Asian Studies (ASIAN)Arts and Sciences

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Course descriptions provided by the Courses of Study 2018-2019.

ASIAN 1103

Femininities: Asia studies the politics and aesthetics of representing femininity in Asia across a variety of Asian screen cultures, literatures, and political-economic contexts. We will study foundational ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • 17913 ASIAN 1103   SEM 101

  • For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://knight.as.cornell.edu/.

ASIAN 1106

The great Sanskrit epic, the Mahabharata, is one of the principal monuments of world literature. This vast, enthralling, and powerful tale of intra-familial war and world historical decline (of which the ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • 17915 ASIAN 1106   SEM 101

  • For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://knight.as.cornell.edu/.

ASIAN 1110

Long before the steamship, the airplane, the iPad and Snapchat, Buddhist monks, merchants, pilgrims and adventurers created a Buddhist network across the space of the Indian Ocean, including much of what ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • 18170 ASIAN 1110   SEM 101

  • For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://knight.as.cornell.edu/.

ASIAN 1111

This First-Year Writing Seminar is about Asian Literature, Religion, and Culture and provides the opportunity to write extensively about these issues.  Topics vary by section. view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • Topic: FWS:Discussions on Making of Modernity in India

  • 17917 ASIAN 1111   SEM 101

    • TR Uris Hall 369
    • Nag Chowdhuri, Y

  • For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://knight.as.cornell.edu/.

Syllabi: none
  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • Topic: FWS:Settler Colonialism thru Transpacific Asian Li

  • 17918 ASIAN 1111   SEM 102

  • For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://knight.as.cornell.edu/.

Syllabi: none
  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • Topic: FWS: Relgion and Ecology in Modern South Asia

  • 17919 ASIAN 1111   SEM 103

  • For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://knight.as.cornell.edu/.

Syllabi: none
  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • Topic: FWS: Political Aesthetics of Korea

  • 17920 ASIAN 1111   SEM 104

  • For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://knight.as.cornell.edu/.

ASIAN 1174

This course explores the history of imperial China between the 3rd century b.c.e. and the 16th century c.e. with a focus on the following questions:  How did imperial Chinese states go about politically ... view course details

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Syllabi:
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: CAPS 1740HIST 1740MEDVL 1740

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16233 ASIAN 1174   LEC 001

  • 16234 ASIAN 1174   DIS 201

  • 16235 ASIAN 1174   DIS 202

  • 16236 ASIAN 1174   DIS 203

  • 16237 ASIAN 1174   DIS 204

ASIAN 1191

This introductory course follows the history of Asia-Pacific from the nineteenth century to the present, focusing on the relations of China, India, Japan, South, and Southeast Asia.  This course is intended ... view course details

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Syllabi:
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: CAPS 1910HIST 1910

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16285 ASIAN 1191   LEC 001

  • 16286 ASIAN 1191   DIS 201

  • 16287 ASIAN 1191   DIS 202

  • 16288 ASIAN 1191   DIS 203

  • 16289 ASIAN 1191   DIS 204

ASIAN 1193

By posing seemingly simple questions such as what is love and who has the right to love, this introductory-level lecture course surveys how love has been experienced and expressed from the pre-modern period ... view course details

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Syllabi:
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: FGSS 1940HIST 1930LGBT 1940

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  8806 ASIAN 1193   LEC 001

ASIAN 2208

What is Southeast Asia? How does this faraway, "exotic," region intersect with our realities? This course introduces key questions in the study of Southeast Asia (which includes Brunei, Burma, Cambodia, ... view course details

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Syllabi:
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one lecture and one discussion.

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  8460 ASIAN 2208   LEC 001

  •  8461 ASIAN 2208   DIS 201

  •  8462 ASIAN 2208   DIS 202

ASIAN 2211

This course serves as a general introduction to the study of Japan in the humanities and social sciences. We focus on different themes that have dominated debates and conversations (primarily within Japan ... view course details

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

  • 3 Credits Graded

  •  7851 ASIAN 2211   LEC 001

  •  7852 ASIAN 2211   DIS 201

  •  7853 ASIAN 2211   DIS 202

  •  7854 ASIAN 2211   DIS 203

  •  7855 ASIAN 2211   DIS 204

ASIAN 2245

This course combines hands-on instruction in gamelan, Indonesia's most prominent form of traditional music, and the academic study of the broader range of music found in contemporary Indonesia, including ... view course details

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

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6141 ASIAN 2245   LEC 001

ASIAN 2267

This course offers a broad understanding of the active and dynamic cultural, economic, and social, and political roles played by Chinese women. By challenging the dominant stereotype of the passive and ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: CAPS 2267FGSS 2267

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16488 ASIAN 2267   LEC 001

  • No prior knowledge of Chinese necessary.

