Asian Studies

 

Asian Humanities Seminar

 

Professor:

Nabanjan Maitra

 

Course Number:

ASIA 310

CRN Number:

90311

Class cap:

12

Credits:

4

 

Schedule/Location:

 Tue      3:10 PM - 5:30 PM Olin 302

 

Distributional Area:

MBV Meaning, Being, Value D+J Difference and Justice

 

Crosslists:

Literature; Study of Religions

This class will introduce students to some of the most artistically significant, historically influential, and culturally celebrated works from a number of Asian traditions (China, India, Japan, and Korea). We will consider texts from a wide variety of genres, including epic and lyric poetry, mytho-historical chronicles, court fiction, memoirs, travelogues, sutras, tales of miracle, philosophical treatises, and dramatic literature. The readings span almost three thousand years, from the first millennium BCE to the nineteenth century, and they are selected because they have been recognized as classics within each of their own cultural traditions and even worldwide. Students are encouraged to directly engage with these major texts, reflect meaningfully about them in their own terms, and examine how they can be inspiring and relevant for us today. Some of the issues that we will explore through these texts include self and community, truth(s) and competing narratives, the everyday, the afterlife, trauma and writing trauma, and modes of modernity. One of the aims of this course is to develop students’ understanding of the diversity of the world and their critical thinking skills and to explore how human beings encounter space, time, faith, change (sometimes traumatic), and representation in an interconnected and now globalized world.

 

The Creative Self and The No Self of the Zen Arts

 

Professor:

Tatjana Myoko von Prittwitz und Gaffron

 

Course Number:

ART 113 TVP

CRN Number:

90581

Class cap:

12

Credits:

4

 

Schedule/Location:

 Mon      2:00 PM - 5:00 PM Resnick A Center for Spritual Life

 

Distributional Area:

PA Practicing Arts  

 

Crosslists:

Asian Studies; Interdisciplinary Study of Religions

 

Beginning Chinese I

 

Professor:

Shuangting Xiong

 

Course Number:

CHI 101

CRN Number:

90084

Class cap:

22

Credits:

4

 

Schedule/Location:

Mon Tue Wed Thurs    11:50 AM - 12:50 PM Olin Languages Center 208

 

Distributional Area:

FL Foreign Languages and Lit  

 

Crosslists:

Asian Studies

 

Advanced Chinese (I): Reading in China’s Politics and International Relationship

 

Professor:

Huiwen Li

 

Course Number:

CHI 310

CRN Number:

90085

Class cap:

15

Credits:

4

 

Schedule/Location:

  Wed  Fri   10:10 AM - 11:30 AM Olin 302

 

Distributional Area:

FL Foreign Languages and Lit  

 

Crosslists:

Asian Studies

 

Chinese Calligraphy

 

Professor:

Huiwen Li

 

Course Number:

CHI 315

CRN Number:

90086

Class cap:

15

Credits:

4

 

Schedule/Location:

    Fri   3:30 PM - 5:50 PM Hegeman 308

 

Distributional Area:

FL Foreign Languages and Lit  

 

Crosslists:

Asian Studies

 

Economic Development

 

Professor:

Sanjay DeSilva

 

Course Number:

ECON 221

CRN Number:

90325

Class cap:

18

Credits:

4

 

Schedule/Location:

 Tue  Thurs    1:30 PM - 2:50 PM Hegeman 102

 

Distributional Area:

SA Social Analysis  

 

Crosslists:

Africana Studies; Asian Studies; Environmental & Urban Studies; Environmental Studies; Global & International Studies; Human Rights; Latin American/Iberian Studies; Science, Technology, Society

 

Revolution

 

Professor:

Robert Culp Gregory Moynahan

 

Course Number:

HIST 1001

CRN Number:

90251

Class cap:

36

Credits:

4

 

Schedule/Location:

 Tue    10:10 AM - 11:30 AM Olin 205

 

 

   Thurs    10:10 AM - 11:30 AM Olin 205 and 304

 

Distributional Area:

HA Historical Analysis  

 

Crosslists:

Asian Studies; Human Rights

 

Elementary Japanese I

 

Professor:

Phuong Ngo

 

Course Number:

JAPN 101

CRN Number:

90107

Class cap:

22

Credits:

4

 

Schedule/Location:

Mon Tue Wed Thurs    10:10 AM - 11:10 AM Olin 305

 

Distributional Area:

FL Foreign Languages and Lit  

 

Crosslists:

Asian Studies

 

Intermediate Japanese I

 

Professor:

Chiara Pavone

 

Course Number:

JAPN 201

CRN Number:

90108

Class cap:

22

Credits:

4

 

Schedule/Location:

 Tue Wed Thurs    10:10 AM - 11:30 AM Olin 308

 

Distributional Area:

FL Foreign Languages and Lit  

 

Crosslists:

Asian Studies

 

Advanced Japanese I

 

Professor:

Nathan Shockey

 

Course Number:

JAPN 301

CRN Number:

90109

Class cap:

22

Credits:

4

 

Schedule/Location:

 Tue  Thurs    10:10 AM - 11:30 AM Olin 302

 

Distributional Area:

FL Foreign Languages and Lit  

 

Crosslists:

Asian Studies

 

Introductory Korean 1

 

