East Asian Religion, Thought, and Culture 1
Other Majors and Minors Offered by East Asian Religion, the Department of East Asian Languages and Thought, and Culture Cultures Chinese Language (http://guide.berkeley.edu/undergraduate/degree- Bachelor of Arts (BA) programs/chinese-language/) (Major and Minor) Japanese Language (http://guide.berkeley.edu/undergraduate/degree- The Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures offers an programs/japanese-language/) (Major and Minor) undergraduate major in East Asian Religion, Thought, and Culture. Korean Language (http://guide.berkeley.edu/undergraduate/degree- Knowledge of philosophical and religious traditions is important to programs/korean-language/) (Minor only) understanding many aspects of East Asia's diverse cultures. This major Tibetan (http://guide.berkeley.edu/undergraduate/degree-programs/ seeks to train students in these traditions in a way that is grounded in a tibetan/) (Minor only) familiarity with the texts, languages, and cultures of East Asian societies, while also examining how these traditions have been (and might better In addition to the University, campus, and college requirements, listed be) brought into humanistic disciplines. on the College Requirements tab, students must fulfill the below requirements specific to their major program. Students who major in the department have a variety of backgrounds and many students are double majors in a broad spectrum of other General Guidelines departments and programs, including anthropology, applied mathematics, 1. All courses taken to fulfill the major requirements below must be architecture, art history, art practice, Asian studies, business, taken for graded credit, other than courses listed which are offered on comparative literature, computer science, economics, English, linguistics, a Pass/No Pass basis only. Other exceptions to this requirement are mass communications, molecular and cell biology, political economy, noted as applicable. political science, psychology, rhetoric, and theater arts. 2. No more than one upper division course may be used to Declaring the Major simultaneously fulfill requirements for a student's major and minor programs, with the exception of minors offered outside of the College Students interested in majoring in the department should consult with of Letters & Science. the staff undergraduate advisor regarding major requirements, transfer 3. A minimum grade point average (GPA) of 2.0 must be maintained credits, and other academic concerns. Students are admitted to the in both upper and lower division courses used to fulfill the major major only after successful completion (with a grade of C or higher) of requirements. the prerequisites to the major; for information regarding the prerequisites, please see the Major Requirements tab on this page. Students are For information regarding residence requirements and unit requirements, advised to begin preparation for the major as soon as possible in order please see the College Requirements tab. to satisfy University, college, and department requirements. All students should be familiar with the college requirements for graduation with a Prerequisites Bachelor of Arts degree, as explained in the "Earning Your Degree," a Select one language sequence: bulletin available from the College of Letters & Science, 206 Evans Hall. CHINESE 1A Elementary Chinese Honors Program & CHINESE 1Band Elementary Chinese (or equivalent) 1 JAPAN 1A Elementary Japanese A senior undergraduate student who has completed 12 units of upper & JAPAN 1B and Elementary Japanese (or equivalent) 1 division language courses in the department, and who has a GPA of 3.5 in those courses and an overall average of 3.0 may apply for admission TIBETAN 1A Elementary Tibetan 1 to the honors program. If accepted, the student will enroll in an honors & TIBETAN 1B and Elementary Tibetan (or equivalent) course (EA LANG H195A or EA LANG H195B) for two consecutive Select one Core Course (see List A below) 4 semesters leading to the completion of an honors thesis, which must be submitted at least two weeks before the end of the semester in which the Major Requirements student expects to graduate. While enrolled in the honors program, the Select one language sequenece: student will undertake independent advanced study under the guidance of the student's honors thesis adviser. Upon completion of the program, CHINESE 10A Intermediate Chinese 1 a faculty committee will determine the degree of honors to be awarded & CHINESE 10Band Intermediate Chinese (or equivalent) (honors, high honors, highest honors), taking into consideration both JAPAN 10A Intermediate Japanese 1 the quality of the thesis and overall performance in the department. & JAPAN 10B and Intermediate Japanese (or equivalent) Honors will not be granted to a student who does not achieve a minimum TIBETAN 10A Intermediate Tibetan cumulative GPA of 3.3 in all undergraduate work at the University by the & TIBETAN 10Band Intermediate Tibetan (or equivalent) 1 time of graduation. Select five additional Core Courses (see List A below) 2,3 20 Minor Program Select two Supplementary Disciplinary Breadth courses (see List B 8 below) 3 There is no minor program in East Asian Religion, Thought, and Culture. EA LANG 191 Tools and Methods in the Study of East Asian 4 Students interested in Buddhism should consider the Buddhist Studies Philosophy and Religion 4 (http://guide.berkeley.edu/undergraduate/degree-programs/buddhism/) minor offered by the Group in Buddhist Studies. 2 East Asian Religion, Thought, and Culture
1 Please note that students with previous language experience will HISTART 134B Topics in Buddhist Art and Architecture: Buddhist 4 be required to take a placement exam. Students who place out of Icons in Japan language courses or into the heritage track will be required to take HISTART 134C Topics in Buddhist Art and Architecture: Buddhist 4 additional adviser-approved literature or culture courses offered by Art in the Modern/Contemporary World the department in order to meet the above unit requirements. HISTART 190A Special Topics in Fields of Art History: Asian 4 2 Of the six courses from List A, a maximum of two semesters of (When topic is relevant, see adviser for approval) classical language study and no more than one lower division course Asian Literature may be counted toward fulfilling the requirements. 3 CHINESE 120 Ancient Chinese Prose 4 The two lists of courses (List A & List B) will be updated periodically, CHINESE 122 Ancient Chinese Poetry 4 and the full listings will be available on the departmental website (http://ealc.berkeley.edu/programs/undergraduate/undergraduate- CHINESE 134 Readings in Classical Chinese Poetry 4 requirements/east-asian-religion-major-requirements/). CHINESE 136 Readings in Medieval Prose 4 4 A preapproved course can be substituted in an academic year during CHINESE 153 Reading Taiwan 4 which EA LANG 191 is not offered. CHINESE 155 Readings in Vernacular Chinese Literature 4 CHINESE 156 Modern Chinese Literature 4 Core Courses (List A) CHINESE 157 Contemporary Chinese Literature 4 BUDDSTD 190 Topics in the Study of Buddhism (When topic is 4 CHINESE 158 Reading Chinese Cities 4 relevant, see adviser for approval) CHINESE 176 Bad Emperors: Fantasies of Sovereignty and 4 CHINESE 51 Chinese Thought in the Han Dynasty 4 Transgression in the Chinese Tradition 2 CHINESE 110A Introduction to Literary Chinese 4 CHINESE 178 Traditional Chinese Drama 4 2 CHINESE 110B Introduction to Literary Chinese 4 CHINESE 179 Exploring Premodern Chinese Novels 4 CHINESE C116 Buddhism in China 4 CHINESE 180 The Story of the Stone 4 CHINESE 130 Topics in Daoism 4 CHINESE 187 Literature and Media Culture in Taiwan 4 CHINESE C140 Readings in Chinese Buddhist Texts 4 CHINESE 188 Popular Media in Modern China 4 CHINESE 186 Confucius and His Interpreters 4 EA LANG 101 Catastrophe, Memory, and Narrative: Comparative 4 EA LANG C50 Introduction to the Study of Buddhism 4 Responses to Atrocity in the Twentieth Century or BUDDSTD 50Introduction to the Study of Buddhism EA LANG 105 Dynamics of Romantic Core Values in East Asian 4 EA LANG 110 Bio-Ethical Issues in East Asian Thought 4 Premodern Literature