Required Courses (15 credits)

Choose any five of the following courses from at least two academic departments. Courses used to meet the foreign language requirement (below) may not be repeated.

• ANTH 216 - Peoples and Cultures of the Middle East
• ARTH 205 - Asian Art Survey: India, China and Japan
• ARTH 208 - Survey of Islamic Art and Architecture
• ANTH 224 - Anthropology of South Asia
• COMM 365 - Introduction to Intercultural Communication
• COMM 462 - Patterns of International Communication
• ENGL 253 - Non-Western Literature
• ENGL 255 - East Asian Literature in Translation
• GEOG 374 - Geography of the Middle East
• GEOG 375 - Geography of South Asia
• GEOG 376 - Geography of East Asia
• HIST 151 - Asian Civilization
• HIST 473 - Asian-American History
• HIST 474 - Islamic Civilization to 1400
• HIST 475 - The Modern Middle East
• HIST 480 - History of Imperial China
• HIST 481 - China Under Communism
• HIST 482 - History of Modern Japan
• HIST 483 - South Asia: The Modern Period
• HIST 484 - War and Revolution in Modern Asia
• LAAR 101 - Elementary Arabic I
• LAAR 102 - Elementary Arabic II
• LACH 101 - Elementary Chinese I
• LACH 102 - Elementary Chinese II
• LAJA 101 - Elementary Japanese I
• LAJA 102 - Elementary Japanese II
• LAJA 151 - Intermediate Japanese
• LAJA 172 - Business Japanese
• MGMT 355 - International Management
• MGMT 410 - International Marketing and Physical Distribution
• PHIL 212 - Philosophies of India
• PHIL 213 - Philosophies of China and Japan
• POLI 330 - Asian Politics
• PSYC 200 - Non-Western Theories of Personality
• SOCI 214 - Middle Eastern Societies
• SOCI 217 - East Asian Societies: China and Japan
• SOCI 218 - Chinese Society and Culture
• THEA 222 - Asian Theater

Foreign Language Requirement (6 credits)

The Asian Studies minor requires a minimum of three credits of Chinese or Japanese or Arabic. In addition, students are required to take three additional credits of language or an Asian study abroad experience. Students can fulfill the six credit requirements either by (a) six credits of Chinese or Japanese or Arabic or (b) three credits of Chinese or Japanese or Arabic and three credits of an Asian study abroad experience (a study tour or other three-credit study abroad experience).

Note(s):

Second Year Seminars relating to Asia may be petitioned to be substituted for an Asian studies minor course. Study tours to Asia offered in different departments vary in special numbers. Courses taken from exchange institutions can be counted for up to half of the residency; for example, four out of seven minor requirements.

At least half of the minor (eleven credits) must be completed at Bridgewater State University.

Total minimum credits: 21

For further information, contact Dr. Wing‑kai To in the History Department.