Russian and East Asian Languages and Cultures

This is the first of two courses that introduce students to modern Mandarin Chinese. It covers the sound system of Mandarin Chinese and moves on to basic skills in listening, speaking, reading, and writing, and offers an introduction to Chinese culture. For non-heritage students only.

Credit Hours

4

GER

IC

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

None

This course is the second semester of Elementary Chinese. Speaking, reading, listening, and writing will be learned in a communicative context. Students are expected to participate in class by engaging in interactive activities and reading and writing practices. For non-heritage students only.

Credit Hours

4

GER

IC

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

None

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.

Credit Hours

4

GER

IC

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

None

Placement determined according to proficiency. This course is exclusively for students studying Chinese through an Emory-affiliated summer abroad program. Students learn practical Mandarin Chinese in natural settings. A Chinese martial arts master will also provide instruction twice per week.

Credit Hours

4

GER

IC

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

None

This is the first of the two elementary Chinese courses, offered only in Emory's summer study abroad program in China. Students learn the sound system of Chinese, acquire basic communicative skills in Chinese in listening, speaking, reading, and writing. They also learn aspects of Chinese culture.

Credit Hours

4

GER

IC

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

None

This is the second of the two elementary Chinese courses, offered only in Emory's summer study abroad program in China. It is designed for those who have taken CHN 101 or CHN 111. The course aims to further develop communicative skills in speaking, listening, reading, and writing in Chinese.

Credit Hours

4

GER

IC

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

None

Freshmen 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.

Credit Hours

3

GER

FS

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

None

This course is designed to help students reach intermediate-level communicative skills, both in spoken and written Chinese, and to establish a solid base for more advanced language learning. For non-heritage speakers only.

Credit Hours

4

GER

IC

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

None

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. For non-heritage speakers only.

Credit Hours

4

GER

IC

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

None

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.

Credit Hours

4

GER

IC

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

None

Students will gain basic knowledge of how to write and appreciate East Asian brush calligraphy. Topics include: materials and tools, structure of characters, history and development of styles, the importance of calligraphy in East Asia, and the basic strokes of standard style.

Credit Hours

1

GER

None

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

• EAS 210R

This is the first of two intermediate Chinese courses, offered only in Emory's study abroad program in China. It is designed to help students reach intermediate level communicative skills in both spoken and written Chinese by expanding their linguistic and cultural knowledge.

Credit Hours

4

GER

IC

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

None

Offered only in Emory's summer study abroad program in China, the course provides intermediate level training in spoken and written Chinese in cultural context, based on skills developed in CHN 201 or CHN 211. Attention is given to complex grammatical patterns and discussions of cultural topics.

Credit Hours

4

GER

IC

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

None

Studies East Asian calligraphy in artistic, cultural, and historical contexts, starting with the immediate aspects of calligraphy as a traditional art form, and then reaching beyond the classically defined discipline to examine its aesthetic values, intellectual metaphors, and moral criteria.

Credit Hours

3

GER

HAP

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

• EAS 216
• ARTHIST 216
• ANT 217

Studies East Asian calligraphy in artistic, cultural, and historical contexts, starting with the immediate aspects of calligraphy as a traditional art form, and then reaching beyond the classically defined discipline to examine its aesthetic values, intellectual metaphors, and moral criteria.

Credit Hours

4

GER

HAPW

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

• EAS 216W
• ARTHIST 216W
• ANT 217W

An overview of important elements of the Chinese language and its use. Students will gain an understanding of the history of the language, as well as the phonological, semantic, and syntactic structures of modern Chinese. Also examines cultural and social issues surrounding the Chinese language.

Credit Hours

3

GER

HA

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

• LING 230

This course introduces the development of Chinese language from proto Sino-Tibetan roots to modern standard Chinese, and presents the chronological changes in syntax and phonology. We will discuss key historical stages in Chinese developments, and analyze it from the view of linguistics aspects.

Credit Hours

3

GER

HAE

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

• EAS 232
• LING 232

This course introduces the development of Chinese language from proto Sino-Tibetan roots to modern standard Chinese, and presents the chronological changes in syntax and phonology. We will discuss key historical stages in Chinese developments, and analyze it from the view of linguistics aspects.

Credit Hours

4

GER

HAWE

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

• EAS 232W
• LING 232W

This 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.

Credit Hours

3

GER

HSC

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

• EAS 235
• LING 235

Required for EALC Majors and East Asian Studies Majors and Minors. An interdisciplinary course that introduces students to major topics and methodologies in East Asian Studies, with an emphasis on writing, research, and critical thinking. Themes include history, literature, religion, and the arts.

Credit Hours

3

GER

None

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

• EAS 250
• JPN 250

Required for EALC Majors and East Asian Studies Majors and Minors. An interdisciplinary course that introduces students to major topics and methodologies in East Asian Studies, with an emphasis on writing, research, and critical thinking. Themes include history, literature, religion, and the arts.

Credit Hours

4

GER

CW

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

• EAS 250W
• JPN 250W

This course will emphasize transnational aspects of East Asian history, focusing on how the East Asian international system interacted with Southeast Asia, South Asia, Inner Asia, as well as with Europe and the U.S. from 1500 to the present.

Credit Hours

3

GER

SS

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

• HIST 260
• EAS 260
• KRN 260

This 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.

Credit Hours

3

GER

HA

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

• EAS 271

This 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.

Credit Hours

4

GER

HAW

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

• EAS 271W

This course examines seminal works of Chinese literature from its origins in the first millennium BCE to the eighteenth century. All the readings will be in English translation.

Credit Hours

3

GER

HA

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

• EAS 272

This course examines seminal works of Chinese literature from its origins in the first millennium BCE to the eighteenth century. All the readings will be in English translation.

Credit Hours

4

GER

HAW

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

• EAS 272W

This 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.

Credit Hours

4

GER

HA

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

• EAS 273

This course offers an introduction to modern Chinese history through the lenses of gender and sexuality. We will consider a broad range of topics, including prostitution, courtship and marriage, legal and medical constructions of sexuality, and the gendered division of labor.

Credit Hours

3

GER

HA

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

• WGS 275

Spanning the period that covers the First Sino-Japanese War (1895) through present, this course will explore the major transformations reshaping and reinventing cultural, political, and economic life in China through the shifting meanings of "revolution" and "republic."

Credit Hours

3

GER

SS

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

• EAS 278
• HIST 278

This course introduces students to the history, culture, society, and politics of China since 1976 through an exploration of the continuities and discontinuities knitting pre and post 1976 China.

Credit Hours

3

GER

SS

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

• EAS 279
• HIST 279

Study of Chinese language, literature, society, thought, or culture, alone or in conjunction with other literary or cultural trends. Topics to be announced in advance.

Credit Hours

1 - 4

GER

None

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

None

Study of Chinese language, literature, society, thought, or culture, alone or in conjunction with other literary or cultural trends. Topics to be announced in advance.

Credit Hours

1 - 5

GER

CW

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

None

First semester of Advanced Chinese. The course emphasizes advanced reading, grammar, and conversation. Authentic materials are included, such as news articles, television, fiction, and film. Students will learn to read both traditional and simplified characters. For non-heritage students only.

Credit Hours

3

GER

IC

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

None

Students will continue to develop skills in Chinese by reading, discussing, and writing about topics in contemporary China. They will practice expressing their ideas in Chinese and will developan enriched understanding of traditions in Chinese culture and society. For non-heritage students only.

Credit Hours

3

GER

IC

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

None

An advanced course for heritage learners with emphasis on improving reading and writing abilities. Through reading and discussion of texts on Chinese life, culture, and society, the course enhances students??? overall Chinese proficiency and understanding of the Chinese culture.

Credit Hours

3

GER

IC

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

None

An advanced course for heritage learners with emphasis on improving reading and writing abilities. Through reading and discussion of texts on Chinese life, culture, and society, the course enhances students??? overall Chinese proficiency and understanding of the Chinese culture.