and Contemporary Film EA LANG C120 Buddhism on the Silk Road 4 EA LANG 106 Expressing the Ineffable in China and Beyond: The 4 Making of Meaning in Poetic Writing EA LANG C128 Buddhism in Contemporary Society 4 EA LANG 107 War, Empire, and Literature in East Asia 4 EA LANG C130 Zen Buddhism 4 EA LANG 108 Revising the Classics: Chinese and Greek Poetry 4 EA LANG C132 Pure Land Buddhism 4 in Translation EA LANG C135 Tantric Traditions of Asia 4 EA LANG 109 History of the Culture of Tea in China and Japan 4 JAPAN C115 Buddhism and its Culture in Japan 4 EA LANG 111 Reading Global Politics in Contemporary East 4 JAPAN 116 Introduction to the Religions of Japan 4 Asian Literature 2 JAPAN 120 Introduction to Classical Japanese 4 EA LANG 112 The East Asian Sixties 4 JAPAN C141 Introductory Readings in Japanese Buddhist Texts 4 EA LANG 114 Illness Narratives, Vulnerable Bodies 4 2 JAPAN 144 Edo Literature 4 EA LANG 115 Knowing Others, and Being Known: The Art of 4 2 JAPAN 146 Japanese Historical Documents 4 Writing People MONGOLN C117 Mongolian Buddhism 4 EA LANG 116 Modern East Asian Fiction 4 TIBETAN 110A Intensive Readings in Tibetan 4 EA LANG 118 Sex and Gender in Premodern Chinese Culture 4 TIBETAN 110B Intensive Readings in Tibetan 4 JAPAN 130 Classical Japanese Poetry 4 TIBETAN C114 Tibetan Buddhism 4 JAPAN 132 Premodern Japanese Diary (Nikki) Literature 4 TIBETAN 116 Traditional Tibet 4 JAPAN 140 Heian Prose 4 TIBETAN C154 Death, Dreams, and Visions in Tibetan Buddhism 4 JAPAN 155 Modern Japanese Literature 4 JAPAN 159 Contemporary Japanese Literature 4 Supplementary Disciplinary Breadth Courses JAPAN 170 Classical Japanese Literature in Translation 4 (List B) JAPAN 173 Modern Japanese Literature in Translation 4 Art History JAPAN 177 Urami: Rancor and Revenge in Japanese 4 HISTART 130A Early Chinese Art, Part I 4 Literature HISTART 131A Sacred Arts in China 4 JAPAN 180 Ghosts and the Modern Literary Imagination 4 HISTART 134A Topics in Buddhist Art and Architecture: Buddhist 4 JAPAN 181 Reframing Disasters: Fukushima, Before and After 4 Temple Art & Architecture in Japan KOREAN 130 Genre and Occasion in Traditional Poetry 4 East Asian Religion, Thought, and Culture 3
KOREAN 140 Narrating Persons and Objects in Traditional 4 MUSIC 134A Course Not Available 4 Korean Prose MUSIC 134B Course Not Available 4 KOREAN 150 Modern Korean Poetry 4 Philosophy KOREAN 153 Readings in Modern Korean Literature 4 PHILOS 151 Early Chinese Thought 4 KOREAN 155 Modern Korean Fiction 4 Religious Studies KOREAN 157 Contemporary Korean Literature 4 ANTHRO 158 Religion and Anthropology 4 KOREAN 170 Intercultural Encounters in Korean Literature 4 EA LANG C126 Buddhism and the Environment 4 KOREAN 172 Gender and Korean Literature 4 RELIGST 190 Topics in the Study of Religion 4 KOREAN 174 Modern Korean Fiction in Translation 4 Undergraduate students must fulfill the following requirements in addition KOREAN 180 Critical Approaches to Modern Korean Literature 4 to those required by their major program. KOREAN 185 Picturing Korea 4 MONGOLN 110 Literary Mongolian 4 For detailed lists of courses that fulfill college requirements, please TIBETAN 115 Contemporary Tibet 4 review the College of Letters & Sciences (http://guide.berkeley.edu/ Film undergraduate/colleges-schools/letters-science/) page in this Guide. For College advising appointments, please visit the L&S Advising (https:// CHINESE 172 Contemporary Chinese Language Cinema 4 lsadvising.berkeley.edu/home/) Pages. EA LANG 180 East Asian Film: Directors and their Contexts 4 EA LANG 181 East Asian Film: Special Topics in Genre 4 University of California Requirements JAPAN 185 Introduction to Japanese Cinema 4 Entry Level Writing (http://writing.berkeley.edu/node/78/) JAPAN 188 Japanese Visual Culture: Introduction to Anime 4 All students who will enter the University of California as freshmen must JAPAN 189 Topics in Japanese Film 4 demonstrate their command of the English language by fulfilling the KOREAN 186 Introduction to Korean Cinema 4 Entry Level Writing requirement. Fulfillment of this requirement is also a KOREAN 187 History and Memory in Korean Cinema 4 prerequisite to enrollment in all reading and composition courses at UC KOREAN 188 Cold War Culture in Korea: Literature and Film 4 Berkeley. KOREAN 189 Korean Film Authors 4 American History and American Institutions (http:// History guide.berkeley.edu/undergraduate/colleges-schools/letters- HISTORY 100 Course Not Available (When topic is relevant, see science/american-history-institutions-requirement/) adviser for approval) The American History and Institutions requirements are based on the HISTORY 103F Proseminar: Problems in Interpretation in the 4 principle that a US resident graduated from an American university, Several Fields of History: Asia (When topic is should have an understanding of the history and governmental relevant, see adviser for approval) institutions of the United States. HISTORY 113A Course Not Available Berkeley Campus Requirement HISTORY 113B Modern Korean History 4 HISTORY 116A China: Early China 4 American Cultures (http://americancultures.berkeley.edu/ students/courses/) HISTORY 116B China: Two Golden Ages: China During the Tang 4 and Song Dynasties All undergraduate students at Cal need to take and pass this course HISTORY 116C China: Modern China 4 in order to graduate. The requirement offers an exciting intellectual environment centered on the study of race, ethnicity and culture of the HISTORY 116D China: Twentieth-Century China 4 United States. AC courses offer students opportunities to be part of HISTORY 116G Imperial China and the World 4 research-led, highly accomplished teaching environments, grappling with HISTORY 117A Topics in Chinese History: Chinese Popular 4 the complexity of American Culture. Culture HISTORY 117D Topics in Chinese History: The Chinese Body: 4 College of Letters & Science Essential Skills Gender and Sex, Health, and Medicine Requirements HISTORY 118A Japan: Japan, Archaeological Period to 1800 4 Quantitative Reasoning (http://guide.berkeley.edu/ HISTORY 118B Japan: Japan 1800-1900 4 undergraduate/colleges-schools/letters-science/quantitative- HISTORY 118C Japan: Empire and Alienation: The 20th Century in 4 reasoning-requirement/) Japan The Quantitative Reasoning requirement is designed to ensure that HISTORY 119A Topics in Japanese History: Postwar Japan 4 students graduate with basic understanding and competency in math, MONGOLN 116 The Mongol Empire 4 statistics, or computer science. The requirement may be satisfied by MONGOLN 118 Modern Mongolia 4 exam or by taking an approved course. TIBETAN 118 The Politics of Modern Tibet 4 Foreign Language (http://guide.berkeley.edu/undergraduate/ TIBETAN 119 Tibetan Medicine in History and Society 4 colleges-schools/letters-science/foreign-language-requirement/) Music The Foreign Language requirement may be satisfied by demonstrating CHINESE C184 Course Not Available proficiency in reading comprehension, writing, and conversation in a 4 East Asian Religion, Thought, and Culture
foreign language equivalent to the second semester college level, either Modified Senior Residence Requirement by passing an exam or by completing approved course work. Participants in the UC Education Abroad Program (EAP), Berkeley Summer Abroad, or the UC Berkeley Washington Program (UCDC) Reading and Composition (http://guide.berkeley.edu/ may meet a Modified Senior Residence requirement by completing 24 undergraduate/colleges-schools/letters-science/reading- (excluding EAP) of their final 60 semester units in residence. At least 12 composition-requirement/) of these 24 units must be completed after you have completed 90 units. In order to provide a solid foundation in reading, writing, and critical thinking the College requires two semesters of lower division work in Upper Division Residence Requirement composition in sequence. Students must complete parts A & B reading You must complete in residence a minimum of 18 units of upper and composition courses by the end of their second semester and a division courses (excluding UCEAP units), 12 of which must satisfy the second-level course by the end of their fourth semester. requirements for your major.
