Kenyon College

Provided Programs&Courses

Undergraduate

1. Program (Korea-related degree offered) : Asian Studies Major
   • Program Remarks - The Asian studies major is a joint major with one of the following departments: art (art history), history, modern languages and literatures (Chinese), or religious studies. It provides a structured yet flexible curriculum to enable students to focus their work on Asia while acquiring a solid methodological grounding in an academic discipline.
   1. Korea-related Courses : ASIA 201 THE SILK ROAD
      • Course Remarks - The Silk Road is a rather misleading term coined in 1877 by Ferdinand von Richthofen. What it actually refers to is a vast network of trade routes that connected East, South, and Southeast Asia with the Mediterranean region, North Africa, and Europe. While travel and migration along these routes date back to prehistoric times and continue today, communication via the land routes across the Eurasian continent primarily flourished from the second century BCE through the 15th century CE, most notably linking China with western Asia and the Mediterranean region. And while silk was one of the major products transported from China to the West as far back as the Roman Empire, the trade, especially in such other luxury goods such as spices (from India) and gemstones (from western Asia), was active in both directions. Along with the trade in material goods, the Silk Road was the medium for cultural exchange. One of the prime examples of this was the spread of Buddhism from India into Afghanistan, China, Korea, Japan and Southeast Asia. As an extensive and many-layered system of economic and cultural exchange, the Silk Road can therefore can be considered a premodern example of what today we call globalization.
   2. Korea-related Courses : HIST 160: Modern East Asia
   3. Korea-related Courses : HIST 161: East Asia to 1800
   4. Korea-related Courses : HIST 352: Family and State in East Asia
2. Program (Korea-related degree offered) : Asian Studies Concentration
   • Program Remarks - The Asian Studies Concentration at Kenyon is an interdisciplinary program that integrates coursework in anthropology, art history, history, language, music, philosophy, political science, religious studies, and sociology. The program also sponsors films, invites speakers to the College, and promotes other social and cultural events to stimulate campus awareness of the societies of East and Southeast Asia, India and its neighbors, and the Islamic world.