Program Requirements
This program may be expanded to the Major Concentration East Asian Studies.
Introduction to East Asian Culture
6 credits, two of the following courses:
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EAST 211 Introduction: East Asian Culture: China (3 credits)
Overview
Asian Language & Literature : This course provides a critical introduction to central themes in Chinese culture. The course will also examine the changing representations of the Chinese cultural tradition in the West. Readings will include original sources in translation from the fields of literature, philosophy, religion, and cultural history.
Terms: Fall 2024
Instructors: Gvili, Gal (Fall)
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EAST 212 Introduction: East Asian Culture: Japan (3 credits)
Overview
Asian Language & Literature : An introduction to Japan which presents various aspects of Japanese literature, culture, history, religions, philosophy and society.
Terms: Winter 2025
Instructors: Bergstrom, Brian (Winter)
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EAST 213 Introduction: East Asian Culture: Korea (3 credits)
Overview
Asian Language & Literature : This course provides a critical introduction to central themes in Korean culture, including Korean literature, religions, philosophy, and socio-economic formations.
Terms: Fall 2024
Instructors: Chung, Kimberly (Fall)
East Asian Literature, Culture and Society
12 credits of courses in East Asian Literature, Culture and Society selected from the list below.
East Asian Studies (EAST)
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EAST 215 Introduction to East Asian Art (3 credits)
Overview
Asian Language & Literature : Introductory survey of some of the major developments in the visual arts of Japan, China, and Korea. Emphasis will be placed on the diversity of artistic traditions in East Asia and the intersections among these traditions.
Terms: Fall 2024
Instructors: Luce, Davin (Fall)
Restriction: Not open to students taking or who have taken ARTH 215.
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EAST 250 Introduction to Asian Media Studies (3 credits)
Overview
Asian Language & Literature : The course explores core methods and theoretical approaches to media in Asia and beyond: material culture, technicity, media infrastructures, intermediality, circulation, platforms, regionalism, and institutional history.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year.
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EAST 279 Introduction to Film
History (3 credits)
Overview
Asian Language & Literature : An introduction to representative periods, movements and styles in the history of cinema, as well as questions of film historiography.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year.
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EAST 303 Current Topics: Chinese Studies 1 (3 credits)
Overview
Asian Language & Literature : Consideration of important issues in Chinese Studies. Content of the course will vary from year to year.
Terms: Winter 2025
Instructors: Gvili, Gal (Winter)
Fall
Restriction: Departmental approval required
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EAST 304 Current Topics: Chinese Studies 2 (3 credits)
Overview
Asian Language & Literature : Consideration of important issues in Chinese Studies. Content of the course will vary from year to year.
Terms: Fall 2024
Instructors: Lai, Rongdao (Fall)
Winter
Restriction: Departmental approval required
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EAST 305 Current Topics: Japanese Studies 1 (3 credits)
Overview
Asian Language & Literature : Consideration of important issues in Japanese studies. The content of the course will vary from year to year.
Terms: Winter 2025
Instructors: Bergstrom, Brian (Winter)
Fall
Restriction: Departmental approval required
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EAST 306 Current Topics: Japanese Studies 2 (3 credits)
Overview
Asian Language & Literature : Consideration of important issues in Japanese studies. The content of the course will vary from year to year.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Winter
Restriction: Departmental approval required
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EAST 307 Topics: East Asian Language and Literature 1 (3 credits)
Overview
Asian Language & Literature : Consideration of selected topics and aspects of East Asian literature and/or language.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Fall
Prerequisite: EAST 211 or permission of instructor
The topic of the course may vary from year to year.
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EAST 308 Topics: East Asian Language and Literature 2 (3 credits)
Overview
Asian Language & Literature : Consideration of selected topics and aspects of East Asian literature and/or language.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Winter
Prerequisite: EAST 211 or permission of instructor
Restriction: Departmental approval required
The topic of the course may vary from year to year.
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EAST 313 Current Topics: Korean Studies 1 (3 credits)
Overview
Asian Language & Literature : Consideration of important issues in Korean Studies. Content of the course will vary from year to year.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Fall
Restriction: Departmental approval required.
