Asian Studies (ASIAN)Arts and Sciences
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Classes
ASIAN 1100
Course Description
Have you ever wondered what Gandhi and Bob Marley have in common? Or how sex, drugs, food, and music can function as tools of social, political, and ideological resistance? We will explore these questions ... view course details
FWS Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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Meeting Pattern
- MW Rockefeller Hall 127
Instructors
Burgess, V
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
ASIAN 1102
Course Description
Do we look for or expect to find narrative in life? Looking back on our own past, do we emplot our memories into stories? How do communities remember their past, and transmit that memory to future generations? ... view course details
FWS Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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- TR Rockefeller Hall 128
Instructors
McNeal, R
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
ASIAN 1105
Course Description
This course will introduce students to academic writing through reading and writing about Vietnamese literary traditions, in particular focusing on the literary legacies of colonialism and war. We will ... view course details
FWS Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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Meeting Pattern
- TR Uris Hall 369
Instructors
Vo, E
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
ASIAN 1191
Course Description
This introductory course follows the history of Asia-Pacific from the nineteenth century to the present, focusing on relations of China, India, Japan, South, and Southeast Asia. This course is intended ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: CAPS 1910, HIST 1910
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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- MW Mcgraw Hall 165
Instructors
Loos, T
Seow, V
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- F Goldwin Smith Hall 283
Instructors
Staff
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- F Rockefeller Hall 189
Instructors
Staff
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- F McGraw Hall 215
Instructors
Staff
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- F Rockefeller Hall 189
Instructors
Staff
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
ASIAN 2211
Course Description
This survey course provides an introduction to Japanese civilization, organized around significant moments in Japan's cultural history. Beginning with Japan's writing system and its earliest texts, the ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Choose one lecture and one discussion.
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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Class Number & Section Details
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- MW Goldwin Smith Hall G64-Kau Aud
Instructors
Kanemitsu, J
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Instruction Mode: In Person
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- F Rockefeller Hall 112
Instructors
Kanemitsu, J
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- F Uris Hall 204
Instructors
Staff
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- F Rockefeller Hall 127
Instructors
Kanemitsu, J
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Instruction Mode: In Person
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- F Uris Hall 204
Instructors
Kanemitsu, J
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
ASIAN 2215
Course Description
An interdisciplinary introduction to the cultures and histories of South Asia, with special attention to the intersections of religion, political authority, and the arts, as well as migration shaping South ... view course details
Regular Academic Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TR Baker Laboratory 119
Instructors
Blackburn, A
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
ASIAN 2245
Course Description
An introduction to Indonesia through its arts. The course combines hands-on instruction in the performance of gamelan music and the academic study of a broader range of Indonesian music in its sociocultural ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: MUSIC 1341, VISST 2744
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- MF Lincoln Hall B24
Instructors
Miller, C
- W Lincoln Hall 140
Instructors
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
ASIAN 2247
Course Description
This course examines the dynamics of Islam's spread from its geographical centre in Arabia to Asia, in both historical and contemporary contexts. Taking a border-crossing thematic approach, the course ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: RELST 2247
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Meeting Pattern
- MW Morrill Hall 106
Instructors
Formichi, C
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
ASIAN 2255
Course Description
The course aims to expose students to the varied landscape of religious realities in Asia offering an understanding of religion's development and interaction with Asia's society, culture, and politics. ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: RELST 2255
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TR Goldwin Smith Hall 350
Instructors
Formichi, C
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
ASIAN 2264
Course Description
This course will engage with some of the issues, challenges and debates that unite and divide contemporary China by critically reading and viewing works of popular culture. We will examine the commodification ... view course details
Regular Academic Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- MWF Rockefeller Hall 127
Instructors
Admussen, N
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
ASIAN 2268
Course Description
Chinese political culture has long been characterized by authoritarianism, from the time of the old imperial order up until the present Communist era. Yet the twentieth century in China witnessed a profound ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: HIST 2986
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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- TR Rockefeller Hall 122
Instructors
Barwick, J
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
ASIAN 2298
Course Description
This course covers the three consecutive wars fought in Vietnam from 1945 to 1990 in which France, China, the US, and the USSR, among other countries, were directly involved. The course will endeavor to ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: HIST 2890