College of Letters & Science 7 Course Major Maps help undergraduate students discover academic, co- Breadth Requirements curricular, and discovery opportunities at UC Berkeley based on intended major or field of interest. Developed by the Division of Undergraduate Breadth Requirements (http://guide.berkeley.edu/undergraduate/ Education in collaboration with academic departments, these experience colleges-schools/letters-science/#breadthrequirementstext) maps will help you: The undergraduate breadth requirements provide Berkeley students with a rich and varied educational experience outside of their major program. • Explore your major and gain a better understanding of your field of As the foundation of a liberal arts education, breadth courses give study students a view into the intellectual life of the University while introducing • Connect with people and programs that inspire and sustain your them to a multitude of perspectives and approaches to research and creativity, drive, curiosity and success scholarship. Engaging students in new disciplines and with peers from other majors, the breadth experience strengthens interdisciplinary • Discover opportunities for independent inquiry, enterprise, and connections and context that prepares Berkeley graduates to understand creative expression and solve the complex issues of their day. • Engage locally and globally to broaden your perspectives and Unit Requirements change the world
• 120 total units • Reflect on your academic career and prepare for life after Berkeley
• Of the 120 units, 36 must be upper division units Use the major map below as a guide to planning your undergraduate • Of the 36 upper division units, 6 must be taken in courses offered journey and designing your own unique Berkeley experience. outside your major department View the East Asian Religion, Thought, and Culture Major Residence Requirements Map PDF. (https://vcue.berkeley.edu/sites/default/files/ east_asian_religion_thought_and_culture.pdf) For units to be considered in "residence," you must be registered in courses on the Berkeley campus as a student in the College of Letters Expand all course descriptions [+]Collapse all course descriptions [-] & Science. Most students automatically fulfill the residence requirement by attending classes here for four years. In general, there is no need to be concerned about this requirement, unless you go abroad for a semester or year or want to take courses at another institution or through UC Extension during your senior year. In these cases, you should make an appointment to meet an adviser to determine how you can meet the Senior Residence Requirement.
Note: Courses taken through UC Extension do not count toward residence.
Senior Residence Requirement After you become a senior (with 90 semester units earned toward your BA degree), you must complete at least 24 of the remaining 30 units in residence in at least two semesters. To count as residence, a semester must consist of at least 6 passed units. Intercampus Visitor, EAP, and UC Berkeley-Washington Program (UCDC) units are excluded.
You may use a Berkeley Summer Session to satisfy one semester of the Senior Residence requirement, provided that you successfully complete 6 units of course work in the Summer Session and that you have been enrolled previously in the college. East Asian Religion, Thought, and Culture 5
EA LANG R1B Reading and Composition on EA LANG 24 Freshman Seminar 1 Unit topics in East Asian Humanities 4 Units Terms offered: Prior to 2007 Terms offered: Spring 2022, Fall 2021, Summer 2021 First 6 Week The Freshman Seminar Program has been designed to provide new Session students with the opportunity to explore an intellectual topic with a faculty The arts of reading a text, summarizing its argument, questioning its member in a small seminar setting. Freshman seminars are offered in all suppositions, generating balanced opinions, and expressing those campus departments and topics vary from department to department and opinions with clarity and effectiveness lie at the center of university semester to semester. Enrollment limited to fifteen freshmen. life and educated human endeavor. EA Lang R1B is designed to help Freshman Seminar: Read More [+] inculcate those skills, paying particular attention to East Asian humanistic Rules & Requirements topics. This four-unit course focuses on how to formulate questions and Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes. hone observations into well reasoned, coherent, and convincing essays. Attention will be paid to the basic rules of grammar, logical construction, Hours & Format compelling rhetorical approaches, research techniques, library and database skills, and forms of citation. Fall and/or spring: Reading and Composition on topics in East Asian Humanities: Read 5 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week More [+] 6 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week Rules & Requirements 8 weeks - 2 hours of lecture per week 10 weeks - 1.5 hours of lecture per week Prerequisites: Previously passed an R_A course with a letter grade of C- 15 weeks - 1 hour of seminar per week or better. Previously passed an articulated R_A course with a letter grade of C- or better. Score a 4 on the Advanced Placement Exam in English Additional Details Literature and Composition. Score a 4 or 5 on the Advanced Placement Exam in English Language and Composition. Score of 5, 6, or 7 on the Subject/Course Level: East Asian Languages and Cultures/ International Baccalaureate Higher Level Examination in English Undergraduate
Requirements this course satisfies: Satisfies the second half of the Grading/Final exam status: The grading option will be decided by the Reading and Composition requirement instructor when the class is offered. Final exam not required.
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Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week EA LANG 39 Freshman/Sophomore Seminar 1.5 - 2 Units Summer: 6 weeks - 8 hours of lecture per week Terms offered: Fall 2021 Additional Details Freshman and sophomore seminars offer lower division students the opportunity to explore an intellectual topic with a faculty member and a Subject/Course Level: East Asian Languages and Cultures/ group of peers in a small-seminar setting. These seminars are offered in Undergraduate all campus departments; topics vary from department to department and from semester to semester. Grading/Final exam status: Final exam not required. Freshman/Sophomore Seminar: Read More [+] Rules & Requirements Reading and Composition on topics in East Asian Humanities: Read Less [-] Prerequisites: Priority given to freshmen and sophomores
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Fall and/or spring: 5 weeks - 4-6 hours of seminar per week 6 weeks - 3.5-5 hours of seminar per week 8 weeks - 3-4 hours of seminar per week 10 weeks - 2-3 hours of seminar per week 15 weeks - 1.5-2 hours of seminar per week
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Subject/Course Level: East Asian Languages and Cultures/ Undergraduate
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EA LANG C50 Introduction to the Study of EA LANG 84 Sophomore Seminar 1 or 2 Units Buddhism 4 Units Terms offered: Spring 2019, Spring 2018, Fall 2012 Terms offered: Fall 2021, Fall 2020, Fall 2019 Sophomore seminars are small interactive courses offered by faculty This introduction to the study of Buddhism will consider materials drawn members in departments all across the campus. Sophomore seminars from various Buddhist traditions of Asia, from ancient times down to the offer opportunity for close, regular intellectual contact between faculty present day. However, the course is not intended to be a comprehensive members and students in the crucial second year. The topics vary from or systematic survey; rather than aiming at breadth, the course is department to department and semester to semester. Enrollment limited designed around key themes such as ritual, image veneration, mysticism, to 15 sophomores. meditation, and death. The overarching emphasis throughout the course Sophomore Seminar: Read More [+] will be on the hermeneutic difficulties attendant upon the study of religion Rules & Requirements in general, and Buddhism in particular. Prerequisites: At discretion of instructor Introduction to the Study of Buddhism: Read More [+] Hours & Format Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture and 1 hour of Hours & Format discussion per week Fall and/or spring: Summer: 6 weeks - 8 hours of lecture and 2 hours of discussion per 5 weeks - 3-6 hours of seminar per week week 10 weeks - 1.5-3 hours of seminar per week 15 weeks - 1-2 hours of seminar per week Additional Details Summer: Subject/Course Level: East Asian Languages and Cultures/ 6 weeks - 2.5-5 hours of seminar per week Undergraduate 8 weeks - 2-4 hours of seminar per week Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required. Additional Details Also listed as: BUDDSTD C50/S,SEASN C52 Subject/Course Level: East Asian Languages and Cultures/ Introduction to the Study of Buddhism: Read Less [-] Undergraduate Grading/Final exam status: The grading option will be decided by the instructor when the class is offered. Final exam required.
