Course Offerings
We are currently in the process of submitting formal proposals for dual-title degree programs in Asian Studies. If all goes well, we expect to begin enrolling students in Fall 2010. Please check back here for updates. Information below is tentative and may change until our proposals are approved by the Graduate School and the participating departments.
Cross-Listed Courses
Many courses in Asian Studies, especially at the 400 level, are cross-listed with other departments.
Art History
496--Special Topics: Colonial Urbanism in Asia
597B--Seminar in Asian Architecture (Fall 2008: A Historiogrpahy of Asian Architecture, Urbanism and Art)Comparative Literature
404--Literary Modes of Asia
History
475Y--The Making and Emergence of Modern India
480--Medieval Japan
481--Modern Japan Since 1800
483--Chinese Society and Culture to 1800
484Y--History of Chinese Thought
485--19th Century China
486--20th Century China
587--Modern South AsiaPolitical Science
458--Government and Politics of East Asia
In addition to these courses a number of special topics courses are offered in departments under the 497 number, and can be cross-listed with Asian Studies (e.g. a recent course in Religious Studies, "Cosmology, Religion, and Science in Pre-modern China”).
Courses in Asian Studies
The two courses below will form the core of the dual-degree PhD programs once they are approved. They will be added to with other courses, though all this information remains tentative until Fall 2010.
AS 501: Asian Studies: Theories, Methods, and Archives I
This course explores basic methodological and practical questions in the field of Asian Studies as they appear in the humanities and social sciences. Divided into three five-week units, each taught by a different professor, the course will explore the ways in which Asia can be thought and studied, and will introduce students to compelling issues in the field. Topics for five-week units may include: The Silk Road; The East Asian Economic Miracle; The “Problem” of Translation; Christianity in China; Falling Empires; Asian American Popular Culture; Literature of the Holocaust; Historical Linguistics; Ecology and Environment, and others.
AS 502: Asian Studies: Theories, Methods, and Archives II
Same as AS 501. Topics for five-week units may include: The Journey to the West; Architecture of the Indian City; The Politics of Democratic Reform; Eastern Islam; Science and Technological Development in China; Historicism and Formalism in Literary Criticism; World-Systems Theory; Shakespeare in China; Censorship and the Archive; The Legacy of Said’s Orientalism; Subaltern Studies and Indian Historiography; Writing Reform; The Grammar of Food, and others.
