East Asian Studies Concentration
Listed below are regularly offered courses that students can take to satisfy the Asian Studies program major or minor requirements. Besides these specific courses, special courses (399), approved seminars (407), and Experimental Courses (410) are eligible. Students should check with the Asian Studies Program Undergraduate Adviser or their faculty adviser before taking 399, 407 and 410 courses in order to make sure that they are eligible.
Anthropology
ANTH 341 Asian Archaeology
ANTH 342 Northeast Asia Prehistory
ANTH 345 Archeology of East Asia
Architecture
ARCH 432 Settlement Patterns: Japanese Vernacular I
ARCH 433 Settlement Patterns: Japanese Vernacular II
Art History
ARH 208 History of Chinese Art
ARH 209 History of Japanese Art
ARH 382 Art of the Silk Route
ARH 384/385/386 Chinese Art I, II, III
ARH 387 Chinese Buddhist Art
ARH 394/395/396 Japanese Art I, II, III
ARH 397 Japan Buddhist Art
ARH 399 Japan Edo Painting
ARH 399 Sung China
ARH 484 Problems in Chinese Art
ARH 488 Japanese Prints
ARH 494 Problems in Japanese Art
Chinese
CHN 150 Introduction to Chinese Novel
CHN 151 Introduction to Chinese Film
CHN 152 Introduction to Chinese Popular Culture
CHN 305/306/307 Introduction to Chinese Literature
CHN 350 Women in Traditional Chinese Literature
CHN 351 Women in Modern Chinese Literature
CHN 411 & 412 Fourth-year Chinese
CHN 413 Modern Chinese Texts
CHN 423 Issues in Early Chinese Literature
CHN 424 Issues in Medieval Chinese Literature
CHN 425 issues in Modern Chinese Literature
CHN 431; 432; 433 Advanced Chinese
CHN 436 & 437 Literary Chinese
CHN 438 Literary Chinese Texts
CHN 450 Chinese Bibliography
CHN 451 Post-Mao Fiction and Debate
CHN 452 Chinese Film and Theory
CHN 454 Early Chinese Poetry: Scholar’s Lament
CHN 455 The Han-Tang Poetic Tradition
CHN 456 Traditional Chinese Law and Literature
CHN 461 The Confucian Canon
CHN 462 The Beginnings of Chinese Narrative
Comparative Literature
COLT 410 Asian Horror
COLT 410 Japanese Horror
COLT 410 Toyko Cyberpunk
Dance
DAN 302 Dance in Asia
East Asian Languages and Literatures
EALL 209 Lang &Society of East Asia
EALL 210 China: A Cultural Odyssey
EALL 211 Japan: A Cultural Odyssey
EALL 360 East Asian Cinema
EALL 440 Japanese and Korean Phonetics
EALL 443 Chinese, Japanese, and Korean Pedagogy
EALL 460 Teaching East Asian Languages and Literatures at College Level
English
ENG 242 Intro to Asian American Literature
ENG 399 Cinematic China
ENG 490 Transnational Chinese Cinema
Geography
GEOG 474 Top: China’s Economy and Development
History
HIST 290 Foundations of East Asia
HIST 291 China-Past and Present
HIST 292 Japan-Past and Present
HIST 387 Early China
HIST 484 Philippines
HIST 487 Topics in Chinese History
I-Song and Yuan
II-Ming and Qing
III-Late Qing
IV-Republican China
V-China since 1949
HIST 488 Knowledge and Power in China
I-Confucianism, State, and Society
II-Communication and Print Culture
HIST 489 State and Society Relations in Modern China
I-The Peasants’ Revolution
II-Republican China
III-Ethnicity and Nationalism
HIST 490 Topics in Japanese History
I-To 1333
II-Medieval, 1333-1800
III-Modern Age
HIST 491 Medicine and Society in Premodern Japan
HIST 492 Postwar Japan
I-The American Occupation
II-The Postwar Experience
III-The Information Age
HIST 494 East Asia: Concepts and Issues
I-Social Elites
II-Revolution
III-Education and Society
IV-Cities
HIST 496 Chinese Society in the Late Imperial Period
I-Vernacular Fiction and Social History
II-Popular Culture and Popular Resistance
HIST 497 Culture, Modernity, and Revolution in China
I-Modernity and Gender
II-Cultural Revolution and Memory
III-Historiography of the Communist Revolution
HIST 498 Early Japanese Culture and Society
I-Buddhism and Society in Medieval Japan
II-The Heian Aristocracy
III-Medieval Japan
IV-Samurai and War
HIST 499 Japanese Popular Culture
I-Tokugawa Urbanism
II-Media Culture
III-Consumer Lifestyles
International Studies
INTL 440 The Pacific Challenge
Japanese
JPN 305/306/307 Introduction to Japanese Literature
JPN 411; 412 ; 413 Fourth-Year Spoken Japanese
JPN 414 ; 415 ; 416 Fourth-Year Reading and Writing Japanese
JPN 424 Premodern Japanese Literature
JPN 425 Modern Japanese Literature
JPN 426 Major Japanese Writers
JPN 428 Teaching Japanese as a Foreign Language
JPN 431; 432; 433 Advanced Spoken Japanese
JPN 434; 435; 436 Advanced Readings in Classical Japanese
JPN 440 Japanese Phonology and Morphology
JPN 441 Structure of the Japanese Language
JPN 443& 444 Teaching Japanese as a Foreign Language
JPN 450 Japanese Bibliography
JPN 453 Japanese Sociolinguistics
JPN 471 The Japanese Cinema
JPN 472 Japanese Film and Literature
Korean
KRN 199 Introduction to Korean Cinema
KRN 309 Language, History and Society in Korea
KRN 315 Introduction to Korean Linguistics
KRN 360 Contemporary Korean Cinema
KRN 361 Korean Popular Culture and Transnationalism
KRN 399 Special Studies
KRN 410 Experimental Course
Philosophy
PHIL 213 Eastern Philosophy
Political Science
PS 342 Politics of China
PS 454 Japanese Politics
PS 459 U.S.-China Relations
Religious Studies
REL 201 Great Religions of Asia
REL 303 Japanese Religions
REL 302 Chinese Religions
REL 330 Buddhism and Asian Culture
REL 440 Readings in Buddhist Scriptures