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Project Overview
This multiyear project will enhance Asia-focused undergraduate learning through advancing teaching expertise on China (Year 1) and Southeast Asia (Year 2). Organized around annual summer residential institutes in Honolulu and workshops on participating college and university campuses, the project will provide participants with resources for developing new curricula and for generating student interest in Asia. The project aims more generally to deepen higher education commitments to diversity and inclusion by building capacities for contributing with sensitivity and critical clarity to addressing the challenges—and realizing the benefits—of an increasingly pluralistic and multipolar world.
Institutes
The project’s annual summer institutes reflect lessons learned from the ASDP flagship program, the Summer Institute for Infusing Asian Studies into the Undergraduate Curriculum. The institutes offer undergraduate educators the opportunity to interact with leading Asian studies experts in intensive programs of lectures, discussions, film screenings, site visits, and cultural events. The Infusing Institute model of including 2 to 3-person, multidisciplinary teams has proven particularly effective for fostering collaborative faculty development and for envisioning pragmatic pathways to Asian studies certificate, minor, and major degree programs.
The project’s Year 1 summer institute will focus on modern China. In addition to having the largest population and second largest economy in the world, China’s modern history of imperial collapse and national reemergence after a “century of humiliation” offers valuable insights into cultural resilience, the dynamics of national vitality, and the complexity of contemporary geopolitics. The Year 2 institute will focus on Southeast Asia, in part in recognition of its pivotal roles in US history, but also due its role in global history as a cultural crossroads; its colonial past; its remarkable cultural, religious, ethnic and political diversity; and the distinct approaches taken across the region to valuing both plurality and unity.
Workshops
The project will include six campus workshops—three each project year. These workshops will feature lecture-presentations open to both students and faculty, meetings with interested faculty and administrators, and sessions to discuss course and course module designs and implementation. Organized in collaboration with hosting campuses, the workshops will serve to sustain faculty involvement in the project and to foster student interest in and administrative support for Asian studies.
Project Overview
This multiyear project will enhance Asia-focused undergraduate learning through advancing teaching expertise on China (Year 1) and Southeast Asia (Year 2). Organized around annual summer residential institutes in Honolulu and workshops on participating college and university campuses, the project will provide participants with resources for developing new curricula and for generating student interest in Asia. The project aims more generally to deepen higher education commitments to diversity and inclusion by building capacities for contributing with sensitivity and critical clarity to addressing the challenges—and realizing the benefits—of an increasingly pluralistic and multipolar world.
Institutes
The project’s annual summer institutes reflect lessons learned from the ASDP flagship program, the Summer Institute for Infusing Asian Studies into the Undergraduate Curriculum. The institutes offer undergraduate educators the opportunity to interact with leading Asian studies experts in intensive programs of lectures, discussions, film screenings, site visits, and cultural events. The Infusing Institute model of including 2 to 3-person, multidisciplinary teams has proven particularly effective for fostering collaborative faculty development and for envisioning pragmatic pathways to Asian studies certificate, minor, and major degree programs.
The project’s Year 1 summer institute will focus on modern China. In addition to having the largest population and second largest economy in the world, China’s modern history of imperial collapse and national reemergence after a “century of humiliation” offers valuable insights into cultural resilience, the dynamics of national vitality, and the complexity of contemporary geopolitics. The Year 2 institute will focus on Southeast Asia, in part in recognition of its pivotal roles in US history, but also due its role in global history as a cultural crossroads; its colonial past; its remarkable cultural, religious, ethnic and political diversity; and the distinct approaches taken across the region to valuing both plurality and unity.
Workshops
The project will include six campus workshops—three each project year. These workshops will feature lecture-presentations open to both students and faculty, meetings with interested faculty and administrators, and sessions to discuss course and course module designs and implementation. Organized in collaboration with hosting campuses, the workshops will serve to sustain faculty involvement in the project and to foster student interest in and administrative support for Asian studies.