East Asian Studies Program

UNIVERSITY FACULTY SENATE FORMS

Academic Program Approval

This form is a routing document for the approval of new and revised academic programs. Proposing department should complete this form. For more information, call the Faculty Senate Office at 831-2921.

Submitted by: _____PONG, David_____dpong@udel.edu phone number____2371/0799

Action: __ East Asian Studies Program_- Request for permanent status

(Example: add major/minor/concentration, delete major/minor/concentration, revise major/minor/concentration, academic unit name change, request for permanent status, policy change, etc.)

Effective term_______06S or 06F____________________________________________

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Current degree______BA and BA Honors____________________________________

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Proposed change leads to the degree of: _______NO CHANGE_________________

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Proposed name:_______________________N/A_______________________________

Proposed new name for revised or new major / minor / concentration / academic unit

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Revising or Deleting:

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Revised 11/03/04 /khs

Resolution for the Faculty Senate Agenda

Whereas the Faculty Senate gave provisional approval on March 2, 1988 for the new major leading to a Bachelor of Arts in East Asian Studies, and

Whereas the Faculty Senate also gave provisional approval subsequently for the major lead to a Bachelor of arts in East Asian Studies with Honors,

Be it resolved that the major and major with honors in East Asian Studies be granted permanent status effective immediately.

Curriculum listing for the Undergraduate and Graduate Catalog

See page XX for University and College requirements

CURRICULUM CREDITS

MAJOR REQUIREMENTS 31 or 32

A minimum grade of C- is required in all courses.

One of the following options (A or B):

A. Concentration in China or Japan (7 credits total)

One of the following two courses: …………………4

CHIN 107 Chinese III – Intermediate

JAPN 107 Japanese III – Intermediate

Plus 3 credit hours at the 200-level or above in

Chinese or in japanese (including CHIN or JAPN 200, 205, 206, or 209) ….3

B. Joint Chinese/Japanese Concentration (8 credits total)

CHIN 107 Chinese III – Intermediate …..….4

JAPN 107 Japanese III – Intermediate ….... 4

For both concentrations:

HIST 137 East Asian Civilization: China ……..… 3

HIST 138 East Asian Civilization: Japan …….…. 3

PHIL 310 Chinese Religion & Philosophy .…….. 3

POSC 312 Politics of East Asian Development …. 3

Choose one of the following three courses: ………….. 3

ARTH 155 Asian Art

JAPN 204 The Art of Japanese Calligraphy

MUSC 206 Music of China, Korea, & Japan 3

Nine credits of major electives in the Humanities and Social Sciences from at least 2 departments, selected through prior consultation with the students’ advisor ……………...9

These courses include, among others: ARSC 130 (may be repeated when topic differs), 296 (if topics pertain to the Major), ARTH 155 (if not selected as a required course), 156, 233, 234, 237,

CHIN 200, 205, 206, 208, 267, FLLT 321,328, 380, 381 (each of these four courses may be repeated when topic differs), FLLT 338, HIST 270, 333, 368 (restricted to sophomores and above), 369 (restricted to sophomores and above), 370, 371, 372, 391, 392, 393, 479 (may be repeated when topic differs), JAPN 200, 204 (if not selected as a required course), 205, 206, 208, 266, 267, 305, 340, 350, 355, 366, 440, 455, MUSC 119, 121 (1 credit), and 206 (if not selected as a required course), POSC 427, 428, 429, 443, 300-level PHIL and ECON courses, and certain HESC courses.

Electives

After required courses are completed, sufficient elective credits must be taken to meet the minimum credit requirement for the degree.

CREDITS TO TOTAL A MINIMUM OF ……………………………………..……..124

HONORS BACHELAR OF ARTS:

EAST ASIAN STUDIES

The requirements for the honors B.A. in East Asian Studies include:

All requirements for the B.A. in East Asian Studies
All the University’s generic requirements for the Honors Degree. The Honors credits in the major shall come from at least two different participating departments, and shall include at least two courses at the 300-level or above.
The cumulative grade point average for all courses in major must be at least 3.400.
For Honors Degree with Distinction in East Asian Studies, the six credit hours of thesis would be in addition to the 31 or 32 credit hours required for the major, to yield a total of 37 or 38 credit hours.