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EA LANG 101 Catastrophe, Memory, and EA LANG 106 Expressing the Ineffable in Narrative: Comparative Responses to China and Beyond: The Making of Meaning in Atrocity in the Twentieth Century 4 Units Poetic Writing 4 Units Terms offered: Fall 2020, Summer 2015 10 Week Session, Summer 2015 Terms offered: Fall 2019, Fall 2012, Spring 2010 First 6 Week Session This course will explore how the Chinese and English-language literary This course will examine comparative responses to and representations traditions (broadly defined) delineate the realm of the ineffable, and of violent conflict. We will pay attention to how catastrophic events are how cultural notions of the inexpressible shape the writing and reading productive of new forms of expression--oral, written, and visual--as of poems, songs, and a selection of prose pieces, from the uses of well as destructive of familiar ones. We will examine the ways in which figurative language and prosody to genre and canon formation. In experience and its representation interact during and in the aftermath of addition, in order to deepen our understanding of how writing achieves extreme violence. Our empirical cases will be drawn from our research its aims, some attention will be given to nonverbal modes of expression, on responses to WWII atrocities, and on the post-Cold War civil wars in including calligraphy and painting--and attempts to render them in writing. Africa. Over this course of study, students will not only refine their sensitivity to Catastrophe, Memory, and Narrative: Comparative Responses to Atrocity the power of artistic modes of indirection, but will also hone their skills in in the Twentieth Century: Read More [+] close reading, analytical writing, and oral expression. All readings will be Hours & Format in English. Expressing the Ineffable in China and Beyond: The Making of Meaning in Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week Poetic Writing: Read More [+] Hours & Format Summer: 6 weeks - 8 hours of lecture per week Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week Additional Details Additional Details Subject/Course Level: East Asian Languages and Cultures/ Undergraduate Subject/Course Level: East Asian Languages and Cultures/ Undergraduate Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Alternative to final exam. Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required. Catastrophe, Memory, and Narrative: Comparative Responses to Atrocity in the Twentieth Century: Read Less [-] Instructor: Varsano
EA LANG 105 Dynamics of Romantic Core Expressing the Ineffable in China and Beyond: The Making of Meaning in Values in East Asian Premodern Literature Poetic Writing: Read Less [-] and Contemporary Film 4 Units EA LANG 107 War, Empire, and Literature in Terms offered: Summer 2020 First 6 Week Session, Fall 2019, Summer 2019 Second 6 Week Session East Asia 4 Units This course explores representation of romantic love in East Asian Terms offered: Fall 2021, Fall 2013, Fall 2008 cultures in premodern and post-modern contexts. Students develop This course will examine war, empire, and the writing and a better understanding of the similarities and differences in traditional memorialization of history through an eclectic group of literary, graphic, values in three East Asian cultures by comparing how canonical texts of and cinematic texts from China, Japan, Europe, and the U.S. premodern China, Japan and Korea represent romantic relationship. This War, Empire, and Literature in East Asia: Read More [+] is followed by the study of several contemporary East Asian films, giving Hours & Format the student the opportunity to explore how traditional values persist, Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week change, or become nexus points of resistance. Dynamics of Romantic Core Values in East Asian Premodern Literature Additional Details and Contemporary Film: Read More [+] Hours & Format Subject/Course Level: East Asian Languages and Cultures/ Undergraduate Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required. Summer: 6 weeks - 8 hours of lecture per week War, Empire, and Literature in East Asia: Read Less [-] Additional Details
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Instructor: Wallace
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EA LANG 108 Revising the Classics: Chinese EA LANG 110 Bio-Ethical Issues in East and Greek Poetry in Translation 4 Units Asian Thought 4 Units Terms offered: Fall 2015, Fall 2006, Spring 2006 Terms offered: Spring 2020, Spring 2017, Spring 2015 This course will explore poetic translation, across languages, across This course will explore some of the most difficult bioethical issues cultures, and across historical ages, not merely from the perspective of confronting the world today from the perspective of traditional values the "accuracy" with which a classic text is represented in the translation, embedded in the cultural history of India, China, and Japan as evidenced but as a window into the nature of poetic tradition and poetic writing in their religions, legal codes, and political history. Possible topics include itself. Works will be primarily drawn from the Chinese tradition, but in population control, abortion, sex-selection, euthanasia, suicide, genetic the interest of allowing a comparative discussion of the course's central manipulation, brain-death, and organ transplants. themes, a significant amount of reading from ancient and modern Greek Bio-Ethical Issues in East Asian Thought: Read More [+] poetry will be included as well. The goal of the class is not simply to gain Hours & Format familiarity with Chinese poetry and poets, but more fundamentally to gain skill and sophistication in reading, responding to, and thinking about Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture and 1 hour of poetry. discussion per week Revising the Classics: Chinese and Greek Poetry in Translation: Read Summer: 6 weeks - 8 hours of lecture and 2 hours of discussion per More [+] week Hours & Format Additional Details Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week Subject/Course Level: East Asian Languages and Cultures/ Additional Details Undergraduate Subject/Course Level: East Asian Languages and Cultures/ Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required. Undergraduate Instructor: Blum Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required. Bio-Ethical Issues in East Asian Thought: Read Less [-] Instructor: Ashmore
Revising the Classics: Chinese and Greek Poetry in Translation: Read EA LANG 111 Reading Global Politics in Less [-] Contemporary East Asian Literature 4 Units Terms offered: Spring 2016 EA LANG 109 History of the Culture of Tea in This class examines the global dynamics and local distinction of China and Japan 4 Units literary writings from contemporary East Asia. Beginning with the Terms offered: Spring 2020, Spring 2019, Summer 2016 First 6 Week colonial connections among Tokyo, Shanghai and Seoul during the Session 1920s-1940s, and moving on to texts composed since 2000 in Manila, In this course we compare the cultural traditions of tea in China Hong Kong, India and elsewhere, the course considers how literary and Japan. In addition, using tea as the case study, we analyze the writers have grappled with an increasingly integrated global marketplace mechanics of the flow of culture across both national boundaries and in which culture, ideas and people circulate alongside (and as) capital. social practices (such as between poetry and the tea ceremony). Discussions will reflect on the confluence of culture and politics in literary Understanding the tea culture of these countries informs students of writings that treat race tension, ecological crisis, capitalist catastrophe important and enduring aspects of both cultures, provides an opportunity and other themes. Primary readings will be supplemented by iconic to discuss the role of religion and art in social practice, provides a essays of cultural criticism and recent films. forum for cultural comparison, and provides as well an example of Reading Global Politics in Contemporary East Asian Literature: Read the relationship between the two countries and Japanese methods of More [+] importing and naturalizing another country's social practice. Korean tea Hours & Format traditions are also briefly considered. Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week History of the Culture of Tea in China and Japan: Read More [+] Hours & Format Summer: 6 weeks - 8 hours of lecture per week
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week Additional Details
Summer: 6 weeks - 8 hours of lecture per week Subject/Course Level: East Asian Languages and Cultures/ Undergraduate Additional Details Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required. Subject/Course Level: East Asian Languages and Cultures/ Undergraduate Reading Global Politics in Contemporary East Asian Literature: Read Less [-] Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Instructor: Wallace