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EAST 314 Current Topics: Korean Studies 2 (3 credits)
Overview
Asian Language & Literature : Consideration of important issues in Korean Studies. Content of the course will vary from year to year.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Winter
Restriction: Departmental approval required
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EAST 350 Gender and Sexuality in Chinese Literature (3 credits)
Overview
Asian Language & Literature : Gender and sexuality in modern and/or premodern Chinese literature with emphasis on representation of gender relations, notions of masculinity and femininity, morality and sexuality. Readings from fiction, drama, poetry, and/or other genres are approached from a variety of critical perspectives.
Terms: Winter 2025
Instructors: Wang, Guojun (Winter)
Prerequisite: EAST 211 or permission of instructor.
Note: Readings in English translation.
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EAST 351 Women Writers of China (3 credits)
Overview
Asian Language & Literature : A study of fiction, drama, and poetry by women writers in imperial, modern, and/or contemporary China.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Core course for the Women's Studies program
Prerequisite: EAST 211 or permission of instructor.
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EAST 352 Critical Approaches to Chinese Literature (3 credits)
Overview
Asian Language & Literature : This course will examine traditional and/or modern genres of Chinese literature with a focus on different forms of Chinese and Western literary analysis.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Prerequisite: EAST 211.
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EAST 353 Approaches to Chinese Cinema (3 credits)
Overview
Asian Language & Literature : Development of Chinese film in the 20th century, with an emphasis on both critical approaches to film as well as film history.
Terms: Fall 2024
Instructors: Suher, Dylan (Fall)
Prerequisite: EAST 211.
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EAST 356 Modern and Contemporary Chinese Art (3 credits)
Overview
Asian Language & Literature : Examination of modern Chinese art and visual culture from the 1920's to the present. Emphasis will be placed on the formation of the artistic avant-garde in the 20th century and its relation to socialist and post-socialist mass culture.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Restriction: Not open to students taking or who have taken ARTH 356.
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EAST 361 Animation and New Media (3 credits)
Overview
Asian Language & Literature : Animation and new media in East Asia, with an emphasis on postwar developments.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Restrictions: Not open to students who have taken EAST 214.
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EAST 362 Japanese Cinema (3 credits)
Overview
Asian Language & Literature : This course will study the development of film in Japan during the 20th century with a particular focus on the analysis of film form, genres and history.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year.
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EAST 363 Early and Medieval Japan (3 credits)
Overview
Asian Language & Literature : This course examines cultural production in early and medieval Japan, focusing on calligraphy, painting, picture scrolls, gestures and their relation to textual production. Readings explore various classic texts, taboos against seeing and narrative modes of cognition.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Prerequisite: EAST 212 or permission of instructor
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EAST 364 Mass Culture and Postwar Japan (3 credits)
Overview
Asian Language & Literature : This course addresses a number of analytic approaches to mass culture in order to examine the culture industry of post-war Japan. Emphasis on narrative strategies in popular or consumer fiction and on the problems of marginalized writers.
Terms: Fall 2024
Instructors: Tarcov, Marianne (Fall)
Prerequisite: Any introductory course in literature or cultural studies, or permission of instructor
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EAST 369 Gender and Sexuality in Asian Media (3 credits)
Overview
Asian Language & Literature : In this course, we examine contesting notions of gender, sexuality, femininity, and masculinity in Asian cinema and media. We study how individual works negotiate the social discourses on gender and sexual representation, identities, and performance, and how we may borrow conceptual frameworks from queer theories and histories at large to discuss them.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year.
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EAST 370 History of Sexuality in Japan (3 credits)
Overview
Asian Language & Literature : Social and cultural history of sexuality in Japan. Possible topics include pre-modern sexuality and relations to court, religion and anthropology; pre-modern sex and gender relations; modern sexuality and gender identities; sexuality and the rise of science; relation to nationalism; feminism and queer movements.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year.
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EAST 372 Topics in Television: Asia (3 credits)
Overview
Asian Language & Literature : This course approaches television and televisuality historically, in regional, transnational, and global perspectives.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Prerequisite(s): A 200-level course in EAST or permission of instructor.
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EAST 375 Korean Media and Popular Culture (3 credits)
Overview
Asian Language & Literature : This course approaches popular culture and mass media in postwar Korea from historical and theoretical perspectives, with a focus on the connections between activism, mass media, and commodity culture.
Terms: Winter 2025
Instructors: Chung, Kimberly (Winter)
Prerequisite(s): EAST 213 or permission of the instructor.
