Department of Asian Studies

Interdisciplinary Program

Interdisciplinary concentration
For the major in Asian Studies with an interdisciplinary concentration, a student must take four courses in a single Asian language and eight interdisciplinary courses. Up to two language courses beyond the fourth semester may be counted (normally in the humanities category) as interdisciplinary courses. More than one Asian country must be represented among the interdisciplinary courses. The eight interdisciplinary courses must include at least one from each of the following three divisions:

History: ASIA 53, 54, 131 [32A], 132 [32B], 133 [33], 134 [34], 135 [35A], 136 [35B], 138 [36], 139 [37], 152 [32], 187 [38], 244 [44], 261 [61], 275 [45], 276 [78], 277, 281 [74], 282 [84], 283 [86], 287 [87], 288 [88], 536 [194], 537 [195], 538 [197], 539 [193], 570 [153]; HIST 393 [90N] (when offered on Asia); JAPN 161, 377 [77].

Humanities: ARAB 150 [33], 151 [34], 433 [133], 434 [134], 452 [152]; ASIA 51, 55, 56, 147 [47], 151 [31], 153 [22], 154, 161 [70], 162 [40], 180 [36], 181 [37], 183 [39], 240 [72], 241 [41], 242 [42], 252 [62], 253 [73], 266 [68], 273 [67], 284 [71], 379 [79], 380 [80], 445 [155], 451 [140], 452 [141], 454 [144], 455 [142], 456 [128], 481 [181], 483 [183], 486 [186], 581 [171], 582 [172], 583 [173], 681 [179]; CHIN 150 [50], 252 [51], 354 [52], 361 [53], 451 [133], 452 [134], 463 [135], 464 [136], 544 [148], 551 [144], 552 [145], 563 [138]; HNUR 490 [115], 592 [134]; JAPN 160 [133], 261 [85], 375 [75], 376 [76], 378 [78], 381 [81], 384 [84], 482 [82]; RELI 199 [99] (when offered on Asia), 283 [66], 328 [160] (when offered on Asia), 490 [161]; VIET 252 [51].

Social Sciences: ANTH 103 [50], 120 [20], 320 [120]; ASIA 52, 155 [55], 192 [46], 226 [54], 243 [43], 250 [85], 265 [166], 267 [167], 350 [89], 429 [129], 440 [123], 447 [147], 453 [143], 457 [146], 460 [51], 461 [52], 469 [169], 545 [145], 574 [174], 578 [178], 586 [196], 682 [182]; CHIN 562 [137]; POLI 195 [95] (when offered on Asia).

With the approval of the chair of Asian Studies, a course in directed readings (ASIA 396 [91]) may also count toward the concentration. Before registering for ASIA 396 [91], a student must obtain the approval of the chair and of the faculty member who will supervise the independent study project.

Of the eight interdisciplinary courses, at least six must be passed with a grade of C (not C-minus) or better. No interdisciplinary course may be taken pass/fail.

Interdisciplinary minor
The interdisciplinary minor in Asian Studies consists of five courses, with at least one chosen from each of the History, Humanities, and Social Sciences divisions (as listed above).

Courses

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ANTH 103 [50]: Anthropology of Globalization (3). Explores different approaches to globalization and studies inequalities in power between nation-states, racial and ethnic groups, classes, and locales undergoing it. Uses ethnographic materials to examine how gender, family, and work are affected by transnational migrations. GL, SS [GC Non-Western/Comparative perspective, Cultural Diversity requirement].
ANTH 120 [20]: Anthropology through Expressive Cultures (3). Introduction to cultural analysis and the anthropological point of view through analytic and interpretive "readings" of films, fiction, and ethnography. Emphasis on social conditions and native points of view. SS [GC Non-Western/Comparative perspective].
ANTH 320 [120]: Anthropology of Development (INTS 320[120]) (3). Introduction to critical analysis of Third World development by examining the various ways in which "development" has been understood from the 1950s to the present. The relation among modernity, globalization, and post-development. GL, SS.

ARAB 150 [33]: Introduction to Arab Culture (3). Introduces issues that inform cultural expression in the Arab world today, treating sample historical, religious, and literary texts, film, Web sites, music, art, and architecture. Amer. BN, CI, LA [GC Non-Western/Comparative perspective].
ARAB 151 [34]: Survey of Arabic Literature (3). Introduces the rich literary heritage of the Arabic language from pre-Islamic to modern times and covers all major genres. Emphasis on critical thinking, literary analysis, and academic writing. Yaqub. [GC Non-Western/Comparative perspective].
ARAB 433 [133]: Arabic Literature in Translation (3). Introduces students to both methods of literary analysis and the vast body of Arabic literature. Amer. BN, LA, WB [A&S Non-Western/Comparative perspective].
ARAB 434 [134]: Modern Arabic Literature in Translation (3). Course treats a variety of themes and genres of twentieth-century Arabic literature. Yaqub. BN, LA [A&S Non-Western/Comparative perspective].
ARAB 452 [152]: Imagining Palestine (3). Exploration into how Palestine is portrayed in writings, films, and other creative works and how Palestinian portrayals of homeland affect others' perceptions of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict and the Arab World. Yaqub. [A&S Non-Western/Comparative perspective].

