Russian and East Asian Languages and Cultures (Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Russian, Tibetan)
The Department of Russian and East Asian Languages and Cultures (REALC) is an interdisciplinary department dedicated to the study of languages and cultures in the geographic continuum from Eastern Europe through Eastern Asia. Our four concentrations are on the Russian Federation, the largest country spatially on the globe; China, the most populous country; Japan, the world's second-largest economy; and Korea, one of the world’s fastest growing economies. The region covered by REALC plays an increasingly critical role in global dynamics, and the department's goal is to prepare students for the complex realities of the twenty-first century. Departmental offerings bridge East and West, and include the study of the languages, linguistics, and cultures of the region; and the interrelationship of its literatures to the other arts, philosophy, religion, and the social sciences. We offer introductory through advanced classes in Russian, Chinese, Japanese, and Korean language as well as an array of courses taught in English to address the interests of a broader student audience. While REALC courses focus on some of the oldest civilizations in the world, the department houses classroom facilities that are equipped with the latest technology. Instructors make use of a range of media such as real-time television broadcasts from abroad, the Internet, and videoconferencing. This enables REALC to host interactive exchange with students and scholars in Russia and East Asia. The department sponsors various exciting and challenging study abroad programs, and special internship opportunities both overseas and in the Atlanta area. A wide variety of films, guest speakers, and special cultural events accompany our course work. REALC participates in the interdepartmental Center for Russian and East European Studies (REES) and the East Asian Studies Program (EASP), and also collaborates extensively with other departments and programs, including Linguistics, Comparative Literature, Art History, Film Studies, the Institute of Liberal Arts, Women's Studies, Theater, Music, History, and Religion. REALC courses are recommended for majors in the humanities as well as for students interested in developing a base upon which to understand international and global issues, Pacific Rim studies, and East-West relations. As dynamics become more internationalized and globalized, employers increasingly consider foreign language and experience of other cultures to be distinctive assets. REALC courses and programs offer structured, supportive opportunities for students to acquire such skills. Students with a background in Russian and East Asian languages and cultures go on to international careers, to graduate studies, or to programs in law, business, public health, or medicine. Because new courses continually are being added, please check the departmental website (www.realc.emory.edu) or call the department at 404.727.6427 for updated offerings. Also, students should contact the department for updated information about major and minor requirements and study abroad opportunities.
Faculty
- Chair/Director
- Juliette ApkarianP0001512Associate Professor
Education
- BA, University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1971
- MA, University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1973
- PhD, University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1980
Departments
- Russian and East Asian Languages and Cultures, Core Faculty
- Russian and East European Studies, Faculty
Academic Interests
- interrelationships between literature and the visual arts
- Russian modernism
- twentieth-century Russian literature
- national identity
- Director of Undergraduate Studies
- Julia BullockP2870863Associate Professor
Education
- BA, University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa, 1992
- MA, University of California at Berkeley, 1997
- PhD, Stanford University, 2004
Departments
- Russian and East Asian Languages and Cultures, Core Faculty
- East Asian Studies, Core Faculty
Academic Interests
- modern Japanese literature, film, history, gender and postcolonial theories
- popular culture
- Core Faculty
- Juliette ApkarianP0001512Associate Professor
Education
- BA, University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1971
- MA, University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1973
- PhD, University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1980
Departments
- Russian and East Asian Languages and Cultures, Core Faculty
- Russian and East European Studies, Faculty
Academic Interests
- interrelationships between literature and the visual arts
- Russian modernism
- twentieth-century Russian literature
- national identity
Julia BullockP2870863Associate ProfessorEducation
- BA, University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa, 1992
- MA, University of California at Berkeley, 1997
- PhD, Stanford University, 2004
Departments
- Russian and East Asian Languages and Cultures, Core Faculty
- East Asian Studies, Core Faculty
Academic Interests
- modern Japanese literature, film, history, gender and postcolonial theories
- popular culture
Rong CaiP2975385Associate ProfessorEducation
- BA, Nanjing University, 1979
- MA, Washington University, 1987
- PhD, Washington University, 1995
Departments
- Russian and East Asian Languages and Cultures, Core Faculty
- East Asian Studies, Core Faculty
Academic Interests
- twentieth-century Chinese literature
- comparative literature
- women's studies
- film studies
Bumyong ChoiP1367372LecturerEducation
- PhD, University of Hawaii, 2011
- MA, Ohio State University, 2004
- MA, Yonsei University, Seoul, 1998
- BA, Yonsei University, Seoul, 1996
Department
- Russian and East Asian Languages and Cultures, Core Faculty
Cheryl CrowleyP9912238Associate ProfessorEducation
- BA, Randolph-Macon Women¿s College, 1985
- MA, University of Pennsylvania, 1992
- PhD, Columbia University, 2000
Departments
- Russian and East Asian Languages and Cultures, Core Faculty
- East Asian Studies, Core Faculty
Academic Interests
- Japanese literature and visual culture
- Japanese poetry of the eighteenth century
- women¿s studies
Mikhail EpsteinP7366976Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Cultural Theory and Russian LiteratuteEducation
- BA, Moscow State University, 1972
- PhD, Moscow State University, 1989
Department
- Russian and East Asian Languages and Cultures, Core Faculty
Academic Interests
- Russian literature
- philosophy and religion of the nineteenth through twenty-first centures
- Western and Russian postmodernism
- new concepts in literary and cultural studies
- interdisciplinary approaches
- global culture
- semiotics
Elena Glazov-CorriganP7163263Associate ProfessorEducation
- BA, Dalhousie University, 1977
- MA, Dalhousie University, 1979
- MA, Dalhousie University, 1980
- PhD, University of Toronto, 1989
Departments
- Russian and East Asian Languages and Cultures, Core Faculty
- Comparative Literature, Core Faculty
Academic Interests
- literary/ critical theory
- twentieth-century Russian literature
- Shakespeare and the English Renaissance
Wan-Li HoP6790303Senior LecturerEducation
- BA, Tunghai University, 1978
- MDiv, Taiwan Theological College, 1984
- PhD, Temple University, 2001
Departments
- Russian and East Asian Languages and Cultures, Core Faculty
- East Asian Studies, Core Faculty
Academic Interests
- Chinese language and religions
- environmental theory
Sun-Chul KimP9346800Assistant ProfessorDepartment
- Russian and East Asian Languages and Cultures, Core Faculty
Hong LiP2726895Senior LecturerEducation
- BA, Beijing Teacher's College, 1982
- MA, University of Minnesota, 1990
- PhD, University of Minnesota, 1993
Departments
- Russian and East Asian Languages and Cultures, Core Faculty
- East Asian Studies, Core Faculty
- Linguistics, Associated Faculty
Academic Interests
- linguistics
- Chinese language pedagogy
Yu LiP9184388LecturerEducation
- Ph.D, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2007
- MA, Peking University, 2002
- BA, Peking University, 2000
Departments
- Russian and East Asian Languages and Cultures, Core Faculty
- Linguistics, Core Faculty
- East Asian Studies, Core Faculty
Academic Interest
- examining effects of English sentential intonation on learning Chinese tones
Vera ProskurinaP9761699Senior LecturerEducation
- Ph.D, Moscow State University, 1989
- BA/MA, Moscow State University, 1985
Department
- Russian and East Asian Languages and Cultures, Core Faculty
Maria SibauP2072297Assistant ProfessorEducation
- Ph.D, Harvard University,
- MA, UCLA,
- BA, Venice University,
Department
- Russian and East Asian Languages and Cultures, Core Faculty
Noriko TakedaP8494140Senior LecturerEducation
- BA, Kansai University, 1985
- MA, Georgia State University, 1998
Departments
- Russian and East Asian Languages and Cultures, Core Faculty
- East Asian Studies, Core Faculty
Academic Interest
- Japanese language pedagogy
Courses
- Russian and East Asian Studies 300-Level Courses
- REALC 375: SpecTop:Russ/ E Asian CulturesGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- None
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionAn introduction to the history and culture of Russia and East Asia. Topics to be announced in advance.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Lecture
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 150
- Russian and East European Studies 100-Level Courses
- REES 190: Freshman SeminarGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- FSEM
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionFulfills GER freshman seminar requirement. Seminar will introduce students to special topics in Russian and East European studies with a cross-disciplinary approach.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Seminar
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 150
- Russian and East European Studies 200-Level Courses
- REES 200: Intro to Russian Area StudiesGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HAP
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionFall or spring. This course is an introduction to Russian culture, society and history. As such, it takes an interdisciplinary approach to answering two fundamental questions that have animated Russians themselves for centuries: What is Russia? Where is Russia going? These issues are approached from a number of perspectives, including historical, cultural, political, legal, and artistic.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Lecture
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 150
- REES 200W: Intro to Russian Area StudiesGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HAPW
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionFall or spring. This course is an introduction to Russian culture, society and history. As such, it takes an interdisciplinary approach to answering two fundamental questions that have animated Russians themselves for centuries: What is Russia? Where is Russia going? These issues are approached from a number of perspectives, including historical, cultural, political, legal, and artistic.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Lecture
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 150
- Writing Requirement
- Yes
- Russian and East European Studies 300-Level Courses
- REES 328: Central Asia and RussiaGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionContact Hour Information- Course Type
- Lecture
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 150
- REES 328W: Central Asia and RussiaGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HSCW
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionContact Hour Information- Course Type
- Lecture
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 150
- Writing Requirement
- Yes
- REES 363: Russia's Amazon-WomenGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionContact Hour Information- Course Type
- Lecture
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 150
- REES 363W: Russia's Amazon-WomenGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HSCW
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionContact Hour Information- Course Type
- Lecture
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 150
- Writing Requirement
- Yes
- REES 375: Special TopicsGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 3 - 4
- GERs
- None
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionFall or spring. Topics to be announced in advance.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Lecture
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- variable
- REES 375W: Special TopicsGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 1 - 4
- GERs
- WRT
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionFall or spring. Topics to be announced in advance.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Lecture
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- variable
- Writing Requirement
- Yes
- REES 378: Post-Soviet Phantom of EmpireGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HAP
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionThis is an interdisciplinary course which examines the birth of the new Russian culture which developed during and after the break of the Soviet empire (1980s - 2000s). Topics will range from philosophy to literature to the visual arts, and will include discussions of religious diversity and language evolution. Major intellectual and religious trends to be considered will include postmodernism, conceptualism, post-atheism, and the resurgence of traditional confessions and sectarian consciousness.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Lecture
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 150
- REES 378W: Post-Soviet Phantom of EmpireGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HAPW
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionThis is an interdisciplinary course which examines the birth of the new Russian culture which developed during and after the break of the Soviet empire (1980s - 2000s). Topics will range from philosophy to literature to the visual arts, and will include discussions of religious diversity and language evolution. Major intellectual and religious trends to be considered will include postmodernism, conceptualism, post-atheism, and the resurgence of traditional confessions and sectarian consciousness.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Lecture
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 150
- Writing Requirement
- Yes
- Russian and East European Studies 400-Level Courses
- REES 490: Adv Sem: Russian Area StudiesGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- None
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionEvery semester. Prerequisite: Permission of instructor. Required of Russian area studies majors. The interdisciplinary thesis must be approved by the Russian and East European Studies Committee and will be directed by a member of the faculty whose specialty lies in the field emphasized by the student's course of study.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Seminar
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 150
- REES 490W: Adv Sem: Russian Area StudiesGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- WRT
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionEvery semester. Prerequisite: Permission of instructor. Required of Russian area studies majors. The interdisciplinary thesis must be approved by the Russian and East European Studies Committee and will be directed by a member of the faculty whose specialty lies in the field emphasized by the student's course of study.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Seminar
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 150
- Writing Requirement
- Yes
- REES 497R: Directed StudyGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 1 - 4
- GERs
- None
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionApproval by department is required.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Directed study
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- variable
- Scheduled Related Component
- Select Scheduled related component
- Weekly Contact Minutes in Related Component
- Select contact time
- Additional Course Plus Component
- Select other structured components
- Chinese 100-Level Courses
- CHN 101: Elementary Chinese IGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 5
- GERs
- HAL
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionFall. This is the first of two courses designed to introduce students to modern Mandarin Chinese. The course begins with an introduction to the sound system of Mandarin Chinese and moves on to basic skills in listening, speaking, reading and writing. Classes have an additional aim of introducing students to aspects of Chinese culture. By the end of the semester students are expected to (1) have a fairly good pronunciation, (2) recognize and write approximately 250-300 characters, and (3) carry out simple conversations about some of their daily activities.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Lecture
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 250
- Scheduled Related Component
- Select Scheduled related component
- Weekly Contact Minutes in Related Component
- Select contact time
- Additional Course Plus Component
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- CHN 102: Elementary Chinese IIGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 5
- GERs
- HAL
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionSpring. This course is the second semester of the two-semester Elementary Chinese course. It is designed for those who have taken CHN 101. The course aims at further developing fundamental language skills. All four skills (speaking, reading, listening and writing) will be emphasized and learned in communicative context. Students are expected to actively participate in class by engaging in interactive activities and reading and writing practices. Many aspects of everyday Chinese culture will be introduced through these activities.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Lecture
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 250
- Scheduled Related Component
- Select Scheduled related component
- Weekly Contact Minutes in Related Component
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- Additional Course Plus Component
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- CHN 103: Elem Chn: Heritage SpeakersGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 5
- GERs
- HAL
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionFall. This course is designed for students who already possess basic speaking skills of Mandarin Chinese but are not literate in Mandarin Chinese. It will focus on improving students\' reading and writing skills.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Lecture
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 250
- Scheduled Related Component
- Select Scheduled related component
- Weekly Contact Minutes in Related Component
- Select contact time
- Additional Course Plus Component
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- CHN 105: Lang&Cultr Of Northwest ChinaGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HAL
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionThis course is exclusively for students studying Chinese through an Emory-affiliated summer abroad program. In this course students learn practical Mandarin Chinese needed for living in China and practice their language skills in natural settings. Students are placed into different sections depending on their Chinese proficiency level. In addition to language instruction, a Chinese martial arts (wushu) master will provide instruction of martial arts twice a week to all who wish to participate.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Lecture
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 150
- Scheduled Related Component
- Select Scheduled related component
- Weekly Contact Minutes in Related Component
- Select contact time
- Additional Course Plus Component
- Periodic field trips
- CHN 190: Freshman SeminarGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- FSEM
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionFreshmen only to satisfy GER freshman seminar requirement. Please see website for updated offerings. Course topics have included Foreigners in Imperial China; Mind and Body in China; Shanghai: Lure of the Modern.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Seminar
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 150
- Scheduled Related Component
- Select Scheduled related component
- Weekly Contact Minutes in Related Component
- Select contact time
- Additional Course Plus Component
- Select other structured components
- Chinese 200-Level Courses
- CHN 201: Intermediate Chinese IGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 5
- GERs
- HAL
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionFall. This course is designed to help students to reach intermediate level communicative skill both in spoken and written Chinese and to establish a solid base for more advanced language learning. By increasing students\' vocabulary and their knowledge of sentence patterns, the course focuses on speaking and writing in coherent and well-formed paragraphs. By the end of the semester students should be able to (1) carry out rather fluent conversations about daily activities, (2) write compositions of 300-500 characters on subjects of their daily life and personal experiences.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Lecture
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 250
- Scheduled Related Component
- Select Scheduled related component
- Weekly Contact Minutes in Related Component
- Select contact time
- Additional Course Plus Component
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- CHN 202: Intermediate Chinese IIGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 5
- GERs
- HAL
