Asian Studies at University of Kentucky
There are many ways to incorporate Asian Studies into your course of work at UK. Stop by the Asia Center to discuss your interests, find helpful professors, and learn options for study abroad or programs to take you to Asia when you graduate.
Fall 2009 Asian Studies Courses at UK. (pdf file)
New Asian Studies Courses Offerings in Fall, 2009
AH 572 Art within an Interdisciplinary Framework: Living Art- Geisha
Dr. Andrew Maske
CHI 330 Introduction to Chinese Culture: Pre-Modern to 1840
Dr. Mathew Wells
HIS 490
Encountering China
Dr. Denise Ho
JPN 405 Tokyo Shanghai Paris
Dr. Doug Slaymaker
SOC 550 Contemporary Sociology and Culture in Asia
Dr. Keiko Tanaka
The Asia Center icon is based on the Flying Horse of Gansu, China. On June 15, 2000, the city of Xi'an, China presented a life-size, bronze copy of this Han dynasty (206 BC to 220 AD) antique to Lexington, the "Horse Capital of the World", and it is now a downtown landmark.