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ASIA 51 [6J]: Cultural Encounters: The Arabs and the West (3). First Year Seminar. Examines the historical, cultural, literary, and artistic relations between the Arab world and the West (Europe and the US) from the 18th century until today. Amer. NA [GC Non-Western/Comparative perspective].
ASIA 52 [6J]: Food in Chinese Culture (3). First Year Seminar. Examines food in Chinese culture and its globalization in the world. It uses creative and scholarly works to explore the relationship of food to ecological and social changes. Yue. BN, LA [GC Non-Western/Comparative perspective].
ASIA 53 [6J]: The Geisha in History, Fiction, and Fantasy (3). First Year Seminar. Explores the artistic traditions of Japanese performers known as geisha. Sources include woodblock prints, novels, photographs, academic studies, and popular Japanese and American films. Bardsley. BN, LA [GC Non-Western/Comparative perspective].
ASIA 54 [6J]: The American Life of Japanese Women (3). First Year Seminar. Considers how American popular culture has portrayed Japanese women since the1860s, asking what this reveals about changing American ideas of race, gender, and national identity. Bardsley. BN, VP [GC Non-Western/Comparative perspective].
ASIA 55 [6J]: Kung-Fu: The Concept of Heroism in Chinese Culture (3). First Year Seminar. Film, history, novels, and theatre are used to explore the rich, complex kung-fu tradition in Chinese culture from ancient to modern times, as well as its appropriation in foreign films. Hsiao. BN, PH [GC Non-Western/Comparative perspective].
ASIA 56 [6J]: Writing Women in Modern China (3). First Year Seminar. Compares the rhetoric of equality between the sexes presented by late Qing, May Fourth, and communist thinkers to perspectives on gender and society by twentieth-century Chinese women writers. Visser. BN, LA [GC Non-Western/Comparative perspective].
ASIA 131 [32A]: Southeast Asia to the Early Nineteenth Century (HIST 131 [32A]) (3). The history of Southeast Asia from prehistory to "high imperialism." Long-term political, economic, social, and religious developments, including Indianization, the impact of China, and the first contacts with Europeans. BN, HS, WB [GC Non-Western/Comparative perspective].
ASIA 132 [32B]: Southeast Asia Since the Early Nineteenth Century (HIST 132 [32B]; PWAD 132 [32B]) (3). Comparative colonialism, nationalism, revolution, and independence movements. Topics include: Indonesia and the Dutch, Indochina under French rule, United States involvement in the Philippines and Vietnam, communist and peasant movements, Cambodian revolution. BN, HS [GC Non-Western/Comparative perspective].
ASIA 133 [33]: Introduction to Chinese History (HIST 133 [33]) (3). Comparative and interdisciplinary introduction to the major political, social, and cultural traditions of China before its society was disrupted in the nineteenth century by Western intrusion. [GC Non-Western/Comparative perspective].
ASIA 134 [34]: Modern East Asia (HIST 134 [34], PWAD 134 [34]) (3). Comparative and interdisciplinary introduction to China and Japan in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, focusing on impact of the West, nation-building, industrialization, and evolution of mass society. Fletcher. BN, HS [GC Non-Western/Comparative perspective, A&S Non-Western/Comparative perspective].
ASIA 135 [35A]: South Asian History to 1750 (HIST 135 [35A]) (3). Social, cultural, and political history of the South Asian subcontinent (also popularly known as the Indian subcontinent), from classical times to the pivotal encounter with the British. BN, HS, WB [GC Non-Western/Comparative perspective].
ASIA 136 [35B]: South Asian History since 1750 (HIST 136 [35B]) (3). Social, cultural, and political history of the South Asian (or Indian) subcontinent during and after British rule. Emphasis on encounter with Europe, colonialism, resistance struggles and independence, postcolonial order. BN, HS [GC Non-Western/Comparative perspective].
ASIA 138 [36]: Introduction to Islamic Civilization (HIST 138 [36]) (3). A broad, comprehensive, and interdisciplinary introduction to the traditional civilization of the Muslim world. Shields. BN, HS, WB.
ASIA 139 [37]: Later Islamic Civilization and the Modern Muslim World (HIST 139 [37]) (3). A broad interdisciplinary survey of the later Islamic empires since the fifteenth century and their successor societies in the modern Muslim world. Shields. HS.
ASIA 147 [47]: Lost in Translation: Understanding Western Experience in East and Southeast Asia (3). An examination of the experiences of western travelers in East/Southeast Asia, from both fictional and nonfictional accounts in print and film. [GC Non-Western/Comparative perspective, Cultural Diversity requirement].
ASIA 151 [31]: Literature and Society in Southeast Asia (CMPL 151 [31]) (3). This course is an introduction to the societies of Southeast Asia through literature. Background materials and films will supplement the comparative study of traditional works, novels, short stories, and poems. BN, LA [GC Non-Western/Comparative perspective].
ASIA 152 [32]: Survey of South Asian Cultural History (3). Readings from diverse disciplines illuminate the broad features of South Asia throughout history. Topics include political history and social thought — including gender and caste — and religious and imaginative literature. [GC Non-Western/Comparative perspective].
ASIA 153 [22]: Introduction to South Asian Art (ART 153 [22]) (3). BN, WB, VP [GC Non-Western/Comparative perspective, Cultural Diversity requirement].
ASIA 154 [27]: Introduction to Islamic Art (ART 154 [27]) (3). This course introduces the architecture, painting, sculpture, and decorative arts of the Islamic world. Ghosh. [A&S Non-Western/Comparative perspective].
ASIA 155 [55]: Introduction to the Civilization of India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh (ANTH 155 [55]) (3). The course reviews urban and rural ways of life and the transformation of culture following British rule. Islam, Buddhism, caste, family life, and values are examined as well as several ways of life and problems besetting the countries as they pursue national goals. BN, SS [GC Non-Western/Comparative perspective; A&S Non-Western/Comparative perspective].