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionSpring. This course provides intermediate-level training in spoken and written Chinese in cultural context, based on language skills developed in CHN 201. Attention is given to complex grammatical patterns, discourse characteristics, and discussions of cultural topics.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Lecture
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 250
- Scheduled Related Component
- Select Scheduled related component
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- CHN 203: Chinese for Heritge Speakrs IIGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 5
- GERs
- HAL
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionSpring. This course is designed for heritage speakers of Mandarin Chinese and is a continuation of CHN 103. The emphasis is on improving students\' reading and writing skills. It prepares students for further study at the advanced level.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Lecture
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 250
- Scheduled Related Component
- Select Scheduled related component
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- CHN 210R: Chinese CalligraphyGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 1
- GERs
- None
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionContact Hour Information- Course Type
- Lecture
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 75
- CHN 215: Chinese Art, Culture and Society through CalligraphyGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HAP
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionThis course introduces students to Chinese calligraphy in its artistic, cultural & historical contexts. Combining systematic hands-on practice w/ reading, writing, & research, it engages students in examining the aesthetic values, intellectual metaphors, & moral criteria that calligraphy embodies.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Lecture
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 150
- CHN 230: Descript'n & Analysis:Chn LangGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HAP
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionThe course aims to give students an overview of important elements of the Chinese language and its use. Students will gain an understanding of the long history of the language, as well as the phonological, semantic, and syntactic structures of modern Chinese. In addition, through discussions on language use in society, the course examines the cultural and social issues surrounding the Chinese language. Topics include its historical development, linguistic structures, dialects, writing system and calligraphy, and language use in society. The course is taught in English.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Lecture
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 150
- CHN 235: Chinese Writing Systems in AsiaGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionThis course examines the manners and contexts in which the Chinese writing systems interface with other languages and cultures (Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese) and the cultural identities that the Chinese orthographic symbols come to represent at both personal and social levels in and beyond Asia.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Lecture
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 150
- CHN 235W: Chinese Writing Systems in AsiaGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HSCW
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionThis course examines the manners and contexts in which the Chinese writing systems interface with other languages and cultures (Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese) and the cultural identities that the Chinese orthographic symbols come to represent at both personal and social levels in and beyond Asia.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Lecture
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 150
- Writing Requirement
- Yes
- CHN 250: Intro to East Asian StudiesGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- None
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionAn interdisciplinary course that introduces students to major topics in East Asian Studies as well as relevant methods and approaches. Themes of the course include East Asian history, literature, religion, philosophy, and the arts. The course also emphasizes the development of skills in writing, research, and critical thinking. This is a required course for East Asian Studies majors and minors.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Lecture
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 150
- CHN 250W: Intro to East Asian StudiesGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- WRT
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionAn interdisciplinary course that introduces students to major topics in East Asian Studies as well as relevant methods and approaches. Themes of the course include East Asian history, literature, religion, philosophy, and the arts. The course also emphasizes the development of skills in writing, research, and critical thinking. This is a required course for East Asian Studies majors and minors.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Lecture
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 150
- Writing Requirement
- Yes
- CHN 271: Mod China In Film And FictionGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionThis course is an examination of twentieth-century Chinese society through cinematic productions and a critical reading of the writings of major Chinese writers in translation. Emphasis on self and society in a changing culture and the nature and function of literature in modern nation-building.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Lecture
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 150
- CHN 271W: Mod China In Film And FictionGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HSCW
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionThis course is an examination of twentieth-century Chinese society through cinematic productions and a critical reading of the writings of major Chinese writers in translation. Emphasis on self and society in a changing culture and the nature and function of literature in modern nation-building.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Lecture
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 150
- Writing Requirement
- Yes
- CHN 272: Lit in Early & Imperial ChinaGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HAP
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionThis course offers an introduction to Chinese literature from its beginnings through the end of the imperial era in 1911. Focusing on close readings of selected pieces in their literary and historical context, we will analyze representative works of individual eras, writers, and genres (in English translation) that occupy significant positions in the historical development of traditional Chinese literature. The aim of the course is to illustrate the beauty and diversity of classical Chinese literary voices and poetic sensibilities, and enable students to come to adequate terms with literary texts that were produced in an intellectual and cultural environment often portrayed as being worlds apart from our own.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Lecture
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 150
- CHN 272W: Lit in Early & Imperial ChinaGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HAPW
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionThis course offers an introduction to Chinese literature from its beginnings through the end of the imperial era in 1911. Focusing on close readings of selected pieces in their literary and historical context, we will analyze representative works of individual eras, writers, and genres (in English translation) that occupy significant positions in the historical development of traditional Chinese literature. The aim of the course is to illustrate the beauty and diversity of classical Chinese literary voices and poetic sensibilities, and enable students to come to adequate terms with literary texts that were produced in an intellectual and cultural environment often portrayed as being worlds apart from our own.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Lecture
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 150
- Writing Requirement
- Yes
- CHN 273: The Heritage Of ChinaGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HSC
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionThis course is a general introduction to Chinese history, culture and literary tradition. It is designed to acquaint the students to ideas, institutions, aspects of life, literature and arts that are essential to an educated understanding of the Chinese world. This course will begin with discussions of individual topics including geography, philosophy, language, art, family and daily life. The course will then proceed to a chronological introduction to Chinese literary tradition, and will focus on the discussion of significant Chinese literary and historical texts.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Lecture
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 150
- Additional Course Plus Component
- Periodic field trips, OR group meetings
- Chinese 300-Level Courses
- CHN 301: Adv Chinese I: Oral/Writ CommGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HAL
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionFall. This is the first semester of Advanced Chinese. The course places emphasis on communicative function of the language where advanced reading, grammar and conversation are stressed. The contents of the textbook focus on the rapidly changing attitudes and values of modern China. Authentic reading materials are included in each lesson, such as newspaper articles, television, news broadcasts, short works of fiction, and some film. Students will learn to read both traditional and simplified characters.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Lecture
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 150
- Scheduled Related Component
- Select Scheduled related component
- Weekly Contact Minutes in Related Component
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- Additional Course Plus Component
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- CHN 302: Adv Chinese IIGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HAL
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionIn this course students will continue to develop their communicative skills in Chinese by engaging in reading, discussing, and writing about topics in contemporary Chinese society. They will also build fluency in formulating and creatively expressing their ideas in Chinese on the included topics. Furthermore, students will develop a more enriched understanding of the traditions and changes in Chinese culture and society.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Lecture
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 150
- CHN 302W: Adv Chinese IIGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HALW
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionIn this course students will continue to develop their communicative skills in Chinese by engaging in reading, discussing, and writing about topics in contemporary Chinese society. They will also build fluency in formulating and creatively expressing their ideas in Chinese on the included topics. Furthermore, students will develop a more enriched understanding of the traditions and changes in Chinese culture and society.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Lecture
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 150
- Writing Requirement
- Yes
- CHN 303: Adv. Chn.for Heritage SpeakersGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HAL
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionContact Hour Information- Course Type
- Lecture
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 150
- CHN 303W: Adv. Chn.for Heritage SpeakersGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HALW
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionContact Hour Information- Course Type
- Lecture
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 150
- Writing Requirement
- Yes
- CHN 351: Business ChineseGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HAL
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionThis course is an introduction to basic written and oral communication skills for business and trade negotiations with Mainland China and Taiwan.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Lecture
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 150
- Scheduled Related Component
- Select Scheduled related component
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- Select contact time
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- CHN 359: Women and Religion in ChinaGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionThis course will examine what impacts the religious traditions of China, including Confucianism, Taoism and Mahayana Buddhism, have had upon shaping the social experiences, roles and images of women in twentieth century China and Taiwan. We will be exploring dimensions of the modern encounter between women and traditional Chinese traditions such as the construction of genders and the roles given them in the Chinese religions, and the images of the goddess and the symbolism of the female in art. We will also engage contemporary Chinese women's responses to the traditional representations of their spiritual, sexual and social roles in various women's social movements, as well as a new presentation of the female body in contemporary Chinese cinema.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Lecture
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 150
- CHN 359W: Women and Religion in ChinaGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HSCW
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionThis course will examine what impacts the religious traditions of China, including Confucianism, Taoism and Mahayana Buddhism, have had upon shaping the social experiences, roles and images of women in twentieth century China and Taiwan. We will be exploring dimensions of the modern encounter between women and traditional Chinese traditions such as the construction of genders and the roles given them in the Chinese religions, and the images of the goddess and the symbolism of the female in art. We will also engage contemporary Chinese women's responses to the traditional representations of their spiritual, sexual and social roles in various women's social movements, as well as a new presentation of the female body in contemporary Chinese cinema.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Lecture
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 150
- Writing Requirement
- Yes
- CHN 360: Mod Chn Women In Film & FictGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HAP
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionContact Hour Information- Course Type
- Lecture
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 150
- CHN 360W: Mod Chn Women In Film & FictGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HAPW
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionContact Hour Information- Course Type
- Lecture
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 150
- Writing Requirement
- Yes
- CHN 365: Lit & Culture Late Imperial ChinaGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- None
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionThis course offers an introduction to the culture and literature of late imperial China. We will discuss a wide selection of literary works from the late 16th to 18th centuries as a prism to reflect on the broader intellectual, social, and cultural history of the period.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Lecture
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 150
- CHN 373: Confucian ClassicsGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HAP
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionFor more than two thousand years, a small set of texts associated with Confucius (551-479 BC) and his disciples formed the core of the Chinese educational curriculum. As a store of knowledge shared by all educated men and women, Confucian Classics shaped Chinese literati culture from late antiquity to the early 20th century. The goal of this course is to illustrate the diversity of the literary and cultural practices that evolved around this unique body of writings. The course is roughly divided into two parts. First, we will attempt to establish a framework for understanding the textual history and changing significance of the Classics throughout the premodern era. Drawing on a broad selection of primary sources (to be read in English translation), we will then examine how the canonized ideas were refracted in literary, philosophical, religious, and political discourse.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Lecture
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 150
- CHN 373W: Confucian ClassicsGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HAPW
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionFor more than two thousand years, a small set of texts associated with Confucius (551-479 BC) and his disciples formed the core of the Chinese educational curriculum. As a store of knowledge shared by all educated men and women, Confucian Classics shaped Chinese literati culture from late antiquity to the early 20th century. The goal of this course is to illustrate the diversity of the literary and cultural practices that evolved around this unique body of writings. The course is roughly divided into two parts. First, we will attempt to establish a framework for understanding the textual history and changing significance of the Classics throughout the premodern era. Drawing on a broad selection of primary sources (to be read in English translation), we will then examine how the canonized ideas were refracted in literary, philosophical, religious, and political discourse.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Lecture
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 150
- Writing Requirement
- Yes
- CHN 375: Topics in Chinese StudiesGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- None
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionStudy of Chinese language, literature, thought or culture, alone or in conjunction with other literary or cultural trends. Topics to be announced in advance.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Lecture
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 150
- Scheduled Related Component
- Select Scheduled related component
- Weekly Contact Minutes in Related Component
- Select contact time
- Additional Course Plus Component
- Select other structured components
- CHN 375W: Topics in Chinese StudiesGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- WRT
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionStudy of Chinese language, literature, thought or culture, alone or in conjunction with other literary or cultural trends. Topics to be announced in advance.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Lecture
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 150
- Writing Requirement
- Yes
- CHN 388: The Cultural RevolutionGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HAP
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionThis course offers a general survey of the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution (1966 - 1976), with foci on three main aspects: language, religion, and art. Students will study revolutionary media such as songs, films, and model plays, in addition to the visual and material culture of the period. Students will also stage a performance of Taking Tiger Mountain by Strategy.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Lecture
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 150
- CHN 388W: The Cultural RevolutionGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HAPW
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionThis course offers a general survey of the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution (1966 - 1976), with foci on three main aspects: language, religion, and art. Students will study revolutionary media such as songs, films, and model plays, in addition to the visual and material culture of the period. Students will also stage a performance of Taking Tiger Mountain by Strategy.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Lecture
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 150
- Writing Requirement
- Yes
- CHN 394: Screening ChinaGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HAP
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionThe course explores the history and development of Chinese cinema. It discusses "film in China" and "China in film" by focusing on the function of cinema and continual reconfigurations of time, space, gender, and history in Chinese films under different historical conditions since the early twentieth century.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Lecture
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 150
- CHN 394W: Screening ChinaGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HAPW
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionThe course explores the history and development of Chinese cinema. It discusses "film in China" and "China in film" by focusing on the function of cinema and continual reconfigurations of time, space, gender, and history in Chinese films under different historical conditions since the early twentieth century.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Lecture
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 150
- Writing Requirement
- Yes
- CHN 397R: Directed StudyGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 1 - 4
- GERs
- None
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionVariable credit. Permission only, discretion of instructor.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Directed study
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- variable
- Scheduled Related Component