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EAST 377 Topics: Transnational Asian Culture (3 credits)
Overview
Asian Language & Literature : Investigation of cinema's border-crossing modes of cultural production, reception, and circulation, to uncover the ways that the study of culture enriches current theories and approaches to the transnational.
Terms: Winter 2025
Instructors: Chung, Kimberly (Winter)
Prerequisite(s): A 200-level course in EAST or permission of instructor.
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EAST 385 Global Korea (3 credits)
Overview
Asian Language & Literature : This course considers Korean culture and society in the modern period by examining changing attitudes about the relationship between the national and the global, across social institutions, political discourse, and popular media.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year.
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EAST 388 Asian Migrations and Diasporas (3 credits)
Overview
Asian Language & Literature : Introduction to the interdisciplinary study of Asian migrations and diasporas. Topics include colonialism and diaspora, transnationalism, globalization, citizenship, migration and the state, gender and migration, human trafficking, and forced migration.
Terms: Fall 2024
Instructors: Hwang, Maria (Fall)
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EAST 389 Global Cinema and Media Asia (3 credits)
Overview
Asian Language & Literature : Ascendancy of East Asian cinema and media as global culture; the aesthetic, technological, economic and political conditions of cinema as a transnational commodity; and the history of globalization and East Asia media platforms.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Prerequisite(s): A 200-level course in EAST or permission of instructor.
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EAST 390 The Chinese Family in History (3 credits)
Overview
Asian Language & Literature : Exploration of the Chinese family in history both as an institution - in its religious, legal, economic, political aspects - and as a lived reality.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year.
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EAST 453 Topics: Chinese Literature (3 credits)
Overview
Asian Language & Literature : Advanced seminar in selected genres, themes and issues in Chinese literature.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Prerequisite: A 300-level course in any literature.
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EAST 454 Topics: Chinese Cinema (3 credits)
Overview
Asian Language & Literature : Advanced seminar in selected themes and issues in Chinese film.
Terms: Winter 2025
Instructors: Dong, Xinyu (Winter)
Prerequisites: EAST 353, a 300-level film studies course, or permission of the instructor.
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EAST 461 Inventing Modern Japanese Novel (3 credits)
Overview
Asian Language & Literature : An examination of the modern Japanese novel as a form which both affirms and resists the form of the European novel. Readings explore the particular problems of the Japanese novel in the context of modernization, westernization, and colonialism.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Prerequisite: Any course in literature or cultural studies above the introductory level, or permission of instructor
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EAST 462 Japan in Asia (3 credits)
Overview
Asian Language & Literature : This course introduces theories of cultural interaction, interpellation, and intertexuality in order to reconsider Japanese modes of reception and selection of Chinese texts and technologies. Readings range from early Japanese to 20th century texts. Readings in translation.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Prerequisite: Any East Asian Studies course above the introductory level, or permission of the instructor
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EAST 464 Image, Text, Performance (3 credits)
Overview
Asian Language & Literature : Drawing on theoretical approaches from a variety of cultural and media studies, including cinema, performance and performativity, and elsewhere, this course addresses cultural production in premodern and/or modern East Asia. Topics to be addressed range from calligraphy and writing, to theatre, and film.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Prerequisite: Any East Asian Studies course above the introductory level, or permission of the instructor
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EAST 467 Topics: Japanese Cinema (3 credits)
Overview
Asian Language & Literature : Topics in the study of Japanese cinema.
Terms: Fall 2024
Instructors: Tarcov, Marianne (Fall)
Prerequisites: EAST 362 or permission of the instructor.
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EAST 468 Science and Technology: Asia (3 credits)
Overview
Asian Language & Literature : History of science and technology in Asia with an emphasis on social and cultural impact and the legacy non-Western traditions.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year.
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EAST 477 Media and Environment in Asia (3 credits)
Overview
Asian Language & Literature : The course explores the intersection between media and "environment" in Asia and beyond; topics range from media ecology, cybernetics, environmental art and activism, urban planning, and the history of communications networks in Asia in the modern period.
Terms: Winter 2025
Instructors: Furuhata, Yuriko (Winter)
Prerequisite(s): Any East Asian Studies course at the 200 level or above.
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EAST 478 Topics: Korean Film and Media (3 credits)
Overview
Asian Language & Literature : Advanced seminar in the study of Korean film and media. Taught in English.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Prerequisite(s): EAST 213 or permission of instructor.