ASIA 161 [70]: Survey of Indian Literature in Translation (3). Features the Sanskrit Ramayana and Mahabharata, poetry from Tamil, Bengali, and Hindi, as well as the Islamic ghazal. Concludes with the colonial impact and the rise of the novel. BN, LA, WB [A&S Non-Western Comparative perspective].
ASIA 162 [40]: Nation, Film and Novel in Modern India (3). Focus on how modern Indian writers (Tagore, Manto, Rushdie, Rusva) have represented the creation of an Indian national identity through such historical periods as British colonialism, the Mutiny of 1857, the Indian Independence Movement, the Partition and ensuing communal violence. BN, GL, VP [GC Non-Western/Comparative perspective].
ASIA 183 [39]: Asian Religions (RELI 183 [39]) (3). An introduction to major religions of South Asia and East Asia, such as Hinduism, Buddhism, Confucianism, Taoism, and Shintoism. Sanford. [GC Non-Western/Comparative perspective].
ASIA 187 [38]: Arab Histories (RELI 187 [38], HIST [38]) (3). Introduction to the sociocultural, political, economic, and religious history of the Arab Middle East. May include discussion of the meaning of Arab history to contemporary residents of the Middle East. Curtis. [GC Non-Western/Comparative perspective].
ASIA 192 [46]: Contemporary Middle East (RELI 192 [48], INTS [46]) (3). Interdisciplinary introduction to the religions, politics, economics, societies, and cultures of the contemporary Middle East. Topics may vary. Curtis. [GC Social Science perspective].
ASIA 226 [54]: Government and Politics of East Asia (POLI 226 [54]) (3). The indigenous political ideas and institutions of East Asia and Western influence on Asian government and politics with emphasis upon the political evolution and contemporary governments of Japan, China, and Vietnam. White. BN, SS [GC Non-Western/Comparative perspective].
ASIA 240 [72]: Gongs, Punks, and Shadows: Performance in Southeast Asia (MUSC 240 [90]) (3). The study and comparison of contemporary Southeast Asian performance genres (music, theatre, dance, ritual) in historical and cultural contexts. BN, GL [A&S Aesthetic perspective].
ASIA 241 [41]: Asian Literature/Study Abroad Program (3-6). This course, taught in a Study Abroad Program in Asia, will focus on topics related to Asian literature. The Office of Undergraduate Curricula must approve use for General Education.
ASIA 242 [42]: Asian Fine Arts/Study Abroad Program (3-6). This course, taught in a Study Abroad Program in Asia, will focus on topics related to Asian fine arts. The Office of Undergraduate Curricula must approve use for General Education. BN, VP.
ASIA 243 [43]: Asian Societies/Study Abroad Program (3-6). This course, taught in a Study Abroad Program in Asia, will examine Asian society from a social science perspective. The Office of Undergraduate Curricula must approve use for General Education. BN, SS.
ASIA 244 [44]: Asian Culture/Study Abroad Program (3-6). This course, taught in a Study Abroad Program in Asia, will focus on topics related to Asian culture. The Office of Undergraduate Curricula must approve use for General Education.
ASIA 250 [85]: Asia and World Affairs (POLI 250 [85], PWAD [85]) (3). A survey of relations between the United States and major Asian powers: China, the USSR, and Japan. [GC Non-Western/Comparative perspective].
ASIA 252 [62]: Popular Culture in Modern Southeast Asia (CMPL [62]; INTS 252 [62]) (3). This course examines popular culture in Southeast Asia as a response to colonialism, nationalism, modernization, the state, and globalization. Topics include: theater, film, pop songs, television, rituals, and the Internet. BN, VP [GC Non-Western/Comparative perspective].
ASIA 253 [73]: Islam, Identity, and the Arts (3). Examines the attitudes liberal, fundamentalist, and mystical Muslims have towards music, visual arts, and poetry. How Islamic cultures have both promoted and censored the arts, and the motivations behind such attitudes. Also examines Western stereotypes about Islamic arts. Phukan. [GC Aesthetic/Fine Arts perspective].
ASIA 261 [61]: India Through Western Eyes (3). Examines Western views of India and Indian culture and how these views differ from the way Indians in India and Indian immigrants in the West understand themselves and express their relationship to India through novels and travelogues. [GC Non-Western/Comparative perspective, Cultural Diversity requirement].
ASIA 265 [166]: Eastern Asia (GEOG 265 [166]) (3). Spatial structure of population, urbanization, agriculture, industrialization, and regional links in China, Japan, and Korea. Eyre. [A&S Non-Western/Comparative perspective].
ASIA 266 [68]: Arts of Early and Medieval India (ART 266 [68]) (3). This course is an introduction to the visual culture of early and medieval India. BN, WB, VP [A&S Aesthetic perspective and Cultural Diversity requirement].
ASIA 267 [167]: Tropical Asia (GEOG 267 [167]) (3). The cultural diversity and regional organization, emphasizing the spatial structure and contemporary dynamics of population, agriculture, urbanization, and economic development, primarily of the nations of Southeast Asia. Meade. BN [A&S Non-Western/Comparative perspective].
ASIA 273 [67]: Arts under the Mughal Dynasty in India (ART 273 [69]) (3). This course explores the visual culture patronized by the Mughal dynasty in India from the eleventh to the seventeenth centuries. BN, WB, VP [A&S Aesthetic perspective and Cultural Diversity requirement].
ASIA 275 [45]: History of Iraq (HIST 275 [77C], PWAD [77C]) (3). Shields. [A&S Non-Western/Comparative perspective].
ASIA 276 [78]: The Modern Middle East (HIST 276 [77A]) (3). This course introduces students to the recent history of the Middle East while fulfilling the expectations of the Cultural Diversity requirement, which demands that we focus partly on the United States. These themes will also be used to compare the Middle East to the United States. Shields. BN, GL, HS [Cultural Diversity requirement].
ASIA 281 [74]: The Pacific War, 1937-1945: Its Causes and Legacy (HIST 281 [81]; PWAD [83]) (3). An examination of the origins of the Pacific War, the course of this bitter and momentous conflict, and its complex legacy for both Asia and the United States. Fletcher. BN, GL, HS [A&S Non-Western/Comparative perspective].
ASIA 282 [84]: China in the World (HIST 282 [83]) (3). The struggle for revolutionary change in China from the turn of the century to the establishment of the People's Republic in 1949. [A&S Non-Western/Comparative perspective].