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EA LANG 112 The East Asian Sixties 4 Units EA LANG 115 Knowing Others, and Being Terms offered: Spring 2022, Spring 2017, Spring 2014 Known: The Art of Writing People 4 Units The 1960s were a time of historical transformation and upheaval in Terms offered: Spring 2022, Spring 2017 East Asia. It saw the overthrow of political regimes, the consolidation of What does it mean to use the medium of writing to “know” a person, and communism, unprecedented capitalist expansion, and the emergence of precisely how does one avail oneself of that medium to make oneself— new technologies that affected aesthetic production and consumption. or someone else— “known”? This course will guide students in writing This course explores the multiple aspects of culture, aesthetics, and about one of the most challenging of subjects: people. Students will have politics that defined this moment. It asks how and why we can define the opportunity to (a) read deeply in a selection of writings drawn from the 1960s as a period, while considering the significance of defining a range of genres and cultures, to acquaint themselves with a range of East Asia (a term which denotes an imagined space of relations) as a rhetorical tools employed in the portrayal of human lives and character, particular region at this time. (b) identify the aims of their own writings, and (c) develop competency in The East Asian Sixties: Read More [+] applying what they have learned as readers to their own writing. Rules & Requirements Knowing Others, and Being Known: The Art of Writing People: Read More [+] Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes. Hours & Format Hours & Format Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week Additional Details Summer: 6 weeks - 8 hours of lecture per week Subject/Course Level: East Asian Languages and Cultures/ Additional Details Undergraduate
Subject/Course Level: East Asian Languages and Cultures/ Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam not required. Undergraduate Knowing Others, and Being Known: The Art of Writing People: Read Less Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Alternative to final exam. [-]
The East Asian Sixties: Read Less [-] EA LANG 116 Modern East Asian Fiction 4 Units EA LANG 114 Illness Narratives, Vulnerable Terms offered: Fall 2017 Bodies 4 Units Comparative analysis of modern literature from China (including Hong Terms offered: Spring 2021, Fall 2018, Fall 2017 Kong and Taiwan), Korea, and Japan with an emphasis on the short story The course will introduce students to narratives about illness, disease and the novel. We will think about both the specificities of the literatures and healing written by patients, physicians, caretakers, and others. These of the region as well as shared and interconnected experiences of narratives report an experience. They reveal the interactions between modernity that broadly connect the cultures of East Asia during the the unfolding life of the patient and the shifting social meanings attached twentieth century. Thematic concerns will include: modernism and to illness. We will study the relationships between illness and society modernity; nostalgia and homesickness; empire and its aftermath; and through readings of fiction, memoir, films, essays and graphic novels the cultures of globalization. in order to understand how these varied forms of storytelling organize Modern East Asian Fiction: Read More [+] and give meaning to crucial questions about embodiment, disability and Hours & Format emergent forms of sociality enabled by our bodily vulnerabilities. Illness Narratives, Vulnerable Bodies: Read More [+] Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week Hours & Format Additional Details Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week Subject/Course Level: East Asian Languages and Cultures/ Summer: 6 weeks - 8 hours of lecture per week Undergraduate
Additional Details Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Alternative to final exam.
Subject/Course Level: East Asian Languages and Cultures/ Modern East Asian Fiction: Read Less [-] Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Alternative to final exam.
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EA LANG 117 Lu Xun and his Worlds 4 Units EA LANG 119 The History of Heaven 4 Units Terms offered: Spring 2018 Terms offered: Fall 2021, Spring 2021, Fall 2020 This course provides a forum for reading and discussing East Asia’s Higher Learning begins with the study of heaven. As the source of greatest and most iconic modern writers, Lu Xun. We will closely read orientation in space and time, heaven provides humanity the foundation Lu Xun’s major works , discuss his role in the reinvention of the Chinese for its knowledge and political order. To understand what knowledge language and literary tradition, explore the global literary and intellectual is or how politics function, we need a basic understanding of the ways currents with which he was deeply engaged, as well as situating him of heaven. This course examines the function heaven serves in the within the tumultuous era of colonialism, modernization, and revolution. founding of order against the void in nature through the formation All readings will be available in English translation. of conventional systems of time and space and the role heaven has Lu Xun and his Worlds: Read More [+] played in the promulgation of governments. From a cross-cultural, Hours & Format interdisciplinary perspective that covers the course of Eurasian history and using primary sources in translation, we will see heaven unfold Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week through the developments that leave us with the world we know today. The History of Heaven: Read More [+] Additional Details Hours & Format Subject/Course Level: East Asian Languages and Cultures/ Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week Undergraduate Additional Details Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Alternative to final exam. Subject/Course Level: East Asian Languages and Cultures/ Lu Xun and his Worlds: Read Less [-] Undergraduate
EA LANG 118 Sex and Gender in Premodern Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required. Chinese Culture 4 Units Terms offered: Spring 2021, Fall 2019, Fall 2015 The History of Heaven: Read Less [-] This course explores Chinese cultures of sex and gender from antiquity to the seventeenth century. We concentrate on three interconnected issues: EA LANG C120 Buddhism on the Silk Road 4 women’s status, homoeroticism, and the human body. Our discussion Units will be informed by cross-cultural comparisons with ancient Greece, Terms offered: Spring 2022, Fall 2016, Fall 2015, Fall 2014 Renaissance England, and Contemporary America. In contrast to our This course will discuss the social, economic, and cultural aspects modern regime of sexuality, which collapses all the three aforementioned of Buddhism as it moved along the ancient Eurasian trading network issues into the issues of desire and identity intrinsic to the body, we will referred to as the “Silk Road”. Instead of relying solely on textual see how the early Chinese regime of sexual act evolved into the early sources, the course will focus on material culture as it offers evidence modern regime of emotion that concerned less inherent identities than a concerning the spread of Buddhism. Through an examination of the media culture of life-style performance. Buddhist archaeological remains of the Silk Road, the course will address Sex and Gender in Premodern Chinese Culture: Read More [+] specific topics, such as the symbiotic relationship between Buddhism and Rules & Requirements commerce; doctrinal divergence; ideological shifts in the iconography of the Buddha; patronage (royal, religious and lay); Buddhism and political Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes. power; and art and conversion. All readings will be in English. Buddhism on the Silk Road: Read More [+] Hours & Format Hours & Format Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week Additional Details Summer: 6 weeks - 8 hours of lecture per week Subject/Course Level: East Asian Languages and Cultures/ Additional Details Undergraduate Subject/Course Level: East Asian Languages and Cultures/ Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Alternative to final exam. Undergraduate Instructor: Lam Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam not required. Formerly known as: Chinese 181 Also listed as: BUDDSTD C120 Sex and Gender in Premodern Chinese Culture: Read Less [-] Buddhism on the Silk Road: Read Less [-] East Asian Religion, Thought, and Culture 11