ASIAN 2270

What does "death" mean in the East Asian context and how is it imagined? This course aims at examining the ways in which East Asia have imaginatively, metaphorically, ritually, and visually conceived of ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: CAPS 2270

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16733 ASIAN 2270   LEC 001

ASIAN 2273

This course serves as both an introduction to the academic study of religion and a survey of major topics in the intersections of religious communities and environmentally sustainable practices. Using ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: NES 2273RELST 2273

  • 3 Credits Graded

  •  9163 ASIAN 2273   LEC 001

ASIAN 2274

Starting with the appearance of European trading companies and the establishment of the Mughal empire around 1500 and ending with the establishment of British dominance by 1800, the readings focus on recent ... view course details

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Syllabi:
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: HIST 2749

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16337 ASIAN 2274   LEC 001

  • 16338 ASIAN 2274   DIS 201

  • 16339 ASIAN 2274   DIS 202

ASIAN 2285

Trade in and to Asia proved to be a key force in creating our modern "globalized" world.  The Indian Ocean and the China Seas converged on Southeast Asia, where a cosmopolitan array of ships from every ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ARTH 2805VISST 2805

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16778 ASIAN 2285   LEC 001

ASIAN 2289

In this course we will examine the modes of philosophical and spiritual inquiry, varieties of spiritual/bodily cultivation and practice, and religious organizations and movements in China that we know ... view course details

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Syllabi:
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: CAPS 2209HIST 2209RELST 2209

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16906 ASIAN 2289   SEM 101

ASIAN 2293

The Great Qing (1644-1911), a multi-ethnic empire that conquered China proper from the northeastern borderlands, expanded into central Asia, Mongolia, and Tibet, and consolidated the China-based empire's ... view course details

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Syllabi:
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: CAPS 2931HIST 2931

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17530 ASIAN 2293   LEC 001

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

  •  8940 ASIAN 2299   LEC 001

  •  9096 ASIAN 2299   DIS 201

  •  9097 ASIAN 2299   DIS 202

ASIAN 3304

This course provides students with an analytical framework to understand China's ongoing economic transformation. The courses goals include: 1) to familiarize students with different perspectives on China's ... view course details

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Syllabi:
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: CAPS 3049GOVT 3044

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16515 ASIAN 3304   LEC 001

  • 16516 ASIAN 3304   DIS 201

  • 16517 ASIAN 3304   DIS 202

  • 17844 ASIAN 3304   DIS 203

  • 18812 ASIAN 3304   DIS 204

ASIAN 3306

The Philippines was the first country in Asia to foster a nationalistic insurrection, the only official colony of the United States (1898-1946), and is today Southeast Asia's only predominantly Catholic ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ASIAN 6604

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • 18733 ASIAN 3306   SEM 101

ASIAN 3307

The course is attached to the Cornell Contemporary China Initiative lecture series, which brings high profile speakers on various aspects of contemporary China to Cornell most Mondays throughout the semester.  ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 2 Credits Graded

  •  8440 ASIAN 3307   LEC 001

ASIAN 3311

What role does Islam take in the politics, history, arts and rituals of Southeast Asia? Structured as a seminar, this course takes you on a journey through Southeast Asia, home to almost a quarter of the ... view course details

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Syllabi:
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ASIAN 6611NES 3511RELST 3311

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16426 ASIAN 3311   SEM 101

  • Prerequisite: One course in the humanities.

ASIAN 3312

If you have ever wondered what the Vietnam War was all about, how did it begin, how was it fought, why was it so controversial, why did the American people turn against it, why was it important, why were ... view course details

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Syllabi:
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: HIST 3312

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  9270 ASIAN 3312   LEC 001

ASIAN 3352

People outside China often talk about "China's rise," the changes in world economics and politics that come from the increase of the power of the People's Republic. From a domestic perspective, though, ... view course details

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Syllabi:
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: CAPS 3352

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16731 ASIAN 3352   LEC 001

ASIAN 3393

Examines the development of the Chinese economy and the evolution of China's economic system between the early 1950s and late 1990s. view course details

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Syllabi:
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: CAPS 3380ECON 3380

