Jesse Paul, recipient of the Freeman-ASIA Award
The Berea College Center for International Education (CIE) announced that Berea College student Jesse Paul has received the prestigious Freeman-ASIA Award for education abroad purposes during the fall 2018 semester. Paul, a junior Asian Studies major from Boone, Kentucky, plans to study in China. Continue reading Berea College Student Receives Freeman-ASIA Scholarship for Study Abroad →
What is foreign policy? How do you teach it? Dr. Lauren McKee, visiting professor at Berea College, answered those questions this summer by teaching a 4-week class titled U.S. East Asian Foreign Policy. The course built up to a crisis event and the students in the class represented different countries in East Asia. Using a 36 foot x 24 foot map on the floor, the students had to react to the crisis that had been introduced. They better visualized the crisis by walking across the giant map and became engaged by identifying places that were discussed in class. Dr. McKee said the map also gave students’ knowledge as to “where the mobilization of naval forces is possible and to calculate how close to another state is too close—that is, where is the 200 nautical mile territorial boundary of your own border.” In addition to the crisis simulation, the class played geographical games that tested the students’ knowledge of Asia. Continue reading Mapping Foreign Policy →
Dr. Gordon Gray is an Assistant Professor of Media and Culture in Berea College’s Asian Studies program. He got his bachelor’s degree in Anthropology from the University of Edinburgh in Scotland, and his PhD in Film Studies from Napier University also in Scotland. He has been teaching at Berea since 2011. Continue reading Interview: Dr. Gordon Gray on Asia, Asian Studies and Berea →
This year, the Asian Studies Program is celebrating its fifteenth year anniversary. Hence, the Program is organizing several events on campus which are both continual and unique to the celebration. One of these events took place on Wednesday February 5th in Room 101 of the Science Building. Right from the beginning, the room was filled by an audience of students and faculty. The occasion was February’s Asian Studies Colloquium which focused on Buddhism and Hip-hop as presented by Dr. Chris Haskett of Centre College. Continue reading Buddhism and Hip-hop: Dr. Chris Haskett Spoke on February’s Asian Studies Colloquium →