- Select Scheduled related component
- Weekly Contact Minutes in Related Component
- Select contact time
- Additional Course Plus Component
- Select other structured components
- Chinese 400-Level Courses
- CHN 401: Adv Readings In Modern Chn IGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HAL
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionFall. Conducted in Chinese, this course focuses on readings and discussion of authentic reading material from a wide variety of writing styles, including social, political, journalistic texts as well as important works of modern Chinese literature. The goal of the course is to develop students\' ability to understand and use Chinese at a more advanced level and to introduce modern Chinese culture through readings and discussions. Students are required to prepare in advance, then read and discuss the material in Chinese.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Lecture
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 150
- CHN 401W: Adv Readings In Modern Chn IGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HALW
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionFall. Conducted in Chinese, this course focuses on readings and discussion of authentic reading material from a wide variety of writing styles, including social, political, journalistic texts as well as important works of modern Chinese literature. The goal of the course is to develop students\' ability to understand and use Chinese at a more advanced level and to introduce modern Chinese culture through readings and discussions. Students are required to prepare in advance, then read and discuss the material in Chinese.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Lecture
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 150
- Writing Requirement
- Yes
- CHN 402: Adv Readings In Modern Chn IIGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HAL
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionSpring. This course focuses on readings and discussion of material from contemporary works of Chinese literature in conjunction with the movies that are based upon them; reading of Chinese newspapers and viewing TV programs. Class is conducted in Chinese.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Lecture
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 150
- CHN 402W: Adv Readings In Modern Chn IIGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HALW
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionSpring. This course focuses on readings and discussion of material from contemporary works of Chinese literature in conjunction with the movies that are based upon them; reading of Chinese newspapers and viewing TV programs. Class is conducted in Chinese.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Lecture
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 150
- Writing Requirement
- Yes
- CHN 403: Intro to Classical ChineseGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HAL
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionFor more than three thousand years, down to the early twentieth century, the vast majority of Chinese historical, philosophical, and literary texts were written in classical (or literary) Chinese (wenyan). Literature in Classical Chinese is an important part of cultural heritage of all humankind. This course is designed for students who have taken at least two years of Modern Chinese and are curious about the Chinese literary heritage. Students read selections of famous classical texts in their original language, such as Confucius¿ Analects, Laozi, early histories, and Tang poetry; and acquire basic knowledge of Classical Chinese grammar and lexicon.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Lecture
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 150
- Scheduled Related Component
- Select Scheduled related component
- Weekly Contact Minutes in Related Component
- Select contact time
- Additional Course Plus Component
- Select other structured components
- CHN 404: Contemporary Chinese LiteratrGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HAL
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionThis course is designed for those who have completed CHN 401 or the equivalent. The course materials are selected from post-Mao fiction in unabridged form to help students develop abilities to read literary works in the original. It exposes students to fictional writings in various styles and emphasizes strategies of extensive reading and vocabulary expansion beyond what usually appears in the media and other formal expository writings. Students will learn to appreciate the power of language in constructing meanings by doing close readings of literary pieces.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Lecture
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 150
- CHN 450: Seminar in East Asian StudiesGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- None
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionAn advanced seminar probing key themes in the study of modern East Asia. Topics to be examined include the imperial legacies of China and Japan and their impact on the region, the phenomenology of East Asian fundamentalism, issues in comparative colonialism, the volatility of shared meanings of identity as well as reconstructions of national subjects in literature, popular culture, and the arts. This is required for East Asian Studies majors but is open to students in other disciplines.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Seminar
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 150
- CHN 495A: Honors Chinese IGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- None
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionFall. Permission only, discretion of instructor. See requirements for Honors Degree.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Independent Honors research
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 150
- CHN 495B: Honors ChineseGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 1 - 8
- GERs
- None
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionSpring. Permission only, discretion of instructor. See requirements for Honors Degree.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Independent Honors research
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- variable
- CHN 495BW: Honors ChineseGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 1 - 8
- GERs
- WRT
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionSpring. Permission only, discretion of instructor. See requirements for Honors Degree.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Independent Honors research
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- variable
- Writing Requirement
- Yes
- CHN 496R: Chinese Language InternshipGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 1 - 4
- GERs
- None
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionVariable credit. Permission only, discretion of instructor. Provides students of Chinese an opportunity to use their Chinese language skills outside the classroom, exposing them to a variety of native speakers in a number of different situations. Students will be assigned to a number of tasks: interpreting at appointments with social workers, doctors, dentists, welfare workers, food and clothing banks and at job interviews, as well as assisting customers and doing Chinese word processing in Chinese travel agencies and other types of businesses. Students are advised to be flexible as different tasks may be assigned each day.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Experiential
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- variable
- Scheduled Related Component
- Select Scheduled related component
- Weekly Contact Minutes in Related Component
- Select contact time
- Additional Course Plus Component
- Select other structured components
- East Asian Studies 100-Level Courses
- EAS 190: Freshmen SeminarGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- FSEM
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionFall or spring as needed. Focus on selected topics in East Asian studies.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Seminar
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 150
- Scheduled Related Component
- Select Scheduled related component
- Weekly Contact Minutes in Related Component
- Select contact time
- Additional Course Plus Component
- Select other structured components
- East Asian Studies 200-Level Courses
- EAS 210R: Chinese CalligraphyGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 2
- GERs
- None
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionNo Course Description Available.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- None
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- None
- EAS 212: Asian Religious TraditionsGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Variable GER
- HAP
Course DescriptionThematic study of at least two Asian religious traditions. Thematic emphasis may include relationships of text and context, pilgrimage, gender, epic performance, religious institutions, visual arts, or colonial and post-colonial identities.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Lecture
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 150
- EAS 215: Chinese Art, Culture and Society through CalligraphyGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HAP
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionThis course introduces students to Chinese calligraphy in its artistic, cultural & historical contexts. Combining systematic hands-on practice w/ reading, writing, & research, it engages students in examining the aesthetic values, intellectual metaphors, & moral criteria that calligraphy embodies.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Lecture
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 150
- EAS 235: Chinese Writing Systems in AsiaGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionThis course examines the manners and contexts in which the Chinese writing systems interface with other languages and cultures (Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese) and the cultural identities that the Chinese orthographic symbols come to represent at both personal and social levels in and beyond Asia.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Lecture
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 150
- EAS 235: Chinese Writing Systems in AsiaGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HSCW
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionThis course examines the manners and contexts in which the Chinese writing systems interface with other languages and cultures (Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese) and the cultural identities that the Chinese orthographic symbols come to represent at both personal and social levels in and beyond Asia.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Lecture
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 150
- Writing Requirement
- Yes
- EAS 250: Intro to East Asian StudiesGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- None
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionAn interdisciplinary course that introduces students to major topics in East Asian Studies as well as relevant methods and approaches. Themes of the course include East Asian history, literature, religion, philosophy, and the arts. The course also emphasizes the development of skills in writing, research, and critical thinking. This is a required course for East Asian Studies majors and minors.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Lecture
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 150
- EAS 250W: Intro to East Asian StudiesGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- WRT
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionAn interdisciplinary course that introduces students to major topics in East Asian Studies as well as relevant methods and approaches. Themes of the course include East Asian history, literature, religion, philosophy, and the arts. The course also emphasizes the development of skills in writing, research, and critical thinking. This is a required course for East Asian Studies majors and minors.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Lecture
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 150
- Writing Requirement
- Yes
- EAS 260: East Asia, 1500 to the PresentGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- None
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionNo Course Description Available.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Lecture
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 150
- EAS 270: Intro to Japanese CultureGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionThis course explores various aspects of life and society in Japan, including writing, gender, memory and history, geography and the environment, aesthetics, and the formation of national identity.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Lecture
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 150
- EAS 270W: Intro to Japanese CultureGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HSCW
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionThis course explores various aspects of life and society in Japan, including writing, gender, memory and history, geography and the environment, aesthetics, and the formation of national identity.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Lecture
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 150
- Writing Requirement
- Yes
- EAS 271: Mod China In Film And FictionGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionThis course is an examination of twentieth-century Chinese society through cinematic productions and a critical reading of the writings of major Chinese writers in translation. Emphasis on self and society in a changing culture and the nature and function of literature in modern nation-building.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Lecture
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 150
- EAS 271W: Mod China In Film And FictionGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HSCW
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionThis course is an examination of twentieth-century Chinese society through cinematic productions and a critical reading of the writings of major Chinese writers in translation. Emphasis on self and society in a changing culture and the nature and function of literature in modern nation-building.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Lecture
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 150
- Writing Requirement
- Yes
- EAS 272: Lit in Early & Imperial ChinaGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HAP
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionThis course offers an introduction to Chinese literature from its beginnings through the end of the imperial era in 1911. Focusing on close readings of selected pieces in their literary and historical context, we will analyze representative works of individual eras, writers, and genres (in English translation) that occupy significant positions in the historical development of traditional Chinese literature. The aim of the course is to illustrate the beauty and diversity of classical Chinese literary voices and poetic sensibilities, and enable students to come to adequate terms with literary texts that were produced in an intellectual and cultural environment often portrayed as being worlds apart from our own.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Lecture
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 150
- EAS 272W: Lit in Early & Imperial ChinaGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HAPW
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionThis course offers an introduction to Chinese literature from its beginnings through the end of the imperial era in 1911. Focusing on close readings of selected pieces in their literary and historical context, we will analyze representative works of individual eras, writers, and genres (in English translation) that occupy significant positions in the historical development of traditional Chinese literature. The aim of the course is to illustrate the beauty and diversity of classical Chinese literary voices and poetic sensibilities, and enable students to come to adequate terms with literary texts that were produced in an intellectual and cultural environment often portrayed as being worlds apart from our own.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Lecture
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 150
- Writing Requirement
- Yes
- EAS 273: The Heritage Of ChinaGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HSC
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionThis course is a general introduction to Chinese history, culture and literary tradition. It is designed to acquaint the students to ideas, institutions, aspects of life, literature and arts that are essential to an educated understanding of the Chinese world. This course will begin with discussions of individual topics including geography, philosophy, language, art, family and daily life. The course will then proceed to a chronological introduction to Chinese literary tradition, and will focus on the discussion of significant Chinese literary and historical texts.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Lecture
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 150
- Additional Course Plus Component
- Periodic field trips, OR group meetings
- EAS 274: Foreigners in Imperial ChinaGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionFar from being a closed empire encircled by an impenetrable Great Wall, China was always integrated in global circulations of goods, knowledge, and people. Foreigners were a constant presence in the Middle Kingdom throughout its history, even if they were not welcomed by everyone and at all times. In this seminar we will follow the trails and travails of men and women from Europe, Asia, and America, who fell prey to the lure of Cathay in their searches for riches, influence, employment, adventure, or spiritual gratification. Our aim is to explore not only the changing fortunes of individual travelers but also to examine the historical origins of many of the ideas that continue to shape our understanding of Chinese civilization.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Lecture
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 150
- EAS 275: Nature and Culture in JapanGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HAP
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionWe examine the interaction between the human and natural world in Japanese cultural and scientific history by looking at maps, literature, scriptures, visual media, and current journalism.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Lecture
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 150
- EAS 276: Making of Modern KoreaGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- None
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionBy drawing on a wide range of materials across various disciplines the course aims to provide a broad and coherent picture of the history of modern Korea since the late 19th century to the contemporary period.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Lecture
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 150
- EAS 277: Political Change in KoreaGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- None
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionThis course explores the historical dynamics of political change in Korea since the establishment of the First Republic up to the current period, the may factors that shaped its political trajectory and democratization, and the key issues that have defined South Korean politics to this day.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Lecture
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 150
- East Asian Studies 300-Level Courses
- EAS 303: Reading Literature in JapaneseGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HAL
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionThis class helps students develop the skills necessary to read Japanese-language texts independently, without the aid of an instructor. Classroom assignments emphasize vocabulary building and kanji recognition, strategies for decoding complex sentence structures, understanding of the nuances of language and literary style, and the use of dictionaries and other reference materials. Students should come out of this class with a sophisticated understanding of the ways in which word choice and tone of expression affect the meaning and intent of the passages studied.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Lecture
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 150
- EAS 317: East Asian BuddhismGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionThe development of Buddhism in China and Japan, including examination of monasticism, ritual, ideas of Buddhahood, Zen, Pure Land, and Buddhist relations to the state and to other religions.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Lecture
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 150
- EAS 322: Politics Of Southeast AsiaGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionSuggested prerequisite: Political Science 110 or Political Science 120. Introduction to the contemporary politics of Southeast Asia. Specific focus on capitalist developing countries of the region - Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore. Approach is comparative, with focus on democratization, economic growth, and environmental issues.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Lecture
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 150
- EAS 328: Politics Of Japan & East AsiaGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionSuggested prerequisite: Political Science 110 or 120. Examines politics of contemporary Japan, with stress on political bases of Japanese economic growth and in comparison with other East Asian economic successes (e.g., Taiwan, South Korea).