ASIA 283 [86]: Revolutionary Change in Contemporary China (HIST 283 [84]) (3). Political and economic reconstruction in China since 1949, the transition to a post-Mao order, and life and society in China today. BN, HS [A&S Non-Western/Comparative perspective].
ASIA 284 [71]: The Buddhist Tradition: East Asia (RELI 284 [67]) (3). Prerequisite: RELI [10], RELI 183 [39] or permission of the instructor. An examination of the transformations and developments affecting Buddhism after its importation to East Asia. Special attention will be given to Ch'an/Zen, the Pure Land schools, and the esoteric traditions. Sanford.
ASIA 287 [87]: Japan’s Modern Revolution (HIST 287 [87]) (3). This course studies Japanese feudalism, the Meiji "revolution," modernization, the formation of Japan's empire, the beginnings of Japanese democracy, and the coming of the Pacific War. Fletcher. BN, HS [A&S Non-Western/Comparative perspective].
ASIA 288 [88]: Twentieth-Century Japan (HIST 288 [88]) (3). Examines Japan's recovery from defeat in World War II to rise again as a major power. Topics include: the American occupation, Japanese democracy, economic recovery, changes in social values, and foreign relations. Fletcher. BN, HS [A&S Non-Western/Comparative perspective].
ASIA 350 [89]: The Asian American Experience (3). The course addresses the history and sociology of Asian immigration and experience in the United States, as well as the formation of diasporic identities among Asian Americans. Yue. HS, NA, US [GC Social Science perspective, A&S Social Science perspective, Cultural Diversity requirement].
ASIA 360 [75]: Introduction to Contemporary Asian American Literature and Theory (ENGL 360 [70]) (3). This course will provide an introduction to contemporary Asian American literature and theory and examine how Asian American literature fits into, yet extends beyond, the canons of American literature. Ho. [A&S Aesthetic perspective, Cultural Diversity requirement].
ASIA 379 [79]: Cowboys, Samurai, and Rebels in Film and Fiction (CMPL 379 [94]) (3). Cross-cultural definitions of heroism, individualism, and authority in film and fiction, with emphasis upon tales or images that have been translated across cultures. Includes films of Ford, Kurosawa, and Visconti. Brodey. VP [A&S Non-Western/Comparative perspective].
ASIA 380 [80]: Almost Despicable Heroines in Japanese and Western Literature (CMPL 380 [84]; WMST 380 [77]) (3). Authors' use of narrative techniques to create the separation between heroines and their fictional societies and sometimes also to alienate readers from the heroines. Austen, Flaubert, Ibsen, Arishima, Tanizaki, Abe. Brodey. LA [Non-Western/Comparative perspective].
ASIA 429 [129]: Culture and Power in Southeast Asia (ANTH 429 [129], FOLK [129]) (3). The formation and transformation of worldviews, identities, and expressive forms in southeast Asia over time, including the impact of global/national interests. Sources include translations of texts. Special focus on insular Southeast Asia. BN, GL, SS [A&S Non-Western/Comparative perspective].
ASIA 440 [123]: Government and Politics in Japan (POLI 440 [123]) (3). Examines the Japanese political process in the period since World War II with emphasis on popular culture and behavior, and on governmental policy making in both domestic and foreign affairs. Previous course work on East Asia recommended but not required. White. BN, SS [A&S Non-Western/Comparative perspective].
ASIA 445 [155]: Asian Religions in America (RELI 445 [155]) (3). A study of intercultural interaction and interreligious encounter focusing on Asian religions in America, 1784 to the present. Tweed. GL, US [A&S Non-Western/Comparative perspective].
ASIA 447 [147]: Gender, Space, and Place in the Middle East (GEOG 447 [147], INTS [147]) (3). Examines gender, space, and place relationships in the modern Middle East. Investigates shifting gender geographies of colonialism, nationalism, modernization, and globalization in this region. Gökariksel. [A&S Non-Western/Comparative perspective].
ASIA 451 [140]: Orientalist Fantasies and Discourses on the Other (INTS 451 [140]) (3). This interdisciplinary course (literature, film, painting, music) examines the Eastern and Western encounters with and discourses on the Other from the eighteenth century to the present. Amer. GL, LA, NA [A&S Non-Western/Comparative perspective].
ASIA 452 [141]: Muslim Women in France and the US (INTS 452 [141]) (3). This class will follow Muslim women's experiences and changing roles in France from the 1970s and in the United States until today. Amer. GL, LA, NA [A&S Non-Western/Comparative perspective].
ASIA 453 [143]: Global Shangri-La: Tibet in the Modern World (INTS 453 [143]) (3). An examination of the history, society, and culture of modern Tibet and its imagination in the context of international politics and from a multidisciplinary perspective. Yue. [A&S Non-Western/Comparative perspective].
ASIA 454 [144]: Topics in Critical Theory East/West (3). Prerequisite: one lower-level philosophy, literary theory, or cultural studies course. Two major thinkers, one from East Asia and one from Western Europe, will be used to develop theoretical vocabularies that transcend the Eurocentric ones currently dominating philosophy and literary and cultural theory. Driscoll. [A&S Non-Western/Comparative perspective].
ASIA 455 [142]: Arabs in America (INTS 455 [142]) (3). This course traces the history and development of Arab American communities in the US from the slave trade to the most important immigration waves over the past two centuries. Amer. [A&S Social Science perspective; Cultural Diversity requirement].
ASIA 456 [128]: Art and Ritual in South Asia (ART 456 [128]) (3). This thematic course explores how objects and monuments are viewed, experienced, and used in a ritual context in South Asia. [A&S Aesthetic perspective, Cultural Diversity requirement].
ASIA 457 [146]: Globalization in East Asia/East Asianized Globalization (INTS 457 [145]) (3). Prerequisites, INTS 210 [77] for international studies majors, and one content course in either Japanese or Chinese for Asian studies majors. Through a focus on East Asia, this course will treat globalization as a truly "global" phenomenon and not one centered in the United States or even EuroAmerica. Here, the emphasis will be on the often overlooked impact of Japanese and Chinese pop culture, film, technology, and finance on the different fields of globalization. Driscoll. [A&S Non-Western/Comparative perspective].
