There are currently two courses offered. A survey course includes traditional Chinese, Korean, and Japanese civilization, as well as their westernization and modernization. An additional course on the history of Religion in the East covers the Hindu, Buddhist, Confucian and Taoist communities. Study is focused on the Far East, concentrating on China, Japan and Korea.
English language predominates in the collection.
Very few items are in the Chinese, Japanese or other Asian alphabet. Twenty-seven of the currently received journals are U.S. government publications in microform. Access to materials using hardcopy and electronic resources is available. Marcive records added to the catalog allow for searching of government publications. Major topical indexes and the FirstSearch service are available.