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  8436 ASIAN 3393   LEC 001

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 Multi-Term

  •  6418 ASIAN 4401   IND 601

    • TBA
    • Admussen, N

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

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Multi-Term

  •  7496 ASIAN 4401   IND 602

    • TBA
    • Blackburn, A

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

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Multi-Term

  •  7663 ASIAN 4401   IND 603

    • TBA
    • Boucher, D

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

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Multi-Term

  •  7657 ASIAN 4401   IND 604

    • TBA
    • Formichi, C

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

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Multi-Term

  •  7497 ASIAN 4401   IND 605

    • TBA
    • Fuhrmann, A

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

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Multi-Term

  •  7498 ASIAN 4401   IND 606

    • TBA
    • Gold, D

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

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Multi-Term

  •  7658 ASIAN 4401   IND 607

    • TBA
    • Law, J

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

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Multi-Term

  • 17167 ASIAN 4401   IND 608

    • TBA
    • McCrea, L

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

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Multi-Term

  • 17168 ASIAN 4401   IND 609

    • TBA
    • Son, S

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

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Multi-Term

  • 17169 ASIAN 4401   IND 610

    • TBA
    • Taylor, K

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

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Multi-Term

  • 17170 ASIAN 4401   IND 611

    • TBA
    • Warner, D

  • 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

  •  7438 ASIAN 4402   IND 601

    • TBA
    • Admussen, N

  • Prerequisite: admission to honors program.

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Graded

  •  7494 ASIAN 4402   IND 602

    • TBA
    • Blackburn, A

  • Prerequisite: admission to honors program.

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Graded

  •  7883 ASIAN 4402   IND 603

    • TBA
    • Boucher, D

  • Prerequisite: admission to honors program.

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Graded

  •  7594 ASIAN 4402   IND 604

    • TBA
    • Formichi, C

  • Prerequisite: admission to honors program.

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Graded

  •  7495 ASIAN 4402   IND 605

    • TBA
    • Fuhrmann, A

  • Prerequisite: admission to honors program.

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Graded

  •  7482 ASIAN 4402   IND 606

    • TBA
    • Gold, D

  • Prerequisite: admission to honors program.

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Graded

  •  7659 ASIAN 4402   IND 607

    • TBA
    • Law, J

  • Prerequisite: admission to honors program.

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Graded

  • 17171 ASIAN 4402   IND 608

    • TBA
    • McCrea, L

  • Prerequisite: admission to honors program.

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Graded

  • 17172 ASIAN 4402   IND 609

    • TBA
    • Son, S

  • Prerequisite: admission to honors program.

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Graded

  • 17173 ASIAN 4402   IND 610

    • TBA
    • Taylor, K

  • Prerequisite: admission to honors program.

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Graded

  • 17174 ASIAN 4402   IND 611

    • TBA
    • Warner, D

  • Prerequisite: admission to honors program.

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

  •  6157 ASIAN 4403   IND 601

    • TBA
    • Admussen, N

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  7541 ASIAN 4403   IND 602

    • TBA
    • Blackburn, A

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  7884 ASIAN 4403   IND 603

    • TBA
    • Boucher, D

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  7656 ASIAN 4403   IND 604

    • TBA
    • Formichi, C

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  7542 ASIAN 4403   IND 605

    • TBA
    • Fuhrmann, A

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  7543 ASIAN 4403   IND 606

    • TBA
    • Gold, D

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  7586 ASIAN 4403   IND 607

    • TBA
    • Law, J

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17193 ASIAN 4403   IND 608

    • TBA
    • McCrea, L

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17194 ASIAN 4403   IND 609

    • TBA
    • Son, S

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17195 ASIAN 4403   IND 610

    • TBA
    • Taylor, K

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17196 ASIAN 4403   IND 611

    • TBA
    • Warner, D

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 18891 ASIAN 4403   IND 612

    • TBA
    • Green, G

ASIAN 4407

Images of tattooed, inscribed, and marked bodies abound in popular media, from television series to blogs, from performance art to popular literature. When the body becomes a canvas or text, this raises ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: COML 4704FGSS 4607

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17461 ASIAN 4407   SEM 101

ASIAN 4428

This course will provide both a historical introduction to and critical analysis of the constitution of Japanese Studies as a "field" of postwar academic inquiry. While reading texts particularly influential ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: HIST 4428

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16475 ASIAN 4428   SEM 101

ASIAN 4436

The course will treat various aspects of Indian film, with focal topics to vary from year to year.  These topics will include religion in Indian film, Indian art films, and the golden age of Indian film.  ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: PMA 4536VISST 4436

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16443 ASIAN 4436   SEM 101

ASIAN 4449

This seminar will explore the development of and variety in the academic discipline of Religious Studies. We will consider the emergence of secular approaches to the study of religion arising out of the ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: RELST 4449

  • 4 Credits Graded

  • 16424 ASIAN 4449   SEM 101

  • Prerequisite: one course in Religious Studies or permission of instructor.

