For your convenience, current information is in this dark text color, and dead information is gray. Please contact the faculty member to whom gray information relates. The Asian and Middle Eastern Studies Program at Dartmouth encompasses the societies, literatures, histories, politics, economies, religions, and languages of East Asia , the Middle East , South and Southeast Asia and Central Asia . Faculty participating in the Asian and Middle Eastern Studies Program represent the Departments of Anthropology , Art History , Asian and Middle Eastern Languages and Literatures , English Literature , Film Studies , Geography , Government , History , Music , Religion and Sociology . AMES offers a flexible interdisciplinary curriculum for advanced study of the historical, economic, cultural, social, and political significance of these regions.
Language study is of special importance.
An Asian and Middle Eastern Studies Program major or minor can lead to unusual professional opportunities in international finance, communications, business and industry, government, international law, public health, and academic teaching and research. As a logical outgrowth of its comparative, international, interdisciplinary character, the Asian and Middle Eastern Studies Program has initiated a degree track for majors wishing to undertake Global Studies . This is one of the areas of specialization within the major. A page within this site gives more information on how students can work within the Asian and Middle Eastern Studies framework to develop a sound global studies background. Asian and Middle Eastern Studies majors work closely with their faculty advisors in designing their program of studies.