Credit Hours

4

GER

ICW

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

None

Offered only in Emory's summer study abroad program in China, the course focuses on developing students' advanced language abilities through reading and discussions of texts on the changing attitudes and values of modern China. Reading of authentic texts and conversationalist skills are stressed.

Credit Hours

4

GER

IC

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

None

Offered only in Emory's summer study abroad program in China, the course aims to develop students' advanced skills in Chinese through reading, discussing, and writing about topics on modern China. Students will develop an enriched understanding of the traditions and changes in Chinese culture.

Credit Hours

4

GER

IC

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

None

This course is designated for Chinese language courses taken on Emory approved study abroad programs in Fall or Spring semester. This is a variable credit hours course. Students will be avarded credit hours for this course in the event that they have completed other language courses at the appropriate levels.

Credit Hours

1 - 6

GER

None

Requisites

CHN 202 or CHN_OX 202 or equivalent transfer credit as prerequisite.

Cross-Listed

None

This course is designated for topics of Chinese studies taken on Emory approved study abroad programs in Fall or Spring semesters. This is a variable credit hours course.

Credit Hours

1 - 6

GER

None

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

None

The course is an introduction to traditional Chinese drama, from the13th to the 20th century. We will focus on drama as literature but we will also explore the social, material, and performative dimensions of theater, including modern-day stage adaptations of traditional plays.

Credit Hours

3

GER

HAP

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

• EAS 319
• THEA 319

The course is an introduction to traditional Chinese drama, from the 13th to the 20th century. We will focus on drama as literature but we will also explore the social, material, and performative dimensions of theater, including modern-day stage adaptations of traditional plays.

Credit Hours

4

GER

HAPW

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

• EAS 319W
• THEA 319W

Examines the intersection of language, culture, and society in modern China. Investigates the linguistic construction of social identities based on gender, ethnicity, age, power relation, and other factors, and ideologies that shape language use in China and in the global Chinese diaspora.

Credit Hours

3

GER

HSC

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

• EAS 335
• LING 336

This course introduces translation theory and hands-on practice in multiple contexts. It is theoretical, methodological, creative. Students engage in multiple forms of translation (inverse, intra and inter-lingual) and meet regularly both as a whole class and in individual language-specific groups.

Credit Hours

3

GER

IC

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

• SPAN 336
• GER 336
• ITAL 336
• JPN 336
• KRN 336

This course is an introduction to basic written and oral communication skills for business and trade negotiations with Mainland China and Taiwan.

Credit Hours

3

GER

IC

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

None

Examines definitions of fundamental concepts such as innovation, individuality, genius, authorship, copying in Chinese history, but also draws on other cultures as points of comparison. Includes hands-on studies of manuscripts and artifacts from the collections of the Rose Library and Carlos Museum.

Credit Hours

3

GER

HAP

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

• ARTHIST 361

Examines definitions of fundamental concepts such as innovation, individuality, genius, authorship, copying in Chinese history, but also draws on other cultures as points of comparison. Includes hands-on studies of manuscripts and artifacts from the collections of the Rose Library and Carlos Museum.

Credit Hours

4

GER

HAPW

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

• ARTHIST 361W

This course studies Chinese cultural history through the lens of artifacts, including paintings, calligraphies, porcelains, bronzewares, costumes. Methods in archeology, anthropology and literary criticism will be applied to illustrate ideas, tastes and technologies that shape Chinese social life.

Credit Hours

3

GER

HAP

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

• ARTHIST 362

This course studies Chinese cultural history through the lens of artifacts, including paintings, calligraphies, porcelains, bronzewares, costumes. Methods in archeology, anthropology and literary criticism will be applied to illustrate ideas, tastes and technologies that shape Chinese social life.

Credit Hours

4

GER

HAPW

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

• ARTHIST 362W

This course covers the economic and political systems in the People's Republic of China. It first presents a history of their coevolution, and then examines different sectors in depth, including the opportunities and challenges involved, for Chinese leadership, people, and the world.

Credit Hours

3

GER

HSC

Requisites

(ECON 101 or ECON_OX 101 or FIN 201) and (ECON 112 or ECON_OX 112) or equivalent transfer credit as prerequisite.

Cross-Listed

• ECON 363
• EAS 373

This 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.

Credit Hours

3

GER

HSC

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

• EAS 365

This 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.

Credit Hours

4

GER

HSCW

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

• EAS 365W

There are unmistakable similarities between Italian and Chinese cultures regarding the noodle. In fact, the noodle evokes family traditions, rituals, symbolism, and emotional connection in both cultures. Our class explores how identity, assimilation and cultural integration are manifested in food.

Credit Hours

3

GER

HAP

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

• ITAL 370

There are unmistakable similarities between Italian and Chinese cultures regarding the noodle. In fact, the noodle evokes family traditions, rituals, symbolism, and emotional connection in both cultures. Our class explores how identity, assimilation and cultural integration are manifested in food.

Credit Hours

4

GER

HAPW

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

• ITAL 370W

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 literary and cultural practices that evolved around Confucius' unique body of writings (551 - 479 BC). Knowledge of Chinese is not necessary. .

Credit Hours

3

GER

HAP

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

• EAS 374
• REL 374

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 literary and cultural practices that evolved around Confucius' unique body of writings (551 - 479 BC). Knowledge of Chinese is not necessary.

Credit Hours

4

GER

HAPW

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

• REL 374W
• EAS 374W

From high-pitched voices in Peking opera, classical zither, the drum tower in Beijing, numerous dialects spoken (and sung) to online rap competitions, China is full of wonderful sounds. Using comparative and transmedia approaches, this course offers a comprehensive introduction to these phenomena.

Credit Hours

3

GER

HAP

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

• MUS 374

From high-pitched voices in Peking opera, classical zither, the drum tower in Beijing, numerous dialects spoken (and sung) to online rap competitions, China is full of wonderful sounds. Using comparative and transmedia approaches, this course offers a comprehensive introduction to these phenomena.

Credit Hours

4

GER

HAPW

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

• MUS 374W

Study of Chinese language, literature, thought or culture, alone or in conjunction with other literary or cultural trends. Topics to be announced in advance.

Credit Hours

1 - 4

GER

None

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

None

Study of Chinese language, literature, thought or culture, alone or in conjunction with other literary or cultural trends. Topics to be announced in advance.

Credit Hours

1 - 5

GER

CW

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

None

The course explores the rich novella traditions that developed in Italy and China from late medieval to early modern period. It investigates similarities and divergences between the two traditions, including shifting conceptions of literature, ethical norms, religious beliefs, and gender ideals.

Credit Hours

3

GER

None

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

• ITAL 377

The course explores the rich novella traditions that developed in Italy and China from late medieval to early modern period. It investigates similarities and divergences between the two traditions, including shifting conceptions of literature, ethical norms, religious beliefs, and gender ideals.

Credit Hours

4

GER

CW

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

• ITAL 377W

A survey of the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution (1966 - 1976). Students will study revolutionary 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.

Credit Hours

4

GER

HAP

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

• EAS 388
• REL 388

A survey of the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution (1966 - 1976). Students will study revolutionary 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.

Credit Hours

5

GER

HAPW

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

• EAS 388W
• REL 388W

The course will train students selected by the Department of REALC to serve as Chinese peer mentors for CHN 101,102, 201, or 202. The course is "permission only". The department will interview the students and choose the qualified candidate. The mentors should be Chinese native speakers.

Credit Hours

2

GER

None

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

None

The 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 reconfigurations of time, space, gender, and history in Chinese films under different historical conditions since the early twentieth century.

Credit Hours

3

GER

HAP

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

• FILM 394
• EAS 394

Conducted in Chinese, this course focuses on readings and discussion of authentic reading material. The goal is to develop students' knowledge of Chinese culture and ability to understand and use Chinese at a more advanced level. This course is designed for non-heritage track students only.

Credit Hours

3

GER

IC

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

None

Conducted in Chinese, this course focuses on readings and discussion of authentic reading material. The goal is to develop students' knowledge of Chinese culture and ability to understand and use Chinese at a more advanced level. This course is designed for non-heritage track students only.