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Lecture
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 150
- EAS 337: Religion Health and HealingGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionThis class explores issues such as what makes for a healthy self or person, the role of religious practices and belief in healing, and the relationship of body and mind.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Lecture
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 150
- Additional Course Plus Component
- Not Applicable
- EAS 359: Women and Religion in ChinaGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionThis course will examine what impacts the religious traditions of China, including Confucianism, Taoism and Mahayana Buddhism, have had upon shaping the social experiences, roles and images of women in twentieth century China and Taiwan. We will be exploring dimensions of the modern encounter between women and traditional Chinese traditions such as the construction of genders and the roles given them in the Chinese religions, and the images of the goddess and the symbolism of the female in art. We will also engage contemporary Chinese women's responses to the traditional representations of their spiritual, sexual and social roles in various women's social movements, as well as a new presentation of the female body in contemporary Chinese cinema.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Lecture
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 150
- EAS 359W: Women and Religion in ChinaGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HSCW
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionThis course will examine what impacts the religious traditions of China, including Confucianism, Taoism and Mahayana Buddhism, have had upon shaping the social experiences, roles and images of women in twentieth century China and Taiwan. We will be exploring dimensions of the modern encounter between women and traditional Chinese traditions such as the construction of genders and the roles given them in the Chinese religions, and the images of the goddess and the symbolism of the female in art. We will also engage contemporary Chinese women's responses to the traditional representations of their spiritual, sexual and social roles in various women's social movements, as well as a new presentation of the female body in contemporary Chinese cinema.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Lecture
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 150
- Writing Requirement
- Yes
- EAS 360: Mod Chn Women In Film & FictGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HAP
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionContact Hour Information- Course Type
- Lecture
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 150
- EAS 360W: Mod Chn Women In Film & FictGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HAPW
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionContact Hour Information- Course Type
- Lecture
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 150
- Writing Requirement
- Yes
- EAS 361: Genji: Sensuality & SalvationGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionThis course will use the text of the Tale of Genji as a centerpoint from which to explore various issues in poetry, aesthetics, the visual arts, religion, history, politics, and gender in Japanese cultural history.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Lecture
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 150
- EAS 361W: Genji: Sensuality & SalvationGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HSCW
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionThis course will use the text of the Tale of Genji as a centerpoint from which to explore various issues in poetry, aesthetics, the visual arts, religion, history, politics, and gender in Japanese cultural history.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Lecture
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 150
- Writing Requirement
- Yes
- EAS 362: Samurai,Shogun & Women WarriorGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionAn examination of the image of the warrior in Japan through literature and its effect on many areas of Japanese culture, including philosophy, literary history, religion, music, and the visual arts. Emphasis is on the exploration of primary texts.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Lecture
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 150
- EAS 362W: Samurai,Shogun & Women WarriorGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HSCW
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionAn examination of the image of the warrior in Japan through literature and its effect on many areas of Japanese culture, including philosophy, literary history, religion, music, and the visual arts. Emphasis is on the exploration of primary texts.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Lecture
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 150
- Writing Requirement
- Yes
- EAS 363: Lit & Visual Culture in JapanGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HAP
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionAn exploration of the complex interactions between written texts and the visual arts in Japan from the classical era to the present. Discussion will include prose, poetry, printing, picture scrolls, calligraphy, woodblock prints, and film.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Lecture
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 150
- EAS 363W: Lit & Visual Culture in JapanGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HAPW
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionAn exploration of the complex interactions between written texts and the visual arts in Japan from the classical era to the present. Discussion will include prose, poetry, printing, picture scrolls, calligraphy, woodblock prints, and film.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Lecture
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 150
- Writing Requirement
- Yes
- EAS 364: Mod Jpn Lit In Engl TranslatnGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HAP
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionSurveys Japanese literature from the mid-19th century to the present. Introduces the nature and range of literary genres as they developed in the context of Japan\'s confrontation with modernity. The course opens for discussion issues in contemporary literary theory in order to understand aspects of Japanese literature and culture, such as gender, nationalism, intertextuality, Orientalism, and identity. Texts are in English translation.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Lecture
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 150
- EAS 364W: Mod Jpn Lit In Engl TranslatnGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HAPW
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionSurveys Japanese literature from the mid-19th century to the present. Introduces the nature and range of literary genres as they developed in the context of Japan\'s confrontation with modernity. The course opens for discussion issues in contemporary literary theory in order to understand aspects of Japanese literature and culture, such as gender, nationalism, intertextuality, Orientalism, and identity. Texts are in English translation.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Lecture
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 150
- Writing Requirement
- Yes
- EAS 365: Lit & Culture Late Imperial ChinaGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- None
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionThis course offers an introduction to the culture and literature of late imperial China. We will discuss a wide selection of literary works from the late 16th to 18th centuries as a prism to reflect on the broader intellectual, social, and cultural history of the period.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Lecture
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 150
- EAS 366: Beyond OrientalismGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionThis seminar examines the main tenets of Orientalism and exoticism in exploring the hybridization of cultural practices in musical, theatrical, and cinematographic genres from the eighteenth century to the present.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Lecture
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 150
- EAS 366W: Beyond OrientalismGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HSCW
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionThis seminar examines the main tenets of Orientalism and exoticism in exploring the hybridization of cultural practices in musical, theatrical, and cinematographic genres from the eighteenth century to the present.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Lecture
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 150
- Writing Requirement
- Yes
- EAS 367: Japanese Modern Women WritersGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HAP
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionThough Japanese women produced much of the great literature of the classical period (ca. 1000), literary production by women subsequently dwindled, to gain new life only in the modern era. This course familiarizes students with the multiplicity of the female voices that (re-)emerged in Japanese literature from the Meiji period (beginning 1868) to the late twentieth century. Texts are in English translation.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Lecture
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 150
- EAS 367W: Japanese Modern Women WritersGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HAPW
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionThough Japanese women produced much of the great literature of the classical period (ca. 1000), literary production by women subsequently dwindled, to gain new life only in the modern era. This course familiarizes students with the multiplicity of the female voices that (re-)emerged in Japanese literature from the Meiji period (beginning 1868) to the late twentieth century. Texts are in English translation.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Lecture
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 150
- Writing Requirement
- Yes
- EAS 369: Chinese Music & CultureGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionOpen to all students regardless of Chinese language ability, basic language skills will be taught. This course examines the historical, social, and individual aspects of Chinese musical cultures through the use of English and Chinese sources.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Lecture
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 150
- EAS 369W: Chinese Music & CultureGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HSCW
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionOpen to all students regardless of Chinese language ability, basic language skills will be taught. This course examines the historical, social, and individual aspects of Chinese musical cultures through the use of English and Chinese sources.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Lecture
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 150
- Writing Requirement
- Yes
- EAS 371: East Asian Musical CulturesGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionThis course explores how music creates differences between countries in East Asia and, at the same time, ties them together to create a distinct East Asian identity.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Lecture
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 150
- EAS 371W: East Asian Musical CulturesGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HSCW
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionThis course explores how music creates differences between countries in East Asia and, at the same time, ties them together to create a distinct East Asian identity.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Lecture
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 150
- Writing Requirement
- Yes
- EAS 372: History Of Modern JapanGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionAn introductory survey of modern Japan (1850-1950), covering the late Tokugawa shogunate, the creation of the Meiji state, and the rise and fall of the Japanese empire.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Lecture
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 150
- EAS 374: Confucian ClassicsGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HAP
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionFor more than two thousand years, a small set of texts associated with Confucius (551-479 BC) and his disciples formed the core of the Chinese educational curriculum. As a store of knowledge shared by all educated men and women, Confucian Classics shaped Chinese literati culture from late antiquity to the early 20th century. The goal of this course is to illustrate the diversity of the literary and cultural practices that evolved around this unique body of writings. The course is roughly divided into two parts. First, we will attempt to establish a framework for understanding the textual history and changing significance of the Classics throughout the premodern era. Drawing on a broad selection of primary sources (to be read in English translation), we will then examine how the canonized ideas were refracted in literary, philosophical, religious, and political discourse.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Lecture
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 150
- EAS 374W: Confucian ClassicsGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HAPW
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionFor more than two thousand years, a small set of texts associated with Confucius (551-479 BC) and his disciples formed the core of the Chinese educational curriculum. As a store of knowledge shared by all educated men and women, Confucian Classics shaped Chinese literati culture from late antiquity to the early 20th century. The goal of this course is to illustrate the diversity of the literary and cultural practices that evolved around this unique body of writings. The course is roughly divided into two parts. First, we will attempt to establish a framework for understanding the textual history and changing significance of the Classics throughout the premodern era. Drawing on a broad selection of primary sources (to be read in English translation), we will then examine how the canonized ideas were refracted in literary, philosophical, religious, and political discourse.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Lecture
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 150
- Writing Requirement
- Yes
- EAS 375: Contemp. Chinese PoliticsGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionNo Course Description Available.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Lecture
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 150
- EAS 376: Science in China, 1600 - 1900General Information
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionThis course reconstructs the encounter between Chinese natural studies and European science from the early seventeenth to the late nineteenth centuries. After a brief survey of the state of natural studies in China, circa 1600, we will trace the interactions between Chinese and European learning in a wide array of disciplines, ranging from astronomy, mathematics, and medicine to physics and zoology. Situating our explorations in their intellectual, social, and cultural contexts, we will try to understand the forces that have shaped the formation of modern science in China and, more generally, the factors influencing the migration of ideas across cultures.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Lecture
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 150
- EAS 376W: Science in China, 1600 - 1900General Information
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HSCW
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionThis course reconstructs the encounter between Chinese natural studies and European science from the early seventeenth to the late nineteenth centuries. After a brief survey of the state of natural studies in China, circa 1600, we will trace the interactions between Chinese and European learning in a wide array of disciplines, ranging from astronomy, mathematics, and medicine to physics and zoology. Situating our explorations in their intellectual, social, and cultural contexts, we will try to understand the forces that have shaped the formation of modern science in China and, more generally, the factors influencing the migration of ideas across cultures.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Lecture
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 150
- Writing Requirement
- Yes
- EAS 377: Jpn Lit: Read & Wrt ClassicsGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HAP
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionA survey of Japanese literature in translation from the 8th through the 21st centuries in which students both read representative works from various genres in the Japanese canon and write in those genres themselves. Texts are in English translation.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Lecture
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 150
- EAS 377W: Jpn Lit: Read & Wrt ClassicsGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HAPW
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionA survey of Japanese literature in translation from the 8th through the 21st centuries in which students both read representative works from various genres in the Japanese canon and write in those genres themselves. Texts are in English translation.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Lecture
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 150
- Writing Requirement
- Yes
- EAS 378: Postwar JPN Through Its MediaGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionThis course examines the way the postwar Japanese experience has been reflected (and constructed) through various types of popular media. Through film, television, magazine, newspapers, music, and manga, we will explore the various ways in which Japanese society has narrated its experiences of recovery and rebuilding after World War II, and the role these media sources have played in this reconstruction.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Lecture
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 150
- EAS 378W: Postwar JPN Through Its MediaGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HSCW
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionThis course examines the way the postwar Japanese experience has been reflected (and constructed) through various types of popular media. Through film, television, magazine, newspapers, music, and manga, we will explore the various ways in which Japanese society has narrated its experiences of recovery and rebuilding after World War II, and the role these media sources have played in this reconstruction.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Lecture
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 150
- Writing Requirement
- Yes
- EAS 379: History Of Modern ChinaGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionChina since the Opium War. Nineteenth-century dynastic decline, Western impact, and modernization efforts; Republican, Nationalist, and Communist revolutions of the twentieth century; and the development of the People's Republic of China since 1949.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Lecture
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 150
- EAS 380: Social Movements, East & WestGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- None
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionThis course examines social movements in the East and West from a comparative perspective. The goal is to better understand the varying cultural, historical and institutional contexts and dynamics through which social movements emerge, evolve and leave traces.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Lecture
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 150
- EAS 380W: Social Movements, East & WestGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- None
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionThis course examines social movements in the East and West from a comparative perspective. The goal is to better understand the varying cultural, historical and institutional contexts and dynamics through which social movements emerge, evolve and leave traces.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Lecture
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 150
- Writing Requirement
- Yes
- EAS 385: Spec Top: East Asian StudiesGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- None
