Saint Anselm College

Provided Programs&Courses

Undergraduate

1. Program (Korea-related degree offered) : Asian Studies Minor
   • Program Remarks - The interdisciplinary minor Asian Studies builds on the grounding students have received in the cultures of the West and expands this formation by introducing students to forms of governance and commerce, genres of art, and ways of talking about human life and divine agency that are part of the cultures and the peoples of Asia.
   1. Korea-related Courses : TH 304 - Religions of Asia
      • Course Remarks - A survey of the major religious traditions of South and East Asian origin, and the Church’s response to them. Topics have included: Hinduism, Jainism, Buddhism, Sikhism, and the traditional and new religions of China, Korea, and Japan.
   2. Korea-related Courses : PO 228 - East Asian Politics
      • Course Remarks - This survey course is designed to help students appreciate the forces of change and continuity in the political systems of East Asia embracing the regions of the Northeast (significantly China, Japan, Vietnam and the Koreas) and the Southeast (specifically Thailand, Indonesia, the Philippines, and Burma). Students will be taught the distinctiveness of the political ethos of East Asian countries. Several factors are considered including political culture, modernization, military conflicts, class politics, party and elite politics, civil society, power structure, external relations and globalization to shed light on politics and the dynamics of change in these political systems.