Name of Center	Asian Studies Program, University Center for International Studies, University of Pittsburgh
Address	4E05 Posvar Hall
City	Pittsburgh
State	PA
Zip	15260
Telephone	(412) 648-7370
Fax	(412) 648-2199
Web	www.ucis.pitt.edu/asp
Contacts	Diana Marston Wood, Associate Director
E-mails	dmwood@ucis.pitt.edu
Description	The Asian Studies Program is one of four area studies programs located within the University Center for International Studies. Other areas represented are Latin American, Russia and East Europe, and West Europe. Within the Asian Studies Program the Center for East Asian Studies is designated as National Resource Center of the U.S. Department of Education. While our major emphasis lies with East Asia, within recent years we have been trying to improve our research and outreach capabilities with regard to South and Southeast Asia.
Teaching Resources	We have recently organized and catalogued our Teaching Resource Library so that area K-12 teachers as well as Pitt faculty can conveniently borrow videos, books and curriculum materials.
Program Activities	We offer frequent K-12 teacher workshops which attempt to blend scholarly information and pedagogical techniques. During 2000 we offered an East Asia seminar for grade 6-12 teachers under the auspices of the National Consortium for Teaching about Asia. We sill again sponsor a seminar in 2001. Each year we organize one workshop/conference for regional college faculty, sometimes focusing only on Asia; other times it is an international event with all four area programs working together. We try to sponsor numerous East Asian cultural events, usually with a focuson theater or music. Our study abroad efforts are concentrated on a 3 week Pitt in China summer program which occurs at Beijing University. For the second year we sponsored a Pitt in India study program which is held in Hyderabad.