Detailed Proposal

Description

The B.A. and the B.A. Honors degrees in East Asian Studies are an integral part of the University’s mission to provide a strong liberal arts education with an interdisciplinary and an international dimension. They prepare undergraduate students for careers as East Asian specialists. They provide students with training in East Asian history, politics, economics, philosophy, religion, literature, the arts, and culture, as well as the languages of particular countries in the region (e.g., China or Japan). Students will acquire a unique cultural perspective of the target country or countries, combining several disciplines into a sharply defined major. All students are encouraged to participate in a study abroad program in East Asia for several weeks, a semester, or one year. The knowledge and linguistic skills acquired will prepare the student for further studies at the graduate level, or a career in either the public or the private sector, such as foreign service or international commerce and banking.

Rationale & Demand

East Asia is an integral part of the Pacific Rim, to which the United States also belongs. It contains two of the largest economies of the world, namely, Japan and China, as well as several of its most dynamic economies, such as Taiwan, South Korea, Singapore, and Hong Kong. Never has the world’s economy been so interdependent as it is now, thanks mainly to the rise of the East Asian economies. On the other hand, these East Asian countries represent a broad spectrum of political systems and organization principles, a phenomenon rendered all the more remarkable because of certain shared cultural traits that can vaguely be attributed to “Confucianism” or certain “East Asian values”. If the 21^st century somehow does not turn out to be “Japan’s century”, it may well become a “Chinese century”. The very specter of some form of “Asian century” presents us with both opportunity and challenge. It behooves us to pay attention to this part of the world and become knowledgeable about it.

Our students have certainly gotten the message, as the enrollment figures demonstrate (See under “Enrollment”).

The East Asian Studies majors also fulfill major University and College of Arts & Sciences’ goals. The creation of the East Asian Studies Program (1988), which preceded the establishment of the BA degrees, has its main objective in introducing our then very parochial student body to some of the major world civilizations with a focused course of study leading to a minor in EAS. Subject matter apart, it aims at transforming our students’ outlook about the non-western world. The creation of our first study abroad program in China (Beijing), coinciding more or less with the establishment of the major, provided an unusually opportunity for our students to combine their classroom learning in language and culture with life experience. With intensive student-faculty contact (in a not-too-familiar country where the students’ language skills are still very elementary, this is unusually intensive), students are invariably deeply affected by the experience. No one escaped being intellectually transformed by the experience. The Kobe study abroad program, though directed by the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, are open to our students with a Japanese focus, and it does the same for them as the China (Beijing) program.

What we do in all our courses and study abroad programs fit right into the College’s new initiative in transformative education.

The B.A. and B.A. Honors also fulfill the goals of General Education very well. The language requirement inevitably enhances the students’ communication skills, just as the humanities and social sciences courses develop their analytical and critical skills for problem solving. The required course in Philosophy, reinforced by the civilization courses (also required) force our students to think about ethical issues, comparing value systems East and West, and thus become even more aware of their own philosophical and ethical premises. The required course in East Asian art further enriches the student’s appreciation of fine art, and of the creative abilities of peoples other than themselves. The study abroad programs, the lecture and film series, speech contests, and the like, provide experiential learning outside the classroom. It goes without say that EAS, like all the area studies programs, help our students develop an international perspective – to better understand other peoples and cultures as well as a different perspective for understanding themselves and their own heritage. We cannot conceive of any of the 10 General Education Goals that is not touched by our curriculum.

It should be mentioned in this context that EAS courses play an important role in the curriculum of several other degree programs: the B.A. programs in International Relations, in Business and International Studies, in History (global history concentration), and the minors in Chinese and Japanese.

Enrollments

Practically all courses offered by the East Asian Studies program are fully subscribed. Some 200 students study Japanese every year, and those in Chinese language courses increased from 70 or so when it was first offered three years ago to nearly 170 last year. East Asian civilization courses typically enroll between 50 and100 students, limited only by faculty or classroom resources. The degree in East Asian Studies, introduced only 7 years ago (Fall1998), now boasts more than forty majors, as the following table shows.

	East Asian Studies Program	Major	Minor	Total
	East Asian Studies Program	Major	Minor	Majors	Minors

1998 F	East Asian Studies w Language	4	2	4	4
	East Asian Studies w/o language		2	4	4
1999 May	East Asian Studies w Language	4	4	4	9
	East Asian Studies w/o language		5	4	9
1999 Nov	East Asian Studies w Language	5	6	5	12
	East Asian Studies w/o language		6	5	12
2000 Nov	East Asian Studies w Language	7	5	7	9
	East Asian Studies w/o language		4	7	9
2001 Nov	East Asian Studies w Language	12	6	12	9
	East Asian Studies w/o language		3	12	9
2003 Mar	East Asian Studies w Language	16	7	16	9
	East Asian Studies w/o language		2	16	9
2004 Mar	East Asian Studies w Language	30	7	30	7
	East Asian Studies w/o language		0	30	7
2005 Nov	East Asian Studies w Language	42	2	42	11
	East Asian Studies w/o language		9	42	11

Admissions

The East Asian Studies Program does not have its own admissions program or policy. It conforms to University practices. It does fully participate in all the recruitment activities, such as Delaware Discovery Days, Major Mania, and the like.