Professor:

Soonyoung Lee

 

Course Number:

KOR 101

CRN Number:

90110

Class cap:

22

Credits:

4

 

Schedule/Location:

Mon Tue Wed Thurs    12:10 PM - 1:10 PM Olin Languages Center 120

 

Distributional Area:

FL Foreign Languages and Lit  

 

Crosslists:

Asian Studies

 

Intermediate Korean I

 

Professor:

Soonyoung Lee

 

Course Number:

KOR 201

CRN Number:

90111

Class cap:

22

Credits:

4

 

Schedule/Location:

Mon Tue Wed Thurs    8:50 AM - 9:50 AM Olin Languages Center 118

 

Distributional Area:

FL Foreign Languages and Lit  

 

Crosslists:

Asian Studies

 

Introduction to Chinese Poetry

 

Professor:

Ao Wang

 

Course Number:

LIT 124

CRN Number:

90274

Class cap:

22

Credits:

4

 

Schedule/Location:

 Tue  Thurs    11:50 AM - 1:10 PM Olin 202

 

Distributional Area:

LA Literary Analysis in English  

 

Crosslists:

Asian Studies

 

Divisions, Partitions, and Frontiers: Literatures from Asian Borderlands

 

Professor:

Miya Qiong Xie    

 

Course Number:

LIT 205

CRN Number:

90279

Class cap:

22

Credits:

4

 

Schedule/Location:

Mon  Wed     10:10 AM - 11:30 AM Olin 306

 

Distributional Area:

LA Literary Analysis in English  

 

Crosslists:

Asian Studies

 

Modern Korean Literature in Global Context

 

Professor:

Miya Qiong Xie    

 

Course Number:

LIT 220

CRN Number:

90280

Class cap:

22

Credits:

4

 

Schedule/Location:

 Tue  Thurs    10:10 AM - 11:30 AM Olin 202

 

Distributional Area:

LA Literary Analysis in English  

 

Crosslists:

Asian Studies

 

Transpacific Japan

 

Professor:

Nathan Shockey

 

Course Number:

LIT 222

CRN Number:

90281

Class cap:

22

Credits:

4

 

Schedule/Location:

 Tue  Thurs    11:50 AM - 1:10 PM Olin 204

 

Distributional Area:

LA Literary Analysis in English  

 

Crosslists:

Asian Studies

 

A Thousand-Year Old Romance: Reading The Tale of Genji Across the Ages, Media, and Genres

 

Professor:

Phuong Ngo

 

Course Number:

LIT 2423

CRN Number:

90295

Class cap:

22

Credits:

4

 

Schedule/Location:

Mon  Wed     11:50 AM - 1:10 PM Olin 305

 

Distributional Area:

FL Foreign Languages and Lit  

 

Crosslists:

Asian Studies; Medieval Studies

 

Asian/American Lives

 

Professor:

Hua Hsu

 

Course Number:

LIT 256

CRN Number:

90275

Class cap:

22

Credits:

4

 

Schedule/Location:

 Tue Wed     3:30 PM - 4:50 PM Olin 305

 

Distributional Area:

LA Literary Analysis in English D+J Difference and Justice

 

Crosslists:

American & Indigenous Studies; Asian Studies

 

Health, Wellness and Disability in Modern Japan

 

Professor:

Chiara Pavone

 

Course Number:

LIT 281

CRN Number:

90284

Class cap:

22

Credits:

4

 

Schedule/Location:

 Tue  Thurs    1:30 PM - 2:50 PM Olin 305

 

Distributional Area:

FL Foreign Languages and Lit  

 

Crosslists:

Asian Studies

 

Gender and Sexuality in Chinese Literature and Culture

 

Professor:

Shuangting Xiong

 

Course Number:

LIT 342

CRN Number:

90298

Class cap:

15

Credits:

4

 

Schedule/Location:

 Tue      3:10 PM - 5:30 PM Olin 310

 

Distributional Area:

LA Literary Analysis in English  D+J Difference and Justice

 

Crosslists:

Asian Studies

 

Buddhism

 

Professor:

Hillary Langberg

 

Course Number:

REL 103

CRN Number:

90621

Class cap:

22

Credits:

4

 

Schedule/Location:

 Tue  Thurs    3:30 PM – 4:50 PM Olin Language Center 115

 

Distributional Area:

MBV Meaning, Being, Value D+J Difference and Justice

 

Crosslists:

Asian Studies

 

Zoroastrianism

 

Professor:

Shai Secunda

 

Course Number:

REL 227

CRN Number:

90351

Class cap:

22

Credits:

4

 

Schedule/Location:

Mon  Wed  2:50 PM – 4:50 PM Olin Languages Center 206

 

Distributional Area:

MBV Meaning, Being, Value  

 

Crosslists:

Asian Studies; Middle Eastern Studies; Theology

 

Hinduism, Hindutva, Hindu Nationalism

 

Professor:

Nabanjan Maitra

 

Course Number:

REL 363

CRN Number:

90352

Class cap:

12

Credits:

4

 

Schedule/Location:

  Wed     3:30 PM - 5:50 PM Olin 310

 

Distributional Area:

MBV Meaning, Being, Value D+J Difference and Justice

 

Crosslists:

Asian Studies; Human Rights; Politics