Consortium for the Study of the Asias
The Consortium for the Study of the Asias (CSA) is a designated National Resource Center (NRC) in Asia Studies by the US Department of Education. With that CSA is charged with developing educational leadership in the following areas:
- promoting less commonly taught Asian Languages and strengthening foreign language faculty and pedagogy training
- leading outreach opportunities for teachers (K-16)
- furthering the teaching and understanding of Asia through undergraduate and graduate course offerings
- supporting the development of new course curricula and building intellectual strength through conferences, colloquia and symposia
- improve and provide library acquisitions and online research materials
CSA begins from the premise that the interactions among the various regions of Asia, as well as with the rest of the world, are critical to the scholarly enterprise. CSA engages methodological and theoretical issues common to scholars of literature, culture, and the social sciences globally, to explore themes such as race and ethnicity, urbanization and migration, modernity and modernism, transnationalism and globalization, representation and language. It is with these complex processes and notions in mind—processes and notions that transcend traditional categories of area, region, and nation-state, but also traditional demarcations of academic fields and disciplines—that CSA approaches Asian Studies.
