| CHIN 101-01 |
Elementary Chinese
Instructor: Christopher Peacock, CHIN STAFF
Course Description:
A study of the fundamentals of Mandarin Chinese, including grammar, reading, and writing using both traditional and simplified characters, pinyin romanization, pronunciation, and conversational skills.
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09:30 AM-10:20 AM, MTWRF
STERN 12 |
| CHIN 101-02 |
Elementary Chinese
Instructor: Christopher Peacock, CHIN STAFF
Course Description:
A study of the fundamentals of Mandarin Chinese, including grammar, reading, and writing using both traditional and simplified characters, pinyin romanization, pronunciation, and conversational skills.
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10:30 AM-11:20 AM, MTWRF
STERN 12 |
| CHIN 201-01 |
Intermediate Chinese
Instructor: Nan Ma
Course Description:
An enhancement of the oral and written skills of elementary language study. In addition, students will learn to use dictionaries to translate original literary works. Extra conversational work will be included, geared to understanding and participating in Chinese culture. Prerequisite: 102 or the equivalent.
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10:30 AM-11:20 AM, MTWRF
STERN 11 |
| CHIN 231-01 |
Advanced Chinese
Instructor: CHIN STAFF, Nan Ma
Course Description:
Advanced reading, writing, speaking, and understanding of the Chinese language for students who have completed Chinese 202. This course aims to enhance the students' understanding of Chinese culture and introduce them to issues in contemporary China through reading and discussion.
Prerequisite: 202 or the equivalent
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11:30 AM-12:20 PM, MWF
STERN 11 |
| CHIN 361-01 |
Advanced Chinese II
Instructor: Christopher Peacock
Course Description:
Reading of selected literary works by modern Chinese writers and articles from Chinese newspapers and magazines. These courses involve more sophisticated conversation and composition on important social, political, and economics issues in China.
Prerequisite: 232 or permission of the instructor.
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12:30 PM-01:20 PM, MWF
BOSLER 222 |
| Courses Offered in EASN |
| EASN 205-02 |
Japanese Architecture
Instructor: Wei Ren
Course Description:
Cross-listed with ARTH 205-02. This course is intended to introduce students to the scholarly study of Japanese architecture and urbanism, covering both the premodern and modern eras. Each session will be devoted to the examination of one significant Japanese architectural site, coupled with an important concept or methodological concern in the study of the Japanese built environment. The sites and issues chosen for study are intended to provide students with a broad knowledge base with which to pursue further studies in architectural history, design history, environmental history, and East Asian history. Participants will be introduced to each of the major typologies of Japanese architecture: shrines, temples, imperial villas, castles, tea houses, merchant houses (machiya), and farm houses (minka), as well as the two of the most historically significant city forms in the archipelago, the imperial grid city and the castle town. In addition, the nature and culture of advanced timber-frame architecture will be studied from the vantage point of design, engineering, source materials and process, as well as the sustainability issues inherent to the materials. More general themes that inform the course throughout include the relationship of architecture to the natural landscape, historical and contemporary issues of sustainability, the concept and design of the city, and the significance of the body.
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01:30 PM-02:45 PM, TF
WEISS 235 |
| EASN 205-03 |
Tibetan Literature and Culture in the PRC
Instructor: Christopher Peacock
Course Description:
Cross-listed with RELG 260-02. When the People's Liberation Army entered Tibet in 1950, Tibetan society was turned upside down. A culture defined by its devout Buddhism became part of communist China, and over the following decades, Tibetans were subjected to extreme political campaigns and vast socio-economic changes. After the death of Mao in 1976, the relatively relaxed political climate gave rise to a flourishing cultural scene in Tibet. Since then, Tibetan writers and artists have been finding new avenues of creative expression as they wrestle with the major issues facing the Land of Snows. How can Tibetans reevaluate the roles of religion and tradition on their own terms? Can Tibetans discuss sensitive issues such as the Cultural Revolution and the ongoing self-immolation protests by Buddhist monks? What is it like to be an ethnic minority in a country that is 91% Han Chinese? What does feminism look like in modern Tibet? These are just some of the questions that Tibetan writers--and this course--seek to explore. We will examine literature, art, and film by Tibetans living in the PRC, and through them discover how a unique cultural tradition has adapted itself to the modern world. All texts will be in English translation (translated from Tibetan and Chinese); no prior study of China- or Tibet-related topics required.
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01:30 PM-02:45 PM, TF
LIBRY E. ASIAN |
| EASN 206-01 |
China's Foreign Relations
Instructor: Neil Diamant
Course Description:
Cross-listed with POSC 290-01. This course examines China's relationship to the major world powers, regions and international organizations. Beginning with a consideration of Chinese traditions of dealing with foreign countries, we will then examine the revolutionary legacy of Mao Zedong and the reorientation of foreign policy under Deng Xiaoping after 1978. The course will focus on the role of ideology, history, culture, interests, and leadership in China's foreign relations.
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03:00 PM-04:15 PM, MR
STERN 103 |
| EASN 206-02 |
Life and Death in the Age of Samurai and Geisha
Instructor: Evan Young
Course Description:
Cross-listed with HIST 217-01. In this course, we critically investigate the surprising origins behind some of the most pervasive icons of premodern Japan. By analyzing a variety of historical sources, including diaries, legal petitions, picture scrolls, and woodblock prints, students will gain insight into what it was like to live in the 13th-18th centuries. Topics include the rise of the samurai as a military and political force, the development of geisha as skilled entertainers, peasant revolts, warrior monks, and the texture of everyday life. By analyzing these sources and engaging with new, innovative scholarship, students will learn how to craft original and compelling arguments that change the way we understand premodern Japanese society and culture.
