| CHIN 102-01 |
Elementary Chinese
Instructor: Christopher Peacock, Xiangyang Ye
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.Prerequisite: 101 or the equivalent
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09:30 AM-10:20 AM, MTWRF
STERN 12 |
| CHIN 102-02 |
Elementary Chinese
Instructor: Christopher Peacock, Xiangyang Ye
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.Prerequisite: 101 or the equivalent
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10:30 AM-11:20 AM, MTWRF
STERN 12 |
| CHIN 202-01 |
Intermediate Chinese
Instructor: Qingtao Long, Christopher Peacock, Xiangyang Ye
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: 201 or the equivalent. This course fulfills the language graduation requirement.
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09:30 AM-10:20 AM, MTWRF
BOSLER 315 |
| CHIN 202-02 |
Intermediate Chinese
Instructor: Christopher Peacock, Qingtao Long, Xiangyang Ye
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: 201 or the equivalent. This course fulfills the language graduation requirement.
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10:30 AM-11:20 AM, MTWRF
BOSLER 315 |
| CHIN 232-01 |
Advanced Chinese
Instructor: Christopher Peacock, Qingtao Long
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: 231 or the equivalent
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11:30 AM-12:20 PM, MWF
LIBRY E. ASIAN |
| CHIN 360-01 |
Current Events and Literary Texts
Instructor: Christopher Peacock, Qingtao Long
Course Description:
This course focuses on continuing to develop students' Chinese proficiency to an "advanced low" level on the ACTFL proficiency scale. Potential topics may include current events and/or prominent literary and historical texts of the 20th and 21st centuries from Mainland China and Taiwan. Class sessions will be based on written and oral discussion of the texts in Chinese, along with in-class reading and translation in order to facilitate comprehension. Throughout the semester, students will also complete a range of related writing, presentation, and translation assignments to further enhance their Chinese language skills. Prerequisite: 232 or equivalent.
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12:30 PM-01:20 PM, MWF
LIBRY E. ASIAN |
| Courses Offered in EASN |
| EASN 108-01 |
Arts of East Asia
Instructor: Mo Zhang
Course Description:
Cross-listed with ARTH 108-01. This course introduces students to a selection of objects and sites that elicit new modes of cultural perception and insight into the artistic cultures of China, Korea, and Japan. Loosely arranged in a chronological order, each week is devoted to in-depth examination of a different type of object, medium, and format. The diverse mediums (sculpture, ceramics, metalwork, lacquer, prints, painting, calligraphy, photography, performance, and architecture) and the long historical span covered in class will chart how culture traveled within East Asia, and later, globally, as well as each cultures distinctive methods of adaptation over time. Major themes include the relationship between artistic production and sociopolitical and socioeconomic development, cultural exchange, aesthetics, impact of religion, power and authority, gender, and issues of modernity. Lectures are supplemented by viewing sessions in the Trout Gallery.This course is cross-listed as ARTH 108.
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03:00 PM-04:15 PM, TF
ALTHSE 106 |
| EASN 205-01 |
Japanese Literature Into Film
Instructor: Alex Bates
Course Description:
Cross-listed with FMST 210-01. This course introduces students to major figures in the cinematic and literary history of Japan, along with some more recent additions, while exploring the issue of film adaptation. Each week we will read a book or short story and watch a film made from that source. At the same time, we will be reading key theorists in adaptation theory and participate in their scholarly conversation. Rather than discuss questions of a film's fidelity, we will examine how different techniques are used in the source and the adaptation to explore similar or even diverging themes. The class will conclude with a project in which student groups will create their own adaptation. Additional Time Slot: Mondays 7-10pm for film screenings. Alternate modes of viewing will be made available for those with unavoidable conflicts.
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01:30 PM-02:45 PM, MR
DENNY 212
07:00 PM-09:00 PM, M
BOSLER 208 |
| EASN 205-02 |
Yoga in Theory and Practice
Instructor: Blayne Harcey
Course Description:
Cross-listed with RELG 260-01. Introduces students to yogic traditions originating in South Asia through primary source texts, biography, and visual culture. Students will explore the historical development of yogic philosophies in India, Nepal, Tibet, and Southeast Asia as well as reflect on the popularization of yoga as modern spiritual and wellness practice.
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09:00 AM-10:15 AM, TR
EASTC 314 |
| EASN 206-01 |
Law and Justice in East Asian Cinema
Instructor: Neil Diamant
Course Description:
Cross-listed with LAWP 290-08. Focusing on films in China, Taiwan, Japan, and South Korea, this course looks at how a wide variety of films in several genres (gangster movies, police procedurals, documentaries, social commentaries, dramas, LGBTQ-themed) have addressed the relationship between justice and law. We will examine the extent to which courts and lawyers are as prominent in securing justice in East Asian films as they are in American cinema, whether ordinary people feel that governments are a solution or a cause of their problems, and whether interpersonal and community-based justice, such as getting revenge or demanding an apology, is seen as a legitimate substitute to seeking redress through the legal system. Befitting the expertise of the instructor, this course stresses the political, legal, and economic contexts of the films, not the elements of cinematic form.