Credit Hours

4

GER

ICW

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

None

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. For non-heritage speakers only.

Credit Hours

3

GER

IC

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

None

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. For non-heritage speakers only.

Credit Hours

4

GER

ICW

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

None

This is a post-advanced course for Chinese heritage speakers. Through close reading and intensive writing on major social issues of contemporary China, it aims to further enhance students' Chinese language proficiency and deepen their understanding of the Chinese society beyond the advanced level.

Credit Hours

3

GER

IC

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

None

This is a post-advanced course for Chinese heritage speakers. Through close reading and intensive writing on major social issues of contemporary China, it aims to further enhance students' Chinese language proficiency and deepen their understanding of the Chinese society beyond the advanced level.

Credit Hours

4

GER

ICW

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

None

This course enhances students' Chinese proficiency at the advanced level and understanding of the Chinese society through close reading and discussion of expository writings and short fictional pieces. Prerequisites: CHN402 for students in the non-heritage track; CHN303 in the heritage track.

Credit Hours

3

GER

IC

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

• EAS 404

Students will read selections of philosophical and literary texts in Classical Chinese and acquire knowledge of Classical Chinese grammar and lexicon. The course is for students who have taken CHN401 and can be taken in place of CHN402 to fulfill the language requirement for the Chinese major.

Credit Hours

3

GER

IC

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

None

Offered only in Emory's summer study abroad program in China, the course focuses on readings and discussions of authentic texts from a variety of genres including social, political, journalistic texts and important works on literature. It aims to enhance language skills at more advanced levels.

Credit Hours

4

GER

IC

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

None

Offered only in Emory's summer study abroad program in China, the course focuses on readings and discussions of authentic texts from contemporary Chinese literature, Chinese newspapers, internet, and TV programs. Acquisition of written style Chinese is stressed in this course.

Credit Hours

4

GER

IC

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

None

This course focuses on literary and media productions of illness to help understand modern Chinese conceptualization of body, mind and humanity. Students will learn to analyze how such diseases as AIDS, cancer, and mental issues are represented in the Chinese context. Course is conducted in Chinese

Credit Hours

3

GER

None

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

None

In this course, we will place food under analytic scrutiny and explore the variegated histories of food in East Asia. We will interrogate the different ways of imagining, understanding, and defining Asian foods and explore how human relationships to food in East Asia have changed over time.

Credit Hours

3

GER

HSC

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

• EAS 425

A capstone seminar required for East Asian Studies and EALC majors.

Credit Hours

3

GER

None

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

• EAS 450
• JPN 450

A capstone seminar required for East Asian Studies and EALC majors.

Credit Hours

4

GER

CW

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

• EAS 450W
• JPN 450W

Permission only, discretion of instructor. See requirements for Honors Degree.

Credit Hours

3

GER

XA

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

None

Permission only, discretion of instructor. See requirements for Honors Degree.

Credit Hours

1 - 8

GER

CW

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

None

Variable 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.

Credit Hours

1 - 4

GER

XA

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

None

Focus on selected topics in East Asian studies.

Credit Hours

3

GER

FS

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

None

Students will gain basic knowledge of how to write and appreciate East Asian brush calligraphy. Topics include: materials and tools, structure of characters, history and development of styles, the importance of calligraphy in East Asia, and the basic strokes of standard style.

Credit Hours

1

GER

None

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

• CHN 210R

Thematic 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.

Credit Hours

3

GER

HA

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

• REL 212

Studies East Asian calligraphy in artistic, cultural, and historical contexts, starting with the immediate aspects of calligraphy as a traditional art form, and then reaching beyond the classically defined discipline to examine its aesthetic values, intellectual metaphors, and moral criteria.

Credit Hours

3

GER

HAP

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

• CHN 216
• ARTHIST 216
• ANT 217

Studies East Asian calligraphy in artistic, cultural, and historical contexts, starting with the immediate aspects of calligraphy as a traditional art form, and then reaching beyond the classically defined discipline to examine its aesthetic values, intellectual metaphors, and moral criteria.

Credit Hours

4

GER

HAPW

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

• CHN 216W
• ARTHIST 216W
• ANT 217W

Discussion-based course examining contemporary food media from and about Asian culinary traditions. Topics include global Asian culture, Asian America, diaspora, media circulation, race, and ethnicity.

Credit Hours

3

GER

HAE

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

• KRN 227

Discussion-based course examining contemporary food media from and about Asian culinary traditions. Topics include global Asian culture, Asian America, diaspora, media circulation, race, and ethnicity.

Credit Hours

4

GER

HAWE

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

• KRN 227W

This course introduces students to the history of people of Asian ancestry in the United States, including immigrants, students, professionals, and refugees from East Asia, South Asia, and Southeast Asia. Thematically, it investigates timely issues facing the Asian American community today.

Credit Hours

3

GER

SSE

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

• HIST 228
• AMST 228

This course introduces the development of Chinese language from proto Sino-Tibetan roots to modern standard Chinese, and presents the chronological changes in syntax and phonology. We will discuss key historical stages in Chinese developments, and analyze it from the view of linguistics aspects.

Credit Hours

3

GER

HAE

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

• CHN 232
• LING 232

This course introduces the development of Chinese language from proto Sino-Tibetan roots to modern standard Chinese, and presents the chronological changes in syntax and phonology. We will discuss key historical stages in Chinese developments, and analyze it from the view of linguistics aspects.

Credit Hours

4

GER

HAWE

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

• CHN 232W
• LING 232W

This 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.

Credit Hours

3

GER

HSC

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

• CHN 235
• LING 235

Required for EALC Majors and East Asian Studies Majors and Minors. An interdisciplinary course that introduces students to major topics and methodologies in East Asian Studies, with an emphasis on writing, research, and critical thinking. Themes include history, literature, religion, and the arts.

Credit Hours

3

GER

None

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

• CHN 250
• JPN 250

Required for EALC Majors and East Asian Studies Majors and Minors. An interdisciplinary course that introduces students to major topics and methodologies in East Asian Studies, with an emphasis on writing, research, and critical thinking. Themes include history, literature, religion, and the arts.

Credit Hours

4

GER

CW

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

• CHN 250W
• JPN 250W

This course will emphasize transnational aspects of East Asian history, focusing on how the East Asian international system interacted with Southeast Asia, South Asia, Inner Asia, as well as with Europe and the U.S. from 1500 to the present.

Credit Hours

3

GER

SS

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

• HIST 260
• CHN 260
• KRN 260

This course introduces selected contemporary theater works centering Asian American artists in theater history, theory, and criticism.

Credit Hours

3

GER

HAE

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

• THEA 261
• AMST 261

This course introduces selected contemporary theater works centering Asian American artists in theater history, theory, and criticism.

Credit Hours

4

GER

HAWE

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

• THEA 261W
• AMST 261W

This 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.

Credit Hours

3

GER

HA

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

• JPN 270

This 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.

Credit Hours

3

GER

HA

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

• CHN 271

This 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.

Credit Hours

4

GER

HAW

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

• CHN 271W

This course examines seminal works of Chinese literature from its origins in the first millennium BCE to the eighteenth century. All the readings will be in English translation.

Credit Hours

3

GER

HA

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

• CHN 272

This course examines seminal works of Chinese literature from its origins in the first millennium BCE to the eighteenth century. All the readings will be in English translation.

Credit Hours

4

GER

HAW

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

• CHN 272W

This 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.

Credit Hours

4

GER

HA

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

• CHN 273

This course is designed as a foundation course on Korean history, preparing students for other Korean history courses, both pre-modern and modern, as well as students' individual research on Korean past. It surveys the major events and topics in Korean history from ancient times to the modern era.

Credit Hours

3

GER

SS

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

• KRN 274
• HIST 274

This course is designed as a foundation course on Korean history, preparing students for other Korean history courses, both pre-modern and modern, as well as students' individual research on Korean past. It surveys the major events and topics in Korean history from ancient times to the modern era.

