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| Eco-013: (Wst-013,Eas-013) Globalization and Women | Fall; Nair | TTh- 11:15pm - 12:20pm and Fr- 12:20pm - 1:25pm | This course examines a unique and topical area of economics-the effects of globalization on women. Attention is given to international policies, with special reference to the International Labour Organization and the transition from "women in development" to "women and development." Topics include the Gender Project in South Asia, the special Indian case study of Mumbai, survival strategies of women, and the two-way process of globalization and women.
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| HST-068: The Last Dynasty: The Glory and Fall of the Qing Empire, 1644-1911 | Fall; Madancy | MWF 1:45 pm – 2:50 pm | For more than 250 years, the Manchu Qing dynasty ruled over an enormous Chinese empire, but when the dynasty fell in the Revolution of 1911, the entire imperial system collapsed with it. What caused it to fall - ethnic tensions, palace intrigue, the population explosion, or the arrival of the West with its gunboats, missionaries, radical ideologies, and chests of opium? To find out, we will read the diary of a Chinese emperor, learn about the ordeals of the infamous examination system, enjoy a novel about the love triangle that toppled a refined and wealthy Chinese family, and explore the life of a religious rebel whose vision inspired a popular rebellion that shook the foundations of Qing rule and brought the deaths of tens of millions. And of course, the class will end with a group viewing of the epic film, The Last Emperor. GenEd: CD-EA; WAC |
| HST 065: East Asian Tradition | Fall; Madancy | MWF 10:50 am – 11:55 am | GenEd: CD-EA; WAC |
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| CHN-010: Basic Chinese | Fall; Ferry | MWF 1:45 pm – 2:50 pm | |
| CHN-120: Intermediate Chinese | Fall; Ferry | MWF 3:00 pm – 4:05 pm | |
| JPN-010: Basice Japanese I | Fall; Ueno | MWF 10:50 am – 11:55 am | |
| JPN-120: Intermediate Japanese | Fall; Ueno | MWF 9:35 am – 10:40 am | |
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| AMU-042: Popular Music of Japan | Fall; Matsue | MW- 2:50pm - 4:40 pm | This course will investigate the position of popular music in modern Japan, moving historically from Meiji period military music to contemporary Japanese urban popular musics. We will examine various genres of popular music with a specific interest interrogating the process of modernization, and the relationship with western music and musical practice. The lectures in this course will focus on a variety of topics including: the romantic view of country and western music; enka as nostalgia; and the value of imitation in Japanese pop-music. A portion of each class will be devoted to examining the lyrics, visual imagery, and music itself as reflections of the continued modernization process in Japan. GenEd: CD-EA |
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| AAH 067: Visual Culture of Communist China, 1919 to Present | Fall; Cura | MWF 12:05 pm – 1:10 pm | This course explores the relationship between ideology and visual culture in China, from the founding of the Communist Party in 1919, to Mao Zedong's prescriptions at the 1942 Yan'an Conference of Literature and Art, to art policy after the founding of the People's Republic of China in 1949. Readings and discussion will cover the range of adherence and resistance to the official party line by art workers. Artistic developments covered include modernism, socialist realism, peasant art, "wound art," cynical realism, political pop, and the avant-garde, as seen in painting, sculpture, architecture, posters, advertising, video, performance, and the material culture of quotidian life under Communist rule. GenEd: CD-EA, WAC (pending AAC and WAC approval) |
| AAH 070: Seminar: Asian Garden Design | Fall; Cura | MW 3:00 pm – 4:40 pm | This seminar explores the history and theory of public and private garden design in China and Japan, as well as the reception and recapitulation of Asian gardens in the Euro-American context. In addition to reading and writing assignments, the course requirements involve the creation of a virtual and real-time Asian garden, constructed communally on campus by the class over the ten-week period. Enrollment is limited to 10, with instructor’s permission only. There are no prerequisites, though some knowledge of or background in one or more of the following are desirable: architecture, art history, carpentry/woodworking, computer-aided design, engineering, project management, studio/applied arts. GenEd: CD-EA |
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| MLT 012 / EAS 23 / WS 133: Gender and Sexuality in Modern China | Fall; Ferry | TTh 10:50 am – 12:30 pm | |
