The Asian Studies Program at Kenyon offers a concentration that incorporates a variety of courses in history, religious studies, philosophy, anthropology, art history, ethnomusicology, political science, sociology and language. The program also sponsors films, invites speakers to the College, organizes field trips for students, 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.

With Asia as its point of reference, the curriculum encourages students to deal with Asian peoples as actors on the scene of regional and world history, rather than as objects of non-Asian peoples' enterprises and observations. An important goal of the concentration is the development of a critical understanding of the ways in which people of the interrelated regions of Asia have historically defined and expressed themselves.

For more information, contact the current director Ruth Dunnell, email: dunnell@kenyon.edu, or telephone: 740-427-5323.