Required Components (complete in the order presented):
Component 1:
The Physical Geography of East Asia
Component 2:
East Asian History
Component 3:
East Asian Philosophy and Religion

Component 4
East Asian Literature
Component 5
East Asian Art
Component 6
Contemporary East Asia
Component 7
East Asian Economic History

Component 8
East Asian Economies

Component 9
Demographic Challenges and Human Capital Issues

Component 10
Exports and Economic Development Across the Region


Ronnie Littlejohn
Seminar Instructor

Ronnie Littlejohn

Ronnie Littlejohn

Ronnie Littlejohn is author of Daoism: An Introduction (London: I.B. Tauris, 2009) and Confucianism: The Life, Teachings, and Influence of the Uncrowned King (Forthcoming from I.B. Tauris, March 2010). He is the general editor of the new Blackwell Encyclopedia of Asian Religions and Philosophy (Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell), and co-editor of two collections: Riding the Wind: New Essays on the Daoist Classic The Liezi and Polishing the Chinese Mirror: Essays in Honor of Henry Rosemont, Jr. Littlejohn has published over 25 articles in journals including Philosophy East and West, Dao: A Journal of Comparative Philosophy, Southeast Review of Asian Studies, and Ching Feng. He has contributed over a dozen essays to various anthologies and collections. He has several times participated on the faculty and been the Director of National Consortium for Teaching about Asia institutes.


For more information, please contact

Peggy Creswell
UTC Asia Program
Email: edast@utc.edu
phone: 423-425-2118
fax: 423-425-5441