The University of Florida, in conjunction with Columbia University and the University of North Texas, conducted a seminar for school teachers on issues in the relationship of China to the modern world (1500 to the present). The seminar featured state-of-the-art web-based materials and interactive videoconferencing with top scholars in the China field.
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National Consortium for Teaching about Asia applications are ready for Summer 2008 and AY 2008-09! Please click here for application information.
About Us
The Asian Studies Program at UF began in 1986 with seven core faculty members and sustained with a series of gifts from anonymous donors. Though the American south has not traditionally been well-represented in Asian Studies, with the support of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and help from Freeman and Japan Foundation grants in 1995, 2001, and 2005, the University of Florida has over the last ten years tripled in size, with 28 core faculty members in seven different departments. As the flagship university of a ten-university system, UF boasts the only full four-year program of language study in Chinese and Japanese in Florida, B.A degrees in East Asian Languages and Literatures and Asian Studies, with over 350 students enrolled in language study and 95 majors, and fledgling programs in Vietnamese, Indonesian, Hindi, and Korean.
In response to the rapid rise in economic, political, and cultural significance of Asia in a globalizing world, the University of Florida has over the last ten years built its program to one of real substance. We provide the resources to acquire the language and a rigorous, academic interdisciplinary focus on the social science and humanities issues that will be reshaping your world in the 21st century. Our graduates have won two Fulbright Fellowships in the last five years, have been placed into top graduate programs and corporate positions, as well as medical and professional schools. Our students know that a disciplined understanding of this region as it remakes the economic, political, and cultural map in every field in the 21st century is important. It widens our horizons, enriches us personally, and deepens one’s ability to engage any professional field. Come join us and see.
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Why study Asia?
Why study Asian languages?
What kind of a job can I get with an Asian Studies or EALL major?
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- Documenting China: Contemporary Photography and Social Change
Thomas Center Galleries, Gainesville, Florida
October 25, 2008 to January 3, 2009
Photographic exhibition sponsored by Asian Studies Program and the City of Gainesville in collaboration with Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibit Services (SITES)
. . the single most significant event in the contemporary transformation of Chinese society [is the] peasants’ departure from their land and their integration into city life.
- English Teaching Program in Shenzhen, China: accepting applications. This program seeks graduating seniors and recent graduates to teach English in Shenzhen, China for one year. Participants learn Mandarin Chinese and gain a year's experience in one of the world's most important and most interesting cultures. This well-established, large program is supported by the Shenzhen government. The program begins with three weeks in Beijing for training in English teaching methods and in Chinese language (4 levels; the beginning course requires no prior study of Chinese). Please click here for more information.
- Florida Statewide Chinese Language Competition This reading, writing, and speaking competition brings together Chinese language students from around the state of Florida. For more information, please contact Dr. Cynthia Chennault, Department of African and Asian Languages and Literatures.
- The National Consortium for Teaching about Asia was recently featured in the Gainesville Sun. Click here for the article about the seminar, and here for more web resources for teaching about East Asia.
- In May 2008, the University of Florida Lombardi Scholars visited Japan under the guidance of Dr. Joseph Murphy, director of the Asian Studies Program. Check out the website of their trip, featuring studies of public space in Japan, here.
- ZIRGER ALUMNAE!! Please contact us. We are in the process of following up on the life and history of our Zirger alumnae. Please contact Pat Bartlett and give us an update on what you've been doing since winning the award! Click here for a list of past winners of the Alice M. Zirger Scholarship.
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