Credit Hours

4

GER

HSCW

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

• KRN 274W
• HIST 274W

We 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.

Credit Hours

3

GER

HA

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

• JPN 275
• ENVS 275

By 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.

Credit Hours

3

GER

HSC

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

• KRN 270

This course explores the historical dynamics of political change in Korea since the establishment of the First Republic up to the current period, the many factors that shaped its political trajectory and democratization, and the key issues that have defined South Korean politics to this day.

Credit Hours

3

GER

HSC

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

• KRN 271
• SOC 271

Spanning the period that covers the First Sino-Japanese War (1895) through present, this course will explore the major transformations reshaping and reinventing cultural, political, and economic life in China through the shifting meanings of "revolution" and "republic."

Credit Hours

3

GER

SS

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

• CHN 278
• HIST 278

This course introduces students to the history, culture, society, and politics of China since 1976 through an exploration of the continuities and discontinuities knitting pre and post 1976 China.

Credit Hours

3

GER

SS

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

• CHN 279
• HIST 279

Study 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.

Credit Hours

1 - 4

GER

None

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

None

Study 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.

Credit Hours

1 - 5

GER

CW

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

None

Introduction to the arts of China, Korea, and Japan, from Neolithic to contemporary periods. Topics include calligraphy, painting, sculpture, architecture, bronze, and ceramic, highlighting both cross-cultural exchanges and the distinctive identities of each tradition.

Credit Hours

3

GER

HA

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

• ARTHIST 292

This class helps students develop the skills necessary to read Japanese-language texts without the aid of an instructor. Assignments emphasize vocabulary building and kanji recognition, strategies for decoding complex sentence structures, and the nuances of language and literary style.

Credit Hours

3

GER

IC

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

• JPN 303

The 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.

Credit Hours

3

GER

HSC

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

• REL 307

The course is an introduction to traditional Chinese drama, from the13th to the 20th century. We will focus on drama as literature but we will also explore the social, material, and performative dimensions of theater, including modern-day stage adaptations of traditional plays.

Credit Hours

3

GER

HAP

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

• CHN 319
• THEA 319

The course is an introduction to traditional Chinese drama, from the 13th to the 20th century. We will focus on drama as literature but we will also explore the social, material, and performative dimensions of theater, including modern-day stage adaptations of traditional plays.

Credit Hours

4

GER

HAPW

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

• CHN 319W
• THEA 319W

Suggested prerequisite: POLS 110 or 120. Intro to the contemporary politics of SE Asia. 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.

Credit Hours

3

GER

HSC

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

• POLS 322

Suggested 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).

Credit Hours

3

GER

HSC

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

• POLS 328

Focuses on cultural approaches to mental health and illness.

Credit Hours

3

GER

HSC

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

• ANT 331

Examines the intersection of language, culture, and society in modern China. Investigates the linguistic construction of social identities based on gender, ethnicity, age, power relation, and other factors, and ideologies that shape language use in China and in the global Chinese diaspora.

Credit Hours

3

GER

HSC

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

• CHN 335
• LING 336

This 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.

Credit Hours

3

GER

HSC

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

• ANT 337

This course examines the history of US relations with East Asia, Southeast Asia, and South Asia by focusing on the changing American views of Asians. Topics will include US expansion across the Pacific, US wars in Asia, Asian immigration to the US, and decolonization and capitalist development.

Credit Hours

3

GER

ETHN

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

• HIST 340
• AMST 340

In this course, we will analyze films and engage with critical theory through Korean film. We will discuss genre, narrative/visual strategies, and representation of a national cinema tradition while thinking about global visual cultures. Topics may vary by semester. Includes weekly film screening.

Credit Hours

4

GER

HAP

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

• KRN 357

An 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.

Credit Hours

3

GER

HSC

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

• JPN 362

An 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.

Credit Hours

3

GER

HAP

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

• JPN 363
• ARTHIST 363

Surveys 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.

Credit Hours

3

GER

HAP

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

• JPN 372

Surveys 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.

Credit Hours

4

GER

HAPW

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

• JPN 372W

This 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.

Credit Hours

3

GER

HSC

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

• CHN 365

This 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.

Credit Hours

4

GER

HSCW

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

• CHN 365W

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.

Credit Hours

3

GER

HAP

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

• JPN 360
• WGS 362

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.

Credit Hours

4

GER

HAPW

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

• JPN 360W
• WGS 362W

Open 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.

Credit Hours

3

GER

HSC

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

• MUS 372

A survey of ancient, medieval, and early modern Japan through the 1850s. Topics include Japan's relations with the outside world; the rise of the imperial institution; and the evolution of aristocratic, samurai, and townspeople's culture.

Credit Hours

3

GER

HSC

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

• HIST 371

This 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.

Credit Hours

3

GER

HSC

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

• MUS 371

A survey of modern and contemporary Japan (1850s-present) focusing on major historical changes and on their repercussions on the lives of individual citizens. Topics include nation building, historical memory, and the meaning of progress.

Credit Hours

3

GER

HSC

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

• HIST 372

This course covers the economic and political systems in the People's Republic of China. It first presents a history of their coevolution, and then examines different sectors in depth, including the opportunities and challenges involved, for Chinese leadership, people, and the world.

Credit Hours

3

GER

HSC

Requisites

(ECON 101 or ECON_OX 101 or FIN 201) and (ECON 112 or ECON_OX 112) or equivalent transfer credit as prerequisite.

Cross-Listed

• ECON 363
• CHN 363

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 literary and cultural practices that evolved around Confucius' unique body of writings (551 - 479 BC). Knowledge of Chinese is not necessary. .

Credit Hours

3

GER

HAP

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

• CHN 373
• REL 374

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 literary and cultural practices that evolved around Confucius' unique body of writings (551 - 479 BC). Knowledge of Chinese is not necessary.

Credit Hours

4

GER

HAPW

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

• CHN 373W
• REL 374W

Examines contemporary Chinese politics, covering regime institutions and processes, policies and their effects, and the dynamics of political development, including Chinese Communist party and central government, as well as the role of subnational government.

Credit Hours

3

GER

HSC

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

• POLS 375

This is a course about book history of East Asia fro pre-paper media all the way to the turn of the twentieth century when the Western mechanical printing technology was introduced into the region.

Credit Hours

3

GER

None

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

• HIST 376

This is a course about book history of East Asia fro pre-paper media all the way to the turn of the twentieth century when the Western mechanical printing technology was introduced into the region.

Credit Hours

4

GER

CW

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

• HIST 376W

This course examines the postwar Japanese experience through film, television, magazines, newspapers, music, and manga. We will explore the ways in which Japanese society has narrated its experiences of recovery after World War II, and the role these media sources have played in this reconstruction.

Credit Hours

3

GER

HSC

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

• JPN 378

This 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.

Credit Hours

4

GER

HSCW

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

• JPN 378W

China 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.

Credit Hours

3

GER

HSC

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

• HIST 373

This 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.

Credit Hours

3

GER

HSC

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

• KRN 372
• SOC 372

This course explores the origins of Korea's division system, the developmental path or each Korea, as well as the contemporary events that have been at the center of international debates, thereby challenging students to rethink the conventional framework based on binaries.

Credit Hours

3

GER

HSC

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

• KRN 382

Readings of Modern Korean literature in translation from 1900-present with appropriate literary criticism and historical texts to supplement students' knowledge of the context of Korean literary texts.

Credit Hours

3

GER

HAP

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

• KRN 383

Study 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.

Credit Hours

1 - 4

GER

None

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

None

Study 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.

Credit Hours

1 - 5

GER

CW

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

None

An interdisciplinary course that introduces students to Korean culture and society. No knowledge of Korean is required. Topics to be announced each semester.

Credit Hours

1 - 4

GER

HSC

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

• KRN 386

An interdisciplinary course that introduces students to Korean culture and society. No knowledge of Korean is required. Topics to be announced each semester.

Credit Hours

1 - 5

GER

HSCW

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

• KRN 386W

A survey of the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution (1966 - 1976). Students will study revolutionary 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.