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Meeting Pattern
- TR Rockefeller Hall 115
Instructors
Taylor, K
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
ASIAN 2299
Course Description
This course will explore the Buddhist tradition from its origins in ancient India to its migrations throughout Asia and eventually to the West. The first part of the course will deal with Indian Buddhism: ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: RELST 2299
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- MW Baker Laboratory 219
Instructors
Boucher, D
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
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- F Uris Hall 262
Instructors
Boucher, D
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Instruction Mode: In Person
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- F Uris Hall 262
Instructors
Boucher, D
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
ASIAN 3321
Course Description
This course provides a broad overview of the evolution of Chinese politics from the early part of the 20th century to the present. It is roughly divided into two sections. The first traces the formation ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: CAPS 3403, GOVT 3403
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TR Goldwin Smith Hall G64-Kau Aud
Instructors
Mertha, A
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
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- M White Hall 104
Instructors
Staff
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Instruction Mode: In Person
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- M White Hall 110
Instructors
Staff
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Class Number & Section Details
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- R Stimson Hall 119
Instructors
Staff
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- R White Hall B02
Instructors
Staff
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
ASIAN 3331
Course Description
Examines the new cinemas of Southeast Asia and their engagement with contemporary discourses of gender and sexuality. It pays special attention to the ways in which sexuality and gendered embodiment are ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ASIAN 6631, FGSS 3331, FGSS 6331, LGBT 3331, LGBT 6331, PMA 3431, RELST 3331
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TR Uris Hall G88
Instructors
Fuhrmann, A
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
There will be mandatory film screenings TBD.
ASIAN 3353
Course Description
This course will examine techniques of spiritual cultivation in both the Daoist and Buddhist traditions of China. In particular we will compare and contrast methods which focus on the manipulation of bodily ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: RELST 3353
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- MW Statler Hall 351
Instructors
Boucher, D
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
ASIAN 3367
Course Description
This course examines how Buddhist identities, communities and self-understandings are constituted in part through moments of encounter with non-Buddhists. How do Buddhists respond to the challenge ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: RELST 3367
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- MWF McGraw Hall 365
Instructors
White, E
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
ASIAN 3383
Course Description
This course offers a survey of the art and culture of China, from the Neolithic period to the 20th century. We begin with an inquiry into the meaning of national boundaries and the controversy of the ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ARKEO 3800, ARTH 3800
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TR Goldwin Smith Hall G22
Instructors
Pan, A
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
ASIAN 4401
Course Description
Supervised reading and research on the problem selected for honors work. view course details
Regular Academic Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
Regular Academic Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
Regular Academic Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
Regular Academic Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
Regular Academic Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
Regular Academic Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
Regular Academic Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
Regular Academic Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
Regular Academic Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
Regular Academic Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
Regular Academic Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
ASIAN 4402
Course Description
The student, under faculty direction, prepares an honors essay. view course details
Regular Academic Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
ASIAN 4403
Course Description
Intensive reading under the direction of a member of the staff. view course details
ASIAN 4411
Course Description
Overview of the history of the Japanese language followed by intensive examination of issues of interest to participants. Students should have reading knowledge of Japanese. view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: JAPAN 4410, LING 4411
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TR Uris Hall 254
Instructors
Whitman, J
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
ASIAN 4461
Course Description
Theories of modernization have inspired, informed, and plagued the historiography of late imperial China. Comparative studies have variously found and sought to explain in the Song-Qing eras an absence ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ASIAN 6661, CAPS 4963, HIST 4963, HIST 6963
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- T Goldwin Smith Hall 156
Instructors
Hinrichs, T
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
Department Consent Required (Add)
ASIAN 4466
Course Description
This course examines how religious ideologies, practices and institutions have been politically mobilized in the public spheres of modern South and Southeast Asia. Divisive social conflict and communal ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ASIAN 6666, RELST 4466, RELST 6666
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TR Uris Hall 394
Instructors
White, E
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
Prerequisite: 1 course in ANTHR, ASIAN, HIST, RELST at 3000 level or above, or permission of instructor.
