• » Kimberly Chang, associate professor of cultural psychology
• » Susan Darlington, professor of anthropology and Asian studies
• » Kay Johnson, professor of Asian studies
• » Ryan Bongseok Joo, assistant professor of East Asian religions
• » Lili M. Kim, associate professor of history and global migrations

• » Privatization of Healthcare in China and the HIV/AIDS Epidemic
• » Hijra Identity in Pakistan and the Politics of Representation
• » The Politics of Femininity in Popular Indian Films
• » Building Dutiful Daughters: Cultural Violence in Thai Prostitution
• » Translating Japanese
• » Eating Into Modernity: A Century of Chinese Food and Eating
• » Preschools in Two Cultures: The Differences in Discipline in Japan and America

• » Advanced Chinese Language Tutorial
• » Advanced Intermediate Chinese
• » The Anthropology of Human Rights
• » Asian Religious Texts and Traditions
• » China Project Workshop
• » China Rising: Reorienting the 21st Century
• » Comparative Orientalisms
• » Contemporary Theories for Religious Studies
• » Daosim, Shamanism, and Shinto: Introduction to Indigenous Religions of East Asia
• » Decoding Zen Buddhism
• » Family, Gender, Power
• » The “Good War:” Interrogating the History of the Homefront During WWII
• » Introduction to the Buddhist Meditation Tradition
• » The Making of Modern South Asia

• » Rethinking the Population Problem
• » Sacred to the Secular: The Performing Arts of Asia
• » Yoga Traditions: Philosophy, Practice, and Narrative
  

Center for East Asian Studies
The Five College Center for East Asian Studies is one of many programs administered by the Five Colleges. In addition to the center’s concern with undergraduate East Asian studies at the five institutions, they aim to support, encourage, and improve the teaching of East Asian cultures in elementary, middle, and secondary schools, and two- and four-year colleges in New England.

They work to improve the quality, quantity, and distribution of resources for teaching about East Asia at the college and precollege levels and to offer opportunities for pre-college educators to experience East Asian cultures firsthand. The center maintains a resource library, publishes a newsletter three times a year, and conducts seminars, institutes, conferences, and workshops for college and pre-college educators.

Five College Certificate Programs
Two relevant Five College Certificate Programs are in Asian/Pacific/American Studies and Buddhist Studies, each overseen by a committee of faculty from all five institutions. The committees work to coordinate and expand course offerings at the five institutions, advise students seeking to fulfill program requirements in Asian/Pacific/American Studies or Buddhist Studies, and coordinates special events among the five institutions in collaboration with students from the five colleges.

East Asian Languages Program (EALP)
The Five College East Asian Languages Program (EALP) in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean brings together faculty members in East Asian languages to meet regularly throughout the academic year. Recently, they have organized and participated in workshops on the teaching and assessment of oral proficiency, the use of “authentic texts” in the classroom, and uses of web-based and other forms of computer-assisted instruction. The program also supports joint trips by faculty to professional conferences and outreach projects for pre-college instruction in East Asian languages.

Five College Tibetan Studies in India Program
Hampshire co-sponsors, with Smith College, the Five College Tibetan Studies in India Program. Through this unique program, students have the opportunity to study Buddhist philosophy, and Tibetan cultures and history during January Term at the Central University for Tibetan Studies in Sarnath, India.

Hampshire College China Exchange Program
Hampshire has a vibrant intensive Chinese language program taught in Hefei, China by our Chinese exchange partner, the College of Humanities and Social Sciences of Anhui Agricultural University. Students can study any level of Chinese language for one or two months in the early summer, equivalent to one or two semesters of study. Students may also elect to go to Anhui Agricultural University for a semester-long study, taking Chinese language and pursuing an independent study negotiated with the Hampshire faculty supervisor and faculty at AAU.

Through the same connection, two scholars, including a Chinese language teacher trained in teaching Chinese as a second language, reside on the Hampshire campus every year. In addition to teaching Chinese, they pursue their own research and education, auditing classes and utilizing our libraries.

During January Term, several undergraduate students from the Chinese university come to take courses and help tutor Hampshire students who are studying Chinese.