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09:00 AM-10:15 AM, TR
DENNY 103 |
| EASN 206-03 |
Modern Family in East Asia
Instructor: Shawn Bender
Course Description:
Families are our first world. They are our first introduction to the norms and expectations of society. Changes in society can dramatically impact families; changes in families can dramatically reshape society. This course explores the relationship between family and society change in East Asia in the modern era. Drawing on ethnographic and historical research, the course examines shifts in marriage and fertility patterns, approaches to education and child rearing, gender roles and expectations, as well as the care of older adults, primarily in China and Japan. We complement our consideration of social science texts with cinematic depictions of families grappling with the forces of fragmentation.
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03:00 PM-04:15 PM, MR
DENNY 304 |
| EASN 209-01 |
The Japanese Woodblock Print
Instructor: Wei Ren
Course Description:
Cross-listed with ARTH 209-01. This course provides a thorough introduction to the woodblock print Japans most celebrated artistic mediumfrom its emergence in the mid-17th century to the modern era. Technical developments, major genres, and master designers are explored within the context of the prints relationship to the urban culture of early modern and modern Japan. Topics including censorship, theatricality, the representation of war, nationalism, and Japonisme. Special emphasis is placed on an examination of habits of pictorial representation and protocols of viewing unique to the Japanese print medium. Lectures are supplemented by viewing sessions in the Trout Gallery.This course is cross-listed as ARTH 209.
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03:00 PM-04:15 PM, TF
WEISS 235 |
| EASN 305-01 |
War and Memory in East Asian Literature and Film
Instructor: Alex Bates
Course Description:
Cross-listed with FMST 310-01. This class examines Japanese, Chinese, and some Korean and Taiwanese representations of the war fought in Asia between 1937 and 1945. This conflict affected the lives of millions and irrevocably changed the landscape of foreign relations in the region. We will investigate questions of collective (and contested) memory, victimization and responsibility, as well as how artists attempted to represent experiences that stretched the boundaries of imagination. Many of the issues we will discuss remain heated topics of debate in domestic and international politics today. This investigation into collective memory will involve in-depth engagement with fiction and films as well as scholarship relating to the war. By the end of the semester, students will gain experience expressing their ideas using the analytic and research tools that we practice in class. Students will evaluate responses to historical controversies in the realms of academia, politics, literature, film and popular culture, and consider how these debates shape the ways in which we remember and understand past conflicts.
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01:30 PM-02:45 PM, MR
STERN 12 |
| EASN 480-01 |
Critical Dialogues in East Asian Studies
Instructor: Neil Diamant
Course Description:
To help prepare students for completing their senior research project, this course introduces current dialogues and research strategies in East Asian Studies. Students will study influential scholarly texts on and from the region and apply insights gleaned from them toward analysis of primary source data. Students will also learn to better identify and evaluate competing views presented by secondary sources. By the end of the course, students will have chosen a research topic, identified suitable sources, and developed a proposal for their senior project. The content and direction of the course will reflect the research interests of students and the instructor.Prerequisite: EASN, CHIN or JPNS major and 200-level EASN course.
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01:30 PM-04:30 PM, T
STERN 12 |
| EASN 480-02 |
Critical Dialogues in East Asian Studies
Instructor: Nan Ma
Course Description:
To help prepare students for completing their senior research project, this course introduces current dialogues and research strategies in East Asian Studies. Students will study influential scholarly texts on and from the region and apply insights gleaned from them toward analysis of primary source data. Students will also learn to better identify and evaluate competing views presented by secondary sources. By the end of the course, students will have chosen a research topic, identified suitable sources, and developed a proposal for their senior project. The content and direction of the course will reflect the research interests of students and the instructor.Prerequisite: EASN, CHIN or JPNS major and 200-level EASN course.
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| Courses Offered in JPNS |
| JPNS 101-01 |
Elementary Japanese
Instructor: Akiko Meguro
Course Description:
These courses establish the basic language skills including listening, speaking, reading and writing. These courses also provide students with a brief overview of Japanese culture.
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09:30 AM-10:20 AM, MTWRF
STERN 7 |
| JPNS 101-02 |
Elementary Japanese
Instructor: Akiko Meguro
Course Description:
These courses establish the basic language skills including listening, speaking, reading and writing. These courses also provide students with a brief overview of Japanese culture.
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10:30 AM-11:20 AM, MTWRF
STERN 7 |
| JPNS 201-01 |
Intermediate Japanese
Instructor: Alex Bates
Course Description:
The aim of this course is the mastery of the basic structure of Japanese language and communicative skills. The student will have an opportunity to get to know more of Japanese culture.
Prerequisite: 102 or permission of the instructor.
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09:30 AM-10:20 AM, MTWRF
DENNY 303 |
| JPNS 201-02 |
Intermediate Japanese
Instructor: Alex Bates
Course Description:
The aim of this course is the mastery of the basic structure of Japanese language and communicative skills. The student will have an opportunity to get to know more of Japanese culture.
Prerequisite: 102 or permission of the instructor.
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08:30 AM-09:20 AM, MTWRF
DENNY 303 |
| JPNS 231-01 |
Advanced Japanese
Instructor: Akiko Meguro
Course Description:
The emphasis in this course is placed on enhancing the students' fluency and acquiring increasingly creative skills through composition, oral presentation and discussion.
Prerequisite: 202 or permission of the instructor.
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12:30 PM-01:20 PM, MWF
STERN 7 |
| JPNS 361-01 |
Advanced Japanese II
Instructor: Alex Bates
Course Description:
The emphasis in this course is placed on polishing and refining the students' language skills. Emphasis is placed on covering more sophisticated materials such as newspapers, magazine articles, film and literature.
Prerequisite: 232 or permission of the instructor.
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01:30 PM-02:45 PM, TF
STERN 7 |