EA LANG 125 The Art of Writing: Writing the EA LANG C128 Buddhism in Contemporary Limits of Empathy 4 Units Society 4 Units Terms offered: Fall 2021 Terms offered: Spring 2022, Spring 2021, Spring 2020 How far can we go into the minds and bodies of others? How strongly A study of the Buddhist tradition as it is found today in Asia. The course can we sense their presence? When, and why, do we hit a wall will focus on specific living traditions of East, South, and/or Southeast separating us from the world beyond us? In this course we will Asia. Themes to be addressed may include contemporary Buddhist ritual experiment, through a number of genres and media, with the art of practices; funerary and mortuary customs; the relationship between writing (and thinking and feeling) empathetically. These genres and Buddhism and other local religious traditions; the relationship between media include diary, fiction, poetry, editorial, letter writing, reportage, Buddhist institutions and the state; Buddhist monasticism and its description (of nature, art, emotions, psychic states, etc.), film, video, and relationship to the laity; Buddhist ethics; Buddhist "modernism," and so photography. on. The Art of Writing: Writing the Limits of Empathy: Read More [+] Buddhism in Contemporary Society: Read More [+] Hours & Format Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture and 1 hour of discussion per week Additional Details Additional Details Subject/Course Level: East Asian Languages and Cultures/ Undergraduate Subject/Course Level: East Asian Languages and Cultures/ Undergraduate Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Alternative to final exam. Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required. The Art of Writing: Writing the Limits of Empathy: Read Less [-] Instructor: von Rospatt EA LANG C126 Buddhism and the Environment 4 Units Also listed as: BUDDSTD C128/S,SEASN C145 Terms offered: Spring 2011, Fall 2009, Spring 2008 Buddhism in Contemporary Society: Read Less [-] A thematic course on Buddhist perspectives on nature and Buddhist responses to environmental issues. The first half of the course focuses EA LANG C130 Zen Buddhism 4 Units on East Asian Buddhist cosmological and doctrinal perspectives on the Terms offered: Fall 2013, Spring 2010, Summer 2007 Second 6 Week place of the human in nature and the relationship between the salvific Session goals of Buddhism and nature. The second half of the course examines This course will introduce students to the Zen Buddhist traditions of China Buddhist ethics, economics, and activism in relation to environmental and Japan, drawing on a variety of disciplinary perspectives (history, issues in contemporary Southeast Asia, East Asia, and America. anthropology, philosophy, and so on). The course will also explore a Buddhism and the Environment: Read More [+] range of hermeneutic problems (problems involved in interpretation) Rules & Requirements entailed in understanding a sophisticated religious tradition that emerged in a time and culture very different from our own. Prerequisites: One lower-division course in Buddhist Studies or consent Zen Buddhism: Read More [+] of instructor Rules & Requirements Hours & Format Prerequisites: One lower division course in Asian religion recommended Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week Hours & Format Additional Details Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture and 1 hour of Subject/Course Level: East Asian Languages and Cultures/ discussion per week Undergraduate Summer: 6 weeks - 8 hours of lecture and 2 hours of discussion per Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required. week
Also listed as: BUDDSTD C126 Additional Details
Buddhism and the Environment: Read Less [-] Subject/Course Level: East Asian Languages and Cultures/ Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Instructor: Sharf
Also listed as: BUDDSTD C130
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EA LANG C132 Pure Land Buddhism 4 Units EA LANG C135 Tantric Traditions of Asia 4 Terms offered: Fall 2019, Fall 2017, Fall 2015 Units This course will discuss the historical development of the Pure Land Terms offered: Fall 2020, Fall 2019, Spring 2013, Spring 2010 school of East Asian Buddhism, the largest form of Buddhism practiced The emergence of the tantras in seventh and eighth-century India today in China and Japan. The curriculum is divided into India, China, marked a watershed for religious practice throughout Asia. These and Japan sections, with the second half of the course focusing esoteric scriptures introduced complex new ritual technologies that exclusively on Japan where this form of religious culture blossomed transformed the religious traditions of India, from Brahmanism to Jainism most dramatically, covering the ancient, medieval, and modern periods. and Buddhism, as well as those of Southeast Asia, Tibet, Mongolia, The curriculum will begin with a reading of the core scriptures that form China, Korea, and Japan. This course provides an overview of tantric the basis of the belief system and then move into areas of cultural religion across these regions. expression. The course will follow two basic trajectories over the Tantric Traditions of Asia: Read More [+] centuries: doctrine/philosophy and culture/society. Hours & Format Pure Land Buddhism: Read More [+] Hours & Format Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week Additional Details
Summer: 6 weeks - 8 hours of lecture per week Subject/Course Level: East Asian Languages and Cultures/ Undergraduate Additional Details Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required. Subject/Course Level: East Asian Languages and Cultures/ Undergraduate Instructor: Dalton
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Alternative to final exam. Also listed as: BUDDSTD C135/S,SEASN C135
Instructor: Blum Tantric Traditions of Asia: Read Less [-] Also listed as: BUDDSTD C132 EA LANG C142 Psychoanalytic Theory, Asian Pure Land Buddhism: Read Less [-] Texts 4 Units Terms offered: Fall 2021 EA LANG C134 Russia and Asia 4 Units Through the prism of psychoanalytical theories, early and contemporary, Terms offered: Spring 2020 this course explores a variety of pre-modern and modern East Asian This course offers a cultural history of encounters between Russia texts—literary, artistic, religious, and theoretical. We will be asking both and Asia in literature, film and visual art. The lenses of Orientalism, how these theories enrich our reading of the texts, and how the texts Eurasianism and Internationalism will be used to analyze Russian enrich our understanding of the theories. Through close readings of all interactions with three spaces: the Caucasus, Central Asia, and East the material we will begin to discern how theory and text reshape one Asia. We will discuss works by classic Russian writers and artists another, where they mesh productively, and where they insistently stay (including Tolstoy, Blok and Platonov) that address the question of apart. Topics include: the unconscious, selfhood, repression, attachment, Russia’s engagement with Asia and consider Russia’s ambiguous spatial beauty, dreams, ritual, ghosts and haunting, madness, meditative states, identity between Europe and Asia. We will also examine responses to mystical experience, mourning, healing, therapeutic method and cure. No Russian culture and the Russian/Soviet state in the literature and culture prerequisites. of China (Lu Xun, Xiao Hong), Japan (Kurosawa), Central Asia (Aitmatov) Psychoanalytic Theory, Asian Texts: Read More [+] and the Caucasus (Sadulaev). All readings in English. Hours & Format Russia and Asia: Read More [+] Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week Hours & Format Additional Details Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week Subject/Course Level: East Asian Languages and Cultures/ Additional Details Undergraduate Subject/Course Level: East Asian Languages and Cultures/ Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Alternative to final exam. Undergraduate Also listed as: S,SEASN C142 Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Alternative to final exam. Psychoanalytic Theory, Asian Texts: Read Less [-] Also listed as: SLAVIC C134N
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EA LANG C152 Buddhist Astral Science 4 EA LANG C175 Archaeology of East Asia 4 Units Units Terms offered: Spring 2022, Spring 2021 Terms offered: Fall 2020, Fall 2018, Fall 2017 This course studies the purview of astral science under Buddhist Prehistoric and protohistoric archaeology in China, Japan, and Korea. dominion. Here it is at once promoted for promulgating Buddhist world Archaeology of East Asia: Read More [+] order and repudiated for begetting the suffering-inducing physical Hours & Format universe, a warped vessel of ceaselessly turning stars that the Buddhist dharma must transcend. The course begins with the part astral science Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week plays in genesis, the creation of Buddhist world order. It then covers the Additional Details science’s central aspects, celestial systems, spatial orientation, time reckoning, the making of a calendar, and publication of an almanac. Subject/Course Level: East Asian Languages and Cultures/ Thereafter, it treats the science’s outgrowth into interrelated forms of Undergraduate Buddhist propaganda manifest as divination, magic, medicine, ritual, scripture, and iconography. Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required. Buddhist Astral Science: Read More [+] Hours & Format Also listed as: ANTHRO C125A
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week Archaeology of East Asia: Read Less [-]
Additional Details EA LANG 180 East Asian Film: Directors and their Contexts 4 Units Subject/Course Level: East Asian Languages and Cultures/ Terms offered: Spring 2011, Spring 2008 Undergraduate A close analysis of the oeuvre of an East Asian director in its aesthetic, Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required. cultural, and political contexts. East Asian Film: Directors and their Contexts: Read More [+] Also listed as: BUDDSTD C152 Rules & Requirements