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionStudy of East Asian literature, history, society, thought, or culture, alone or in conjunction with other literary or cultural trends. Topics to be announced in advance.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Lecture
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 150
- Scheduled Related Component
- Select Scheduled related component
- Weekly Contact Minutes in Related Component
- Select contact time
- Additional Course Plus Component
- Select other structured components
- EAS 386: Special Topics: KoreanGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionFall or Spring. An interdisciplinary course that introduces students to Korean culture and society. No knowledge of Korean is required. Topics to be announced each semester.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Lecture
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 150
- EAS 386W: Special Topics: KoreanGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HSCW
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionFall or Spring. An interdisciplinary course that introduces students to Korean culture and society. No knowledge of Korean is required. Topics to be announced each semester.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Lecture
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 150
- Writing Requirement
- Yes
- EAS 388: The Cultural RevolutionGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HAPW
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionThis course offers a general survey of the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution (1966 - 1976), with foci on three main aspects: language, religion, and art. Students will study revolutionary media such as songs, films, and model plays, in addition to the visual and material culture of the period. Students will also stage a performance of Taking Tiger Mountain by Strategy.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Lecture
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 150
- EAS 388W: The Cultural RevolutionGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HAPW
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionThis course offers a general survey of the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution (1966 - 1976), with foci on three main aspects: language, religion, and art. Students will study revolutionary media such as songs, films, and model plays, in addition to the visual and material culture of the period. Students will also stage a performance of Taking Tiger Mountain by Strategy.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Lecture
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 150
- Writing Requirement
- Yes
- EAS 394: Screening ChinaGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HAP
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionThe course explores the history and development of Chinese cinema. It discusses "film in China" and "China in film" by focusing on the function of cinema and continual reconfigurations of time, space, gender, and history in Chinese films under different historical conditions since the early twentieth century.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Lecture
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 150
- EAS 394W: Screening ChinaGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HAPW
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionThe course explores the history and development of Chinese cinema. It discusses "film in China" and "China in film" by focusing on the function of cinema and continual reconfigurations of time, space, gender, and history in Chinese films under different historical conditions since the early twentieth century.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Lecture
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 150
- Writing Requirement
- Yes
- EAS 397R: Directed ReadingGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 1 - 8
- GERs
- None
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionPermission of instructor required.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Directed study
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- variable
- Scheduled Related Component
- Select Scheduled related component
- Weekly Contact Minutes in Related Component
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- East Asian Studies 400-Level Courses
- EAS 404: Contemporary Chinese LiteratrGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HAL
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionThis course is designed for those who have completed CHN 401 or the equivalent. The course materials are selected from post-Mao fiction in unabridged form to help students develop abilities to read literary works in the original. It exposes students to fictional writings in various styles and emphasizes strategies of extensive reading and vocabulary expansion beyond what usually appears in the media and other formal expository writings. Students will learn to appreciate the power of language in constructing meanings by doing close readings of literary pieces.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Lecture
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 150
- EAS 450: Seminar in East Asian StudiesGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- None
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionAn advanced seminar probing key themes in the study of modern East Asia. Topics to be examined include the imperial legacies of China and Japan and their impact on the region, the phenomenology of East Asian fundamentalism, issues in comparative colonialism, the volatility of shared meanings of identity as well as reconstructions of national subjects in literature, popular culture, and the arts. This is required for East Asian Studies majors but is open to students in other disciplines.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Seminar
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 150
- EAS 451: Great Writers of Modern JapanGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HAP
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionThis advanced seminar is devoted to intensive reading and discussion of fiction and essays by a single modern Japanese author who had clearly influenced contemporary Japanese culture, as well as earned international acclaim and recognition for his or her work.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Lecture
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 150
- EAS 451W: Great Writers of Modern JapanGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HAPW
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionThis advanced seminar is devoted to intensive reading and discussion of fiction and essays by a single modern Japanese author who had clearly influenced contemporary Japanese culture, as well as earned international acclaim and recognition for his or her work.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Lecture
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 150
- Writing Requirement
- Yes
- EAS 471: Tradition in Modern ChinaGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSCW
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionThis advanced seminar examines the multiple ways in which traditions have been attacked, defended, revised, and (re-)invented in twentieth-century China. Our aim is to disentangle the anxieties, interests, and rhetorical devices that have shaped modern Chinese answers to the question of historical continuity. In our explorations, we will scrutinize representations of the past in scholarly works, including histories of Chinese thought, science and literature, as well as in memories of historical events as reflected in historiography, film, fiction, music, monuments, and art.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Lecture
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 150
- EAS 471W: Tradition in Modern ChinaGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HSCW
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionThis advanced seminar examines the multiple ways in which traditions have been attacked, defended, revised, and (re-)invented in twentieth-century China. Our aim is to disentangle the anxieties, interests, and rhetorical devices that have shaped modern Chinese answers to the question of historical continuity. In our explorations, we will scrutinize representations of the past in scholarly works, including histories of Chinese thought, science and literature, as well as in memories of historical events as reflected in historiography, film, fiction, music, monuments, and art.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Lecture
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 150
- Writing Requirement
- Yes
- EAS 495A: East Asian Studies Honors IGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- None
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionFall. Permission of instructor required.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Independent Honors research
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 150
- EAS 495B: East Asian Studies Honors IIGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 1 - 8
- GERs
- None
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionSpring. Permission of instructor required.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Independent Honors research
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- variable
- EAS 495BW: East Asian Studies Honors IIGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 1 - 8
- GERs
- WRT
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionSpring. Permission of instructor required.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Independent Honors research
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- variable
- Writing Requirement
- Yes
- Japanese 100-Level Courses
- JPN 101: Elementary Japanese IGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 5
- GERs
- HAL
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionFall. This course is designed to introduce students to the everyday language of Japan. Lessons will be organized around natural conversational topics, leading students from fundamental aspects of grammar to readings in simple texts.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Lecture
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 250
- Scheduled Related Component
- Select Scheduled related component
- Weekly Contact Minutes in Related Component
- Select contact time
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- JPN 102: Elementary Japanese IIGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 5
- GERs
- HAL
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionSpring. Continuation of Japanese 101. Students will learn vocabulary, expressions, and sentence structures to become able to meet basic communication needs in Japanese. All four skills (speaking, listening, reading, and writing) will be incorporated, and accurate and appropriate language use will be emphasized.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Lecture
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 250
- Scheduled Related Component
- Select Scheduled related component
- Weekly Contact Minutes in Related Component
- Select contact time
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- JPN 114: Element Studi AbroadGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- None
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionThis course is exclusively for students studying elementary Japanese through Emory-affiliated summer abroad intensive language programs. It is equivalent to JPN 101.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Lecture
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 200
- Scheduled Related Component
- Select Scheduled related component
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- JPN 115: Sty Abr: Elementary JapaneseGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- None
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionThis course is exclusively for students studying elementary Japanese through Emory-affiliated summer abroad intensive language programs. It is equivalent to JPN 102.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Lecture
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 200
- Scheduled Related Component
- Select Scheduled related component
- Weekly Contact Minutes in Related Component
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- JPN 190: Fresh Sem: JapaneseGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- FSEM
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionFall or spring as needed. Focus on special aspects of Japanese culture or language.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Seminar
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 150
- Scheduled Related Component
- Select Scheduled related component
- Weekly Contact Minutes in Related Component
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- Japanese 200-Level Courses
- JPN 201: Intermediate Japanese IGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 5
- GERs
- HAL
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionFall. Continuation of Japanese 102. This course aims to further develop language skills and increase familiarity with Japanese society. The emphasis is on accurate communication in Japanese, both spoken and written, that is appropriate to the given context.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Lecture
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 250
- Scheduled Related Component
- Select Scheduled related component
- Weekly Contact Minutes in Related Component
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- JPN 202: Intermediate Japanese IIGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 5
- GERs
- HAL
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionSpring. Continuation of Japanese 201. This course is designed to complete the introduction and practice of basic grammar of Japanese. More authentic language material will be introduced.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Lecture
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 250
- Scheduled Related Component
- Select Scheduled related component
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- JPN 214: Supervised Reading AbroadGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- None
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionThis course is exclusively for students studying intermediate Japanese through Emory-affiliated summer abroad intensive language programs. It is equivalent to JPN 201.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Lecture
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 200
- JPN 215: Intermed Studi AbroadGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- None
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionThis course is exclusively for students studying intermediate Japanese through Emory-affiliated summer abroad intensive language programs. It is equivalent to JPN 202.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Lecture
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 200
- JPN 232: Lang Usage in Japanese SocietyGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionPrerequisite: Japanese 201 or consent of instructor. Provides an in-depth knowledge of the Japanese language in relation to culture and society, focusing on Japanese modes of thinking that lie behind language usage. Taught in English.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Lecture
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 150
- Scheduled Related Component
- Select Scheduled related component
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- JPN 234: Intro to Japanese LinguisticsGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionThis course examines aspects of Japanese language from a linguistic perspective. It will introduce basic concepts in linguistics such as phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, and semantics, using examples from Japanese language. It aims to provide opportunities to deepen the understanding of the Japanese language as well as to deepen the understanding of world languages by examining Japanese. This course should be of interest to students who are learning Japanese and are interested in the structural aspect of the language and to those who are interested in broadening their knowledge of different languages.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Lecture
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 150
- JPN 250: Intro to East Asian StudiesGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- None
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionAn interdisciplinary course that introduces students to major topics in East Asian Studies as well as relevant methods and approaches. Themes of the course include East Asian history, literature, religion, philosophy, and the arts. The course also emphasizes the development of skills in writing, research, and critical thinking. This is a required course for East Asian Studies majors and minors.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Lecture
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 150
- JPN 250W: Intro to East Asian StudiesGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- None
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionAn interdisciplinary course that introduces students to major topics in East Asian Studies as well as relevant methods and approaches. Themes of the course include East Asian history, literature, religion, philosophy, and the arts. The course also emphasizes the development of skills in writing, research, and critical thinking. This is a required course for East Asian Studies majors and minors.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Lecture
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 150
- Writing Requirement
- Yes
- JPN 270: Intro to Japanese CultureGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionThis course explores various aspects of life and society in Japan, including writing, gender, memory and history, geography and the environment, aesthetics, and the formation of national identity.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Lecture
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 150
- JPN 270W: Intro to Japanese CultureGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HSCW
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionThis course explores various aspects of life and society in Japan, including writing, gender, memory and history, geography and the environment, aesthetics, and the formation of national identity.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Lecture
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 150
- Writing Requirement
- Yes
- JPN 275: Nature and Culture in JapanGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HAP
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionWe examine the interaction between the human and natural world in Japanese cultural and scientific history by looking at maps, literature, scriptures, visual media, and current journalism.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Lecture
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 150
- Japanese 300-Level Courses
- JPN 301: Adv Conversation & CompositionGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HAL
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionFall. Prerequisite: Japanese 202 or consent of instructor. This course is designed to develop fluency in spoken Japanese as well as enhance writing skills. Cross-cultural awareness will be emphasized and close attention will be paid to developing sophisticated expressions and nuances in the language.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Lecture
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 150
- Scheduled Related Component
- Select Scheduled related component
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- JPN 302: Adv Conv & Composition IIGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HAL
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionSpring. Prerequisite: Japanese 301 or consent of instructor. This course provides opportunities for reading and discussion of authentic materials, as well as for learning how to write with systematic instruction on composition. Students will write essays on topics such as jibun-shi (autobiography).
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Lecture
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 150
- JPN 302W: Adv Conv & Composition IIGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HALW
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionSpring. Prerequisite: Japanese 301 or consent of instructor. This course provides opportunities for reading and discussion of authentic materials, as well as for learning how to write with systematic instruction on composition. Students will write essays on topics such as jibun-shi (autobiography).
