Asian Studies
Welcome to the gateway of the Asia Pacific.
Enhance your major with an Asian Studies minor that promotes global awareness, allowing you to create a personalized, multidisciplinary specialty with the Asia Pacific as your focus.
The mission of our program is to engage students through a breadth of interdisciplinary courses in Asian cultures, histories, languages, religions, and politics, which allows students to explore Asia from a variety of transnational perspectives. Our program, composed of award-winning faculty across TCU, promotes the diversities of the Asia Pacific and encompasses Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander (AANHPI) Studies.
Visit Department WebsiteSample Courses
- Paris/Tokyo: Literary and Cinematic Visions
- Chinese Foreign Policy
- Buddhism
- Goddess Traditions of India
Special Admission Requirements
There are no special admissions requirements for this program.
What Sets Us Apart
Among the largest interdisciplinary minors housed in AddRan College, Asian Studies is composed of award-winning experts on the Asia Pacific who bring cutting-edge research into the classroom. Asian Studies promotes the diversities of the Asia Pacific and encompasses Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander (AANHPI) Studies. Students have the unique opportunity to study abroad in Asia, culturally and linguistically immersing themselves abroad, bringing the classroom with them across oceans.
Career Prospects
A minor in Asian Studies allows our students to gain critical and diverse skill sets of knowledge of the Asia Pacific and AANHPI heritages, preparing program minors to excel in highly competitive careers in international business, government, Law, foreign affairs, and graduate study in the social sciences and humanities.