East Asian Studies Program
Featured Courses - Offered Spring 2009
 
Recommended East Asian Studies Courses
HISTORY OF ART
  • 115 House, Temple, City: Sacred Geographies of China [3]
  • 120 Arts of Asia [3]
  • 246 Religion and Politics in South and Southeast Asian Art [3]
  • 247 Himalayan Art [3]
  • 251 East Asian Architecture and Gardens [3]
  • 252 Arts of China [3]
  • 253 Arts of Japan [3]
  • 254 Japanese Painting and Prints [3]
  • 289 Independent Research [1-3]
CHINESE
  • 201-202 Elementary Chinese [5-5]
  • 214-216 Intermediate Chinese [5-5]
  • 225-226 Chinese for Heritage Learners [3-3]
  • 231 Chinese Calligraphy [1]
  • 241-242 Advanced Chinese [3-3]
  • 251-252 Readings in Modern Chinese Media [3-3]
  • 255-256 Business Chinese [3-3]
  • 289a-289b Independent Study [1-3]
EAST ASIAN STUDIES
  • 115F Hollywood Hanoi: Narrating the Vietnam War [3]  (Pending approval)
  • 211 Popular Culture in Modern Japan [3] 
  • 212 Explorations of Japanese Animation [3]
  • 219 Premodern Chinese Novels [3]
  • 220 Modern Chinese Fiction [3]
  • 225 Sex and Gender in Premodern Chinese Culture [3]
  • 226 Martial Arts Literature and Film: Traditions and Transformations [3]
  • 240 Current Japan-U.S. Relations [3]
  • 294a-294b. Special Topics [Variable credit: 1-3 each semester]
JAPANESE
  • 200ab Introductory Modern Japanese [3-3]
  • 201-202 Beginning Modern Japanese [5-5]
  • 211-212 Intermediate Modern Japanese [5-5]
  • 241-242 Third-Year Japanese [3-3]
  • 251-252 Fourth-Year Japanese [3-3]
  • 289a-289b Independent Study [1-3]

PHILOSOPHY

  • 103, 103W Introduction to Asian Philosophy
  • 203 Advanced  Asian Philosophy
POLITICAL SCIENCE
  • 214 The Japanese Political System [3]
  • 216 The Chinese Political System [3]
  • 287-288 Seminars in Selected Topics [3-3]
RELIGIOUS STUDIES
  • 130 Introduction to Asian Traditions [3]
  • 132 Religion and Culture in Japan [3]
  • 231 Women in Buddhist Traditions [3]
  • 244 Buddhist Traditions [3]
  • 249 Zen Buddhism [3]

Certain courses offered in the Rikkyo exchange program and the CIEE program in Japan, China, or Taiwan can also be counted toward the major:

  • SOCIOLOGY/ANTHROPOLOGY: Contemporary Japanese Society: History, Culture, Institutions.
  • BUSINESS/ECONOMICS: The Japanese Firm in Its Domestic Economic Context; The Japanese Business Firm in Its Global Economic Context; Managing Globalization: Japan in Asia-Pacific Region.
  • POLITICAL SCIENCE: Politics and Policy in Contemporary Japan; Japan's International Relations; Japan in Asia.
  • HUMANITIES: Traditional Japanese Arts and Culture; Japanese Popular Culture.
  • HISTORY: 20th Century Japan and Korea Relations.

For more information, please contact Yoshikuni Igarashi.