| ANT 068: East Asia in Motion: People, Culture, and Identity | Winter; Tierney | TTh 1:45 pm - 3:25 pm | East Asia has a long history of constantly shifting borders, diasporic populations, and unstable identities. Seeking to go beyond the idea of the bounded national cultures of China, Japan and Korea, this course takes East Asian as region to examine how cultural forms and people have changed as a result of contemporary and historical globalization forces both within and outside of the region. The course will cover anthropological categories such as diaspora, race, gender, identity, tourism, memory, sports, etc., but will re-consider them within the East Asian context(s). GenEd: CD-EA |
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| ANT 104: Contemporary Japanese Society (Same as Women’s Studies 135) | Winter; Matsue | TTh 1:45 pm - 3:25 pm | East Asia has a long history of constantly shifting borders, diasporic populations, and unstable identities. Seeking to go beyond the idea of the bounded national cultures of China, Japan and Korea, this course takes East Asian as region to examine how cultural forms and people have changed as a result of contemporary and historical globalization forces both within and outside of the region. The course will cover anthropological categories such as diaspora, race, gender, identity, tourism, memory, sports, etc., but will re-consider them within the East Asian context(s). GenEd: CD-EA |
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| ECO 144: International Economics | Winter; Motahar | TTh 1:45 pm – 3:25 pm | CD-EA; WAC | |
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| EGL-039C- Contemporary South Asian Writing | Winter; Jain | MWF 1:45 pm - 2:50pm | This course will introduce students to South Asian writers from the subcontinent and throughout the diaspora who are highly visible in international literary milieus. We will consider the following issues: postcolonialism, literary canons and genres, the implications of English-language writing for South Asians, types of narrative innovation, and aesthetic commonalities or differences. GenEd: CD-EA |
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| EGL 077: Contemporary American Novel: Contemporary Ethnic American Fiction | Winter; Romero | TTh 1:45 pm – 3:25 pm | Am-L; CD-AA, CD-EA; WAC | |
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| ST 198: Seminar in East Asian History: Drugs and Cultures in East Asia | Winter; Madancy | MWF 10:50 am – 11:55 am | This course explores how different drugs, particularly opiates but also marijuana, tobacco, caffeine, and alcohol, affected and were affected by different cultures in Asia, particularly in the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries. Students will examine the physiological and psychological effects of various drugs and look at how those substances altered regional economies and fueled global empires. We will also analyze the way drugs altered perceptions of other cultures and groups of people within those cultures. The emphasis will not be on condoning or demonizing drugs, but rather on understanding why attitudes toward various substances change depending on time and place, as well as the identity of the consumer or observer. Students will design a research project that they will research, write, and present during the term. GenEd: CD-EA; WAC |
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| HST 065: East Asian Tradition | Winter; Madancy | MWF 10:50 am – 11:55 am | GenEd: CD-EA; WAC | |
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| CHN-011: Basic Chinese II | Winter; Ferry | MWF 1:45 pm – 2:50 pm | ||
| CHN-121: Intermediate Chinese II | Winter; Staff | MWF 8:20 am – 9:25 am | ||
| CHN-130: Advanced Chinese I | Winter; Staff | MWF 10:50 am – 11:55 am | ||
| JPN-011: Basic Japanese II | Winter; Ueno | MWF 10:50 am – 11:55 am | ||
| JPN-121: Intermediate Japanese II | Winter; Ueno | MWF 9:35 am – 10:40 am | ||
| JPN-130: Advanced Intermediate Japanese | Winter; Wojnovich | MWF 9:35 am – 10:40 am | ||
| MLT 013: Asian American Film and Performance (Also EAS 25 and ENG 34E) | Winter; Ferry | MWF 9:35 am – 10:40 am | GenEd: CD-EA, AM-C; WAC: | |
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| AMU 043: Introduction to World Music (Also ANT 048) | Winter; Matsue | TTh 1:45 pm – 3:25 pm | ||
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| HL 015: Asian Philosophy | Winter; Patrik | TTh 9:00 am – 10:40 am | An introductory survey of ancient Indian, Chinese, Japanese and Tibetan philosophical theories, including Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, Confucianism, Daoism, Zen Buddhism and Tibetan Buddhism. As part of the course, students will be taught how to create short films on one of the Asian theories. GenEd: CD-EA |
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| AVA 071: Floating World: Edo Prints. | Winter; Wimer/Cura | TTh 9:00 am – 12:30 pm | (Identical to AAH 071). Students will produce a portfolio of woodblock prints based on an exploration of the history of Japanese prints during the Edo period (1603-1867), Ukiyó-e, or “floating-world pictures” refer to the urban pleasures offered in the imperial capital Edo (modern-day Tokyo). GenEd: CD-EA | |