Financial Aid

The East Asian Studies Program does not provide financial aid per se. It does recognize certain student achievements by the presentation of East Asian Studies Scholarships ($250 each) and Book Awards ($50 each) (one to two a year, depending on the quality of students).

Resources Available

The East Asian Studies Program receives a $2,500 operating fund from the College or Arts and Sciences. This is supplemented by a $1,000 donation from an alumnus. From this amount all our activities (lectures, film showing, etc) and scholarships are supported. It should be mentioned, however, that we co-sponsor events/activities in various related disciplines: speakers’ series in Foreign Languages and Literatures, Philosophy, History, and Linguistics. Likewise, many academic departments have supported us in our endeavors: in addition to the departments just mentioned, we should also thank the Departments of Philosophy, Political Science and International Relations.

Library resources, so far, are adequate. There is no shortage of English-language monographs, although the cut in journal subscription, which adversely affect everyone else, hurt us perhaps more severely as many of the cut journals are not available on line.

Multi-media resources are adequate, acquired as they are by various academic departments to which our faculty belong.

The East Asian Studies Program organizes a study abroad program in Beijing. It began seven years ago, and student demand has increased consistently every year. Many East Asian Studies majors have taken advantage of this program. Other students take advantage of the Japan program operated by the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures. East Asian Studies is now establishing yet another study abroad program, to take students to Hong Kong and South China. Majors in the program will thus have greater opportunities to study abroad and be exposed to the cultures of more regions in East Asia.

Resources Support

The majors in East Asian Studies are supported by faculty members drawn from 11 disciplines across three colleges, although the bulk comes from the College of Arts and Sciences. They are:

David Pong, Director, History

Alice Ba, Political Science and International Relations

Jianguo Chen, Foreign Languages and Literatures

Renee Dong, Foreign Languages and Literatures (half-time instructor)

Darryl Flaherty, History

Alan Fox, Philosophy

Xiang Gao, Music

Chika Inoue, Foreign Languages and Literatures (full-time instructor)

Mark W. McLeod, History

Mark C. Miller, Foreign Languages and Literatures (non-tenure-track continuing assistant professor)

Erica Miller, Foreign Languages and Literatures (adjunct)

Mary Jean Pfaelzer, English

Chandra L. Reedy, Art History and Museum Studies

Vimalin, Rujivacharakul, Art History (assistant professor starting in January 2006)

Rika, Saito, Foreign Languages and Literatures (one-year replacement assistant professor)

Mutsuko Sato, Foreign Languages and Literatures (adjunct)

Patricia Sloane-White, Anthropology (adjunct)

Ivan Sun, Sociology and Criminal Justice

Kenneth Sun, Health Sciences (adjunct)

James Thornton, Economics

Maria Tu, Foreign Languages and Literatures (half-time assistant professor)

The East Asian Studies Program receives strong support from participating faculty and the disciplines from which they hail. The support from the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures has been substantial and enthusiastic.

The growing faculty has enabled the East Asian Studies Program to offer courses, especially required courses for the major, on a regular basis. This has provided tremendous stability to the program.

Student advisement has been handled by the Director himself until November 2005. With larger numbers, it has become desirable to have the advisement shared by several faculty members. Three professors from the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures now share with the Director in student advisement.

The East Asian Studies has just won a highly competitive Title VI Grant of nearly $180,000 for two years (2005-2007). The grant enables the Program to expand in several directions:

1. The seed money for two half-time faculty appointments in Chinese language instruction. The College of Arts and Sciences will pick up the line when the grant expires, provided that student demands justify it.

2. The creation of 8 new courses and the revision of 4 others for the enrichment of the Program.

3. A speakers series – 6-8 scholars of national and international renown will be delivering public lectures in 2006-7

4. Two film series.

5. Acquisition of library materials to support the language programs, the film series, and student research.

This grant application could not have been successful without the strong support from various departments: they all commit themselves to offering the courses developed by their faculty with funds from the Grant. Altogether, there are eight new courses and four substantively revised courses involving seven academic departments (Anthropology, Art History, English, Foreign Languages and Literatures, History, Political Science and International Relations, and Sociology and Criminal Justice).

Implementation and Evaluation

Like all academic programs, the majors in East Asian Studies (as well as the Program itself) will be subjected to periodic program review.