East Asian Studies

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Faculty/Staff

Stephen Lee Field, Ph.D., Co-Director, J.K. and Ingrid Lee Endowed Professor of Chinese Language & Literature, Modern Languages and Literatures
Jie Zhang, Ph.D., Co-Director, Associate Professor, Co-Director of East Asian Studies, Modern Languages and Literatures
Daniel Lehrmann, Ph.D., Gertrude and Walter Pyron Professor of Geosciences, Earth and Environmental Geosciences
Zhaoxi (Josie) Liu, Ph.D., Associate Professor and Carlos Augustus de Lozano Professor of Journalism, Communication
Shage Zhang, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Finance and Business Analytics

Overview

East Asian Studies at Trinity (EAST) is an interdisciplinary undergraduate degree program that combines the intensive study of East Asian languages and cultures with the study of the social sciences and business in an East Asian context. For each student, the study of the language will be fully integrated with the study of other disciplines through each year of the college career, ensuring that the graduate will not only be proficient in the language, but that he or she will have achieved an advanced level of understanding across the curriculum.

Programs

• Chinese Studies, B.S.

• East Asian Studies, Minor

Courses

• EAST - 2315 East Asian Heroes
• EAST - 2316 The Folk Ecology of Fengshui
• EAST - 2421 Asian Americans & Translingual Identities

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