Penn State Penn State: College of the Liberal Arts
Department of Asian Studies

Graduate

Course Offerings

Cross-Listed Courses

Art History

  • 496 – Special Topics: Colonial Urbanism in Asia
  • 597B – Seminar in Asian Architecture (A Historiography of Asian Architecture, Urbanism and Art)

Comparative Literature

  • 404Y – Topics in Asian Literature
  • 448 – Literary Cultures of Buddhism
  • 522 – Asian Literatures

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
  • 485Y – China’s Last Empire: The Qing Dynasty, 1644-1911
  • 486 – China in Revolution
  • 580 – Early Modern Asia
  • 581 – Modern China
  • 582 – Gender in Modern Chinese History
  • 585 – Culture and Society in China
  • 586 – Modern Japan
  • 587 – Topics in Modern South Asia
  • 588 – Ethnicity & Borderlands in China

Political 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

  • ASIA 501 – Critical Studies of Asia I
  • ASIA 502 – Critical Studies of Asia II
  • ASIA 530 – East Asian Philosophy and Culture
  • ASIA 577 – Critical Perspectives on Modern Chinese Literature