Department of Asian Studies, Pennsylvania State University
Background
The Department of Asian Studies in the College of the Liberal Arts at Pennsylvania State University (Penn State) is an interdisciplinary academic department providing research, undergraduate, and graduate instruction across the languages, histories, cultures, societies, and literature of East, South, and Southeast Asia. The department offers major and minor degree programs in Asian Studies, Chinese, and Japanese, alongside language instruction in Hindi, Korean, and Sanskrit. It houses key institutional init
Address:
University Park, Pennsylvania, United States / Asian Regional Focus
Social Media Account:
About: - The Department of Asian Studies in the College of the Liberal Arts at Pennsylvania State University (Penn State) is an interdisciplinary academic department providing research, undergraduate, and graduate instruction across the languages, histories, cultures, societies, and literature of East, South, and Southeast Asia. The department offers major and minor degree programs in Asian Studies, Chinese, and Japanese, alongside language instruction in Hindi, Korean, and Sanskrit. It houses key institutional initiatives, including the Global Asias Initiative—which publishes the scholarly journal Verge: Studies in Global Asias (in partnership with the University of Minnesota Press)—and the South Asian Studies Initiative (SASI), fostering interdisciplinary research on South Asia and its global diasporas.