East Asian Studies Concentration

Listed below are regularly offered courses that students can take to satisfy the Asian Studies program 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 Advisor or their faculty advisor 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 343 Pacific Islands Archaeology
ANTH 436/536 Cultures of Island Southeast Asia
ANTH 437/537 Cultures of Mainland Southeast Asia
ANTH 473/573 Paleoanthropology of South Asia

Architecture

ARCH 432/532 Settlement Patterns: Japanese Vernacular I
ARCH 433/533 Settlement Patterns: Japanese Vernacular II

Art History

ARH 208 History of Chinese Art
ARH 209 History of Japanese Art
ARH 381 Nomadic Art of Eurasia**
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 484/584 Problems in Chinese Art
ARH 488/588 Japanese Prints
ARH 494/594 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 411/511 & 412/512 Fourth-year Chinese
CHN 413/513 Modern Chinese Texts
CHN 423/523 Issues in Early Chinese Literature
CHN 424/524 Issues in Medieval Chinese Literature
CHN 425/525 issues in Modern Chinese Literature
CHN 431/531 ; 432/532 ; 433/533 Advanced Chinese
CHN 436/536 & 437/537 Literary Chinese
CHN 438/538 Literary Chinese Texts
CHN 450/550 Chinese Bibliography
CHN 451/551 Post-Mao Fiction and Debate
CHN 452/552 Chinese Film and Theory
CHN 454/554 Early Chinese Poetry: Scholar's Lament
CHN 455/555 The Han-Tang Poetic Tradition
CHN 456/556 Traditional Chinese Law and Literature
CHN 461/561 The Confucian Canon
CHN 462/562 The Beginnings of Chinese Narrative

Dance

DAN 302 Dance in Asia

East Asian Languages and Literatures

EALL 210 China: A Cultural Odyssey
EALL 211 Japan: A Cultural Odyssey
EALL 460/560 Teaching East Asian Languages and Literatures at College Level

English

ENG 399 Cinematic China
ENG 490/590 Transnational Chinese Cinema

Geography

GEOG 201 World Regional Geography**

History

HIST 104/105 World History**
HIST 120 World History to 1700**
HIST 290 Foundations of East Asia
HIST 291 China-Past and Present
HIST 292 Japan-Past and Present
HIST 387 Early China
HIST 484/584 Philippines
HIST 487/587 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 490/590 Topics in Japanese History
    I-To 1333
    II-Medieval, 1333-1800
    III-Modern Age
HIST 491/591 Medicine and Society in Premodern Japan
HIST 492/592 Postwar Japan
    I-The American Occupation
    II-The Postwar Experience
    III-The Information Age
HIST 494/594 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 497/597 Culture, Modernity, and Revolution in China
    I-Modernity and Gender
    II-Cultural Revolution and Memory
    III-Historiography of the Communist Revolution
HIST 498/598 Early Japanese Culture and Society
    I-Buddhism and Society in Medieval Japan
    II-The Heian Aristocracy
    III-Medieval Japan
    IV-Samurai and War
HIST 499/599 Japanese Popular Culture
    I-Tokugawa Urbanism
    II-Media Culture
    III-Consumer Lifestyles

International Studies

INTL 440/540 The Pacific Challenge**

Japanese

JPN 305/306/307 Introduction to Japanese Literature
JPN 411/511 ; 412/512 ; 413/513 Fourth-Year Spoken Japanese
JPN 414/514 ; 415/515 ; 416/516 Fourth-Year Reading and Writing Japanese
JPN 424/524 Premodern Japanese Literature
JPN 425/525 Modern Japanese Literature
JPN 426/526 Major Japanese Writers
JPN 428/528 Teaching Japanese as a Foreign Language
JPN 431/531 ; 432/532 ; 433/533 Advanced Spoken Japanese
JPN 434/534 ; 435/535 ; 436/536 Advanced Readings in Classical Japanese
JPN 440/540 Japanese Phonology and Morphology
JPN 441/541 Structure of the Japanese Language
JPN 443/543 & 444/544 Teaching Japanese as a Foreign Language
JPN 450/550 Japanese Bibliography
JPN 453/553 Japanese Sociolinguistics
JPN 471/571 The Japanese Cinema
JPN 472/572 Japanese Film and Literature

Philosophy

PHIL 213 Eastern Philosophy

Political Science

PS 101 Modern World Governments**
PS 342/442 Politics of China
PS 454/554 Japanese Politics
PS 459/559 U.S.-China Relations

Religious Studies

REL 201 Great Religions of Asia
REL 303 Japanese Religions
REL 302 Chinese Religions
REL 330/331 Buddhism and Asian Culture
REL 440/540 Readings in Buddhist Scriptures

**indicates that the course meets requirement for the "partial Asian focus" for the Asian Studies minor requirement