| AAH 061: Buddhist Art | Winter; Cura | TTh 1:45 PM – 3:25 PM | ||
| ANT 068: East Asia in Motion: People, Culture, and Identity | Fall; Tierney | TTh 1:45 pm - 3:25 pm | East Asia has a long history of constantly shifting borders, diasporic populations, and unstable identities. Seeking to go beyond the idea of the bounded national cultures of China, Japan and Korea, this course takes East Asian as region to examine how cultural forms and people have changed as a result of contemporary and historical globalization forces both within and outside of the region. The course will cover anthropological categories such as diaspora, race, gender, identity, tourism, memory, sports, etc., but will re-consider them within the East Asian context(s). GenEd: CD-EA |
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| ANT 104: Contemporary Japanese Society (Same as Women’s Studies 135) | Fall; Matsue | MWF 10:50 am – 11:55 am | GenEd: CD-EA, WAC | |
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| ENG 035: Asian American Literatures | Spring; Jain | TTh 1:45 pm – 3:25 pm | In this course, we will read both very well known and less familiar writers representing many parts of Asia in the United States. We will discuss the theoretical issues that help define a literary canon such as this one, while closely reading literature across various genres, including novels, poetry, and plays. Themes include: aesthetic and stylistic choices, inter-generational conflict, responses to assimilation pressures, gender and class differences among Asian Americans, pan-Asian identities v. distinct ethnicities, the significance of “color” in Asian American experiences, and political representation within America. GenEd: Am-L, CD-EA; WAC |
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| ENG 039A/WST 025: Post Colonial Perspectives | Spring; Jain | TTh 9:00 am – 10:40 am | CD-LA, CD-EA, CD-AA; WAC | |
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| HST 066: Modern East Asia | Spring; Madancy | MWF 10:50 am – 11:55 am | An analytical overview of the major themes and historical processes that shaped China, Japan, and Korea from the 19th century to the present. GenEd: CD-EA; WAC |
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| CHN-012: Basic Chinese III | Spring; Ferry | MWF 1:45 pm – 2:50 pm | ||
| CHN-122: Intermediate Chinese III | Spring; Chen | MWF 9:35 am – 10:40am | ||
| CHN-131: Advanced Chinese II | Spring; Chen | MWF 8:20 am - 9:25 am | Emphasis on the communicative function of the language where advanced reading, grammar, and conversation are stressed. The content of the material focuses on the rapidly changing attitudes and values of modern China. Authentic reading materials are included in each lesson. GenEd: CDEA |
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| JPN-012: Basic Japanese III | Spring; Ueno | Section 1: MWF 10:50 am – 11:55 am | Section 1: MWF 8:20 am – 9:25 am | |
| JPN-122: Intermediate Japanese III | Spring; Ueno | MWF 9:35 am – 10:40 am | ||
| MLT 014/EAS 020: Literary Traditions in East Asia | Spring; Ferry | MWF 3:00 pm – 4:05 pm | GenEd: CD-EA, AM-C; WAC: | |
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| PHL 045: Buddhist Ethics | Spring; Patrik | MWF 3:00 pm – 4:05 pm | Ethics is one of the three main components of the Buddhist path, the others being meditation and wisdom. The earliest sources of Buddhist ethics are the Sutras, which contain Shakyamuni Buddha’s teachings from the 6th Century B.C.E. Different Buddhist approaches to ethics began to appear in the centuries following the Buddha’s death, as Buddhism split into the two main traditions of Theravada Buddhism and Mahayana Buddhism. The older school, Theravada, emphasized a morality that perfects individual saints; the Mahayana school emphasized a morality of compassion. In the contemporary period, Buddhists are concerned about issues relating to the environment, social justice, war, medicine and health, gender, and race. In general, Buddhist ethics emphasizes peace, selflessness, moral discipline, compassion, karma, and awareness. In this course we shall study some of the ancient ethical texts of Buddhism, as well as contemporary works on applying basic Buddhist ethical principles to today’s moral problems. GenEd: CD-EA |
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| PSC 044: Japan Conflict and Consensus | Spring; Gilman | MW 3:00 pm – 4:40 pm | ||
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| AAH 014: Arts of China . | Spring; Cura | TTh 9:00 am – 10:40 am | This survey covers works of art and artistic traditions in China from the Neolithic period to the early 20th century. Lectures will focus on representative works in various media--calligraphy, painting, sculpture, architecture, and decorative arts-–within the contexts of the tomb, court production, literati culture, Buddhist and Daoist temples, and interactions with other cultures. GenEd: CD-EA | |