ASIA 460 [51]: Sex, Crime and Corruption in East and Southeast Asia (3). A political economy and comparative approach to crime and corruption in Asia, seeking to understand linkages and relationships between corruption and development in changing political, social, and economic contexts. Hewison. [A&S Social Science perspective].
ASIA 461 [52]: The Political Economy of Southeast Asia (3). The course examines critical linkages between economic policy and processes and political decisions — neoclassical, institutionalist, dependency/world-systems and structuralist approaches. These theories are applied to contemporary Southeast Asia. Hewison. [A&S Social Science perspective].
ASIA 469 [169]: Western and Asian Economic Systems (ECON 469 [169]) (3). Prerequisite, ECON 100 or 101. Policy seminar on the systemic factors distinguishing Western economies from their rivals in the former Soviet bloc and Asia, focused on conflict resolution and global integration. Rosefielde.
ASIA 481 [181]: Rhetoric of Silence: Cross-Cultural Theme and Technique (CMPL 481 [182]) (3).The uses of literary silence for purposes such as protest, civility, joy, oppression, nihilism, awe or crisis of representation. Authors include Sterne, Goethe, Austen, Kawabata, Sôseki, Oe, Tôson, Camus, Mann. Brodey. LA [Non-Western/Comparative perspective].
ASIA 483 [183]: Cross-Currents in East-West Literature (CMPL 483 [183]) (3). The study of the influence of Western texts upon Japanese authors and the influence of conceptions of "the East" upon Western writers. Goldsmith, Voltaire, Sôseki, Sterne, Arishima, Ibsen, Yoshimoto, Ishiguro. Brodey. BN, LA [Non-Western/Comparative perspective].
ASIA 486 [186]: Literary Landscapes in Europe and Japan (CMPL 486 [186]) (3). Changing understandings of nature across time and cultures, especially with regard to its human manipulation and as portrayed in novels of Japan and Europe. Rousseau, Goethe, Austen, Abe, Mishima. Brodey. LA [Non-Western/Comparative perspective].
ASIA 536 [194]: Revolution In the Modern Middle East (HIST [196]) (3). This course will focus on revolutionary change in the Middle East during the last century, emphasizing internal social, economic, and political conditions as well as international contexts. Shields.
ASIA 537 [195]: Women in the Middle East (HIST 537 [195]; WMST [195]) (3). Explores the lives of women in the Middle East and how they have changed over time. Focus will change each year. Shields. BN, HS.
ASIA 538 [197]: The Middle East and the West (HIST 538 [197]) (3). This course explores changing interactions between the Middle East and the West, including trade, warfare, scientific exchange, and imperialism, and ends with an analysis of contemporary relations in light of the legacy of the past. Shields.
ASIA 539 [193]: The Economic History of Southeast Asia (HIST 539 [192]) (3). This course is intended as a broad overview of Southeast Asian economic history from premodern times to the present day. Coclanis. [A&S Non-Western/Comparative perspective].
ASIA 545 [145]: Politics of Culture in China (ANTH 545 [145]) (3). This course examines struggles to define culture and the nation in twentieth-century China, comparing processes of cultural production with the politics of culture in the United States. BN, GL, SS [A&S Non-Western/Comparative perspective, Cultural Diversity requirement].
ASIA 570 [153]: The Vietnam War (HIST 570 [153A], PWAD [117]) (3). A wide-ranging exploration of America's longest war - from nineteenth-century origins to 1990s legacies, from village battlegrounds to the Cold War context, from national leadership to popular participation and impact. Hunt. GL, HS.
ASIA 574 [174]: Chinese World Views (ANTH 574 [174], RELI [174]) (3). An approach to Chinese history, literature, science, and society through an exploration of a few pervasive cultural themes. Chinese sources in translation and Western anthropological and philosophical sources are used. BN, SS [A&S Philosophical perspective].
ASIA 578 [178]: Chinese Diaspora in the Asia Pacific (ANTH 578 [178]) (3). Examination of the histories, social organizations, and cultures of the Chinese diaspora in the Asia Pacific region, focusing on contemporary issues in the cultural politics and identities of "overseas Chinese." BN, CI, GL, SS [A&S Non-Western/Comparative perspective].
ASIA 581 [171]: Sufism (RELI 581 [171]) (3). Prerequisite: permission of instructor. A survey of Islamic mysticism, its sources in the Qur'an and the Prophet Muhammad, and its literary, cultural, and social deployment in Arab, Persian, Indic, and Turkish regions. Ernst.
ASIA 582 [172]: Islam and Islamic Art in South Asia (RELI 582 [172]) (3). A survey of the formation of Islamic traditions in the subcontinent from the eighth century to the present, with emphasis on religion and politics, the role of Sufism, types of popular religion, and questions of Islamic identity. Ernst. BN, SS, WB [A&S Non-Western/Comparative perspective].
ASIA 583 [173]: Religion and Culture in Iran, 1500-Present (RELI 583 [173]) (3). Iran from the rise of the Safavid empire to the Islamic Republic. Topics include Shi'ism, politics, intellectual and sectarian movements, encounters with colonialism, art and architecture, music, literature. Ernst. BN, HS, WB [A&S Non-Western/Comparative perspective].
ASIA 586 [196]: The Gardens, Shrines, and Temples of Japan (ANTH 586 [196], ART [192]) (3). The religious landscape and built environments of Japan. Attention to palace, courtyard, and teahouse architecture and gardens, with emphasis on Shinto shrines and the Zen Buddhist temple and garden. BN, VP [A&S Aesthetic perspective].
ASIA 681 [179]: Readings in Islamicate Literatures (RELI 681 [179]) (3). Prerequisite, permission of instructor. Study of selected religious, literary, and historical texts in Arabic, Persian, or Urdu. Ernst.
ASIA 682 [182]: Contemporary Chinese Society (ANTH 682 [182]) (3). This course draws on recent sociological and anthropological research in the People's Republic of China, autobiography, film, and fiction, to explore contemporary Chinese society and culture. BN, SS [A&S Non-Western/Comparative perspective].

