International Studies: All SAS Centers and Programs
Africa
Health Group
The Africa Health Group is an interdisciplinary group with representation from
eight of the University's schools and more than a dozen disciplines. The members
consist of faculty, administrators or program directors who are involved in Africa
projects, visiting faculty from African countries, and graduate students, most
of whom have some professional experience in Africa or intend to conduct research
there.
African
Studies Center
The African Studies Center has been a federally recognized and supported Title
VI National Resource Center since 1993. With its consortium partners, Bryn
Mawr, Haverford, and Swarthmore Colleges, the Center at Penn has established
itself as a leader for teaching, research, and outreach in African area studies.
Undergraduates can major and minor in African Studies, and MA/PhD students
have the opportunity to earn African Studies certificates.
Center for Ancient
Studies
The University of Pennsylvania has always been
justifiably acclaimed for its unusually strong resources
in the study and teaching of the ancient world. Both the
College of Arts & Sciences
and the University Museum of Anthropology & Archaeology
house an extraordinary array of distinguished scholars
who represent as a group virtually every major area in
the study of antiquity in both the old and New world, including
languages; political, economic, cultural and art history;
anthropology;
philosophy;
and science. The Center
for Ancient Studies, by bringing these scholars together,
focuses their intellectual resources into an organizational
body where creative interdisciplinary activity in teaching
and research are explored.
Asian American
Studies Program
The Asian American Studies Program offers a minor and a broad range of courses
and activities. The Program explores the historical and contemporary experiences
of Asian immigrants and of persons of Asian ancestry in North America, and
the relevance of those experiences for understanding race and ethnicity in
national and global contexts.
Asian and Middle
Eastern Studies Department
The undergraduate and graduate programs in Asian and Middle Eastern Studies
offers language training and courses in the culture, history, literature, and
archaeology of East Asia, the Middle East, and the Indo-Iranian world.
Center for Advanced
Judaic Studies
The Center for Advanced Judaic Studies provides a unique forum for interaction
and dialogue among scholars of the international community in all aspects of
Judaic learning from antiquity to the present. Comparative and interdisciplinary
in its approach, the Center seeks to enhance intellectual conversation across
a broad spectrum of scholarly disciplines and methodological perspectives.
Center for the
Advanced Study of India
The Center for the Advance Study of India, founded in 1992, is the only institute
in the United States dedicated to the study of contemporary India. The Center
sponsors collaborative research projects, organizes conferences in the U.S.
and India, supports resident scholars, arranges symposia, mounts lecture series,
offers a journalism fellowship, and disseminates information through its publications
and the internet.
Center for
Africana Studies
The Center for Africana Studies, formerly known as the Afro-American Studies
Program facilitates a critical examination of the human, cultural, social,
political, economic and historical factors that have created and shaped the
African American and African Diaspora experiences. In fulfilling this mission,
the Afro-American Studies Program, which is an integral part of the Center,
offers both the major and minor in Afro-American Studies.
Center for East
Asian Studies
The Center for East Asian Studies is a federally recognized and supported Title
VI National Resource Center. It is an interdisciplinary unit composed of faculty
members whose teaching and research focus primarily on China, Japan, Korea,
and bordering areas.
Center for International
Comparisons
The Center for International Comparisons was established in 1990 to continue
the intellectual legacy of Simon Kuznets, who helped to create the system of
national accounts. In addition to working on constant price national accounts,
the Center also is involved in the area of spatial national accounts, along
with cross-country and inter-area comparisons of incomes and prices.
Center for
Italian Studies
The Center for Italian Studies offers courses in Italian language and literature,
at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. These are integrated with a
wide range of interdisciplinary programs in history, art history, religious
history, musicology, Classical, Medieval and Renaissance studies, as well as
in more contemporary areas of study such as film, sociology, and political
science.
Christopher
H. Browne Center for International Politics
The Christopher H. Browne Center for International Politics was established
in 1997 in order to promote interdisciplinary research and teaching across
the University community on issues of international relations, international
security, and international political economy. The Center sponsors a regular
schedule of visiting speakers, awards research grants to Penn faculty and graduate
students, organizes occasional conferences, and hosts a post-doctoral fellow,
as well as distinguished visiting scholars.
Classical
Studies Department
Classical Studies at Penn encompasses
all aspects of ancient Greek and Roman culture and its
influence through the Middle Ages and Renaissance up to
the present day: not just the ancient languages and literatures,
but also material culture, history (political, social,
economic, and intellectual), philosophy, religion, mythology,
and the classical tradition.
Comparative
Literature and Literary Theory Program
The Comparative Literature and Literary Theory Program is an innovative undergraduate
and graduate program offering a broad scope of study and a wide range of interdisciplinary
courses. The graduate students in Comparative Literature sponsor a number of
lectures and reading groups, such as the Theorizing Lecture Series.
English Language
Programs
The English Language Programs offers instruction
in English as a second or international language and exposure
to the cultures of the United States by specifically offering
teacher training, testing, consulting services, and cross-cultural
training.
French Institute for
Culture and Technology
The French Institute for Culture and Technology is an interdisciplinary center
whose mission it is
to strengthen relations among the University, the larger Delaware Valley community
and French and Francophone countries. As the Institute's name suggests, its
interests embrace language, literature, history, the natural and social sciences,
medicine, commerce, and industry.