Buddhist Astral Science: Read Less [-] Prerequisites: Upper division or graduate standing EA LANG 160 Neurodiversity in Literature 4 Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit without restriction. Units Hours & Format Terms offered: Summer 2020 Second 6 Week Session This course will investigate how neurotypical and neurodiverse authors Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture and 2 hours of depict and discuss neurodiversity. By first seeking to understand what discussion per week is meant by the term “neurodiversity”, we will pay particular attention to how the autistic community have embraced it. We will give special Additional Details emphasis to two Japanese authors: Nobel Prize-winner Oe Kenzaburô Subject/Course Level: East Asian Languages and Cultures/ and Higashida Naoki. To better contextualize the two main Japanese Undergraduate authors, we will read essays on disability and neurodiversity in Japan. Taking a comparative, cross-cultural approach to this topic will bring into Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam not required. relief the different ways in which neurodiversity is understood, depicted and expressed; and the unique difficulties with representation relative to East Asian Film: Directors and their Contexts: Read Less [-] the respective cultures we study. Neurodiversity in Literature: Read More [+] Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Summer: 6 weeks - 8 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: East Asian Languages and Cultures/ Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Alternative to final exam.
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EA LANG 181 East Asian Film: Special EA LANG H195A Honors Course 2 - 5 Units Topics in Genre 4 Units Terms offered: Fall 2018 Terms offered: Spring 2022, Fall 2021, Spring 2021 Directed independent study and preparation of senior honors thesis. The study of East Asian films as categorized either by industry-identified Limited to senior honors candidates in the East Asian Religion, Thought, genres (westerns, horror films, musicals, film noir, etc.) or broader and Culture major (for description of Honors Program, see Index). interpretive modes (melodrama, realism, fantasy, etc). Honors Course: Read More [+] East Asian Film: Special Topics in Genre: Read More [+] Rules & Requirements Hours & Format Prerequisites: Senior honors standing in the East Asian Religion, Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture and 2 hours of Thought, and Culture major, 3.5 GPA in major, 3.3 overall discussion per week Hours & Format Summer: 6 weeks - 8 hours of lecture and 2 hours of discussion per Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 2-5 hours of independent study per week week Summer: 10 weeks - 3-7.5 hours of independent study per week Additional Details Additional Details Subject/Course Level: East Asian Languages and Cultures/ Undergraduate Subject/Course Level: East Asian Languages and Cultures/ Undergraduate Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required. Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. This is part one of a year long East Asian Film: Special Topics in Genre: Read Less [-] series course. A provisional grade of IP (in progress) will be applied and EA LANG 191 Tools and Methods in the later replaced with the final grade after completing part two of the series. Final exam not required. Study of East Asian Philosophy and Religion 4 Units Honors Course: Read Less [-] Terms offered: Spring 2022, Spring 2020, Fall 2018 This course is a capstone experience that centers on the philosophies EA LANG H195B Honors Course 2 - 5 Units and religions of East Asia examined from multiple theoretical Terms offered: Prior to 2007 perspectives. It comprises several thematic units within which a short Directed independent study and preparation of senior honors thesis. set of readings about theory are followed by chronologically arranged Limited to senior honors candidates in the East Asian Religion, Thought, readings about East Asia. Themes will alternate from year to year but and Culture major (for description of Honors Program, see Index). may include: ritual and performance studies; religion and evolution; Honors Course: Read More [+] definitions of religion and theories of its origins; and the role of sacrifice. Rules & Requirements Tools and Methods in the Study of East Asian Philosophy and Religion: Prerequisites: Senior honors standing in the East Asian Religion, Read More [+] Thought, and Culture major, 3.5 major GPA, 3.3 overall Rules & Requirements Hours & Format Prerequisites: Preference will be given to majors, especially those with junior or senior standing Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 2-5 hours of independent study per week
Hours & Format Summer: 10 weeks - 3-7.5 hours of independent study per week
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week Additional Details
Additional Details Subject/Course Level: East Asian Languages and Cultures/ Undergraduate Subject/Course Level: East Asian Languages and Cultures/ Undergraduate Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. This is part two of a year long series course. Upon completion, the final grade will be applied to both Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Alternative to final exam. parts of the series. Final exam not required.
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EA LANG 198 Directed Group Study 1 - 4 Courses Units Expand all course descriptions [+]Collapse all course descriptions [-] Terms offered: Spring 2010, Fall 2009, Spring 2009 EA LANG R1B Reading and Composition on Small group instruction in topics not covered by regularly scheduled courses. topics in East Asian Humanities 4 Units Directed Group Study: Read More [+] Terms offered: Spring 2022, Fall 2021, Summer 2021 First 6 Week Rules & Requirements Session The arts of reading a text, summarizing its argument, questioning its Prerequisites: Junior or senior standing suppositions, generating balanced opinions, and expressing those opinions with clarity and effectiveness lie at the center of university Credit Restrictions: Enrollment is restricted; see the Introduction to life and educated human endeavor. EA Lang R1B is designed to help Courses and Curricula section of this catalog. inculcate those skills, paying particular attention to East Asian humanistic Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit without restriction. topics. This four-unit course focuses on how to formulate questions and hone observations into well reasoned, coherent, and convincing essays. Hours & Format Attention will be paid to the basic rules of grammar, logical construction, compelling rhetorical approaches, research techniques, library and Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 1-4 hours of directed group study per database skills, and forms of citation. week Reading and Composition on topics in East Asian Humanities: Read More [+] Summer: Rules & Requirements 3 weeks - 3-20 hours of directed group study per week 6 weeks - 2.5-10 hours of directed group study per week Prerequisites: Previously passed an R_A course with a letter grade of C- 8 weeks - 1.5-7.5 hours of directed group study per week or better. Previously passed an articulated R_A course with a letter grade of C- or better. Score a 4 on the Advanced Placement Exam in English Additional Details Literature and Composition. Score a 4 or 5 on the Advanced Placement Subject/Course Level: East Asian Languages and Cultures/ Exam in English Language and Composition. Score of 5, 6, or 7 on the Undergraduate International Baccalaureate Higher Level Examination in English
Grading/Final exam status: Offered for pass/not pass grade only. Final Requirements this course satisfies: Satisfies the second half of the exam not required. Reading and Composition requirement
Directed Group Study: Read Less [-] Hours & Format EA LANG 199 Independent Study 1 - 4 Units Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week Terms offered: Fall 2007, Spring 2007 Summer: 6 weeks - 8 hours of lecture per week Independent study in topics not covered by regularly scheduled courses. Independent Study: Read More [+] Additional Details Rules & Requirements Subject/Course Level: East Asian Languages and Cultures/ Prerequisites: Junior or senior standing Undergraduate
Credit Restrictions: Enrollment is restricted; see the Introduction to Grading/Final exam status: Final exam not required. Courses and Curricula section of this catalog. Reading and Composition on topics in East Asian Humanities: Read Less Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit without restriction. [-]
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 1-4 hours of independent study per week
Summer: 3 weeks - 5-20 hours of independent study per week 6 weeks - 2.5-10 hours of independent study per week 8 weeks - 1.5-7.5 hours of independent study per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: East Asian Languages and Cultures/ Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Offered for pass/not pass grade only. Final exam not required.
