The Asian Studies Program at Colorado College seeks to promote the study and understanding of human experience in the Asian-Pacific region. The program is cross-cultural, interdisciplinary, integrated, and seeks to combine knowledge and action. We seek to understand, appreciate, and experience the variety of cultures represented in the region, including the United States.
Cultural understanding is rooted in language ability and experience .
The program provides many opportunities for both Asian language study and living in Asia or with Asian students. Cultural understanding cannot be covered by one discipline alone. However, student study of life in Asian cultures must be grounded in a particular discipline and its analytic methods. Such discipline increases our ability to borrow from other academic studies and contributes to our understanding and skills. Asian Studies cannot be separated from the realities and cultural construction of gender, ethnicity, and class.