Credit Hours

4

GER

HAP

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

• CHN 388
• REL 388

A survey of the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution (1966 - 1976). Students will study revolutionary 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.

Credit Hours

5

GER

HAPW

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

• CHN 388W
• REL 388W

The 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 reconfigurations of time, space, gender, and history in Chinese films under different historical conditions since the early twentieth century.

Credit Hours

3

GER

HAP

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

• FILM 394
• CHN 394

Variable credit. Department permission required.

Credit Hours

1 - 4

GER

None

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

None

This course enhances students' Chinese proficiency at the advanced level and understanding of the Chinese society through close reading and discussion of expository writings and short fictional pieces. Prerequisites: CHN402 for students in the non-heritage track; CHN303 in the heritage track.

Credit Hours

3

GER

IC

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

• CHN 404

In this course, we will place food under analytic scrutiny and explore the variegated histories of food in East Asia. We will interrogate the different ways of imagining, understanding, and defining Asian foods and explore how human relationships to food in East Asia have changed over time.

Credit Hours

3

GER

HSC

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

• CHN 425

This course examines how globally circulating ideas about population control, race, disease, political ideology, normative sexuality, and disability were received and adapted in East Asia

Credit Hours

3

GER

None

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

• HIST 430

This course examines how globally circulating ideas about population control, race, disease, political ideology, normative sexuality, and disability were received and adapted in East Asia

Credit Hours

4

GER

CW

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

• HIST 430W

A capstone seminar required for East Asian Studies and EALC majors.

Credit Hours

3

GER

None

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

• CHN 450
• JPN 450

A capstone seminar required for East Asian Studies and EALC majors.

Credit Hours

4

GER

CW

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

• CHN 450W
• JPN 450W

This advanced seminar is devoted to intensive reading and discussion of fiction and essays by Murakami Haruki, with attention to his influence on contemporary Japanese culture and international reception.

Credit Hours

3

GER

HAP

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

• JPN 451

This advanced seminar is devoted to intensive reading and discussion of fiction and essays by Murakami Haruki, with attention to his influence on contemporary Japanese culture and international reception.

Credit Hours

4

GER

HAPW

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

• JPN 451W

Jr/Sr Colloquium. This course examines China's relations with and connections to the rest of the world, with a focus on China's relations with Europeans, focusing on the period 1400 -1911. It is a writing-intensive course, and the writing of a history research paper is the primary goal.

Credit Hours

4

GER

CW

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

• HIST 453W

Jr/Sr Colloquium. Offers an introduction to the field of global history, focusing on key debates and historiographical interventions. The course also focuses on the production of a history research paper. It is recommended that students have taken at least one or two college-level history courses.

Credit Hours

4

GER

CW

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

• HIST 454W

Honors program for EAS majors and all sub-plans in the EALC major.

Credit Hours

3

GER

XA

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

None

Honors program writing for EAS majors and all sub-plans in the EALC major.

Credit Hours

1 - 8

GER

CW

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

None

Students conduct directed or supervised research in support of a faculty member's research project or agenda. Permission of the department and a supervising faculty member is required.

Credit Hours

1 - 4

GER

XA

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

None

Students study, read, and write on a topic under the direction or supervision of a faculty member. Permission of the department and a supervising faculty member is required.

Credit Hours

1 - 4

GER

None

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

None

Students conduct independent research in support of their own research agenda or question with guidance from a faculty member. Permission of the department and a supervising faculty member is required.

Credit Hours

1 - 4

GER

XA

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

None

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.

Credit Hours

4

GER

IC

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

None

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.

Credit Hours

4

GER

IC

Requisites

JPN 101 or equivalent transfer credit as prerequisite.

Cross-Listed

None

This course is exclusively for students studying elementary Japanese through Emory-affiliated summer abroad intensive language programs. It is equivalent to JPN 101.

Credit Hours

4

GER

None

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

None

This course is exclusively for students studying elementary Japanese through Emory-affiliated summer abroad intensive language programs. It is equivalent to JPN 102.

Credit Hours

4

GER

None

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

None

Focus on special aspects of Japanese culture or language.

Credit Hours

3

GER

FS

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

None

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.

Credit Hours

4

GER

IC

Requisites

JPN 102 or equivalent transfer credit as prerequisite.

Cross-Listed

None

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.

Credit Hours

4

GER

IC

Requisites

JPN 201 or equivalent transfer credit as prerequisite.

Cross-Listed

None

This course is exclusively for students studying intermediate Japanese through Emory-affiliated summer abroad intensive language programs. It is equivalent to JPN 201.

Credit Hours

4

GER

None

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

None

This course is exclusively for students studying intermediate Japanese through Emory-affiliated summer abroad intensive language programs. It is equivalent to JPN 202.

Credit Hours

4

GER

None

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

None

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.

Credit Hours

3

GER

SS

Requisites

JPN 201 or equivalent transfer credit as prerequisite.

Cross-Listed

None

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.

Credit Hours

4

GER

SSW

Requisites

JPN 201 or equivalent transfer credit as prerequisite.

Cross-Listed

None

This 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.

Credit Hours

3

GER

SS

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

• LING 234

Required for EALC Majors and East Asian Studies Majors and Minors. An interdisciplinary course that introduces students to major topics and methodologies in East Asian Studies, with an emphasis on writing, research, and critical thinking. Themes include history, literature, religion, and the arts.

Credit Hours

3

GER

None

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

• EAS 250
• CHN 250

Required for EALC Majors and East Asian Studies Majors and Minors. An interdisciplinary course that introduces students to major topics and methodologies in East Asian Studies, with an emphasis on writing, research, and critical thinking. Themes include history, literature, religion, and the arts.

Credit Hours

4

GER

CW

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

• EAS 250W
• CHN 250W

This 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.

Credit Hours

3

GER

HA

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

• EAS 270

We 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.

Credit Hours

3

GER

HA

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

• EAS 275
• ENVS 275

Study of Japanese language, literature, society, thought, or culture, alone or in conjunction with other literary or cultural trends. Topics to be announced in advance.

Credit Hours

1 - 4

GER

None

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

None

Study of Japanese language, literature, society, thought, or culture, alone or in conjunction with other literary or cultural trends. Topics to be announced in advance.

Credit Hours

1 - 5

GER

CW

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

None

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.

Credit Hours

3

GER

IC

Requisites

JPN 202 or equivalent transfer credit as prerequisite.

Cross-Listed

None

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).

Credit Hours

3

GER

IC

Requisites

JPN 301 or equivalent transfer credit as prerequisite.

Cross-Listed

None

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).

Credit Hours

4

GER

ICW

Requisites

JPN 301 or equivalent transfer credit as prerequisite.

Cross-Listed

None

This class helps students develop the skills necessary to read Japanese-language texts without the aid of an instructor. Assignments emphasize vocabulary building and kanji recognition, strategies for decoding complex sentence structures, and the nuances of language and literary style.

Credit Hours

3

GER

IC

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

• EAS 303

This course is exclusively for students studying advanced Japanese through Emory-affiliated summer abroad intensive language programs. It is equivalent to JPN 301.

Credit Hours

4

GER

None

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

None

This course designates any study abroad non-language course that does not have an Emory equivalent. Repeatable.

Credit Hours

4

GER

None

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

None

Social Science, Science, Technology Study Abroad in Japan

Credit Hours

4

GER

None

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

None

This course introduces translation theory and hands-on practice in multiple contexts. It is theoretical, methodological, creative. Students engage in multiple forms of translation (inverse, intra and inter-lingual) and meet regularly both as a whole class and in individual language-specific groups.

Credit Hours

3

GER

IC

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

• SPAN 336
• CHN 336
• GER 336
• ITAL 336
• KRN 336

This course explores the sociolinguistic, cognitive, and cultural dimensions of bilingualism and multilingualism as they relate to Japan. Students will gain familiarity with the linguistic landscape of Japan and learn theoretical tools from the field of bilingualism to analyze linguistic diversity.

