Asian and Middle Eastern Cultures and Media Minor

Several areas of scholarship and kinds of research methods are available for study to advanced students through the AMCM program. The program’s focus is primarily humanistic, based on research in the traditions of philological, literary, visual, and philosophical scholarship. AMCM also encourages investigations in the interpretive social sciences—such as anthropology, history, and the sociology of class, gender, and race. Learn more about AMCM course offerings.

Because the faculty-to-student ratio is typically one-to-one, we can ensure students the guidance required for generating meaningful research projects.

We encourage students to focus on specific bodies of theoretical writings that have emerged with respect to distinct objects of study in the humanities fields as a whole. By organizing the program through such broad rubrics as "prose and poetry" or "film and visual media," we help students understand how their specific Asian and Middle Eastern objects of study correlate with those of other areas of the world (or whether they do or do not, and if so, why).