Germanic Languages
and Literatures Department
As the oldest academic program in German Studies in North America, the Department
of Germanic Languages and Literatures combines a commitment to the traditions
of Germanistik with a forward-looking perspective on developments in the field.
The department believes in the importance of a solid grounding in the entire
German literary tradition, from the Middle Ages to the present, as well as
the history of the German language.
Huntsman
Program in International Studies and Business
The Huntsman
Program in International Studies and Business is a unique
four-year undergraduate course of study that integrates
business education, advanced language training and a liberal
arts education. Huntsman students graduate with a professional
education and an understanding of the political, economic
and cultural complexities in the world. They earn two degrees:
a Bachelor of Arts in International Studies from the School
of Arts and Sciences and a Bachelor of Science in Economics
from the Wharton School.
Institute
for Environmental Studies
The Institute for Environmental Studies is dedicated to providing undergraduate
and graduate students with an understanding of key scientific, economic, and
political issues and to providing new alternatives to global management of
environmental resources. By providing a center of excellence in environmental
research and education, the Institute contributes directly to an enhanced understanding
of the complexity of environmental problems. In addition to many specific interests,
the Institute has adopted watersheds and urban environmental issues as special
priorities.
International Relations
Program
The International Relations Program offers a multi-disciplinary course of undergraduate
study on the ways in which people, private groups, and governments from differing
sovereign states relate to each other in the global political and economic
systems. The curriculum provides a well-rounded liberal arts education valuable
in all walks of life. But it is also designed to prepare students for law or
business school, graduate school in the social sciences, the Foreign Service,
and international careers of all sorts.
Jewish Studies
Program
The Jewish Studies Program offers a full spectrum of coursework and programs
in Jewish Studies, from Biblical to modern times, and in the multiple dimensions
of the Jewish historical and culural experience. Students receive rigorous
training in languages and critical skills as well as in disciplinary methods,
and are encouraged to explore interdisciplinary and cross-cultural connection
in their studies.
Latin American
and Latino Studies Program
Latin American and Latino Studies Program offers a means of understanding similarities
and differences among the cultures and societies of Latin America, the Caribbean,
and the Latino populations in the United States. The Latin American and Latino
Studies major provides students with a solid foundation of knowledge in and
about this important part of the world, and the Minor provides students with
an opportunity to add intellectual coherence to their primary major through
a deepening experience of area studies.
Lauder Institute
of Management and International Studies
The Joseph H. Lauder Institute of Management & International
Studies
combines a world-renowned Wharton MBA, a Master's in International
Studies from the University of Pennsylvania's School of
Arts & Sciences
and customized language training. It's an intense 24-month
program that
prepares leaders for the ever-evolving global economy.
Middle East Center
The Middle East Center is a federally recognized and supported Title VI National
Resource Center. Since the Center was founded in 1965, it has endeavored
to bring Penn's long-established programs in ancient and medieval languages
and civilizations together with work on modern Middle East states and societies
Penn Language Center
The Penn Language Center was established in 1989 for the purpose of expanding,
intensifying and enriching Penn’s language curriculum. The most significant
feature of the Center has been its structural flexibility that has made it
possible to respond to changes in demand for language instruction that are
not covered within the regular programs of established departments.
Population Studies Center
The Population Studies Center has fostered research and training in population
since it's founding in 1962. The Center has received support from a number
of federal and private research funding programs and
mechanisms since its inception, with a large portion of support from the National
Institute of Child Health and Human Development and NIA Population Research
Infrastructure Programs, respectively since 1978 and 1999. Its central scientific
objectives are to foster research and training on population composition and
processes in conjunction with the Graduate Group in Demography.
Romance Languages
Department
The Department of Romance Languages offers courses in French, Italian, and
Spanish languages, literatures, and cultures at the graduate and undergraduate
levels. The undergraduate programs include courses ranging from elementary
language to advanced seminars in French, Italian, and Spanish for majors and
other interested students. The graduate programs address the cultural production
of France, Italy, Spain, and Latin America from different critical perspectives.
Slavic Languages
and Literatures Department
The Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures offers courses in Russian
language, literature and culture, as well as courses in other Slavic languages.
Solomon Asch Center for Study of Ethnopolitical Conflict The Solomon Asch Center of the University of Pennsylvania was created in 1998 to advance research, education, and policy in the areas of ethnic group conflict and violence. Toward these ends, the Asch Center has established collaborative arrangements with a network of international sites that currently includes organizations in Northern Ireland, South Africa, Israel/Palestine, and Sri Lanka.
South
Asia Center
The South Asia Center at the University of Pennsylvania coordinates events
of the Department of South Asia Studies and Graduate Group in South Asia Regional
Studies and provides outreach to Penn and surrounding communities. It is funded
in part as a National Resource Center by the U.S. Office of Education.
South Asia Studies
Department
The South Asia Studies Department at the University of Pennsylvania, founded
in 1948, is the oldest South Asia area studies program in the nation. The Department
is home for all faculty teaching South Asia languages and cultures, ancient
and modern, with dual appointments of faculty in other disciplinary departments
where appropriate. The Graduate Group in South Asia Studies includes all standing
faculty in the SASt Department and a broad range of faculty in other disciplinary
departments and schools. The South Asia Center coordinates faculty drawn from
many departments and several schools who participate in decisions of the Center
in developing community and University-wide programs and activities pertaining
to South Asia.
University of Pennsylvania
Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
The University
of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology,
through its research, collections, exhibitions, and educational
programming, advances understanding of the world's cultural
heritage.