Asian Studies Minor Program

Coordinator: Dr. Greg Lewis
 
Location: Social Science, Room 256
 
Telephone: 801-626-6707 Fax: 801-626-7613

Asian Studies at Weber State offers a Minor in Asian Studies, supports the Foreign Language Department's Japanese Minor, oversees courses in the Middle East Track, and cooperates with the BIS Program to offer a Bachelor's degree "BIS Asian Studies Concentration." Asian Studies courses are offered through a number of cooperating departments including History, Political Science and Philosophy, Geography, Foreign Language, English, Honors, Sociology and Anthropology, Visual Arts, Health and Physical Education, and others.

Asian Studies

MINOR

» Grade Requirements: A grade of "C" or above in each course used toward the Asian Studies Minor (a grade of C- is not acceptable).
 
» Credit Hour Requirements: Fifteen credit hours of courses must be taken from at least four of the areas listed below.
Courses taken which are part of the student's major will not count as fulfillment of the minor requirement.

Course Requirements for Minor

Required Courses (15 credit hours)

Select 15 credit hours from at least four of the following areas
*Acceptable when the emphasis and/or content are basically Asian Studies/Language or Middle East Studies/Language.

Should other courses relating specifically to Asia or the Middle East, either of an experimental or of a permanent nature, be added to the curriculum, these courses will be accepted as part of the Asian Studies Minor. To be a part of the Asian Studies curriculum, a course must have two-thirds Asian content.

 

Weber State University 2008-2009 Catalog