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EAST 491 Tutorial: East Asian Languages and Literatures 1 (3 credits)
Overview
Asian Language & Literature : Advanced reading course in language or literature.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Fall
Restriction: Departmental approval required
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EAST 492 Tutorial: East Asian Languages and Literatures 2 (3 credits)
Overview
Asian Language & Literature : Advanced reading course in language or literature.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Winter
Restriction: Departmental approval required
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EAST 493 Special Topics: East Asian Studies 1 (3 credits)
Overview
Asian Language & Literature : Advanced reading course under supervision of instructor on certain aspects of East Asian Studies. Topics will vary from year to year.
Terms: Fall 2024, Winter 2025
Instructors: Chung, Kimberly (Fall) Porter, David (Winter)
Fall
Prerequisite: Any EAST course at the 300-level or above or permission of instructor
Restriction: Departmental approval required
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EAST 494 Special Topics: East Asian Studies 2 (3 credits)
Overview
Asian Language & Literature : Advanced reading course under supervision of instructor on certain aspects of East Asian Studies. Topics will vary from year to year.
Terms: Fall 2024, Winter 2025
Instructors: Porter, David (Fall) Hong, Jeehee (Winter)
Winter
Prerequisite: Any EAST course at the 300-level or above or permission of instructor
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EAST 501 Advanced Topics in Japanese Studies 1 (3 credits)
Overview
Asian Language & Literature : Consideration of selected topics and aspects of Japanese culture and society.
Terms: Fall 2024, Winter 2025
Instructors: Tarcov, Marianne (Fall) Tarcov, Marianne (Winter)
Fall
Prerequisite (Undergraduate): permission of instructor
Restriction: Departmental approval required
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EAST 502 Advanced Topics in Japanese Studies 2 (3 credits)
Overview
Asian Language & Literature : Consideration of selected topics and aspects of Japanese culture and society.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Winter
Prerequisite (Undergraduate): permission of instructor
Restriction: Departmental approval required
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EAST 503 Advanced Topics in Chinese Studies 1 (3 credits)
Overview
Asian Language & Literature : Consideration of selected topics and aspects of Chinese culture and society.
Terms: Winter 2025
Instructors: Hong, Jeehee (Winter)
Fall
Prerequisite (Undergraduate): permission of instructor
Restriction: Departmental approval required
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EAST 504 Advanced Topics in Chinese Studies 2 (3 credits)
Overview
Asian Language & Literature : Consideration of selected topics and aspects of Chinese culture and society.
Terms: Fall 2024
Instructors: Wang, Renzhong (Fall)
Winter
Prerequisite (Undergraduate): permission of instructor
Restriction: Departmental approval required
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EAST 505 Advanced Topics in Korean Studies (3 credits)
Overview
Asian Language & Literature : Consideration of selected topics and aspects of Korean culture and society. Taught in English.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Prerequisite(s): Permission of instructor.
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EAST 515 Seminar: Beyond Orientalism (3 credits)
Overview
Asian Language & Literature : Examines the cultural stakes and ethical implications of applying Western European models of understanding to East Asian societies. Provides background on interdisciplinary debates around "otherness", "cultural appropriation", and "postcolonialism", focusing on their history within East Asian Studies and their impact on that field's methodological assumptions, self-definition, and institutional practices.
Terms: Fall 2024
Instructors: Gvili, Gal; Banerjee, Sandeep (Fall)
Prerequisite (Undergraduate): any EAST course at the 300 level or above or permission of instructor
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EAST 525 Critical Area Studies in Asia (3 credits)
Overview
Asian Language & Literature : The course introduces students to foundational concepts, key debates, recent research areas, theoretical methods, and critical approached in area studies.
Terms: Winter 2025
Instructors: Hwang, Maria (Winter)
Prerequisite(s): At least one EAST 400- or 500-level seminar course, or permission of the instructor.
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EAST 527 Culture and Capital in Asia (3 credits)
Overview
Asian Language & Literature : This seminar introduces the major anthropological, psychological, and political economic theories of the relation between culture and capital that have affected social and political formations in East Asia. Language of Instruction: English.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Prerequisite(s): Any EAST 400-level course or above, or permission of the instructor.