CHIN 150 [50]: Introduction to Chinese Civilization (3). A course designed to introduce both beginning undergraduate majors in Asian Studies and General College students to the Chinese world of past and present. BN [GC Non-Western/Comparative perspective].
CHIN 252 [51]: Introduction to Chinese Culture through Narrative (3). This course shows how Chinese historical legends define and transmit the values, concepts, figures of speech, and modes of behavior that constitute Chinese culture. Henry. BN, LA, WB [GC Non-Western/Comparative perspective].
CHIN 354 [52]: Chinese Culture through Calligraphy (3). An introduction to the basic skills of brush writing and the cultural, historical, and artistic aspects of Chinese calligraphy. Open to anyone; knowledge of Chinese language is not required. Li. BN, VP [GC Aesthetic/Fine Arts perspective].
CHIN 361 [53]: Chinese Traditional Theater (3). This course introduces traditional Chinese theater from its earliest development to modern times by examining the interrelation of its elements - music, dance, poetry, and illustration - with performance footage, visual art, and dramatic texts. Hsiao. BN, WB, VP [A&S Aesthetic perspective].
CHIN 451 [133]: Chinese Literature in Translation through the T'ang (3). A survey of Chinese literature from the classical period to the end of the T'ang dynasty (906 AD). Henry, Hsiao. BN, LA [A&S Aesthetic perspective].
CHIN 452 [134]: Chinese Literature in Translation Since the Sung (3). A survey of Chinese literature from the Sung Dynasty to 1949. Henry, Hsiao. BN, LA [A&S Aesthetic perspective].
CHIN 463 [135]: Narrative Ethics in Modern China (3). By exploring intersections of the narrative and the normative, this course considers relations between text, ethics, and everyday life in twentieth-century China by reading texts on aesthetics. Visser. [A&S Philosophical perspective].
CHIN 464 [136]: The City in Modern Chinese Literature and Film (3). This course analyzes historical changes of the city through examining the individual, national, and global identity of Shanghai, Beijing, Taipei, and Hong Kong as reflected in their histories, politics, built environment, ethos, language and culture. Visser. [A&S Aesthetic perspective].
CHIN 544 [148]: Chinese Cinema (3). This course surveys Chinese film from the Mainland, Taiwan, and Hong Kong, examining films and criticism in social and historical contexts. Major topics will include nationalism, tradition, gender, and ethnicity. Yue. BN, VP [A&S Aesthetic perspective].
CHIN 551 [144]: Chinese Poetry in Translation (3). Selected topics in Chinese poetry concentrating on one period or one genre. BN, LA [A&S Aesthetic perspective].
CHIN 552 [145]: Topics in Chinese Prose (3). Selected topics in Chinese fiction, historical writing, and prose belles lettres, concentrating on one period or one genre. Henry. BN, LA [A&S Non-Western/Comparative perspective].
CHIN 562 [137]: Post-Mao Chinese Urban Culture and Arts (3). This course examines contemporary art, architecture, film, fiction, and city planning documents to consider how three decades of market-based, postrevolutionary urban transformation is impacting a traditionally rural-based, agricultural civilization. Visser. [A&S Non-Western/Comparative perspective].
CHIN 563 [138]: Post-Mao Chinese Literature in Translation (3). A study of Chinese literature since 1977, its historical context in the New Era of reform, and influences from modern Western literature. Yue. BN, LA [A&S Aesthetic and Non-Western/Comparative perspectives].

