. (Read more)

ASIAN STUDIES PROGRAM in The Baltimore Sun, Education Section (Read Article)

UPCOMING ASIAN STUDIES EVENTS--fall 2013 schedule TBA

April 24, 2013 with Dr. Brian Souders (Associate Director, Study Abroad Program,UMBC): "Not Your Typical Spring Break. Six Days in North Korea." Lecture Hall 3 (Admin. Building 101), noon Event co-sponsored by the Study Abroad Office (Read more)

STUDENT NEWS: Graham Nolen, Vicky Yao and Jessica Fordyce win Ministry of Education Huayu Scholarships to study Mandarin in Taiwan, June-August 2013.

First UMBC Asian Studies graduates accepted to graduate schools (in China): Amy Fowler, Nankai University; Jocelyn Lee (Peking University)

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FACULTY NEWS:

Amy Bhatt (Gender and Women's Studies Program) co-authors Roots and Reflections: South Asians in the Pacific Northwest, published by University of Washington Press (2013).(Click here to read more about her book...)

Constantine Vaporis (Asian Studies Program and Department of History) wins 2013 Franklin R. Buchanan Prize for Curricular Materials for Voices of Early Modern Japan: Contemporary Accounts of Daily Life during the Age of the Shoguns, published by Greenwood Press (2012).

Alan Kreizenbeck (Department of Theatre), completes 2012 Summer Freeman Foundation Workshop on Japan at Tokai University in Hawai'i. (Read about his experience... and click here for more information on the program...)

ASIAN STUDIES PROGRAM

Administration Building 720-721
1000 Hilltop Circle
Baltimore, MD 21250
Phone: 410-455-2094
Fax: 410-455-1045
E-mail: asianstudies@umbc.edu

Director: Constantine N. Vaporis
Program Management Specialist: Julie A. Rosenthal