Credit Hours

3

GER

HSC

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

• LING 338

This course explores globalization of Japanese anime and manga, particularly how series highlight forms of diverse and marginalized identities; how it reflects issues of social and economic precarity in contemporary Japan; and how recreation facilitates re-creation of self, identity, and relations.

Credit Hours

3

GER

None

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

• ANT 346

This course is designed for those who successfully completing JPN 202. Students develop their business communication skills by learning Keigo (honorific polite form and humble polite form), polite expressions used in business communication, and business culture.

Credit Hours

3

GER

IC

Requisites

JPN 202 or equivalent transfer credit as prerequisite.

Cross-Listed

None

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.

Credit Hours

3

GER

HAP

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

• EAS 367
• WGS 362

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.

Credit Hours

4

GER

HAPW

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

• EAS 367W
• WGS 362W

An 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.

Credit Hours

3

GER

HSC

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

• EAS 362

An 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.

Credit Hours

3

GER

HAP

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

• EAS 363
• ARTHIST 363

Surveys 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.

Credit Hours

3

GER

HAP

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

• EAS 364

Surveys 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.

Credit Hours

4

GER

HAPW

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

• EAS 364W

An interdisciplinary course that introduces students to Japanese culture. No knowledge of Japanese is required. Topics to be announced each semester.

Credit Hours

1 - 4

GER

None

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

None

An interdisciplinary course that introduces students to Japanese culture. No knowledge of Japanese is required. Topics to be announced each semester.

Credit Hours

4

GER

CW

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

None

This course examines the postwar Japanese experience through film, television, magazines, newspapers, music, and manga. We will explore the ways in which Japanese society has narrated its experiences of recovery after World War II, and the role these media sources have played in this reconstruction.

Credit Hours

3

GER

HSC

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

• EAS 378

This 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.

Credit Hours

4

GER

HSCW

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

• EAS 378W

Fall. 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.

Credit Hours

3

GER

IC

Requisites

JPN 302 or JPN 302W or equivalent transfer credit as prerequisite.

Cross-Listed

None

Fall. 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.

Credit Hours

4

GER

ICW

Requisites

JPN 302 or JPN 302W or equivalent transfer credit as prerequisite.

Cross-Listed

None

Prerequisite: JPN 401 or instructor consent. This course will provide exposure to business and technical Japanese. Students will practice formal styles of communication and read texts with technical orientation. Basic translation skills will be introduced. The course is conducted solely in Japanese.

Credit Hours

3

GER

IC

Requisites

JPN 401 or JPN 401W or equivalent transfer credit as prerequisite.

Cross-Listed

None

Students are encouraged to develop a sophisticated understanding of issues and topics current in contemporary Japanese life and to converse and write on these topics in both concrete and abstract terms with fluency and ease. They will learn Japanese styles of discussion and argument.

Credit Hours

3

GER

IC

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

None

Building on progress from the previous semester's class, students 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.

Credit Hours

3

GER

IC

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

None

A capstone seminar required for East Asian Studies and EALC majors.

Credit Hours

3

GER

None

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

• EAS 450
• CHN 450

A capstone seminar required for East Asian Studies and EALC majors.

Credit Hours

4

GER

CW

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

• EAS 450W
• CHN 450W

This advanced seminar is devoted to intensive reading and discussion of fiction and essays by Murakami Haruki, with attention to his influence on contemporary Japanese culture and international reception.

Credit Hours

3

GER

HAP

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

• EAS 451

This advanced seminar is devoted to intensive reading and discussion of fiction and essays by Murakami Haruki, with attention to his influence on contemporary Japanese culture and international reception.

Credit Hours

4

GER

HAPW

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

• EAS 451W

Contact the department for further information. Approval by department is required.

Credit Hours

3

GER

XA

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

None

Contact the department for further information. Approval by department is required.

Credit Hours

1 - 8

GER

CW

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

None

Approval by department is required. Variable credit.

Credit Hours

1 - 8

GER

XA

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

None

This 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.

Credit Hours

4

GER

IC

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

None

This 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.

Credit Hours

4

GER

IC

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

None

KRN 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.

Credit Hours

4

GER

IC

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

None

Freshmen seminar.

Credit Hours

3

GER

FS

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

None

This 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.

Credit Hours

4

GER

IC

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

None

This 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.

Credit Hours

4

GER

IC

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

None

Korean 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.

Credit Hours

4

GER

IC

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

None

Through 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.

Credit Hours

3

GER

IC

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

None

Discussion-based course examining contemporary food media from and about Asian culinary traditions. Topics include global Asian culture, Asian America, diaspora, media circulation, race, and ethnicity.

Credit Hours

3

GER

HAE

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

• EAS 227

Discussion-based course examining contemporary food media from and about Asian culinary traditions. Topics include global Asian culture, Asian America, diaspora, media circulation, race, and ethnicity.

Credit Hours

4

GER

HAWE

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

• EAS 227W

This course will emphasize transnational aspects of East Asian history, focusing on how the East Asian international system interacted with Southeast Asia, South Asia, Inner Asia, as well as with Europe and the U.S. from 1500 to the present.

Credit Hours

3

GER

SS

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

• HIST 260
• EAS 260
• CHN 260

By 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.

Credit Hours

3

GER

HSC

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

• EAS 276

This course explores the historical dynamics of political change in Korea since the establishment of the First Republic up to the current period, the many factors that shaped its political trajectory and democratization, and the key issues that have defined South Korean politics to this day.

Credit Hours

3

GER

HSC

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

• EAS 277
• SOC 271

This course aims to understand Korea's 5000 year history and its culture by studying and visiting historic sites which represent each era and are scattered all over the Korean peninsular.

Credit Hours

2

GER

None

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

None

This course is designed as a foundation course on Korean history, preparing students for other Korean history courses, both pre-modern and modern, as well as students' individual research on Korean past. It surveys the major events and topics in Korean history from ancient times to the modern era.

Credit Hours

3

GER

SS

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

• EAS 274
• HIST 274

This course is designed as a foundation course on Korean history, preparing students for other Korean history courses, both pre-modern and modern, as well as students' individual research on Korean past. It surveys the major events and topics in Korean history from ancient times to the modern era.

Credit Hours

4

GER

HSCW

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

• EAS 274W
• HIST 274W

Study of Korean language, literature, society, thought, or culture, alone or in conjunction with other literary or cultural trends. Topics to be announced in advance.

Credit Hours

1 - 4

GER

None

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

None

Study of Korean language, literature, society, thought, or culture, alone or in conjunction with other literary or cultural trends. Topics to be announced in advance.

Credit Hours

1 - 5

GER

CW

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

None

This 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.

Credit Hours

3

GER

IC

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

None

This 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.

Credit Hours

3

GER

IC

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

None

Adopting the Integrated Performance Assessment (IPA), the course enhances students' Korean language proficiency through authentic, real-life tasks. In the course, students perform various tasks across different communication modes (i.e., interpretive, interpersonal, & presentational) and genres.

Credit Hours

3

GER

IC

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

None

Adopting the Integrated Performance Assessment (IPA), the course enhances students' Korean language proficiency through authentic, real-life tasks. In the course, students perform various tasks across different communication modes (i.e., interpretive, interpersonal, & presentational) and genres.

Credit Hours

4

GER

ICW

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

None

Coursework in Korean Language completed on an Emory approved program abroad. Course enrollment and credit by permission only.

Credit Hours

3

GER

IC

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

None

Coursework in Korean Language completed on an Emory approved program abroad. Course enrollment and credit by permission only.

Credit Hours

2

GER

None

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

None

This course introduces translation theory and hands-on practice in multiple contexts. It is theoretical, methodological, creative. Students engage in multiple forms of translation (inverse, intra and inter-lingual) and meet regularly both as a whole class and in individual language-specific groups.