HIST 277 [77B]: The Conflict over Israel/Palestine (PWAD [77B]) (3). Explores the conflict over Palestine during the last 100 years. Surveys the development of competing nationalisms, the contest for resources and political control that led to the partition of the region, the war that established a Jewish state, and the subsequent struggles between conflicting groups for land. Shields. BN, HS.
HIST 393 [90N]: Undergraduate Seminar in History (3). The subject matter of the courses will vary with the instructor and topic. Each course will concern itself with a study in depth of some problem in history. Permission must be received from the Undergraduate Secretary in History to register for the course, and the course is in general limited to fifteen students. CI, EE.

HNUR 534 [134]: Religious Conflict and Narrative in India (RELI 534 [176]) (3). Historical causes of violence between Hindus and Muslims in modern India. Short stories, poetry, and novels in translation used to explore how conflicts over religious sites, religious conversion, image worship, and language use contributed to a sense of conflicting religious identity. BN, LA [A&S Non-Western/Comparative perspective].

JAPN 160 [133]: Introduction to Japanese Literature in Translation (3). The major genres, aesthetic concepts, and classic and modern works of Japanese literature in English translation. Bardsley. BN, LA [A&S Aesthetic perspective].
JAPN 261 [85]: Japanese Theater (3). Explores the major forms of classical Japanese theater (Noh, Kabuki, Bunraku), modern innovations in dramatic art, and contemporary reinventions of the classical theater in Japanese animated film. Bardsley. BN, VP [A&S Aesthetic perspective].
JAPN 375 [75]: The Culture of Modern Imperial Japan, 1900-1945 (3). This course will examine the various expressions of cultural modernity in Japan - with a focus on film, literature, and popular culture - from 1900 to the end of the Pacific War. Driscoll. BN, LA [A&S Non-Western/Comparative perspective].
JAPN 376 [76]: Colonial East Asia/Postcolonial Japan (3). Focusing on literary, philosophical, and media works, this course will first examine Japanese colonialism from 1895 to 1940 and then the postcolonial effects of that colonialism within Japan after 1945. Driscoll. BN, LA [A&S Non-Western/Comparative perspective].
JAPN 377 [77]: Cultural Studies of Early Modern Japan (3). Introduction to political, aesthetic, and intellectual works of Japan’s Tokugawa period (1603-1868). Examines the characteristics of Tokugawa cultural works alongside developments in critical thought in ethics, economics, and social philosophy. Driscoll. [A&S Non-Western/Comparative perspective].
JAPN 378 [78]: Introduction to Japanese Film and Animation (3). Students will be introduced to major works in Japanese film and animation. They will also be introduced to themes in contemporary visual theory and media studies. Driscoll. [GC Aesthetic perspective].
JAPN 381 [81]: Women and Work in Japan (WMST 381 [82]) (3). Examines construction of traditional women's roles in Japan and feminist challenges to them by exploring various aspects of "women's work." Interdisciplinary readings consider law, social custom, media representations, and feminist activism. Bardsley. BN, SS [A&S Non-Western/Comparative perspective].
JAPN 384 [84]: Women Writers in Japanese Society (WMST 384 [84]) (3). Examines Japanese literature and culture through fiction and poetry by women. Explores ideas in contemporary feminist criticism in Japan and the West as means to read Japanese women's writing. Bardsley. BN, LA [A&S Aesthetic perspective].
JAPN 482 [82]: Embodying Japan: The Cultures of Beauty, Sports, and Medicine in Japan (3). Explores Japanese culture and society through investigating changing concepts of the human body. Sources include anthropological and history materials, science fiction and film. Bardsley. BN, SS [A&S Non-Western/Comparative perspective].