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EAST 550 Classical Chinese Poetry Themes and Genres (3 credits)
Overview
Asian Language & Literature : A study of major themes and genres of classical Chinese poetry from its beginnings to the Yuan dynasty (14th century), with emphasis on critical analysis of text and context. Readings of poems in the original.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Prerequisite (Undergraduate): EAST 533 or permission of the instructor
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EAST 551 Technologies of Self in Early China (3 credits)
Overview
Asian Language & Literature : Readings on self-cultivation drawn from Confucian, Legalist, and Taoist philosophic texts of early China (5th-2nd centuries B.C.) in translation will be compared with historical and archaeological materials on the evolving construction of the "individual'' in Chinese social structure, military organization, political and ritual codes.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Prerequisite (Undergraduate): One advanced course in EAST or permission of the instructor
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EAST 559 Advanced Topics: Chinese Literature (3 credits)
Overview
Asian Language & Literature : Consideration of selected topics and aspects of Chinese literature. The content of the course may vary from year to year, ranging from contemporary to modern to pre-modern literature.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Prerequisite (Undergraduate): one advanced course in EAST or permission of instructor
Restriction: Departmental approval required
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EAST 562 Japanese Literary Theory and Practice (3 credits)
Overview
Asian Language & Literature : This course examines Japanese theories of literary production and practice with an emphasis on 20th century thought.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Prerequisite (Undergraduate): Any course in EAST above the 200 level and at least a year of an East Asian Language, or permission of instructor
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EAST 564 Structures of Modernity: Asia (3 credits)
Overview
Asian Language & Literature : This course explores relations between some of the principal sites which structure the experience of "modernity" in Asia (and elsewhere) - from bodies and cities, to the urban context in general. Along with general approaches (e.g. the idea of everyday life途 questions of time), specific topics may include speed, music, architecture, crime, etc.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Prerequisite (Undergraduate): Any East Asian Studies course above the introductory level, or permission of the instructor
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EAST 569 Advanced Topics: Japanese Literature (3 credits)
Overview
Asian Language & Literature : Consideration of selected topics and aspects of Japanese literature. The content of the course may vary from year to year from contemporary to modern to pre-modern literature.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Prerequisite: one advanced course in EAST or permission of instructor
Restriction: Departmental approval required
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LLCU 279 Introduction to Film History (3 credits)
Overview
LLCU : An introduction to representative periods, movements and styles in the history of cinema, as well as questions of film historiography.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Anthropology (ANTH)
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ANTH 331 Prehistory of East Asia (3 credits)
Overview
Anthropology : Comparative study of prehistoric hunting and gathering cultures in China, Japan, Korea, Mongolia and Eastern Siberia; origins and dispersal of food production; cultural processes leading to the rise of literate civilizations in certain regions of East Asia.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Fall
Prerequisite: ANTH 201 or permission of instructor
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ANTH 500 Chinese Diversity and Diaspora (3 credits)
Overview
Anthropology : Explores ethnic diversity within mainland China, as well as the diversity of Chinese cultures of diaspora, living outside the mainland, often as minorities subject to other dominant cultures.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Winter
Restrictions: Reserved for U3 Anthropology undergraduate students or graduate students, any other students by permission of instructor.
Enrolment Limit: 25 students.
Economics (ECON)
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ECON 335 The Japanese Economy (3 credits)
Overview
Economics (Arts) : The first part of the course covers the economic institutions in, changing structure of, and public policies employed by the Japanese economy. The second part probes the economic "logic" of the Japanese capitalist system, explores its relationship to the ideas of Joseph Schumpeter, and makes comparisons with the American economy.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year.
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ECON 411 Economic Development: A World Area (3 credits)
Overview
Economics (Arts) : An advanced course in the economic development of a pre-designated underdeveloped country or a group of countries.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year.
History (HIST)
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HIST 208 Introduction to East Asian History (3 credits)
Overview
History : An introduction to the history of East Asian civilization from earliest times to 1600, with emphasis on China and Japan, including social, intellectual, and economic developments as well as political history.
Terms: Fall 2024
Instructors: Porter, David (Fall)
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HIST 218 Modern East Asian History (3 credits)
Overview
History : An introduction to the history of China and Japan from the seventeenth century to the present, including modernization, nationalism, and the interaction of the two countries.
