Asian Studies

                                 -Minor in Asian Studies

 

 This is an interdisciplinary program   for students wishing to focus their   interests on East Asia as an   enhancement and complement of their undergraduate majors.  Students have two possible options:  1) a minor in East Asian Studies without Language or 2) East Asian Studies with Language. 

Number of credits required:  18

All East Asian minors must complete the 18 requirements below.  In the case of the East Asian Minor with Language option, students must also complete either CHIN107 or JAPN107 or their equivalents in transfer credit or proficiency examination in addition to the 18 required credits below.

Required Courses:

A. Introductory Courses:
6 credits in two disciplines from the following courses in the Humanities

 ARSC136 East Asian in Film (can be repeated if topics varied)
ARTH237 Art of Tibet
CHIN208 Contemporary Chinese Culture I
FLLT321 Topics: Chinese Literature in Translation
FLLT328 Topics: Japanese Literature in Translation
FLLT331  Introduction to Chinese Film
FLLT338 Light & Shadow: Japanese Films

FLLT380 Topics: Japanese Culture in Translation
FLLT381 Topics: Chinese Culture in Translation
HESC120 Taiji (Tai Chi) or Wushu (Martial art)
JAPN208 Contemporary Japanese Culture I
MUSC206 The Music of China, Korea, and Japan
PHIL310 Chinese Region and Philosophy

    6 credits from the following courses in the Social Sciences
ANTH210 Peoples and Cultures of Southeast Asia or ANTH211 People & Cultures of East Asia
HIST137 East Asian Civilization: China

HIST138 East Asian Civilization: Japan
HIST270 History of Modern Asia
POSC312 East Asian Political Systems or POSC429 Southeast Asia and the World

B. Advanced Courses: 6 credits from the following courses

ANTH310 Asian Women's Lives
ANTH312
  Asian Women in the Globalized Workplace
ANTH 313 Anthropology of Elites: New Rich in Asia
CHIN455 Selected Authors and Works in Chinese
CRJU 467 Crime & Criminal Justice in East Asia

ENGL 382/HIST376 Literature and History of Asian America
FLLT330 Chinese Women Writers

HIST 365 Topics in East Asian History (Taught in Study abroad only)
HIST367 What is Global about Japanese Pop Culture
HIST368 Modern China. 1600-1920s

HIST369 China Since 1900
HIST370 History of Modern Japan
HIST371 Postwar Japan
HIST372 Popular Culture in Urban Japan
HIST391 World War II in Asia and the Pacific
HIST392 Buddhism and Politics in Modern Asia
HIST393 History of Modern Vietnam

HIST479 Seminar in Asian History
JPAN455 Selected Authors, Works, and Themes
POSC427 Politics in China
POSC429 Southeast Asia and the World (if not selected in Part A)
POSC443 China and the World



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