POLI 195 [95]: Undergraduate Seminar (3). A detailed examination of selected topics in the field of political science. SS.

RELI 180 [25]: Introduction to Islamic Civilization (3). A broad, comprehensive, and interdisciplinary introduction to the traditional civilization of the Muslim world. Ernst.
RELI 181 [26]: Later Islamic Civilization and the Modern Muslim World (3). A broad interdisciplinary survey of the later Islamic empires since the fifteenth century and their successor societies in the modern Muslim world. Ernst.
RELI 199 [99]: Topics in the Study of Religion (3). Prerequisite, permission of instructor. Subject matter will vary with instructor and topic, but will always be focused on a particular problem or issue.
RELI 283 [66]: The Buddhist Tradition: India and Tibet (3). Historical inquiry into the development of Buddhism from its origins through its periods of greatest glory in India, China, and Japan. On demand. Sanford.
RELI 328 [160]: Topics in Comparative Religion (3). Cross-cultural investigation of specific problems or issues in the general history of religions (e.g., pilgrimage, religious biography, "new" religions). Sanford.
RELI 490 [161]: Selected Topics in the Study of Asian Religions (3). Prerequisite, permission of instructor. A close examination of a selected topic in Asian religions. On demand. Sanford.

VIET 252 [51]: Introduction to Vietnamese Culture through Music and Narrative (3). This course shows how Vietnamese music and historical legends define, reinforce, and transmit core values, concepts, figures of speech, and modes of behavior in Vietnamese culture. BN, VP [A&S Non-Western/Comparative perspective].