Undergraduate Asian Studies
Undergraduate Asian Studies
2011 Spring Term
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SOCIOLOGY OF PACIFIC ASIA
ASIANSTD 290
The course offers a multi-disciplinary survey of social, economic and political issues in societies of the geographic-cultural region of East Asia or the Pacific Rim. The region includes Southeast (Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand) and East Asia (China, Korea, Japan). The stress is on the contemporary situation and recent past. The course will provide students with an introduction to a non-Western region and is a foundation for the further study of Asia. The specific issues discussed and range of countries to be examined may vary by semester.
JAPANESE LITERATURE
ASIANSTD 333
This course surveys Japanese Literature, providing study of classical literature and how this past is reconsidered by modern writers. Group projects will include study of key issues in Japanese cultural history, such as folktales, garden, tea and verse aesthetics, court, samurai and merchant culture, and international contact and war.
GEOGRAPHY OF EAST ASIA (GS)
ASIANSTD 364
A study of contemporary and historical interrelationships between the natural envirnoment and economic, political and cultural activities in East Asia. Countries studied include: China, Taiwan, Mongolia, Japan, and North and South Korea.
EXCHANGE STUDY
ASIANSTD 497
Variable topics.
INDEPENDENT STUDY
ASIANSTD 498
Study of a selected topic or topics under the direction of a faculty member.