East Asian Studies Program
Recommended East Asian Studies Courses
ART AND ART HISTORY
  • 115 House, Temple, City: Sacred Geographies of China [3]
  • 120 Arts of Asia [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 Intensive Modern Chinese [5-5]
  • 214-216 Second-Year Chinese [5-5]
  • 231a-231b Chinese Calligraphy [1-1]
  • 241-242 Third-Year Chinese [3-3]
  • 251-252 Fourth-Year Chinese [3-3]
  • 289a-289b Independent Study [1-3]
EAST ASIAN STUDIES
  • 211 Popular Culture in Modern Japan [3]
  • 212 Explorations of Japanese Animation [3]
  • 220 Modern Chinese Fiction [3]
  • 225 Sex and Gender in Premodern Chinese Culture [3]
  • 240 Current Japan-U.S. Relations [3]
  • 294a-294b. Special Topics [Variable credit: 1-3 each semester]
HISTORY
  • 152 Modern East Asia
  • 154 History of Asian Civilization: Premodern China [3]
  • 155 History of Asian Civilization: Modern China [3]
  • 157 History of Asian Civilization: Japan [3]
  • 247 Themes in Modern Chinese History [3]
  • 248 History of Chinese Medicine [3]
  • 249 History of Modern Japan [3]
  • 250 Cultural and Social History of Japan's Recent Past [3]
  • 251 Popular Culture in Early Modern Japan [3]
  • 294 Selected Topics in History [3]
  • 295 Undergraduate Seminar in History [3]
  • 296 Independent Study in History [3]
  • 297 Junior Honors Seminar in History [3]
  • 298ab Senior Honors Research Seminar [3]
  • 299 Senior Honors Thesis [3]
JAPANESE
  • 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]
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.