Curriculum
For courses offered please see the Course Catalog.
EAS 250 Research or Individual Study
Prerequisite: Open to sophomores, juniors, and seniors by permission of instructor and director
Distribution: Determined by the instructor and director
Semester: Fall, Spring Unit: 1.0
EAS 350 Research or Individual Study
Prerequisite: Open to juniors and seniors by permission of instructor and director
Distribution: Determined by the instructor and director
Semester: Fall, Spring Unit: 1.0
EAS 360 Senior Thesis Research
Prerequisite: Open to seniors by permission of the Faculty Advisory Committee. See Honors.
Distribution: None
Semester: Fall, Spring Unit: 1.0
EAS 370 Senior Thesis
Prerequisite: 360 and permission of thesis advisor/s.
Distribution: None
Semester: Fall, Spring Unit: 1.0
Courses for Credit Toward the Major
LANGUAGE courses (Mandarin Chinese, Japanese, Korean)
See offerings in Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures
HUMANITIES
AMST 212 Korean American Literature and Culture
ARTH 238 Chinese Art and Architecture
ARTH 240 Asian Art and Architecture
ARTH 248 Chinese Painting
ARTH 249 Japanese Art and Architecture
ARTH 255 Twentieth-Century Chinese Art
ARTH 337 Seminar. Topics in Chinese Art
ARTH 341 Seminar. The Landscape Painting of China, Korea, and Japan
ARTH 346 Seminar. Poetic Painting in China, Korea, and Japan
ARTS 106 Introduction to Chinese Painting
ARTS 206 Chinese Painting II
CHIN 105/WRIT 125 Self and Society in Chinese Literature (in English)
CHIN 208 Writing Modern China (in English)
CHIN 211/311 The Dream of the Red Chamber in Chinese Literature and Culture (in English)
CHIN 212/312 Speaking What’s on My Mind: Classical Chinese Poetry and Song (in English)
CHIN 225 Representations of the Other in Traditional Chinese Literature (in English)
CHIN 231/331 Chinese and the Languages of China (in English)
CHIN 232/332 Writing Women in Modern China (in English)
CHIN 243/CAMS 203 Chinese Cinema (in English)
CHIN 244 Classical Chinese Theatre (in English)
*CHIN 306 Advanced Reading in TwentiethCentury Literature and Culture (in Chinese)
CHIN 307 Advanced Readings in Contemporary Issues (in Chinese)
CHIN 326 The City in Modern Chinese Literature and Film (in English)
*CHIN 338 Reading in Modern Chinese Literature (in Chinese)
CHIN 339 Popular Culture in Modern China (in English)
EALL 225/325 Traditional Romances of East Asia (in English)
JPN 111 Gender and Popular Culture of Japan
(in English)
JPN 130 Japanese Animation (in English)
JPN 131/THST 131 First Year Seminar: Japan on Stage 87 East Asian Studies
JPN 251/THST 251 Japanese Writers and Their Worlds (in English),
JPN 252 Supernatural Japan (in English)
JPN 256/CAMS 205 History of Japanese Cinema (in English)
JPN 309 Readings in Contemporary Japanese Social Science (in Japanese)
*JPN 312 /THST 312 Literary Japanese: Reading the Classics (in Japanese)
*JPN 314 Contemporary Japanese Narrative (in Japanese)
JPN 351/THST 351 Seminar. Theaters of Japan (in English)
JPN 352 Seminar. Postwar Japanese Fiction (in English)
JPN 353/THST 353 Seminar. Lady Murasaki and The Tale of Genji (in English)
KOR 206 Korean Culture and Language
REL 108 Introduction to Asian Religions
REL 253 Buddhist Thought and Practice
REL 254 Chinese Thought and Religion
REL 255 Japanese Religion and Culture
REL 259 Christianity in Asia
REL 290 Kyoto Wintersession
REL 353 Seminar. Zen Buddhism
REL 354 Seminar. Tibetan Buddhism
*Fulfills either Language or Humanities
requirement for the major
HISTORY AND SOCIAL SCIENCES
[ANTH 223 Contemporary Chinese Society]
[ANTH 224 Ancient China: From the Neolithic to Imperial Unification]
HIST 269 Japan, the Great Powers and East Asia, 1853–1993
HIST 274 China, Japan, and Korea in Comparative and Global Perspectives
HIST 277 China and America: Evolution of a Troubled Relationship
HIST 278 Reform and Revolution in China, 1800–Present
HIST 280 Topics in Chinese Commerce and Business
[HIST 289 Modern Korea: From 1800–Present]
HIST 346 Seminar. Japanese Empire in East Asia, 1879–1951
HIST 371 Seminar. Chinese Frontier Experience, 1600 to the Present
HIST 372 Seminar. Chinese Nationalism and Identity in the Modern World
KOR 256 Gender and Language in Modern Korean Culture (in English)
POL2 208 Politics of China
POL2 304 State and Society in East Asia
POL2 308S Seminar. Advanced Topics in Chinese Politics
POL3 227 The Vietnam War
WGST 206 Migration, Gender, and Globalization
