It has successfully obtained funding from the Japan Foundation and Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation for teaching the languages and literatures of those cultures. Student activities are coordinated through the Asian Pacific Student Programs office and include specific activity clubs for various Asian and Asian Pacific American groups. Independent research under faculty supervision is an important part of the Asian Studies program. It has led to several outstanding theses. The program encourages independent research and thesis writing.
Internships are available.
Asian Studies majors have ready access to resources in other departments, including an excellent Javanese gamelan orchestra in the Music Department, a full collection of videotapes of Asian music and dance in the Dance Department, and a rapidly growing Asian language collection and extensive holdings on Asian Pacific Americans in the Library. The University Honors Program offers lower-division courses taught by distinguished faculty and introduces undergraduates to the challenges and rewards of scholarship and research from the beginning of their undergraduate careers. In the upper division, the program invites outstanding students to design and produce honors theses and projects under individual faculty supervision. Through the departmental Honors Program, highly qualified students are invited to conduct a research thesis of their own initiative and design in collaboration with a faculty member. Participation in the Honors Program is the capstone of an excellent education.