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Lecture
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 150
- Writing Requirement
- Yes
- JPN 303: Reading Literature in JapaneseGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HAL
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionThis class helps students develop the skills necessary to read Japanese-language texts independently, without the aid of an instructor. Classroom assignments emphasize vocabulary building and kanji recognition, strategies for decoding complex sentence structures, understanding of the nuances of language and literary style, and the use of dictionaries and other reference materials. Students should come out of this class with a sophisticated understanding of the ways in which word choice and tone of expression affect the meaning and intent of the passages studied.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Lecture
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 150
- JPN 314R: Study Abroad - LanguageGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- None
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionThis course is exclusively for students studying advanced Japanese through Emory-affiliated summer abroad intensive language programs. It is equivalent to JPN 301.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Lecture
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 200
- Scheduled Related Component
- Select Scheduled related component
- Weekly Contact Minutes in Related Component
- Select contact time
- Additional Course Plus Component
- Select other structured components
- JPN 315R: Study Abroad - Non LanguageGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- None
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionThis course designates any study abroad non-language course that does not have an Emory equivalent. Repeatable.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Lecture
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 200
- JPN 316: Soc.Su/Sci/ Tech Study AbroadGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- None
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionContact Hour Information- Course Type
- Lecture
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 200
- JPN 360: Japanese Modern Women WritersGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HAP
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionThough Japanese women produced much of the great literature of the classical period (ca. 1000), literary production by women subsequently dwindled, to gain new life only in the modern era. This course familiarizes students with the multiplicity of the female voices that (re-)emerged in Japanese literature from the Meiji period (beginning 1868) to the late twentieth century. Texts are in English translation.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Lecture
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 150
- JPN 360W: Japanese Modern Women WritersGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HAPW
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionThough Japanese women produced much of the great literature of the classical period (ca. 1000), literary production by women subsequently dwindled, to gain new life only in the modern era. This course familiarizes students with the multiplicity of the female voices that (re-)emerged in Japanese literature from the Meiji period (beginning 1868) to the late twentieth century. Texts are in English translation.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Lecture
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 150
- Writing Requirement
- Yes
- JPN 361: Genji: Sensuality & SalvationGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionThis course will use the text of the Tale of Genji as a centerpoint from which to explore various issues in poetry, aesthetics, the visual arts, religion, history, politics, and gender in Japanese cultural history.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Lecture
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 150
- JPN 361W: Genji: Sensuality & SalvationGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HSCW
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionThis course will use the text of the Tale of Genji as a centerpoint from which to explore various issues in poetry, aesthetics, the visual arts, religion, history, politics, and gender in Japanese cultural history.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Lecture
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 150
- Writing Requirement
- Yes
- JPN 362: Samurai,Shogun & Women WarriorGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionAn examination of the image of the warrior in Japan through literature and its effect on many areas of Japanese culture, including philosophy, literary history, religion, music, and the visual arts. Emphasis is on the exploration of primary texts.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Lecture
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 150
- JPN 362W: Samurai,Shogun & Women WarriorGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HSCW
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionAn examination of the image of the warrior in Japan through literature and its effect on many areas of Japanese culture, including philosophy, literary history, religion, music, and the visual arts. Emphasis is on the exploration of primary texts.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Lecture
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 150
- Writing Requirement
- Yes
- JPN 363: Lit & Visual Culture in JapanGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HAP
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionAn exploration of the complex interactions between written texts and the visual arts in Japan from the classical era to the present. Discussion will include prose, poetry, printing, picture scrolls, calligraphy, woodblock prints, and film.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Lecture
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 150
- JPN 363W: Lit & Visual Culture in JapanGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HAPW
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionAn exploration of the complex interactions between written texts and the visual arts in Japan from the classical era to the present. Discussion will include prose, poetry, printing, picture scrolls, calligraphy, woodblock prints, and film.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Lecture
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 150
- Writing Requirement
- Yes
- JPN 372: Mod Jpn Lit In Engl TranslatnGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HAP
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionSurveys Japanese literature from the mid-19th century to the present. Introduces the nature and range of literary genres as they developed in the context of Japan\'s confrontation with modernity. The course opens for discussion issues in contemporary literary theory in order to understand aspects of Japanese literature and culture, such as gender, nationalism, intertextuality, Orientalism, and identity. Texts are in English translation.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Lecture
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 150
- JPN 372W: Mod Jpn Lit In Engl TranslatnGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HAPW
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionSurveys Japanese literature from the mid-19th century to the present. Introduces the nature and range of literary genres as they developed in the context of Japan\'s confrontation with modernity. The course opens for discussion issues in contemporary literary theory in order to understand aspects of Japanese literature and culture, such as gender, nationalism, intertextuality, Orientalism, and identity. Texts are in English translation.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Lecture
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 150
- Writing Requirement
- Yes
- JPN 374: Jpn Lit: Read & Wrt ClassicsGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HAP
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionA survey of Japanese literature in translation from the 8th through the 21st centuries in which students both read representative works from various genres in the Japanese canon and write in those genres themselves. Texts are in English translation.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Lecture
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 150
- JPN 374W: Jpn Lit: Read & Wrt ClassicsGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HAPW
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionA survey of Japanese literature in translation from the 8th through the 21st centuries in which students both read representative works from various genres in the Japanese canon and write in those genres themselves. Texts are in English translation.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Lecture
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 150
- Writing Requirement
- Yes
- JPN 375: Topics in Jpn StudiesGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- None
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionFall or Spring. An interdisciplinary course that introduces students to Japanese culture. No knowledge of Japanese is required. Topics to be announced each semester.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Lecture
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 150
- JPN 375W: Topics in Jpn StudiesGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- WRT
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionFall or Spring. An interdisciplinary course that introduces students to Japanese culture. No knowledge of Japanese is required. Topics to be announced each semester.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Lecture
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 150
- Writing Requirement
- Yes
- JPN 378: Postwar JPN Through Its MediaGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionThis course examines the way the postwar Japanese experience has been reflected (and constructed) through various types of popular media. Through film, television, magazine, newspapers, music, and manga, we will explore the various ways in which Japanese society has narrated its experiences of recovery and rebuilding after World War II, and the role these media sources have played in this reconstruction.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Lecture
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 150
- JPN 378W: Postwar JPN Through Its MediaGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HSCW
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionThis course examines the way the postwar Japanese experience has been reflected (and constructed) through various types of popular media. Through film, television, magazine, newspapers, music, and manga, we will explore the various ways in which Japanese society has narrated its experiences of recovery and rebuilding after World War II, and the role these media sources have played in this reconstruction.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Lecture
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 150
- Writing Requirement
- Yes
- JPN 397R: Directed StudyGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 1 - 8
- GERs
- None
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionFall or spring. Approval by department is required. Variable credit.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Directed study
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- variable
- Scheduled Related Component
- Select Scheduled related component
- Weekly Contact Minutes in Related Component
- Select contact time
- Additional Course Plus Component
- Select other structured components
- Japanese 400-Level Courses
- JPN 401: Adv Lang & Cultural Studies IGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HAL
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionFall. Prerequisite: Japanese 302 or consent of instructor. Conducted in Japanese, the course focuses upon Japanese culture through readings and discussion of literary texts and materials from current periodicals and newspapers.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Lecture
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 150
- JPN 401W: Adv Lang & Cultural Studies IGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HALW
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionFall. Prerequisite: Japanese 302 or consent of instructor. Conducted in Japanese, the course focuses upon Japanese culture through readings and discussion of literary texts and materials from current periodicals and newspapers.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Lecture
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 150
- Writing Requirement
- Yes
- JPN 402: Adv Lang & Cultural Studies IIGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HAL
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionSpring. Prerequisites: Japanese 401 or consent of instructor. This course will provide exposure to business and technical Japanese. Students will practice formal styles of communication and read texts with technical orientation. In addition, basic skills of translation will be introduced. The course is conducted solely in Japanese.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Lecture
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 150
- Scheduled Related Component
- Select Scheduled related component
- Weekly Contact Minutes in Related Component
- Select contact time
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- Select other structured components
- JPN 403: Adv Lang & Cultural Studies IIIGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HAL
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionStudents are encouraged to develop a sophisticated understanding of issues and topics current in contemporary Japanese life and to converse on these topics in both concrete and abstract terms with fluency and ease. They will learn Japanese styles of discussion and argument. A variety of short compositions and long-paper assignments will enable them to strengthen their expository writing skills.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Lecture
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 150
- JPN 404: Adv Lang & Cultural Studies IVGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HAL
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionStudents are encouraged to deepen their understanding of current events in Japan and their significance. Building on progress from the previous semester\'s class, they will practice and hone their skills in reading advanced materials and discussing them fluently and in translating texts from Japanese to English. Students also will be given regular writing assignments in which they reflect on and further explore the topics discussed in class.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Lecture
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 150
- Scheduled Related Component
- Select Scheduled related component
- Weekly Contact Minutes in Related Component
- Select contact time
- Additional Course Plus Component
- Select other structured components
- JPN 450: Seminar in East Asian StudiesGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- None
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionAn advanced seminar probing key themes in the study of modern East Asia. Topics to be examined include the imperial legacies of China and Japan and their impact on the region, the phenomenology of East Asian fundamentalism, issues in comparative colonialism, the volatility of shared meanings of identity as well as reconstructions of national subjects in literature, popular culture, and the arts. This is required for East Asian Studies majors but is open to students in other disciplines.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Seminar
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 150
- JPN 451: Great Writers of Modern JapanGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HAP
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionThis advanced seminar is devoted to intensive reading and discussion of fiction and essays by a single modern Japanese author who had clearly influenced contemporary Japanese culture, as well as earned international acclaim and recognition for his or her work.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Lecture
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 150
- JPN 451W: Great Writers of Modern JapanGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HAPW
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionThis advanced seminar is devoted to intensive reading and discussion of fiction and essays by a single modern Japanese author who had clearly influenced contemporary Japanese culture, as well as earned international acclaim and recognition for his or her work.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Lecture
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 150
- Writing Requirement
- Yes
- JPN 495A: Honors JapaneseGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- None
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionFall. Contact the department for further information. Approval by department is required.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Independent Honors research
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 150
- JPN 495B: Honors JapaneseGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 1 - 8
- GERs
- None
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionSpring. Contact the department for further information. Approval by department is required.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Independent Honors research
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- variable
- JPN 495BW: Honors JapaneseGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 1 - 8
- GERs
- WRT
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionSpring. Contact the department for further information. Approval by department is required.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Independent Honors research
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- variable
- Writing Requirement
- Yes
- JPN 496R: Japanese Language InternshipGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 1 - 8
- GERs
- None
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionFall or spring. Approval by department is required. Variable credit.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Experiential
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- variable
- Scheduled Related Component
- Select Scheduled related component
- Weekly Contact Minutes in Related Component
- Select contact time
- Additional Course Plus Component
- Select other structured components
- Korean 100-Level Courses
- KRN 101: Elementary Korean IGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 5
- GERs
- HAL
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionThis is the first half of the Elementary Korean language course. It is designed for those who have very limited or no prior knowledge of Korean language. Emphasis is placed on the fundamentals of listening, speaking, reading, and writing.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Lecture
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 200
- Additional Course Plus Component
- Computer conference with regular required participation
- KRN 102: Elementary Korean IIGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 5
- GERs
- HAL
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionThis course is designed for those who have taken KRN 101 or have some knowledge of Korean. Basic communication skills, vocabulary,and grammar patterns will be covered.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Lecture
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 200
- Additional Course Plus Component
- Computer conference with regular required participation
- KRN 103: Elementary Korean for Heritage SpeakersGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HAL
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionKRN 103 is the accelerated elementary Korean language heritage students. It is designed for the Korean heritage learners who have some background in Korean language and culture.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Lecture
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 200
- Korean 200-Level Courses
- KRN 201: Intermediate Korean IGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HAL
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionThis course is designed for those who have learned the basics of the Korean language and who want to improve their competence at a higher level. Complex sentences and grammar will be covered while the basics are reviewed.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Lecture
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 200
- KRN 202: Intermediate Korean IIGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HAL
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionThis course is designed for those who have taken KRN 201 or have an equivalent level of proficiency. The course focuses on expanding conversational skills with an emphasis on Korean culture and society.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Lecture
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 200
- KRN 203: Intermediate Korean for Heritage SpeakersGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HAL
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionKorean 203 is the accelerated intermediate Korean language course for Korean heritage students. It is designed for Korean heritage learners who have solid backgrounds in Korean language and culture.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Lecture
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 200
- KRN 270: Making of Modern KoreaGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionBy drawing on a wide range of materials across various disciplines the course aims to provide a broad and coherent picture of the history of modern Korea since the late 19th century to the contemporary period.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Lecture
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 150
- KRN 271: Political Change in KoreaGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionThis course explores the historical dynamics of political change in Korea since the establishment of the First Republic up to the current period, the may factors that shaped its political trajectory and democratization, and the key issues that have defined South Korean politics to this day.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Lecture
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 150
- Korean 300-Level Courses
- KRN 301: Advanced Korean IGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HAL
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionThis course is designed to enable learners to achieve the advanced level of speaking, listening, reading, writing and grammar skills in Korean. Also, this course aims to help students understand various aspects of Korean culture and society. KRN 202, KRN 203, or instructor permission required.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Lecture