ASIAN 4470
Course Description
An introduction to the comparative study of social, political, and intellectual modernity in East Asia and the North Atlantic. The course will examine the characteristics of East Asian modernity with much ... view course details
Regular Academic Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TR Rockefeller Hall 104
Instructors
Sakai, N
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
ASIAN 4477
Course Description
Korean film and literature of the modern and contemporary eras are juxtaposed between two identifiable tropes - the beautiful, tranquil Orient and a violent, frenetic hyper-modernity. This arises from ... view course details
Regular Academic Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- W Rockefeller Hall 378
Instructors
Choi, Y
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
ASIAN 4484
Course Description
Contemporary Taiwanese Art is defined in this course as the art of Taiwan since the 1980s. The 1980s was a crucial transformative period in Taiwan's history when the island underwent major social and political ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ARTH 4840, ARTH 6840, ASIAN 6684, VISST 4840
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- T Goldwin Smith Hall 162
Instructors
Pan, A
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
ASIAN 6629
Course Description
The class is conducted in the Japanese language but the reading assignments are mostly in English. This course is offered to help graduate students meet the new demands of contemporary East Asian studies. ... view course details
Regular Academic Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TR Rockefeller Hall 386
Instructors
Sakai, N
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
Prerequisite: Advanced level of Japanese fluency.
Instructor Consent Required (Add)
ASIAN 6631
Course Description
Examines the new cinemas of Southeast Asia and their engagement with contemporary discourses of gender and sexuality. It pays special attention to the ways in which sexuality and gendered embodiment are ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ASIAN 3331, FGSS 3331, FGSS 6331, LGBT 3331, LGBT 6331, PMA 3431, RELST 3331
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TR Uris Hall G88
Instructors
Fuhrmann, A
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
There will be mandatory film screenings TBD.
ASIAN 6641
Course Description
This graduate seminar examines developments in the field of modern Chinese history from the postwar to the present. Through the critical reading of scholarship both classic and contemporary, we will familiarize ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: HIST 6640
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- M Goldwin Smith Hall 181
Instructors
Seow, V
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
ASIAN 6661
Course Description
Theories of modernization have inspired, informed, and plagued the historiography of late imperial China. Comparative studies have variously found and sought to explain in the Song-Qing eras an absence ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ASIAN 4461, CAPS 4963, HIST 4963, HIST 6963
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- T Goldwin Smith Hall 156
Instructors
Hinrichs, T
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
Department Consent Required (Add)
ASIAN 6666
Course Description
This course examines how religious ideologies, practices and institutions have been politically mobilized in the public spheres of modern South and Southeast Asia. Divisive social conflict and communal ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ASIAN 4466, RELST 4466, RELST 6666
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TR Uris Hall 394
Instructors
White, E
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
Prerequisite: 1 course in ANTHR, ASIAN, HIST, RELST at 3000 level or above, or permission of instructor.
ASIAN 6682
Course Description
This course critically addresses accounts of Southeast Asia's port and delta metropolises as sites of economic and cultural transformation as part of recent power shifts in the region. It focuses on the ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ARCH 6308, SHUM 6308
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- R Sibley Hall 261B
Instructors
Foster, J
Fuhrmann, A
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
Instructor Consent Required (Add)
ASIAN 6684
Course Description
Contemporary Taiwanese Art is defined in this course as the art of Taiwan since the 1980s. The 1980s was a crucial transformative period in Taiwan's history when the island underwent major social and political ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ARTH 4840, ARTH 6840, ASIAN 4484, VISST 4840
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- T Goldwin Smith Hall 162
Instructors
Pan, A
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
ASIAN 7703
Course Description
No description available. view course details