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10:30 AM-11:45 AM, TR
STERN 103 |
| EASN 206-02 |
History of Medicine and the Body in East Asia
Instructor: Evan Young
Course Description:
Cross-listed with HIST 217-01. This course is an introduction to the history of medicine in East Asia. We will begin by exploring the theoretical and practical underpinnings of classical Chinese medicine, which was the foundation of healing practices in premodern China, Korea, and Japan. We will then move on to trace the introduction of modern bio-medicine and the eventual reemergence of "Traditional Chinese Medicine" as an alternative style of therapy in the 20th century. We will also consider a wide range of topics that have generated compelling intellectual dialogue, including the relationship between doctors and patients and between medicine and the state.
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01:30 PM-02:45 PM, TF
DENNY 103 |
| EASN 206-04 |
Food and Culture in Japan
Instructor: Shawn Bender
Course Description:
It may seem surprising that before the sushi craze swept over the United States in the 1980s, Japanese cuisine was not well known outside of Asia or diasporic ethnic communities abroad. Today, Japan has not only become a food destination, and Japanese cuisine ranks among the most revered and prestigious food cultures in the world. This course examines the cultural dimensions of Japanese cuisine. We explore the historical development of focal dishes and beverages, the diversity of the Japanese diet and approach to food, the relationship between food and national identity, the environmental impact of food production and food consumption in Japan, the gendered dimensions of domestic and professional cooking, and the impact of globalization on Japanese foodways. Students will read historical and anthropological works in area studies and food studies, analyze representations of food in literature and film, and engage with Japanese food through practical learning activities.
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03:00 PM-04:15 PM, MR
ALTHSE 110 |
| EASN 305-01 |
Contemplative Practices in Asia
Instructor: Blayne Harcey
Course Description:
Cross-listed with RELG 326-01. Buddhism, Hinduism, and Daoism have ancient and rich traditions of contemplative practice focused on cultivating ethical dispositions and higher states of consciousness. This course will examine various methods of mind training from across these traditions and explore the philosophical principles that undergird them. Students will also reflect on the popularization of these mind training practices in modernity
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01:30 PM-04:30 PM, M
EASTC 303 |
| EASN 306-01 |
Gender and Sexuality in Modern Japanese History
Instructor: Evan Young
Course Description:
Cross-listed with HIST 317-01 and WGSS 302-01. This course is an exploration of how sexuality and gender have been continually redefined and experienced throughout modern Japanese history. We will analyze the changes Japanese society underwent from the 19th century to the present, paying particular attention to transformations as well as continuities in eroticism, same-sex love, family structure, and gender roles. A key theme of the course is the socially-constructed nature of gender norms and how women and men frequently transgressed feminine and masculine ideals, a theme that we will explore through both primary sources in translation and secondary scholarship. Building upon in-class workshops and a series of short-essay assignments, the final goal of the course will be to produce a paper that analyzes the development of this new and exciting field of history.
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01:30 PM-04:30 PM, W
DENNY 303 |
| EASN 490-01 |
Senior Research
Instructor: Neil Diamant
Course Description:
Leading to a senior thesis and jointly supervised by at least two faculty in the program.
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01:30 PM-04:30 PM, T
STERN 12 |
| Courses Offered in JPNS |
| JPNS 102-01 |
Elementary Japanese
Instructor: Naoko Date Teunissen, 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.Prerequisite: 101 or permission of instructor
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09:30 AM-10:20 AM, MTWRF
STERN 7 |
| JPNS 102-02 |
Elementary Japanese
Instructor: Naoko Date Teunissen, 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.Prerequisite: 101 or permission of instructor
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10:30 AM-11:20 AM, MTWRF
STERN 7 |
| JPNS 202-01 |
Intermediate Japanese
Instructor: Naoko Date Teunissen, 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: 201 or permission of the instructor. This course fulfills the language graduation requirement.
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09:30 AM-10:20 AM, MTWRF
EASTC 112 |
| JPNS 202-02 |
Intermediate Japanese
Instructor: Alex Bates, Naoko Date Teunissen
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: 201 or permission of the instructor. This course fulfills the language graduation requirement.
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10:30 AM-11:20 AM, MTWRF
EASTC 112 |
| JPNS 232-01 |
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: 231 or permission of the instructor.
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12:30 PM-01:20 PM, MWF
STERN 7 |
| JPNS 360-01 |
Discussing Current Events in Advanced Japanese
Instructor: Naoko Date Teunissen
Course Description:
This advanced-level course focuses on enhancing reading, listening, speaking, and presentation skills through the study of current events in Japan. Students will engage with textbook materials and apply their knowledge using authentic sources such as news articles, documentaries, and other media. Topics include Japanese traditions, culture, politics, environmental issues, and social concerns. The course will be conducted entirely in Japanese and aims to further develop students' language proficiency while deepening their understanding of contemporary Japanese society.
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