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 150
- KRN 302: Advanced Korean IIGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HAL
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionThis course, as a continuation of KRN 301, is designed to further develop advanced skills of speaking, listening, reading, writing and grammar in Korean. This course emphasizes reading and writing with advanced grammar, vocabulary and expressions. KRN 301 or instructor permission required.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Lecture
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 150
- KRN 305: Korean Proficiency Through TV DramasGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- None
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionThrough the contextually rich texts of the dramas, and through frequent discussions and feedback sessions, this course will offer an opportunity to increase students' awareness about Korean culture, a crucial element in advancing their proficiency to the Low Advanced level.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Lecture and Related Component
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 100
- Scheduled Related Component
- Supplemental instruction or problem set session
- Weekly Contact Minutes in Related Component
- 150 - 190
- KRN 314R: Study AbroadGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- None
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionCoursework in Korean Language completed on an Emory approved program abroad. Course enrollment and credit by permission only.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Lecture
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 150
- KRN 315R: Study AbroadGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 2
- GERs
- None
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionCoursework in English completed on an Emory approved program abroad. Course enrollment and credit by permission only.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Lecture
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 100
- Additional Course Plus Component
- Periodic field trips
- KRN 372: Social Movements, East & WestGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionThis course examines social movements in the East and West from a comparative perspective. The goal is to better understand the varying cultural, historical and institutional contexts and dynamics through which social movements emerge, evolve and leave traces.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Lecture
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 150
- KRN 372W: Social Movements, East & WestGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HSCW
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionThis course examines social movements in the East and West from a comparative perspective. The goal is to better understand the varying cultural, historical and institutional contexts and dynamics through which social movements emerge, evolve and leave traces.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Lecture
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 150
- Writing Requirement
- Yes
- KRN 386: Special Topics: KoreanGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionFall or Spring. An interdisciplinary course that introduces students to Korean culture and society. No knowledge of Korean is required. Topics to be announced each semester.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Lecture
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 150
- KRN 386W: Special Topics: KoreanGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HSCW
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionFall or Spring. An interdisciplinary course that introduces students to Korean culture and society. No knowledge of Korean is required. Topics to be announced each semester.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Lecture
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 150
- Writing Requirement
- Yes
- KRN 396R: Korean Language InternshipGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 1 - 4
- GERs
- None
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionVariable credit. Permission only, discretion of Instructor. Provide students of Korean an opportunity to use their Korean language skills outside the classroom, exposing them to a variety of native speakers in a number of different situations.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Experiential
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- variable
- Korean 400-Level Courses
- KRN 401: Language and Culture of Korea IGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- None
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionIn this course, a strong emphasis will be placed on the ability to produce and understand communications that are stylistically appropriate for professional and academic contexts as well as gaining further understanding of Korean culture and society.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Lecture
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 150
- Russian 100-Level Courses
- RUSS 101: Elementary Russian IGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HAL
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionFall. Introduction to spoken and written language. Oral practice emphasized through multimedia exercises and drills.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Lecture
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 200
- Scheduled Related Component
- Select Scheduled related component
- Weekly Contact Minutes in Related Component
- Select contact time
- Additional Course Plus Component
- Select other structured components
- RUSS 102: Elementary Russian IIGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HAL
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionSpring. Continuation of 101.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Lecture
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 200
- Scheduled Related Component
- Select Scheduled related component
- Weekly Contact Minutes in Related Component
- Select contact time
- Additional Course Plus Component
- Select other structured components
- RUSS 103: Russian: Advanced Beginners IGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HAL
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionFall or spring. Designed for students with a Russian background who can speak but have difficulty reading and writing. It will help students develop and maintain writing, reading, and speaking skills at the academic level.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Lecture
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 200
- Scheduled Related Component
- Select Scheduled related component
- Weekly Contact Minutes in Related Component
- Select contact time
- Additional Course Plus Component
- Select other structured components
- RUSS 110: Intensive RussianGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 8
- GERs
- HAL
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionSpring. Credit, eight hours. Intensive first-year course. Covers two semesters of Russian. Emphasis on developing oral, written, reading, and comprehension skills.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Lecture
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 400
- RUSS 190: Fresh Seminar: RussianGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- FSEM
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionFall or spring as needed. Focus on special aspects of Russian culture or language.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Seminar
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 150
- Scheduled Related Component
- Select Scheduled related component
- Weekly Contact Minutes in Related Component
- Select contact time
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- Russian 200-Level Courses
- RUSS 200: Fund Of Russian For ReadinGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 2 - 4
- GERs
- None
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionFall, spring, or summer. Credit, two to four semester hours. Prerequisite: none. Intended for graduate students and others who wish to concentrate on learning to read Russian.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Directed study
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- variable
- Scheduled Related Component
- Select Scheduled related component
- Weekly Contact Minutes in Related Component
- Select contact time
- Additional Course Plus Component
- Select other structured components
- RUSS 201: Inter Russ Conversatn/ReadingGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HAL
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionFall. Prerequisite: Russian 102, 110, or consent of instructor. Focus on more advanced grammatical and syntactical constructions both in written and spoken Russian. Supplemented by multimedia exercises and materials.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Lecture
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 200
- Scheduled Related Component
- Select Scheduled related component
- Weekly Contact Minutes in Related Component
- Select contact time
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- RUSS 202: Inter Composition/ConversationGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HAL
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionSpring. Prerequisite: 201 or consent of instructor. Continuation of 201.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Lecture
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 200
- Scheduled Related Component
- Select Scheduled related component
- Weekly Contact Minutes in Related Component
- Select contact time
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- Select other structured components
- RUSS 203: Russian: Advanced Beginners IIGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HAL
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionFall or spring. Designed for heritage speakers of Russian; it is sequel to RUSS 103. The emphasis is on improving students\' reading and writing skills. It prepares students for further study at the advanced level. Students who successfully complete this course will be able to take RUSS 301, 310, 311, 312, and 313.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Lecture
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 150
- Additional Course Plus Component
- Other on-line course component
- RUSS 270: Russian CultureGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionFall or spring. Prerequisite: none. Knowledge of Russian is not required. An interdisciplinary course that introduces students to the diversity of Russian culture. Presented against a chronological sequence of Russian history, it covers Orthodoxy, iconography, literature, music, folk beliefs, and customs.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Lecture
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 150
- RUSS 270W: Russian CultureGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HSCW
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionFall or spring. Prerequisite: none. Knowledge of Russian is not required. An interdisciplinary course that introduces students to the diversity of Russian culture. Presented against a chronological sequence of Russian history, it covers Orthodoxy, iconography, literature, music, folk beliefs, and customs.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Lecture
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 150
- Writing Requirement
- Yes
- RUSS 271: Literature of Imperial RussiaGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionFall or spring. Prerequisite: none. Knowledge of Russian is not required. Survey of the masterpieces of the Golden Age of Russian literature presented against the background of historical, cultural, social, and political developments.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Lecture
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 150
- RUSS 271W: Literature of Imperial RussiaGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HSCW
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionFall or spring. Prerequisite: none. Knowledge of Russian is not required. Survey of the masterpieces of the Golden Age of Russian literature presented against the background of historical, cultural, social, and political developments.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Lecture
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 150
- Writing Requirement
- Yes
- RUSS 275: Russian FolkloreGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionFall or spring. Prerequisite: none. Knowledge of Russian is not required. Designed as a one-semester course to introduce students to the major genres, methodology, and folk agricultural calendar, and the beliefs associated with it. This is a descriptive course, with the specialists and major collections introduced with each genre. The class will meet for three hours each week.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Lecture
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 150
- Scheduled Related Component
- Select Scheduled related component
- Weekly Contact Minutes in Related Component
- Select contact time
- Additional Course Plus Component
- Select other structured components
- RUSS 276: The Vampire: Monster & MythGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HAP
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionFall or spring. Prerequisite: None. Knowledge of Russian is not required.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Lecture
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 150
- Scheduled Related Component
- Select Scheduled related component
- Weekly Contact Minutes in Related Component
- Select contact time
- Additional Course Plus Component
- Select other structured components
- RUSS 290: Supervised Reading and WritingGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 1 - 8
- GERs
- None
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionContact Hour Information- Course Type
- Directed study
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- variable
- Scheduled Related Component
- Select Scheduled related component
- Weekly Contact Minutes in Related Component
- Select contact time
- Additional Course Plus Component
- Select other structured components
- Russian 300-Level Courses
- RUSS 301: Adv Oral/Written Comm IGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HAL
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionFall. Prerequisite: Russian 202 or consent of instructor. Designed to help students reach a new level of fluency, focusing on vocabulary development and the more complex forms of literary and colloquial Russian.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Lecture
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 150
- Additional Course Plus Component
- Other on-line course component
- RUSS 310R: Russ Poetry/Drama OriginalGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HAL
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionFall or spring. Prerequisites: Russian 202 or consent of the instructor. The aim of this course is to acquaint students with the rich tradition of Russian poetry and drama (nineteenth and twentieth century). This course is conducted for the most part in Russian and addresses such issues as the role of poetry and drama in Russian culture. The texts will be read in the original, but some background material may be read in English.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Lecture
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 150
- Scheduled Related Component
- Select Scheduled related component
- Weekly Contact Minutes in Related Component
- Select contact time
- Additional Course Plus Component
- Other on-line course component
- RUSS 311: Fict & Nonfiction In RussianGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HAL
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionFall or spring. Prerequisite: Russian 202 or consent of instructor. Reading, viewing, and discussing selected materials from classical and contemporary literature, film, and current periodicals.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Lecture
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 150
- Scheduled Related Component
- Select Scheduled related component
- Weekly Contact Minutes in Related Component
- Select contact time
- Additional Course Plus Component
- Other on-line course component
- RUSS 312R: Studies in Individual AuthorsGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HAL
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionFall or spring. Prerequisites: Russian 202 or consent of instructor. The main goal of this course is to expand students\' literary vocabulary and develop further the ability to express themselves on both literary and everyday issues by means of the study of a particular Russian author in the original, i.e., Pushkin, Lermontov, Tolstoy, Bulkagov, Pasternak, and more.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Lecture
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 150
- Additional Course Plus Component
- Other on-line course component
- RUSS 313R: Topics in Russian LiteratureGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HAL
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionFall or spring. Prerequisites: Russian 202 or consent of instructor. The main goal of this course is to expand students\' Russian literary vocabulary and to develop further their ability to express themselves on both literary and everyday issues. This class will emphasize the varying stylistic patterns of different Russian writers of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and will seek to enhance students\' understanding of the cultural ambience of Russian literature.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Lecture
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 150
- Scheduled Related Component
- Select Scheduled related component
- Weekly Contact Minutes in Related Component
- Select contact time
- Additional Course Plus Component
- Other on-line course component
- RUSS 313RW: Topics in Russian LiteratureGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 5
- GERs
- HALW
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionFall or spring. Prerequisites: Russian 202 or consent of instructor. The main goal of this course is to expand students\' Russian literary vocabulary and to develop further their ability to express themselves on both literary and everyday issues. This class will emphasize the varying stylistic patterns of different Russian writers of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and will seek to enhance students\' understanding of the cultural ambience of Russian literature.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Lecture
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 150
- Additional Course Plus Component
- Other on-line course component
- Writing Requirement
- Yes
- RUSS 314: St. Petersburg Summer ProgramGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 8
- GERs
- None
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionSummer. Credit, eight hours. Prerequisites: Russian 202 or equivalent, and approval of department. Intensive summer study of Russian language and culture in St. Petersburg, Russia. Practical language study, lectures, and tours. See chair of department for application procedure.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Lecture
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 300
- Scheduled Related Component
- Select Scheduled related component
- Weekly Contact Minutes in Related Component
- Select contact time
- Additional Course Plus Component
- Periodic field trips to the value of 2 credits
- RUSS 315: Russian Through FilmGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HAL
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionThe course is designed to develop fluency in spoken Russian as well as enhance writing skills, vocabulary development, and reading and listening comprehension. Using Russian film as a basis for conversation provides students with a wealth of culture-based authentic materials.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Lecture
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 150
- Scheduled Related Component
- Film Screening with discussion
- Weekly Contact Minutes in Related Component
- 100 - 140
- RUSS 320: Linguist Structure Of RussianGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HAP
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionIn this course, students will develop skills in the command and use of grammatical categories in Russian through an understanding or relevant conceptual categories. Students will acquire conscious knowledge of the meaning so of the grammatical forms applied to discourse, i.e. to specific verbal situations, based no only on the underlying linguistic phenomena, but rather on the content of lingua-cultural situations.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Lecture
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 150
- RUSS 350: Scientific RussianGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HAL
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionThis course will provide students with basic tools for comprehending the subject matter of Russian scientific texts. Emphasis will be placed on the ability to read and pronounce key terms, on recognizing sentence structures, and on cursory translation.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Lecture
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 150
- RUSS 351: Business RussianGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HAL
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionFall or spring. Prerequisite: Russian 202 or equivalent. Introduction to basic oral and written communication skills for trade and business negotiations with Russian-speaking areas of the former Soviet Union.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Lecture
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 150
- RUSS 360: Dostoevsky In Eng TranslationGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HAP
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionFall or spring. Prerequisite: none. Knowledge of Russian is not required. The novels of the most famous Russian writer and thinker, who deeply influenced world literature. Crime and Punishment, The Brothers Karamazov, and others. Topics for discussion include: Christianity and atheism, existentialism, the superman, the sources of evil, and freedom and suffering as moral categories.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Lecture
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 150
- RUSS 360W: Dostoevsky In Eng TranslationGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HAPW
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionFall or spring. Prerequisite: none. Knowledge of Russian is not required. The novels of the most famous Russian writer and thinker, who deeply influenced world literature. Crime and Punishment, The Brothers Karamazov, and others. Topics for discussion include: Christianity and atheism, existentialism, the superman, the sources of evil, and freedom and suffering as moral categories.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Lecture
