Asian Studies Center | UCIS Outreach

The Asian Studies Center is Western Pennsylvania’s regional resource for research, teaching, learning and building connections about Asia. Through 106 affiliated faculty with expertise spanning the academic disciplines, we foster multidisciplinary academic programming and community engagement. Founded in 1969, the Center is widely recognized as one of the best and most comprehensive in the country for programs in Chinese and Japanese language and culture studies, with growing strengths in Indian and Korean studies.

Web Site:

http://www.ucis.pitt.edu/asc

Services Offered:

Cultural Festivals

Internships

Professional Development Workshops

Resource Lending Library

Activities Presented in Conjunction with Asian Studies Center

Resources

Here is a sample of materials generated by the Asian Studies Center or as a result of programming in which they participated.

Presentation Slides (e.g PowerPoint)

Media and Mediation in East Asia: Historical and Pedagogical Applications for the K-14 Classroom

Intended Audience:

9-12

Offered in conjunction with the Asian Studies Center’s Summer Institute for East Asian Studies on "Media and Mediation in East Asia: Assemblages and Global Flows," this interactive timeline uses the example of China as a case study to explore the history and role of media throughout East Asia's varied past and present.

Media and Mediation in East Asia.pdf

Summer Screenshots Hot Nights+Cold War: Songs from the North

Intended Audience:

9-12, Post-Secondary

Curriculum ideas to use as a companion to viewing parts or all of Songs from the North, a film essay about North Korea directed by Soon-Mi Yoo.

Songs from the North Curriculum Ideas.pdf

Summer Screenshots Hot Nights+Cold War: The Missing Picture

Intended Audience:

9-12, Post-Secondary

Curriculum ideas to use as compantion to screening parts or all of The Missing Picture, by Cambodian-French filmmaker, Rithy Panh. Panh uses clay figures, archival footage, and his personal memories to revisit and recreate the atrocities Cambodia's Khmer Rouge committed in the 1970s.

Copy of Summer Screenshots_ Hot Nights_Cold War_The Missing Picture.pdf