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Courses offered are subject to change; listed below is a sampling of Asian Studies courses taught in the past few years.

Asian Studies Core Courses:

Anthropology:
  • Introduction to Anthropology

    • Art History:
  • Monuments of Asian Art
  • East Meets West

    • Economics:
  • Development from the Ground Up
  • Economic History of Modern Asia
  • Economic History of Central Asia

    • Film:
  • Asian Cinèma

    • Gender Studies:
  • Women and Buddhism

    • Historical Studies:
  • China and the Silk Roads: Past and Present
  • Confucianism
  • Imperialism in Asia
  • Indochine
  • Race, Culture, and Identity in Modern East Asia

    • Literature:
  • Canons and Cultures of Asia
  • Brush Stroke: Chinese Calligraphy

    • Music:
  • Introduction to World Music
  • World Music Seminar: Introduction to Asian Music

    • Political Studies:
  • East Asian Politics and Society
  • International Politics of South Asia
  • The Politics of Medicine in East Asia

    • Religion:
  • Buddhist Thought and Practice
  • Contemplative Traditions of Asia
  • Buddha Imagined: Literary and Artistic Landscape of Buddhism

    • Theater:
  • Asian Theater Lab

    • Other Courses Cross-Listed with Asian Studies:

    Courses offered are subject to change; listed below is a sampling of Asian studies courses taught in the past few years.

    Division of the Arts

    Art History:

  • East Meets West
  • Arts of China
  • Arts of India
  • Arts of Japan
  • Chinese Landscape Painting
  • Chinese Religious Art

    • Music:

  • Balinese Gamelan Ensemble
  • World Music Seminar
  • Music of China
  • Chinese Music Ensemble
  • Popular Musics of the Non-Western World

    • Theater:

  • Asian Theater Lab
  • Japanese Classical Theater

    • Division of Languages and Literature

    Chinese:

  • Chinese language courses
  • Chinese Theater
  • Chinese Diaspora
  • Modern Chinese Fiction
  • Reflections of China in Literature and Film
  • Lu Xun and Modern Chinese Short Story
  • Classical Chinese Literature
  • Exile in Chinese Literature
  • Representations of Tibet
  • Chinese Calligraphy

    • Classics:

  • Confucius and Socrates
  • India and Greece

    • Japanese:

  • Japanese language courses
  • Readings in Japanese Culture
  • Modern Japanese Literature
  • Japanese Translation
  • Natsume Soseki
  • Imagining Environment in East Asia

    • Literature:

  • Indian Fiction

    • Sanskrit:

  • Sanskrit language courses

    • Tamil:

  • tutorials

    • Division of Social Studies

    Anthropology:

  • Culture, Politics, and Representations of South Asia
  • Cultural Politics of the Raj
  • South Asia and the Ethnographic Imagination
  • Japanimation and Culture in Postwar Japan

    • Economics:

  • China in Transition
  • Economics of Developing Countries

    • Historical Studies:

  • China in the Eyes of the West
  • China in Revolution
  • Crisis and Conflict: Ethnography of China
  • Gender and Radicalism in Modern China
  • Introduction to Modern Japanese History
  • Imperial Chinese History
  • Making Modern China
  • Mao's China and Beyond

    • Political Studies:

  • International Politics of South Asia
  • Introduction to Chinese Politics
  • United States–East Asian Relations
  • East Asian Politics and Society

    • Religion:

  • Devotion and Poetry in India
  • Hindu Religious Traditions
  • History of Early India
  • Japanese Religions
  • Myth and the Arts of India
  • Buddha Imagined: Literary and Artistic Landscape of Buddhism


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