These include the weekly Southeast Asia film series, and SEAP film lending library, a speakers bureau, and a brown bag informal seminar series, as well as the Cornell Gamelan Ensemble workshops and concerts. Graduate students at Cornell pursue area and language study on Southeast Asia while they fulfill their degree requirements either in one of the fields of the Graduate School, or in one of the professional schools. This program requires that students take a substantial body of additional training in both language and interdisciplinary courses concerning Southeast Asia. A student interested in combining study on Southeast Asia with a degree program may apply for admission to any one of the graduate fields or professional schools at Cornell. A special one year, non-degree Program in Southeast Asian Language and Area Studies has just been initiated at Cornell for students enrolled at institutions where such instruction is not available.
Official credit is given for courses attended.
Students with portable fellowships are encouraged to apply. Instruction is offered in Burmese, Cambodian, Indonesian, Tagalog, Thai and Vietnamese. Area seminars are offered annually. The John M. Echols Collection, Dr. Allen Riedy, Curator, houses comprehensive vernacular and western language holdings on Brunei, Burma, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam in the Carl A. Kroch Library. Information and application forms for these awards and for admission to the Graduate School can be obtained from the Graduate School, Cornell University, Sage Graduate Center, Ithaca, New York, 14853.