Terms: Winter 2025
Instructors: Luthi, Lorenz (Winter)
Winter
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HIST 308 Formation of Chinese Tradition (3 credits)
Overview
History : An examination of the multiple sources of the Chinese imperial system from the period of the neolithic culture interaction sphere to the fall of the Han dynasty in 220 C.E. Special attention is paid to socio-economic developments as well as to the evolution of philosophy, ideology, and social practice. The sequel to this course is HIST 358.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Prerequisite: HIST 208 recommended
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HIST 338 Twentieth-Century China (3 credits)
Overview
History : Examines 20th Century China from the fall of the Qing, through Republican China, the emergence of communism, war with Japan, revolution and civil war, the Cultural Revolution, and later economic reforms.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Prerequisite: HIST 218 recommended.
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HIST 358 China's Middle Empires (3 credits)
Overview
History : Developments of China's middle empires, ca. 600-1300 CE. Studies changing international relations, rapid commercialization, religious developments, the rise of the civil service examination system, and ensuing social change.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Prerequisite: HIST 208 recommended.
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HIST 439 History of Women in China (3 credits)
Overview
History : This course examines the changing roles of women in traditional and modern China. Topics include political, social, and legal status, sexuality and medicine, religion and culture.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Prerequisite: a previous course in Chinese history
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HIST 441 Topics: Culture and Ritual in China (3 credits)
Overview
History : An examination of selected aspects of the cultural and intellectual life of China. Topics vary from year to year, but include the history of popular religion, Chinese science and medicine, the esoteric arts including divination practices, law, and the influence of ideas in the production of Chinese culture.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year.
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HIST 442 Asian Diaspora: Chinese Overseas (3 credits)
Overview
History : The contexts and causes of Chinese emigration; historical patterns of migration; Overseas Chinese communities on five continents, with emphasis on Southeast Asia and North America; alienation and identity in Chinatown; relations between the Overseas Chinese and China.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Prerequisite: One previous course in Chinese or Asian history or permission of instructor
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HIST 443 Topics: Modern Japan (3 credits)
Overview
History : An intensive study of selected aspects related to the history of modern Japan.
Terms: Winter 2025
Instructors: Porter, David (Winter)
Prerequisite: HIST 218 or permission of the instructor.
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HIST 445 Late Imperial China (3 credits)
Overview
History : An introduction to the social and economic history of Late Imperial China, focusing on the Ming and early to mid Qing Dynasties (1368 - 1800), and current interpretations thereof. Was this a discrete period in Chinese history? If so, why.
Terms: Fall 2024
Instructors: Porter, David (Fall)
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HIST 508 The Art of War in China (3 credits)
Overview
History : A study of the historical development of military theory and practice from earliest times to 1911 from a variety of perspectives, technological, scientific, social, and cultural.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year.
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HIST 568D1 Topics in Chinese History (3 credits)
Overview
History : A research seminar on aspects of Chinese history from early time to the present, with emphasis on social history.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Students must register for both HIST 568D1 and HIST 568D2
No credit will be given for this course unless both HIST 568D1 and HIST 568D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
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HIST 568D2 Topics in Chinese History (3 credits)
Overview
History : See HIST 568D1 for course description.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Prerequisite: HIST 568D1
No credit will be given for this course unless both HIST 568D1 and HIST 568D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
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HIST 578D1 Seminar in Japanese History (3 credits)
Overview
History : Particular attention will be paid to Japanese responses to the impact of Western culture from the sixteenth century, and to aspects of Japanese intellectual history.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Students must register for both HIST 578D1 and HIST 578D2
No credit will be given for this course unless both HIST 578D1 and HIST 578D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
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HIST 578D2 Seminar in Japanese History (3 credits)
Overview
History : See HIST 578D1 for course description.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Prerequisite: HIST 578D1
No credit will be given for this course unless both HIST 578D1 and HIST 578D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
Management (ORGB)
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ORGB 380 Cross Cultural Management (3 credits)
Overview
Organizational Behaviour : Addresses dilemmas and opportunities that managers experience in international, multicultural environments. Development of conceptual knowledge and behavioural skills (e.g. bridging skills, communication, tolerance of ambiguity, cognitive complexity) relevant to the interaction of different cultures in business and organizational settings, using several methods including research, case studies and experiential learning.
Terms: Fall 2024, Winter 2025, Summer 2025
Instructors: Gauvin, Tatiana (Fall) Hollister, Matissa (Winter)
Restriction: Open to U2, U3 students only
Political Science (POLI)
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POLI 349 Foreign Policy: Asia (3 credits)
Overview
Political Science : An overview of the foreign policies of two rising powers - China and India - in addition to Japan, covering the historical evolution, goals and determinants of their foreign policies, interactions with the rest of Asia and the world, and efforts at institutionalised cooperation in South and East Asia.
