Wherever I am, the world comes after me. It offers me its busyness. It does not believe that I do not want it. Now I understand why the old poets of China went so far and high into the mountains, then crept into the pale mist. "The Old Poets of China" by Mary Oliver
UP Asian Center Holds Orientation for New Students, First Sem, AY 23-24
UP Asian Center Holds Orientation for New Students, First Sem, AY 23-24
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The UP Asian Center successfully held a face-to-face Student Orientation for newly admitted students for the First Semester of Academic Year 2023-2024 on 30 September 2023, at the Seminar Room, GT-Toyota Asian Cultural Center. The activity sought to familiarize 33 new graduate students with the Center’s academic programs and policies, resources, and facilities.
Dean Henelito A. Sevilla, Jr. gave the welcome remarks while Dr. Tina S. Clemente, head of the curriculum development committee, provided an overview of the Asian and Philippine Studies graduate programs. The College Secretary Dr. Maria Dulce F. Natividad discussed how students can successfully navigate their programs, focusing on program requirements, coursework, comprehensive exams, thesis writing, and working with program and thesis advisers. Meanwhile, Assistant Dean Dr. Antoinette R. Raquiza introduced the mandate of the Center’s public affairs program.
Towards the end of the activity, the Asian Center staff provided information on available resources and services offered by both the Center and the university, such as the AC library resources, website and social media pages, webinars and fora, faculty publications and the Asian Studies Journal, the museum, scholarships, and student health and well-being.
New students of Philippine Studies and Asian Studies (China, Japan, Korea, Southeast Asia, South Asia, and West Asia) participated in the orientation. Also in attendance were faculty members Dr. Jocelyn Celero, Dr. Ariel Lopez, and Dr. Alexander Michael Palma, as well as professorial lecturer, Dr. Karl Ian Cheng Chua. The program was moderated by Danae Pantano, university researcher.
To complement the Student Orientation, two Student Life Workshop Sessions were held in the afternoon. The first was a library orientation facilitated by the AC library staff and followed by a Gender Sensitivity Orientation crash course courtesy of the UPD Gender Office.
The student orientation for new students and the student life series are held every semester.
The Asian Center, University of the Philippines Diliman offers M.A. degrees in Asian Studies with four fields of specialization: Northeast Asia, Southeast Asia, South Asia, and West Asia. The UP Asian Center also has an M.A. program in Philippine Studies that allows students to major in Philippine society and culture, Philippine foreign relations, or Philippine development studies. It also offers a Ph.D. program in Philippine Studies in partnership with the College of Arts and Letters and the College of Social Sciences and Philosophy. For an overview of these graduate programs, click here. As an area studies institution, the Asian Center also publishes the Asian Studies: Journal of Critical Perspectives on Asia, the latest issue of which can be downloaded at the journal's website. For other news and upcoming events at the Asian Center, click here.