ASIAN 4451

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
  •  8947 ASIAN 4451   LEC 001

ASIAN 4462

Taught as a seminar, the course engages recent theoretical literature on the relations between religion, colonialism and nation formation.  This theoretical literature is read in conjunction with historical ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ASIAN 6662RELST 4462

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16421 ASIAN 4462   SEM 101

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

ASIAN 4473

China, a cultural giant of East Asia, made a passive entrance into modernity. With the advent of Western and American colonialism and imperialism, coupled with recent successes in westernization by the ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ARTH 4816ARTH 6816ASIAN 6673

  • 4 Credits Opt NoAud

  • 17741 ASIAN 4473   SEM 101

ASIAN 4478

As China, with its "China Dream," rises in power on the global stage, what "China" means to its inhabitants and outsiders has become an issue increasingly relevant to business, international relations, ... view course details

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Syllabi:
  • 17531 ASIAN 4478   SEM 101

ASIAN 4481

Problems concerning translation are explored. Although there are many different models of translation, we tend to be confined to the unilateral regime of translation, that is, the very narrow and historically ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: COML 4700

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16485 ASIAN 4481   SEM 101

ASIAN 4499

This seminar will focus on the significance of water –economic, religious, political, social –and its role in the art and architecture of Mainland and Island Southeast Asia, with particular focus on Cambodia ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  • 17143 ASIAN 4499   SEM 101

ASIAN 6604

A topics course related to Southeast Asian Studies.  view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ASIAN 3306

  • 3-4 Credits Graded

  • Topic: The Philippines: History, Culture, and Politics

  • 18741 ASIAN 6604   SEM 101

ASIAN 6611

What role does Islam take in the politics, history, arts and rituals of Southeast Asia? Structured as a seminar, this course takes you on a journey through Southeast Asia, home to almost a quarter of the ... view course details

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Syllabi:
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ASIAN 3311NES 3511RELST 3311

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16429 ASIAN 6611   SEM 101

  • Prerequisite: One course in the humanities.

ASIAN 6621

This course argues that modern literary strictures – such as market forces, censorship, and new media forms – are contiguous with and interpretable in the same way as more traditional literary strictures ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: COML 6686

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16968 ASIAN 6621   SEM 001

  • Course intended for graduate students only.

ASIAN 6630

Expanded Practice Seminars bring students and faculty in the humanities and the design disciplines together around a common and pressing urban issue such as the cultural and material practices induced ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  • Topic: Mapping Global Spatio-politics Through China

  • 17848 ASIAN 6630   SEM 101

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
  •  8952 ASIAN 6631   LEC 001

ASIAN 6662

Taught as a seminar, the course engages recent theoretical literature on the relations between religion, colonialism and nation formation. This theoretical literature is read in conjunction with historical ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ASIAN 4462RELST 4462

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16423 ASIAN 6662   SEM 101

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

ASIAN 6671

This course offers graduate students an opportunity to consider ways for analyzing texts from Asia, both modern and pre-modern, both literary and historiographical. The emphasis will be on how narratives ... view course details

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Syllabi:
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: HIST 6617

  • 4 Credits Graded

  • 16494 ASIAN 6671   SEM 101

  • Prerequisite: Reading knowledge of an Asian language.

ASIAN 6673

China, a cultural giant of East Asia, made a passive entrance into modernity. With the advent of Western and American colonialism and imperialism, coupled with recent successes in westernization by the ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ARTH 4816ARTH 6816ASIAN 4473

  • 4 Credits Opt NoAud

  • 17743 ASIAN 6673   SEM 101

ASIAN 6679

As China, with its "China Dream," rises in power on the global stage, what "China" means to its inhabitants and outsiders has become an issue increasingly relevant to business, international relations, ... view course details

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Syllabi:
  • 17533 ASIAN 6679   SEM 101

ASIAN 6699

This seminar will focus on the significance of water –economic, religious, political, social –and its role in the art and architecture of Mainland and Island Southeast Asia, with particular focus on Cambodia ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  • 17287 ASIAN 6699   SEM 101

ASIAN 7703

Guided independent study for graduate students. view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6384 ASIAN 7703   RSC 701

    • TBA
    • Admussen, N

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  7499 ASIAN 7703   RSC 702

    • TBA
    • Blackburn, A

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  8040 ASIAN 7703   RSC 703

    • TBA
    • Boucher, D

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  7500 ASIAN 7703   RSC 704

    • TBA
    • Formichi, C

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  7501 ASIAN 7703   RSC 705

    • TBA
    • Fuhrmann, A

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  7502 ASIAN 7703   RSC 706

    • TBA
    • Gold, D

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  7503 ASIAN 7703   RSC 707

    • TBA
    • Law, J

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17197 ASIAN 7703   RSC 708

    • TBA
    • McCrea, L

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17199 ASIAN 7703   RSC 709

    • TBA
    • Son, S

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17200 ASIAN 7703   RSC 710

    • TBA
    • Taylor, K

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17201 ASIAN 7703   RSC 711

    • TBA
    • Warner, D