Terms: Fall 2024
Instructors: Paul, T V (Fall)
Prerequisites: POLI 243 or 244, or permission of the instructor.
Note: The field is International Politics.
Religious Studies (RELG)
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RELG 253 Religions of East Asia (3 credits)
Overview
Religious Studies : This course introduces East Asia's major religions comparatively by addressing the continuous exchange of ideas and practices between traditions. Rather than adopting a mere chronological approach, Buddhism, Daoism, and Confucianism will be discussed thematically, taking in to account topics such as gender constructs, the secular and the sacred, material culture, and the apparent contrast between doctrine and practice.
Terms: Winter 2025
Instructors: Lai, Rongdao (Winter)
Winter
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RELG 264 Introductory Tibetan 1 (3 credits)
Overview
Religious Studies : An introduction to the language of Classical Tibetan, specifically Tibetan script and basic grammar.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Fall
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RELG 265 Introductory Tibetan 2 (3 credits)
Overview
Religious Studies : A continuation of the introduction to the language of Classical Tibetan, specifically Tibetan script and basic grammar.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Winter
Prerequisite: RELG 264
- RELG 344 Mahayana Buddhism (3 credits)
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RELG 352 Japanese Religions: History and Thought (3 credits)
Overview
Religious Studies : This course provides an in-depth introduction to the religious traditions of Japan from the emerging of the Japanese state to the role of religion in contemporary Japan. Kami worship, the Buddhist tradition, Yin Yang divination, Confucianism, and the modern construct of Shinto are addressed in an interdisciplinary approach, taking into account insights from the fields of History, Literature, and Art.
Terms: Fall 2024
Instructors: Bauer, Mika毛l (Fall)
Fall
Prerequisite: RELG 253 or permission of instructor
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RELG 354 Chinese Religions (3 credits)
Overview
Religious Studies : Introduction to the diverse religiosities in the Chinese cultural sphere. Examination of the everyday practice of ancestor worship, longevity practices, morality, rituals, and the veneration of deities and spirits.
Terms: Fall 2024
Instructors: Lai, Rongdao (Fall)
Fall
Prerequisite: RELG 253
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RELG 364 Intermediate Tibetan 1 (3 credits)
Overview
Religious Studies : Advanced Tibetan grammar, and translation of selected Tibetan texts.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Fall
Prerequisite: RELG 265 or permission of the instructor.
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RELG 365 Intermediate Tibetan 2 (3 credits)
Overview
Religious Studies : Continuation of advanced Tibetan grammar and translation of selected Tibetan texts.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Winter
Prerequisite: RELG 364 or permission of the instructor.
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RELG 442 Pure Land Buddhism (3 credits)
Overview
Religious Studies : The concept of Buddha Countries and Pure Lands in Buddhism, the Western Pure Land of Amida (Jodokyo) and its basic scriptures, the Chinese Buddhist schools, the introduction to Japan and the foundation of the Pure Land school by Honen, the Pure Land School of Shinran and its development, and the other Pure Land related schools.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Prerequisite: six credits in EAST/RELG or permission of instructor
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RELG 451 Zen Buddhism: Poetry
and Art (3 credits)
Overview
Religious Studies : A general overview of Japanese Zen Buddhism through the reading of poetry, diaries, sculpture and architecture.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Prerequisite: six credits in EAST/RELG or permission of instructor
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RELG 464 Advanced Tibetan 1 (3 credits)
Overview
Religious Studies : Translation of specially selected Tibetan texts.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Fall
Prerequisite: RELG 365 or permission of instructor.
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RELG 465 Advanced Tibetan 2 (3 credits)
Overview
Religious Studies : Continuation of translation of specially selected Tibetan texts.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Winter
Prerequisite: RELG 464 or permission of the instructor.
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RELG 549 Japanese Buddhism in Historical Context (3 credits)
Overview
Religious Studies : This research-oriented seminar critically analyses key-questions from the field of pre-modern Japanese Buddhism. By engaging with recent research, students are expected to adopt an interdisciplinary approach and address questions and methodologies from both History and Buddhist Studies.
Terms: Fall 2024
Instructors: Bauer, Mika毛l (Fall)