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 150
- Writing Requirement
- Yes
- RUSS 361: Leo Tolstoy In Eng TranslationGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HAP
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionFall or spring. Prerequisite: none. Knowledge of Russian is not required. The course examines the thought and art of one of Russia's most influential writers. In works such as War and Peace and Anna Karenina, Tolstoy offers insight into issues still fundamental to us today: the meaning of life and death, moral and social responsibility, and personal identity.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Lecture
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 150
- RUSS 363: Russia's Amazon-WomenGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionContact Hour Information- Course Type
- Lecture
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 150
- RUSS 363W: Russia's Amazon-WomenGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HSCW
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionContact Hour Information- Course Type
- Lecture
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 150
- Writing Requirement
- Yes
- RUSS 372: Russia and the Age of RevolutionGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionFall or spring. Prerequisite: none. Knowledge of Russian is not required. From tsarist days through the rise and fall of the Soviet Union, Russia has grappled with issues of imagination and identity. These issues find voice in Russian literature, which has moved radically along official and unofficial lines. The course focuses on a battle of realities in twentieth-century Russia, and it examines the powerful dynamics between art and politics. Films, slides, and music accompany texts.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Lecture
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 150
- RUSS 372W: Russia and the Age of RevolutionGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HSCW
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionFall or spring. Prerequisite: none. Knowledge of Russian is not required. From tsarist days through the rise and fall of the Soviet Union, Russia has grappled with issues of imagination and identity. These issues find voice in Russian literature, which has moved radically along official and unofficial lines. The course focuses on a battle of realities in twentieth-century Russia, and it examines the powerful dynamics between art and politics. Films, slides, and music accompany texts.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Lecture
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 150
- Writing Requirement
- Yes
- RUSS 373: The Russian AvantgardeGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HSC
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionKnowledge of Russian is not required. Introduction to interdisciplinary study of twentieth-century Russian literature and the visual arts, with focus upon issues of art and politics, time, space, and identity in symbolist, supermatist, constructivist, socialist realist, and post-Soviet "vision". In English.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Lecture and Related Component
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 150
- Additional Course Plus Component
- Weekly Film Screenings, Gallery Talks or Special Assignments
- RUSS 374: Shakespeare in Russian CultureGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HAP
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionThis class examines several paradigms for understanding Shakespeare's formidable influence in Russian culture: from Bloom's anxiety of influence to Eliot's claim that Shakespeare cannot be a poetic influence, to Pasternak's conception of the battle entailed in the transmission of tradition, and then to Mandelstam's vision of influence as a forceful impulse to speech or even a mating call. The plays in question will be carefully discussed in order to understand which of the themes will have the strongest impact and new life in a Russian culture and which are overlooked and downplayed.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Lecture
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 150
- RUSS 374W: Shakespeare in Russian CultureGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HAPW
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionThis class examines several paradigms for understanding Shakespeare's formidable influence in Russian culture: from Bloom's anxiety of influence to Eliot's claim that Shakespeare cannot be a poetic influence, to Pasternak's conception of the battle entailed in the transmission of tradition, and then to Mandelstam's vision of influence as a forceful impulse to speech or even a mating call. The plays in question will be carefully discussed in order to understand which of the themes will have the strongest impact and new life in a Russian culture and which are overlooked and downplayed.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Lecture
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 150
- Writing Requirement
- Yes
- RUSS 375: Special TopicsGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- None
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionFall or spring. Study of Russian language, literature, or culture, alone or in conjunction with other literary or cultural trends. Topics to be announced in advance. May be repeated for credit when topic varies.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Lecture
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 150
- RUSS 375W: Special TopicsGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- WRT
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionFall or spring. Study of Russian language, literature, or culture, alone or in conjunction with other literary or cultural trends. Topics to be announced in advance. May be repeated for credit when topic varies.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Lecture
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 150
- Writing Requirement
- Yes
- RUSS 378: Post-Soviet Phantom of EmpireGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HAP
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionThis is an interdisciplinary course which examines the birth of the new Russian culture which developed during and after the break of the Soviet empire (1980s - 2000s). Topics will range from philosophy to literature to the visual arts, and will include discussions of religious diversity and language evolution. Major intellectual and religious trends to be considered will include postmodernism, conceptualism, post-atheism, and the resurgence of traditional confessions and sectarian consciousness.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Lecture
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 150
- RUSS 378W: Post-Soviet Phantom of EmpireGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HAPW
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionThis is an interdisciplinary course which examines the birth of the new Russian culture which developed during and after the break of the Soviet empire (1980s - 2000s). Topics will range from philosophy to literature to the visual arts, and will include discussions of religious diversity and language evolution. Major intellectual and religious trends to be considered will include postmodernism, conceptualism, post-atheism, and the resurgence of traditional confessions and sectarian consciousness.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Lecture
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 150
- Writing Requirement
- Yes
- RUSS 381: Jews In Russian CultureGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionPrerequisite: none. Knowledge of Russian is not required. This course explores Russian-Jewish intellectual dialogue in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries through the most representative examples of cross-cultural writing, in fiction and nonfiction.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Lecture
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 150
- Russian 400-Level Courses
- RUSS 401: 19th C.Russian Lit.In OriginalGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HAL
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionFall. Prerequisite: Russian 302 or consent of instructor. Short stories and poems of the classic Russian writers from Pushkin and Gogol to Dostoevsky and Chekhov. Social, moral, and aesthetic issues, individual differences in style, and linguistic features of the original Russian texts. Satisfies General Education Requirements, postfreshman writing requirement.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Lecture
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 150
- RUSS 401W: 19th C.Russian Lit.In OriginalGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HALW
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionFall. Prerequisite: Russian 302 or consent of instructor. Short stories and poems of the classic Russian writers from Pushkin and Gogol to Dostoevsky and Chekhov. Social, moral, and aesthetic issues, individual differences in style, and linguistic features of the original Russian texts. Satisfies General Education Requirements, postfreshman writing requirement.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Lecture
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 150
- Writing Requirement
- Yes
- RUSS 402: 20th C.Russian Lit.In OriginalGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HAL
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionSpring. Prerequisite: Russian 401 or consent of instructor. An introduction to the major Russian literary movements, including symbolism, acmeism, futurism, socialist realism, and conceptualism, and to the short representative works of the greatest writers and poets of the twentieth century, such as Nabokov, Pasternak, Solzhenitsyn, and Brodsky.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Lecture
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 150
- RUSS 402W: 20th C.Russian Lit.In OriginalGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HALW
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionSpring. Prerequisite: Russian 401 or consent of instructor. An introduction to the major Russian literary movements, including symbolism, acmeism, futurism, socialist realism, and conceptualism, and to the short representative works of the greatest writers and poets of the twentieth century, such as Nabokov, Pasternak, Solzhenitsyn, and Brodsky.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Lecture
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 150
- Writing Requirement
- Yes
- RUSS 403: 21st Century Russian Literature in OriginalGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HAL
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionThis class will examine contemporary Russian writers in the original.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Lecture
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 150
- RUSS 411: Contemp.Readings & Translatn IGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HAL
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionThis course will focus on the practice and theory of translation. Works of poetry, prose, and newspaper articles will be our primary texts.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Lecture
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 150
- RUSS 412: Contemp Readings & Trans.IIGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HAL
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionContinued from RUSS 411. Focuses on practice and theory of translation.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Lecture
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 150
- RUSS 414: Russian in the MediaGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HAL
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionFall or spring. Reading and discussion of materials from current periodicals, newspapers, and television on history, politics, culture, and science. Advanced knowledge of Russian required.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Lecture
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 150
- Scheduled Related Component
- Film Screening with discussion
- Weekly Contact Minutes in Related Component
- 100 - 140
- RUSS 416: Political RussianGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HAL
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionSpring. Prerequisite: Russian 415 or consent of instructor. Focus is on political Russian. Readings and discussion of materials from historical and current periodical literature as well as Russian television newscasts, with primary emphasis on current political developments within Russia and problems of Russian foreign policy.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Lecture
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 150
- Scheduled Related Component
- Film Screening with discussion
- Weekly Contact Minutes in Related Component
- 100 - 140
- RUSS 420: Phil And Religion In RussiaGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HAP
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionFall or spring. Prerequisite: none. Knowledge of Russian not required. Major trends of Russian thought: debate between Slavophiles and Westernizers; religious philosophy of Solovyov and Berdiaev; Soviet Marxism; Bakhtin¿s dialogic imagination; existentialism and structuralism; Euroasianism, and evolution of Orthodox thought.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Lecture
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 150
- Scheduled Related Component
- Select Scheduled related component
- Weekly Contact Minutes in Related Component
- Select contact time
- Additional Course Plus Component
- Select other structured components
- RUSS 475: Advanced Topics in RussianGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HAL
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionFall. Prerequisite: Russian 302 or equivalent. Focuses upon key texts and pivotal ideas in Russian thought. Students read the works in Russian and discuss the works in terms of language, style, and concepts, as well as historical, political, and societal dynamics. The course is conducted in Russian.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Lecture
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 150
- RUSS 475W: Advanced Topics in RussianGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HALW
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionFall. Prerequisite: Russian 302 or equivalent. Focuses upon key texts and pivotal ideas in Russian thought. Students read the works in Russian and discuss the works in terms of language, style, and concepts, as well as historical, political, and societal dynamics. The course is conducted in Russian.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Lecture
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 150
- Writing Requirement
- Yes
- RUSS 481R: Senior Seminar in RussianGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HAL
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionOur capstone seminar, conducted in Russian, designed for our advanced majors.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Seminar
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 150
- Additional Course Plus Component
- Other on-line course component
- RUSS 485: West And Russian PostmodernismGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HAP
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionFall or spring. Prerequisite: none. Knowledge of Russian is not required. This course offers a comparative perspective on postmodernism in Western and Russian cultures, including a parallel examination of principal works in literature, art, and the humanities.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Lecture
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 150
- Scheduled Related Component
- Select Scheduled related component
- Weekly Contact Minutes in Related Component
- Select contact time
- Additional Course Plus Component
- Select other structured components
- RUSS 490R: Advanced SeminarGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HAP
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionThe course is designed to examine in depth a topic of major importance in the development of Russian culture. Although specific themes will vary from year to year, the approach will be interdisciplinary in nature.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Seminar
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 150
- RUSS 490RW: Advanced SeminarGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HAPW
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionThe course is designed to examine in depth a topic of major importance in the development of Russian culture. Although specific themes will vary from year to year, the approach will be interdisciplinary in nature.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Seminar
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 150
- Writing Requirement
- Yes
- RUSS 495A: Honors Program In RussianGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- None
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionFall. Open to eligible candidates in their senior year (contact department chair for requirements).
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Independent Honors research
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 150
- RUSS 495B: Honors Program In RussianGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 1 - 8
- GERs
- None
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionSpring. Open to eligible candidates in their senior year (contact department chair for requirements).
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Independent Honors research
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- variable
- RUSS 495BW: Honors Program In RussianGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 1 - 8
- GERs
- WRT
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionSpring. Open to eligible candidates in their senior year (contact department chair for requirements).
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Independent Honors research
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- variable
- Writing Requirement
- Yes
- RUSS 496R: Russian Language InternshipGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 2 - 4
- GERs
- None
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionFall or spring. Credit, two to four hours per semester. Approval by department is required. Provides students an opportunity to use their Russian language skills outside the classroom in a variety of situations.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Experiential
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- variable
- Scheduled Related Component
- Select Scheduled related component
- Weekly Contact Minutes in Related Component
- Select contact time
- Additional Course Plus Component
- Select other structured components
- RUSS 497R: Individual Directed ReadingGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 1 - 8
- GERs
- None
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionFall or spring. Credit, variable. May be repeated for credit up to a maximum of eight hours. Approval by department is required.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Directed study
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- variable
- Scheduled Related Component
- Select Scheduled related component
- Weekly Contact Minutes in Related Component
- Select contact time
- Additional Course Plus Component
- Select other structured components
Honors Program
See “Honors Program” under the curriculum section of the catalog and consult the department for further details.
In addition to the College requirements for eligibility, students must maintain a 3.5 grade point average in course work in REALC and demonstrate linguistic ability (to be determined by a reading exam) to conduct research in primary sources. Eligible students will select a thesis adviser approved by the department's honor adviser. To complete the Honors program in Chinese the student will enroll in a two-semester Honors course, CHN 495A and CHN 495B/WR, for eight credits. The fall semester will be spent exploring issues and research materials for the Honors thesis. In spring, upon approval of the thesis advisor, students will be expected to write the thesis. With the approval of the Honors advisor students are expected to enroll in a senior seminar course in either REALC or another appropriate department that would complement and support the thesis. Each thesis must be completed in the spring and defended before a committee consisting of the student's advisor, faculty member(s) from REALC and one faculty member from outside the department and approved by the Honors advisor
Outstanding students majoring in Japanese may apply to participate in the Honors Program. To be eligible, students must maintain a 3.5 grade point average in their REALC course work. Eligible students will select a thesis advisor approved by the program's honors adviser. Honors students are required to enroll in a two-semester honors course, JPN 495A and JPN 495B/WR for eight credits. The fall semester course helps students prepare to write their theses, which they complete in the spring semester. The thesis must be defended before a committee consisting of the student's advisor, faculty member(s) from REALC and one faculty member from outside the department as approved by the Honors Advisor.
Outstanding students majoring in Russian may apply to participate in the Honors Program. To be eligible, students must maintain a 3.5 grade point average in their REALC course work. Eligible students will select a thesis adviser approved by the program's honors adviser. Honors students are required to enroll in a two-semester honors course, RUSS 495A and RUSS 495B/WR for eight credits. The fall semester course helps students prepare to write their theses, which they complete in the spring semester. The thesis must be defended before a committee consisting of the student's adviser, faculty member(s) from REALC and one faculty member from outside the department as approved by the honors adviser.
For more information, see Honors Program | Academic Policies & Regulations.
Study Abroad
Emory-approved semester study abroad programs are available in Beijing, Shanghai, and Harbin, the People's Republic of China; and in Taipei, Taiwan, at Kansai Gaidai University, Kwansei Gakuin University, and the Kyoto Center for Japanese Studies in Japan; in Moscow, Voronezh, Yaroslavl', and Irkutsk, the Russian Federation; and at Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic. Summer programs are available in Beijing, China; Tokyo, Hakodate and Kanazawa, Japan; and in Moscow and St. Petersburg, Russia. Other study abroad options, including academic year programs, also are available. For updated information about study abroad, contact the department at 404.727.6427 or Emory's Center for International Programs Abroad (CIPA) 404.727.2711.
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