| AAH63: Ceramic Traditions of East Asia | Spring; Cura | TTh 1:45 PM – 3:25 PM | ). In East Asia, ceramic production achieves the status of high art, transcending its Eurocentric designation as a “decorative” or “applied” art. This course explores the interplay of form, glaze, and design among pottery traditions—from rustic earthenware to high-fired porcelain—in China, Korea, Japan, and Vietnam. Lectures and visits to museum collections will also consider the historical role of ceramics in cross-cultural exchanges within Asia and beyond, to the Mediterranean, the Middle East, Western Europe, and the Americas. GenEd: CD-EA |
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| AAH 105: Arts of Japan | Winter; Cura | TTh 10:50 am – 12:30 pm | This introduction to the arts of Japan from the Neolithic period to the 20th century will focus on key monuments of sculpture, architecture, painting, calligraphy, gardens, printing, and other arts within their historical and cultural contexts. GenEd: CD-EA |
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| AAH 286: Art and Archaeology of Central Asia | Winter; Cura | TTh 1:45 pm – 3:25 pm | Central Asia – broadly defined as the area occupied, from East to West, by present-day western China, Mongolia, Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, northern India, Pakistan, Tajikistan, Afghanistan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, and Iran – has been characterized as both harsh wasteland and cultural crossroads. The course surveys the surviving material remains of Central Asia in the context of its multi/trans/inter-cultural past and its contemporary upheavals.
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| HST 382: World War II in Asia | Winter; Madancy | TTh 10:50 am – 12:30 pm | World War II was the most destructive conflict of the twentieth century, but many students in America are unfamiliar with the toll it took on Asia and why residual tensions between Japan, China, and Korea remain so real and so raw today. This course examines how the war came about, how it is remembered, and how its complex legacy still affects the region.
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| CHN-101 Basic Chinese II | Winter; Feng | MWF 1:45 pm – 2:50 pm | |
| CHN 201: Intermediate Chinese II | Winter; Li | MWF 9:30 am – 10:40 am | The course is designed for students who have had first-year Chinese and are familiar with basic vocabularies, grammars, and Chinese characters. The emphasis is to further build up vocabulary and sentence patterns, to improve students’ oral proficiency, and to increase their knowledge of Chinese culture and society. |
| CHN 301: Advanced Chinese II | Winter; Li | MWF 12:50pm – 1:10 pm | This course is designed to help students who have completed two years of Chinese to improve the students’ overall proficiency in speaking and writing through reading and discussion of a variety of topics on social and cultural issues in contemporary China. |
| JPN-101 Basic Japanese II | Winter; Ueno | MWF 10:50 am – 11:55 am | |
| JPN 201: Intermediate Japanese II | Winter; Ueno | MWF 1:45 pm – 2:50 pm | |
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| ECO 354: International Economics | Winter; Motahar | This course tackles some of the most important questions faced by policy-makers, businesses, and ordinary citizens in an increasingly interdependent world: Why do countries trade with one another? Wouldn't life be easier and simpler if all countries were self-sufficient and relied on their own resources? Is free trade good for all countries and in all circumstances? International interdependence extends beyond simply the shipping of goods between countries: Are there benefits that result from international movement of workers? What about the flow of capital among countries? Do immigrants "steal" U.S. jobs? Should one be concerned about "foreigners" owning a lot of U.S. assets? What factors cause fluctuations in exchange rates? To quote from the textbook that we will use, "The study of international trade and money has always been an especially lively and controversial part of economics. Many of the key insights of modern economic analysis first emerged in debates over international trade and monetary policy. Yet there was never a time when the study of international economics was as important as it is today. Through international trade in goods and services, and international flows of money, the economies of different countries are more closely linked to one another now than ever before. At the same time, the world economy is more turbulent than it has been in many decades. Keeping up with the shifting international environment has become a central concern of both business strategy and national economic policy.
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