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The BYU English Language Center is a Laboratory School operated by the BYU Department of Linguistics and English Language, which is a sub-division of the College of Humanities. The School admits non-English speaking students of college age for intensive courses in English.
The center is housed in the Herald R. Clark building and offers six interdisciplinary studies programs: Ancient Near East studies, Asian Studies, European Studies, International Relations, Latin American Studies, and Middle Eastern Studies/Arabic. [2] The center also manages BYU’s study abroad programs. [3]
As a result of the 1968 strike, a College of Ethnic Studies (the only U.S. university academic department of its kind at the time) was established at San Francisco State University with American Indian Studies, Asian American Studies, Africana Studies, and Latino/a Studies as its four units, and a new Department of Ethnic Studies was ...
Hyer received his BA in history from BYU in 1951, followed by an MA in Asian history and Asian Social Institutions from the University of California, Berkeley in 1953 and a Ph.D. in Asian History, also from UC Berkeley, in 1961. Hyer wrote the book A Mongolian Living Buddha which was a biography of Kanjurwa Khutughtu along with Sechin Jagchid. [3]
The AAAS includes within Asian-American studies the following "sub-components": "Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Filipino, Hawai’ian, Southeast Asian, South Asian, Pacific Islander, and other groups." [1] AAAS was founded in 1979 as the Association for Asian/Pacific American Studies. The name was changed in 1982. [2]
The BYU College of Family, Home, and Social Sciences is a college located on the Provo, Utah campus of Brigham Young University and is housed in the Spencer W. Kimball Tower and Joseph F. Smith Building. [1] The BYU College of Family Living was organized on June 28, 1951, while the BYU College of Social Sciences was organized in 1970. [2]
In addition, there are also scholarly journals, such as American Studies Quarterly [35] and Fudan American Review. [36] In the Republic of Korea, Sogang University [37] (Seoul, Korea) is the sole institution that offers regular degree program both in bachelor (BA) and master (MA) degree in American studies, named American culture. The American ...
The first Asian American to be elected to the United States Congress was Dalip Singh Saund in 1957. The highest ranked Asian American to serve in the United States Congress was Senator and President pro tempore Daniel Inouye, who died in office in 2012. There are several active Asian Americans in the United States Congress