Beginnings • The Post-War Years • The New Millennium • Student Work Off-Campus
Carleton experienced an “opening up to the world” in the years following World War II. Interest in the wider world, fueled now by intellectual curiosity rather than missionary zeal, expanded and took on new forms, including interdisciplinary area studies programs, credit-bearing off-campus study programs, and increased political activism among students.
Carleton-in-Japan
1959
Carleton’s ties with Asia continued and strengthened in the post-war years. After the political situation in China forced a suspension of the Carleton-in-China program in the late 1940s, a Carleton-in-Japan program was instituted in 1951. The first participants went to Osaka; in 1953 the program moved to Doshisha University, in Kyoto.
Although the model of sending Carleton student for year-long fellowships at Doshisha ended in 1970, the College’s ties with its Japanese partner continue to the present day. Carleton, which had run faculty-led programs for Carleton students at Doshisha since the mid-1960s, helped found in 1972 the Associated Kyoto Program, along with a consortium of US colleges. Beginning in 2012, Carleton resumed faculty-led off-campus seminars on the Doshisha campus in the areas of linguistics, new media, art history, and religion.