Asian Studies (ASIAN)Arts and Sciences

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ASIAN 1100

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

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Syllabi: none
  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • 17441 ASIAN 1100   SEM 101

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ASIAN 1102

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

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Syllabi: none
  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • 17450 ASIAN 1102   SEM 101

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ASIAN 1105

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

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Syllabi: none
  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • 17622 ASIAN 1105   SEM 101

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ASIAN 1191

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

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: CAPS 1910HIST 1910

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6477 ASIAN 1191   LEC 001

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  •  6478 ASIAN 1191   DIS 201

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  •  6479 ASIAN 1191   DIS 202

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  •  7906 ASIAN 1191   DIS 203

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  •  8509 ASIAN 1191   DIS 204

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ASIAN 2211

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

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one lecture and one discussion.

  • 3 Credits Graded

  •  9146 ASIAN 2211   LEC 001

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  •  9147 ASIAN 2211   DIS 201

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  •  9148 ASIAN 2211   DIS 202

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  •  9149 ASIAN 2211   DIS 203

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  •  9150 ASIAN 2211   DIS 204

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ASIAN 2215

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

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  8110 ASIAN 2215   LEC 001

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ASIAN 2245

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

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: MUSIC 1341VISST 2744

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6486 ASIAN 2245   LEC 001

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ASIAN 2247

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

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: RELST 2247

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 15672 ASIAN 2247   LEC 001

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ASIAN 2255

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

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: RELST 2255

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 15673 ASIAN 2255   LEC 001

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ASIAN 2264

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

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  9538 ASIAN 2264   LEC 001

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ASIAN 2268

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

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: HIST 2986

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17904 ASIAN 2268   LEC 001

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ASIAN 2298

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

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: HIST 2890

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 15594 ASIAN 2298   LEC 001

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ASIAN 2299

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

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: RELST 2299

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  9025 ASIAN 2299   LEC 001

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  •  9115 ASIAN 2299   DIS 201

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  •  9116 ASIAN 2299   DIS 202

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ASIAN 3321

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

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: CAPS 3403GOVT 3403

  • 4 Credits Graded

  •  8904 ASIAN 3321   LEC 001

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  • 16246 ASIAN 3321   DIS 201

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  • 16247 ASIAN 3321   DIS 202

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  • 16248 ASIAN 3321   DIS 203

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  • 16249 ASIAN 3321   DIS 204

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ASIAN 3331

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

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Syllabi: none
  •  9027 ASIAN 3331   LEC 001

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    There will be mandatory film screenings TBD.

ASIAN 3353

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

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: RELST 3353

  • 4 Credits Graded

  • 15686 ASIAN 3353   LEC 001

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ASIAN 3367

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

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: RELST 3367

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17433 ASIAN 3367   LEC 001

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ASIAN 3383

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

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ARKEO 3800ARTH 3800

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  8565 ASIAN 3383   LEC 001

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ASIAN 4401

Supervised reading and research on the problem selected for honors work. view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Graded

  •  6833 ASIAN 4401   IND 601

    • TBA
    • Admussen, N

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    Prerequisite: admission to honors program. Enrollment limited to: seniors.

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Graded

  •  8469 ASIAN 4401   IND 602

    • TBA
    • Blackburn, A

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    Prerequisite: admission to honors program. Enrollment limited to: seniors.

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Graded

  •  8147 ASIAN 4401   IND 603

    • TBA
    • Boucher, D

  • Instruction Mode:
    Prerequisite: admission to honors program. Enrollment limited to: seniors.

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Graded

  •  8148 ASIAN 4401   IND 604

    • TBA
    • Choi, Y

  • Instruction Mode:
    Prerequisite: admission to honors program. Enrollment limited to: seniors.

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Graded

  •  8496 ASIAN 4401   IND 605

    • TBA
    • Fuhrmann, A

  • Instruction Mode:
    Prerequisite: admission to honors program. Enrollment limited to: seniors.

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Graded

  •  8470 ASIAN 4401   IND 606

    • TBA
    • Kanemitsu, J

  • Instruction Mode:
    Prerequisite: admission to honors program. Enrollment limited to: seniors.

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Graded

  •  8149 ASIAN 4401   IND 607

    • TBA
    • McNeal, R

  • Instruction Mode:
    Prerequisite: admission to honors program. Enrollment limited to: seniors.

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Graded

  •  8150 ASIAN 4401   IND 608

    • TBA
    • Sakai, N

  • Instruction Mode:
    Prerequisite: admission to honors program. Enrollment limited to: seniors.

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Graded

  •  8471 ASIAN 4401   IND 609

    • TBA
    • Taylor, K

  • Instruction Mode:
    Prerequisite: admission to honors program. Enrollment limited to: seniors.

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Graded

  • 18524 ASIAN 4401   IND 610

    • TBA
    • Miyazaki, H

  • Instruction Mode:
    Prerequisite: admission to honors program. Enrollment limited to: seniors.

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Graded

  • 18534 ASIAN 4401   IND 611

    • TBA
    • Law, J

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    Prerequisite: admission to honors program. Enrollment limited to: seniors.

