Welcome to the South Asia Program at Cornell University

Bringing attention to South Asia in the form of courses, faculty, research, libraries, art exhibitions, language learning, resources, student organizations, and exchange programs.

OUTREACH

 Meena, from Afghanistan, spoke for the Cornell South Asia Program to over 400 rural school district K-2 students and teachers about the culture, dress, and food of her homeland.  At an after school program she read to the Philips Library "Rockin' Readers" and in the evening spoke at the Phillips Library to an audience of 51 people, this included 25 Elementary, Intermediate and High School Teachers from the Homer, NY School system as part of their continuing education teacher training.

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FALL EVENTS

SOUTH ASIA PROGRAM SEMINARS – FALL 2009

For details of this month’s Seminar Speakers...

SUCCESSFUL "EDUCATION IN ASIA"  NYCAS'09 TEACHERS WORKSHOP
 
The workshop had over 30 participants from around central NYS learning about Asian education systems from the classroom perspective in China, India, Japan, & Indonesia as well as looking at the challenges facing the students and educators, and finally, how to teach students from these cultures in NYS classrooms.
Photo by: Thamora Fishel

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