Credit Hours

3

GER

IC

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

• SPAN 336
• CHN 336
• GER 336
• ITAL 336
• JPN 336

This course introduces the critical role of the Korean language in culture and society, focusing on how language reflects, reinforces, and shapes the cultural values, standards, and structure of society.Topics include language policies/contacts, dialects, gender differences, and honorifics. Korean literacy or knowledge of Korean alphabet is necessary.

Credit Hours

3

GER

HSC

Requisites

KRN 101 or equivalent transfer credit as prerequisite.

Cross-Listed

• LING 339

In this course, we will analyze films and engage with critical theory through Korean film. We will discuss genre, narrative/visual strategies, and representation of a national cinema tradition while thinking about global visual cultures. Topics may vary by semester. Includes weekly film screening.

Credit Hours

4

GER

HAP

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

• EAS 357

This 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.

Credit Hours

3

GER

HSC

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

• SOC 372
• EAS 380

This course is designed to take a comprehensive look at the social, political, cultural, and material lives of Choson Korea (1392-1910). This course aims to familiarize students with the core issues in Choson historiography, which will eventually help students to enrich their own research.

Credit Hours

3

GER

HSC

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

• HIST 374

This course is designed to take a comprehensive look at the social, political, cultural, and material lives of Choson Korea (1392-1910). This course aims to familiarize students with the core issues in Choson historiography, which will eventually help students to enrich their own research.

Credit Hours

4

GER

HSCW

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

• HIST 374W

This course explores the origins of Korea's division system, the developmental path or each Korea, as well as the contemporary events that have been at the center of international debates, thereby challenging students to rethink the conventional framework based on binaries.

Credit Hours

3

GER

HSC

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

• EAS 382

Readings of Modern Korean literature in translation from 1900-present with appropriate literary criticism and historical texts to supplement students' knowledge of the context of Korean literary texts.

Credit Hours

3

GER

HAP

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

• EAS 383

An interdisciplinary course that introduces students to Korean culture and society. No knowledge of Korean is required. Topics to be announced each semester.

Credit Hours

1 - 4

GER

HSC

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

• EAS 386

An interdisciplinary course that introduces students to Korean culture and society. No knowledge of Korean is required. Topics to be announced each semester.

Credit Hours

1 - 5

GER

HSCW

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

• EAS 386W

This is an advanced course in Korean language and culture. Topics vary.

Credit Hours

1 - 5

GER

IC

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

None

This is an advanced course in Korean language and culture. Topics vary.

Credit Hours

1 - 5

GER

ICW

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

None

Variable 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.

Credit Hours

1 - 4

GER

XA

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

None

In 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.

Credit Hours

3

GER

IC

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

None

This course helps Korean advanced level learners to improve their proficiency to high-advanced level by introducting the language, history, culture, and society of Korea. Throughout the course, students will be broadly exposed to the diversity of Korean society and culture.

Credit Hours

3

GER

IC

Requisites

This course requires KRN 401 or equivalent transfer credit as a prerequisite.

Cross-Listed

None

This course focuses on domain-specific technical terminology, communication skills and practice which are required for professionals in a chosen field, including but not limited to Business and Economics, Political Science and Law, Medicine, Nursing and Public Health. Repeatable when topic changes.

Credit Hours

3

GER

IC

Requisites

KRN 402 or equivalent transfer credit as prerequisite.

Cross-Listed

None

A strong emphasis of this course will be placed on the ability to produce and understand communications that are stylistically appropriate for Korean academic context

Credit Hours

3

GER

IC

Requisites

KRN 402 as prerequisite

Cross-Listed

None

An introduction to the history and culture of Russia and East Asia. Topics to be announced in advance.

Credit Hours

1 - 4

GER

None

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

None

Fulfills GER freshman seminar requirement. Seminar will introduce students to special topics in Russian and East European studies with a cross-disciplinary approach.

Credit Hours

3

GER

FS

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

None

An introduction to Russian, this course takes an interdisciplinary approach to the questions that have animated Russians for centuries: What is Russia? Where is Russia going? These issues are approached from a number of perspectives: historical, cultural, political, legal, & artistic.

Credit Hours

3

GER

SS

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

None

An introduction to Russian, this course takes an interdisciplinary approach to the questions that have animated Russians for centuries: What is Russia? Where is Russia going? These issues are approached from a number of perspectives: historical, cultural, political, legal, & artistic.

Credit Hours

4

GER

SSW

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

None

Explores the repressions of the Soviet totalitarianism through the experience of those who lived through it. Taking a humanistic approach, this course will focus on autobiography, memoirs, letters, and diaries to explore average Soviet citizens' interior life during Stalinism.

Credit Hours

3

GER

HA

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

• HIST 251

Explores the repressions of the Soviet totalitarianism through the experience of those who lived through it. Taking a humanistic approach, this course will focus on autobiography, memoirs, letters, and diaries to explore average Soviet citizens' interior life during Stalinism.

Credit Hours

4

GER

HAW

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

• HIST 251W

Study of Russian, Eastern European, or Eurasian languages, literature, society, thought, or culture, alone or in conjunction with other literary or cultural trends. Topics to be announced in advance.

Credit Hours

1 - 4

GER

None

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

None

Study of Russian, Eastern European, or Eurasian languages, literature, society, thought, or culture, alone or in conjunction with other literary or cultural trends. Topics to be announced in advance.

Credit Hours

1 - 5

GER

CW

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

None

This class will examine the transformation of Central Asia's ancient cultures by Russian imperialism, Soviet domination and post-Soviet globalization. Topics include settler colonialism, revolution, the eradication of nomadism, the attack on Islam, and the rise of urban, industrialism.

Credit Hours

3

GER

HSC

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

• HIST 328

This class will examine the transformation of Central Asia's ancient cultures by Russian imperialism, Soviet domination and post-Soviet globalization. Topics include settler colonialism, revolution, the eradication of nomadism, the attack on Islam, and the rise of urban, industrialism.

Credit Hours

4

GER

HSCW

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

• HIST 328W

Topics to be announced in advance.

Credit Hours

1 - 4

GER

None

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

None

Topics to be announced in advance.

Credit Hours

1 - 5

GER

CW

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

None

Variable credit. Department permission required.

Credit Hours

1 - 4

GER

None

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

None

Jr/Sr Colloquium. This class will study not simply the rise and rule of Iosef Stalin-one of the Twentieth Century's most sanguinary rulers-but also the deep social, political and cultural revolutions he wrought that still shape post-Soviet Russia and the world.

Credit Hours

4

GER

CW

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

• HIST 420W

Jr/Sr Colloquium. Investigates he most infamous symbol of Soviet Communism, the forced-labor camps-the Gulags. From the intake of millions of "dekulakized" peasants to the killing fields of wartime Gulag to the Party's ""purged,"" the Gulag evolved and had a history. Here, we focus on that history.

Credit Hours

4

GER

CW

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

• HIST 421W

Jr/Sr Colloquium. This course will examine Russia and its Muslims over a long chronological span (with particular emphasis on the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries) and broad geographical focus (the Volga, the Caucasus and Central Asia, as well as the Russian heartland).

Credit Hours

4

GER

CW

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

• HIST 423W

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.

Credit Hours

1 - 4

GER

None

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

None

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.

Credit Hours

1 - 5

GER

CW

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

None

This is the first of the two courses required for students pursuing Honors in Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies.

Credit Hours

3

GER

XA

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

None

This is the second of the two courses required for students pursuing Honors in Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies (REES).

Credit Hours

4

GER

None

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

None

Students conduct directed or supervised research in support of a faculty member's research project or agenda. Permission of the department and a supervising faculty member is required.

Credit Hours

1 - 4

GER

XA

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

None

Students study, read, and write on a topic under the direction or supervision of a faculty member. Permission of the department and a supervising faculty member is required.

Credit Hours

1 - 4

GER

None

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

None

Students conduct independent research in support of their own research agenda or question with guidance from a faculty member. Permission of the department and a supervising faculty member is required.

Credit Hours

1 - 4

GER

XA

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

None

Introduction to spoken and written language. Oral practice emphasized through multimedia exercises and drills.