ASIAN 4402

The student, under faculty direction, prepares an honors essay. view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Graded

  •  8033 ASIAN 4402   IND 601

    • TBA
    • Admussen, N

  • Instruction Mode:
    Prerequisite: admission to honors program.

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Graded

  •  8472 ASIAN 4402   IND 602

    • TBA
    • Blackburn, A

  • Instruction Mode:

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Graded

  •  8098 ASIAN 4402   IND 603

    • TBA
    • Boucher, D

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Graded

  •  8143 ASIAN 4402   IND 604

    • TBA
    • Choi, Y

  • Instruction Mode:

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Graded

  •  9369 ASIAN 4402   IND 605

    • TBA
    • Fuhrmann, A

  • Instruction Mode:

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Graded

  •  8339 ASIAN 4402   IND 606

    • TBA
    • Kanemitsu, J

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Graded

  •  8144 ASIAN 4402   IND 607

    • TBA
    • McNeal, R

  • Instruction Mode:

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Graded

  •  8099 ASIAN 4402   IND 608

    • TBA
    • Sakai, N

  • Instruction Mode:

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Graded

  •  8473 ASIAN 4402   IND 609

    • TBA
    • Taylor, K

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ASIAN 4403

Intensive reading under the direction of a member of the staff. view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6509 ASIAN 4403   IND 601

    • TBA
    • Admussen, N

  • Instruction Mode:

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  8467 ASIAN 4403   IND 602

    • TBA
    • Blackburn, A

  • Instruction Mode:

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  8251 ASIAN 4403   IND 603

    • TBA
    • Boucher, D

  • Instruction Mode:

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  8252 ASIAN 4403   IND 604

    • TBA
    • Choi, Y

  • Instruction Mode:

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  9370 ASIAN 4403   IND 605

    • TBA
    • Fuhrmann, A

  • Instruction Mode:

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  8468 ASIAN 4403   IND 606

    • TBA
    • Kanemitsu, J

  • Instruction Mode:

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  8253 ASIAN 4403   IND 607

    • TBA
    • McNeal, R

  • Instruction Mode:

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  8254 ASIAN 4403   IND 608

    • TBA
    • Sakai, N

  • Instruction Mode:

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  8326 ASIAN 4403   IND 609

    • TBA
    • Taylor, K

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ASIAN 4411

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

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: JAPAN 4410LING 4411

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 15577 ASIAN 4411   LEC 001

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ASIAN 4461

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

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  • 16653 ASIAN 4461   SEM 101

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ASIAN 4466

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

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Syllabi: none
  • 17434 ASIAN 4466   SEM 101

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    Prerequisite: 1 course in ANTHR, ASIAN, HIST, RELST at 3000 level or above, or permission of instructor.

ASIAN 4470

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

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 15834 ASIAN 4470   LEC 001

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ASIAN 4477

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

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Graded

  • 15598 ASIAN 4477   SEM 101

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ASIAN 4484

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

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  • 16356 ASIAN 4484   SEM 101

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ASIAN 6629

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

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Graded

  • 15835 ASIAN 6629   SEM 101

  • Instruction Mode:
    Prerequisite: Advanced level of Japanese fluency.

ASIAN 6631

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

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Syllabi: none
  • 15613 ASIAN 6631   LEC 001

  • Instruction Mode:
    There will be mandatory film screenings TBD.

ASIAN 6641

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

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: HIST 6640

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16620 ASIAN 6641   SEM 101

  • Instruction Mode:

ASIAN 6661

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

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Syllabi: none
  • 16624 ASIAN 6661   SEM 101

  • Instruction Mode:

ASIAN 6666

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

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Syllabi: none
  • 17435 ASIAN 6666   SEM 101

  • Instruction Mode:
    Prerequisite: 1 course in ANTHR, ASIAN, HIST, RELST at 3000 level or above, or permission of instructor.

ASIAN 6682

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

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ARCH 6308SHUM 6308

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17269 ASIAN 6682   SEM 101

  • Instruction Mode:

ASIAN 6684

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

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Syllabi: none
  • 16531 ASIAN 6684   SEM 101

  • Instruction Mode:

ASIAN 7703

No description available. view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6781 ASIAN 7703   RSC 701

    • TBA
    • Admussen, N

  • Instruction Mode:

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  8474 ASIAN 7703   RSC 702

    • TBA
    • Blackburn, A

  • Instruction Mode:

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  8152 ASIAN 7703   RSC 703

    • TBA
    • Boucher, D

  • Instruction Mode:

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  8153 ASIAN 7703   RSC 704

    • TBA
    • Choi, Y

  • Instruction Mode:

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16014 ASIAN 7703   RSC 705

    • TBA
    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode:

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  8154 ASIAN 7703   RSC 706

    • TBA
    • Fuhrmann, A

  • Instruction Mode:

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  8155 ASIAN 7703   RSC 707

    • TBA
    • Kanemitsu, J

  • Instruction Mode:

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  8156 ASIAN 7703   RSC 708

    • TBA
    • McNeal, R

  • Instruction Mode:

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  8157 ASIAN 7703   RSC 709

    • TBA
    • Sakai, N

  • Instruction Mode:

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  8372 ASIAN 7703   RSC 710

    • TBA
    • Taylor, K

  • Instruction Mode: