Asian Studies Courses

Anthropology

• ANTH016 PZ - Intro to Nepal
• ANTH025 SC - Anthropology of the Middle East
• ANTH087 SC - Contemporary Issues: Gender and Islam
• ANTH088 PZ - China: Gender, Cosmology and the State
• ANTH099 PZ - China in the 21st-Century
• ANTH119 SC - East Asia in Ethnography and Film
• ANTH150 PO - Anthropology of Religion
• ANTH152 PO - Ethnic Nationalism
• ANTH155 PO - Globalization
• ANTH156 PO - Comparative Muslim Societies in Asia
• ANTH157 PO - Anthropology of Chinese Society
• ANTH158 PO - The Anthropology of Sports

Arabic

• ARBC001 CM - Introductory Arabic
• ARBC002 CM - Continuing Introductory Arabic
• ARBC033 CM - Intermediate Arabic
• ARBC044 CM - Continuing Intermediate Arabic
• ARBC130 CM - Modern Arabic Prose and Poetry
• ARBC148 CM - Special Topics: Arabic Lit/Cult
• ARBC166 CM - Modern Arab Culture and Thought

Arabic in Translation

• ARBT110 CM - Modern Arabic Poetry in Translation
• ARBT190 CM - Trends/Movements in Mod Mid-East

Art History

• ARHI150 SC - The Arts of China
• ARHI151 SC - The Arts of Japan
• ARHI152 SC - Arts of Late Imperial China
• ARHI154 SC - Japanese Prints
• ARHI155 SC - History of Gardens, East and West
• ARHI186CSC - Seminar: Topics in Asian Art

Asian Languages and Literatures: Chinese

• CHIN001A PO - Elementary Chinese
• CHIN001B PO - Elementary Chinese
• CHIN002 PO - Elementary Chinese for Bilinguals
• CHIN011 PO - Conversation: Contemporary Chinese Language and Culture
• CHIN013 PO - Chinese Conversation, Advanced
• CHIN051A PO - Intermediate Chinese
• CHIN051B PO - Intermediate Chinese
• CHIN051H PO - Intermediate Chinese for Bilinguals
• CHIN111A PO - Advanced Chinese
• CHIN111B PO - Advanced Chinese
• CHIN121 PO - Digital News Reading in Chinese
• CHIN125 PO - Modern Chinese Literature
• CHIN127 PO - Advanced Readings in Modern Chinese Literature and Culture
• CHIN131 PO - Intro to Classical Chinese
• CHIN150 PO - Chinese Language in Society

Asian Languages and Literatures: Chinese Literature and Culture in Translation

• CHNT164 PO - Poetry and Poetics
• CHNT166 PO - Chinese Fiction, Old and New
• CHNT167 PO - Urban Imaginations: The City in Chinese Literature and Film
• CHNT168 PO - Gender and Sexuality in Modern Chinese Literature

Asian Languages and Literatures: Japanese

• JAPN001A PO - Elementary Japanese
• JAPN001B PO - Elementary Japanese
• JAPN011 PO - Conversation: Contemporary Japanese Language and Culture
• JAPN012A PO - Intermediate Kanji
• JAPN012B PO - Intermediate Kanji
• JAPN013 PO - Advanced Conversation
• JAPN014A PO - Advanced Kanji
• JAPN014B PO - Advanced Kanji
• JAPN051A PO - Intermediate Japanese
• JAPN051B PO - Intermediate Japanese
• JAPN111A PO - Advanced Japanese
• JAPN111B PO - Advanced Japanese
• JAPN123 PO - An Introduction to Japanese Linguistics
• JAPN124 PO - Readings in Current Japanese
• JAPN125 PO - Readings in Modern Japanese Literature
• JAPN126H PO - Japanese Through Current Media
• JAPN131 PO - Introduction to Classical Japanese

Asian Languages and Literatures: Japanese Literature and Culture in Translation

• JPNT156 PO - Japanese Media
• JPNT171 PO - Literary Aesthetics of Pre-Modern Japan
• JPNT174 PO - (Post-)Modern Japan through Literature and Cinema
• JPNT176 PO - Time and Space in Modern Japan
• JPNT177 PO - Japanese/Japanese American Women Writers
• JPNT179 PO - Graphically Speaking: Japanese Manga and Its Buds
• JPNT172 PO - Introduction to Japanese Philosophy

Asian Languages and Literatures: Korean

• KORE001 CM - Introductory Korean
• KORE002 CM - Continuing Introductory Korean
• KORE033 CM - Intermediate Korean
• KORE044 CM - Advanced Korean

Asian Languages and Literatures: Korean Literature and Culture in Translation

• KORE100 CM - Readings in Korean Literature and Culture
• KRNT130 CM - Korean Cinema and Culture

Dance

• DANC135 PO - Traditions of World Dance
• DANC150C PO - Music and Dance of Bali

Economics

• IR118 PO - International Economic Relations
• ECON123 PO - International Economics
• ECON126 PO - Economic Development
• ECON142 CM - Pol/Econ of Nat Resource Policy
• ECON142 PZ - Japanese Economy

Government

• GOVT060 CM - Intro to Comparative Government
• GOVT132E CM - Pol/Econ of Nat Resource Policy
• GOVT133 CM - India in Asia: Democracy/Development
• GOVT136 CM - The Politics of Radical Movements in America
• GOVT142 CM - International Political Feature Writing
• GOVT142E CM - Chinese Politics
• GOVT146 CM - Chinese Foreign Policy

History

• HIST011 PO - Medieval Mediterranean
• HIST036 PZ - History of Modern Middle East
• HIST042 PO - Worlds of Islam
• HIST043 PO - The Middle East in Modern Times
• HIST051 CM - Modern South Asian History through its Literature, 1700 to the Present
• HIST052 CM - South Asian History: An Introduction
• HIST053 CM - Everyday Life in South Asia
• HIST055 CM - Middle East: Muhammad-Mongols
• HIST056 CM - Middle East: Ottomans to Present
• HIST059 CM - Civilizations of East Asia
• HIST060 PO - Asian Traditions
• HIST061 CM - The New Asia: China, Japan, India and Indonesia in the Modern Era
• HIST062 PO - Modern East Asia: China, Japan and Korea in 20th Century
• HIST101A PO - Indian Ocean World
• HIST163 PO - The Chinese Diaspora
• HIST161 PO - Food, Culture and Power in Asia and the Pacific
• HIST047 PO - Gunpowder Empires: Ottomans, Safavids, and Mughals
• HIST101F PO - Food and the Environment in Asia and the Pacific
• HIST101J PO - State, Citizen, Subject: Modern Japan
• HIST101V PO - Gender, Sexuality and Feminisms in Modern East Asia
• HIST101ABPO - Empire and Colonialism in the Middle East and South Asia
• HIST101ACPO - Environmental Histories of the Middle East, South Asia, and Africa
• HIST147 PO - Mughal India
• HIST049 PO - Iran and the World
• HIST154 CM - Makers of Modern India & Pakistan
• HIST158 CM - Japanese Empire
• HIST161 CM - Modern Korean History
• HIST162 PO - Borders in East Asia
• HIST163 CM - Modern Chinese History
• HIST165 PO - 20th Century China
• HIST166 PO - Contemporary Issues in Chinese History
• HIST167 PO - Early Modern Japan
• HIST167E CM - Modernities: South Asia and Others
• HIST168 PO - Modern Japan

Interdisciplinary

• ID199P1PO - Independent Study: Persian 1
• ID199P2PO - Independent Study: Persian 2
• ID199P3PO - Independent Study: Persian 3
• ID199S1PO - Independent Study: Swahili 1
• ID199S2PO - Independent Study: Swahili 2

International & Intercultural Studies

• IIS038 PZ - Nature, Movement, Meditation: Qigong
• IIS075 PZ - Introduction to Postcolonial Studies
• IIS 109C PZ - Chinese Phil, Culture and Trad Med
• IIS128 PZ - The War on Terror
• IIS167 PZ - Theory and Practice of Resistance to Monoculture

Literature

• LIT103 HM - Third Cinema

Media Studies

• MS179C HM - Special Topics in Media Studies: Modern China Through the Lens

Music

• MUS041 PO - Balinese Gamelan
• MUS065 PO - Introduction to World Music
• MUS070 PO - Ethnomusicology in Theory, Method, and Practice
• MUS071 PO - Music in Punjabi Culture
• MUS126 SC - Music in East Asia and Diaspora

Philosophy

• PHIL084 PZ - Islamic Philosophy
• PHIL155 PZ - Islam vs. Islam

Politics

• POLI005 PO - Introduction to Comparative Politics
• POLI007 PO - United States Foreign Policy
• POLI008 PO - Introduction to International Relations
• POST113 PZ - Introduction to South Asian Politics
• POLI115 SC - Ballots, Bullets, and Identities: South Asia and the Shadow of Gandhi
• POLI116 SC - The Politics of God
• POLI118 SC - Korea and Korean Americans
• POLI162 PO - Comparative Politics of Africa
• POLI167 JT - The Arab Spring and the Remaking of the Middle East

Religious Studies

• RLST010 CM - Introduction to South Asian Religious Traditions
• RLST022 CM - Introduction to Western Religious Traditions
• RLST048 PO - Nourishing Life: Techniques for Bodily, Mental, and Environmental Health in East Asian Writings
• RLST049 PO - Buddhist Meditation Techniques and Cultures Across Asia
• RLST100 PO - Worlds of Buddhism
• RLST101A CM - The Mahabharata
• RLST101B CM - Sanskrit and Indian Epics
• RLST102 CM - Hinduism and South Asian Culture
• RLST107 PO - Buddhist Modernity in Twentieth-Century China
• RLST110 PO - Death, Dying, and the Afterlife in East Asian Religions
• RLST118 CM - Hindu Goddess Worship
• RLST119 PZ - Religion in Medieval East Asia
• RLST161 CM - Gurus, Swamis and Others: Hindu Wisdom Beyond South Asia
• RLST164 PO - Engendering and Experience: Women in Islamic Traditions
• RLST166A PO - The Divine Body: Religion and the Environment
• RLST166B CM - Religion, Politics and Global Violence
• RLST169 CM - Christianity and Politics in East Asia

Sociology

• SOC051 PZ - Class, Caste and Colonialism: Film
• SOC 095 PZ - Contemporary Central Asia
• SOC150 AA - Contemporary Asian-American Issues

Theatre