Credit Hours

4

GER

IC

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

None

Continuation of 101 - Introduction to spoken and written language. Oral practice emphasized through multimedia exercises and drills.

Credit Hours

4

GER

IC

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

None

Focus on special aspects of Russian culture or language.

Credit Hours

3

GER

FS

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

None

Intended for graduate students and others who wish to concentrate on learning to read Russian.

Credit Hours

2 - 4

GER

None

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

None

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.

Credit Hours

4

GER

IC

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

None

Prerequisite: RUSS 201 or consent of instructor. Continuation of 201 - Focus on more advanced grammatical and syntactical constructions both in written and spoken Russian. Supplemented by multimedia exercises and materials.

Credit Hours

4

GER

IC

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

None

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.

Credit Hours

3

GER

SS

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

None

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.

Credit Hours

4

GER

SSW

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

None

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.

Credit Hours

3

GER

HA

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

None

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.

Credit Hours

4

GER

HAW

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

None

This course introduces students to the major films and filmmakers of Russia, from the early twentieth century under Tsar Nicholas II through the present day under Vladimir Putin. We will trace the key artistic, political, cultural, and social movements that have shaped Russian cinema.

Credit Hours

3

GER

HA

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

• FILM 272

This course introduces students to the major films and filmmakers of Russia, from the early twentieth century under Tsar Nicholas II through the present day under Vladimir Putin. We will trace the key artistic, political, cultural, and social movements that have shaped Russian cinema.

Credit Hours

4

GER

HAW

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

• FILM 272W

This course delves into the cinema by the Russian filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky, exploring how his work revolutionized ideas about what cinema could and should be. Tarkovsky's cinema also invites us cultural dynamics of the latter half of the twentieth century: Soviet communism and the Cold War.

Credit Hours

4

GER

HA

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

• FILM 273

This course delves into the cinema by the Russian filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky, exploring how his work revolutionized ideas about what cinema could and should be. Tarkovsky's cinema also invites us cultural dynamics of the latter half of the twentieth century: Soviet communism and the Cold War.

Credit Hours

5

GER

HAW

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

• FILM 273W

Variable credit hour course in which students work individually with an instructor to improve skills in reading and writing in the Russian language.

Credit Hours

1 - 8

GER

IC

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

None

Fall. 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.

Credit Hours

3

GER

IC

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

None

Prerequisites: Russian 202 or consent of the instructor. Conducted mostly in Russian, this course acquaints students with the rich tradition of Russian poetry and drama (19th and 20th century). Texts will be read in the original, but some background material may be read in English.

Credit Hours

3

GER

IC

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

None

Prerequisite: Russian 202 or consent of instructor. Reading, viewing, and discussing selected materials from classical and contemporary literature, film, and current periodicals.

Credit Hours

3

GER

IC

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

None

Prerequisites: RUSS 202 or instructor consent. Students will expand their literary vocabulary and develop the ability to express themselves on both literary and everyday issues by means of studying a particular Russian author in the original, i.e., Pushkin, Lermontov, Tolstoy, Bulkagov, Pasternak.

Credit Hours

3

GER

IC

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

None

Expands students; Russian literary vocabulary and develops their ability to express themselves on both literary and everyday issues. Emphasizes the stylistic patterns of 19th and 20th-century Russian writers and enhances students' understanding of the cultural ambience of Russian literature.

Credit Hours

1 - 4

GER

IC

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

None

Expands students; Russian literary vocabulary and develops their ability to express themselves on both literary and everyday issues. Emphasizes the stylistic patterns of 19th and 20th-century Russian writers and enhances students' understanding of the cultural ambience of Russian literature.

Credit Hours

1 - 5

GER

ICW

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

None

Coursework in approved summer Russian Language and Area Studies Programs Abroad. Includes intensive language study, area-studies presentations, and immersion in culture. Excursions to historic sites, artistic performances, discussions of contemporary events, and other activities.

Credit Hours

2 - 8

GER

None

Requisites

RUSS 101 and RUSS 102 or equivalent transfer credit as prerequisites.

Cross-Listed

None

The 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.

Credit Hours

4

GER

IC

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

None

Fall 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.

Credit Hours

3

GER

IC

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

None

This class will examine the novels of the most famous Russian writer and thinker, who deeply influenced world literature. Topics for discussion include: Christianity and atheism, existentialism, the superman, the sources of evil, and freedom and suffering as moral categories.

Credit Hours

3

GER

HAP

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

None

This class will examine the novels of the most famous Russian writer and thinker, who deeply influenced world literature. Topics for discussion include: Christianity and atheism, existentialism, the superman, the sources of evil, and freedom and suffering as moral categories.

Credit Hours

4

GER

HAPW

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

None

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.

Credit Hours

3

GER

HAP

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

None

Russian authors have long harbored a deeply ambivalent relationship with 'the novel' as a literary mode. This course uses Russian literature to consider how Russian writers undermine, sabotage, and re-imagine the novel from within to generate new and radical possibilities for literary expression.

Credit Hours

3

GER

None

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

None

Russian authors have long harbored a deeply ambivalent relationship with 'the novel' as a literary mode. This course uses Russian literature to consider how Russian writers undermine, sabotage, and re-imagine the novel from within to generate new and radical possibilities for literary expression.

Credit Hours

4

GER

CW

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

None

From tsarist days through the rise and fall of the Soviet Union, Russia has grappled with issues of imagination and identity. The course focuses on a battle of realities in 20th-century Russia, and it examines the powerful dynamics between art and politics. Films, slides, and music accompany texts.

Credit Hours

3

GER

HSC

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

None

From tsarist days through the rise and fall of the Soviet Union, Russia has grappled with issues of imagination and identity. The course focuses on a battle of realities in 20th-century Russia, and it examines the powerful dynamics between art and politics. Films, slides, and music accompany texts.

Credit Hours

4

GER

HSCW

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

None

Knowledge of Russian is not required. Introduction to interdisciplinary study of 20th-century Russian literature and the visual arts, with focus on issues of art and politics, time, space and identity in symbolist, supermatist, constructivist, socialist realist and post-Soviet "vision". In English.

Credit Hours

4

GER

HSC

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

• FILM 375
• ARTHIST 373

This class examines several paradigms for understanding Shakespeare's formidable influence in Russian culture. The plays in question will be 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.

Credit Hours

3

GER

HAP

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

None

This class examines several paradigms for understanding Shakespeare's formidable influence in Russian culture. The plays in question will be 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.

Credit Hours

4

GER

HAPW

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

None

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.

Credit Hours

1 - 4

GER

None

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

None

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.

Credit Hours

1 - 5

GER

CW

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

None

This interdisciplinary course examines the birth of the new Russian culture accompanying the fall of the Soviet empire (1980s-2000s). Major social trends to be considered include postmodernism, conceptualism, post-atheism, and the resurgence of traditional confessions and sectarian consciousness.

Credit Hours

3

GER

HAP

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

None

Prerequisite: RUSS 302 or instructor consent. 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.

Credit Hours

3

GER

IC

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

None

This course will focus on the practice and theory of translation. Works of poetry, prose, and newspaper articles will be our primary texts.

Credit Hours

3

GER

IC

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

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.

Credit Hours

3

GER

HAP

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

None

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.

Credit Hours

1 - 4

GER

IC

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

None

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.

Credit Hours

1 - 5

GER

ICW

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

None

Our capstone seminar, conducted in Russian, designed for our advanced majors.

Credit Hours

4

GER

IC

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

None

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.

Credit Hours

3

GER

HAP

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

None

The 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.

Credit Hours

3

GER

HAP

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

None

The 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.

Credit Hours

4

GER

HAPW

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

None

Open to eligible candidates in their senior year (contact department chair for requirements).

Credit Hours

3

GER

None

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

None

Open to eligible candidates in their senior year (contact department chair for requirements).

Credit Hours

1 - 8

GER

CW

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

None

Approval by department is required. Provides students an opportunity to use their Russian language skills outside the classroom in a variety of situations.

Credit Hours

2 - 4

GER

XA

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

None