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EA LANG 24 Freshman Seminar 1 Unit EA LANG C50 Introduction to the Study of Terms offered: Prior to 2007 Buddhism 4 Units The Freshman Seminar Program has been designed to provide new Terms offered: Fall 2021, Fall 2020, Fall 2019 students with the opportunity to explore an intellectual topic with a faculty This introduction to the study of Buddhism will consider materials drawn member in a small seminar setting. Freshman seminars are offered in all from various Buddhist traditions of Asia, from ancient times down to the campus departments and topics vary from department to department and present day. However, the course is not intended to be a comprehensive semester to semester. Enrollment limited to fifteen freshmen. or systematic survey; rather than aiming at breadth, the course is Freshman Seminar: Read More [+] designed around key themes such as ritual, image veneration, mysticism, Rules & Requirements meditation, and death. The overarching emphasis throughout the course will be on the hermeneutic difficulties attendant upon the study of religion Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes. in general, and Buddhism in particular. Hours & Format Introduction to the Study of Buddhism: Read More [+] Hours & Format Fall and/or spring: 5 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture and 1 hour of 6 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week discussion per week 8 weeks - 2 hours of lecture per week Summer: 6 weeks - 8 hours of lecture and 2 hours of discussion per 10 weeks - 1.5 hours of lecture per week week 15 weeks - 1 hour of seminar per week Additional Details Additional Details Subject/Course Level: East Asian Languages and Cultures/ Subject/Course Level: East Asian Languages and Cultures/ Undergraduate Undergraduate Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required. Grading/Final exam status: The grading option will be decided by the instructor when the class is offered. Final exam not required. Also listed as: BUDDSTD C50/S,SEASN C52
Freshman Seminar: Read Less [-] Introduction to the Study of Buddhism: Read Less [-] EA LANG 39 Freshman/Sophomore Seminar 1.5 - 2 Units Terms offered: Fall 2021 Freshman and sophomore seminars offer lower division students the opportunity to explore an intellectual topic with a faculty member and a group of peers in a small-seminar setting. These seminars are offered in all campus departments; topics vary from department to department and from semester to semester. Freshman/Sophomore Seminar: Read More [+] Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: Priority given to freshmen and sophomores
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 5 weeks - 4-6 hours of seminar per week 6 weeks - 3.5-5 hours of seminar per week 8 weeks - 3-4 hours of seminar per week 10 weeks - 2-3 hours of seminar per week 15 weeks - 1.5-2 hours of seminar per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: East Asian Languages and Cultures/ Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: The grading option will be decided by the instructor when the class is offered. Final Exam To be decided by the instructor when the class is offered.
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EA LANG 84 Sophomore Seminar 1 or 2 Units EA LANG 101 Catastrophe, Memory, and Terms offered: Spring 2019, Spring 2018, Fall 2012 Narrative: Comparative Responses to Sophomore seminars are small interactive courses offered by faculty Atrocity in the Twentieth Century 4 Units members in departments all across the campus. Sophomore seminars Terms offered: Fall 2020, Summer 2015 10 Week Session, Summer 2015 offer opportunity for close, regular intellectual contact between faculty First 6 Week Session members and students in the crucial second year. The topics vary from This course will examine comparative responses to and representations department to department and semester to semester. Enrollment limited of violent conflict. We will pay attention to how catastrophic events are to 15 sophomores. productive of new forms of expression--oral, written, and visual--as Sophomore Seminar: Read More [+] well as destructive of familiar ones. We will examine the ways in which Rules & Requirements experience and its representation interact during and in the aftermath of Prerequisites: At discretion of instructor extreme violence. Our empirical cases will be drawn from our research on responses to WWII atrocities, and on the post-Cold War civil wars in Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes. Africa. Catastrophe, Memory, and Narrative: Comparative Responses to Atrocity Hours & Format in the Twentieth Century: Read More [+] Fall and/or spring: Hours & Format 5 weeks - 3-6 hours of seminar per week Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week 10 weeks - 1.5-3 hours of seminar per week 15 weeks - 1-2 hours of seminar per week Summer: 6 weeks - 8 hours of lecture per week
Summer: Additional Details 6 weeks - 2.5-5 hours of seminar per week 8 weeks - 2-4 hours of seminar per week Subject/Course Level: East Asian Languages and Cultures/ Undergraduate Additional Details Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Alternative to final exam. Subject/Course Level: East Asian Languages and Cultures/ Undergraduate Catastrophe, Memory, and Narrative: Comparative Responses to Atrocity in the Twentieth Century: Read Less [-] Grading/Final exam status: The grading option will be decided by the instructor when the class is offered. Final exam required. EA LANG 105 Dynamics of Romantic Core
Sophomore Seminar: Read Less [-] Values in East Asian Premodern Literature and Contemporary Film 4 Units Terms offered: Summer 2020 First 6 Week Session, Fall 2019, Summer 2019 Second 6 Week Session This course explores representation of romantic love in East Asian cultures in premodern and post-modern contexts. Students develop a better understanding of the similarities and differences in traditional values in three East Asian cultures by comparing how canonical texts of premodern China, Japan and Korea represent romantic relationship. This is followed by the study of several contemporary East Asian films, giving the student the opportunity to explore how traditional values persist, change, or become nexus points of resistance. Dynamics of Romantic Core Values in East Asian Premodern Literature and Contemporary Film: Read More [+] Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Summer: 6 weeks - 8 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: East Asian Languages and Cultures/ Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam not required.
Instructor: Wallace
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EA LANG 106 Expressing the Ineffable in EA LANG 108 Revising the Classics: Chinese China and Beyond: The Making of Meaning in and Greek Poetry in Translation 4 Units Poetic Writing 4 Units Terms offered: Fall 2015, Fall 2006, Spring 2006 Terms offered: Fall 2019, Fall 2012, Spring 2010 This course will explore poetic translation, across languages, across This course will explore how the Chinese and English-language literary cultures, and across historical ages, not merely from the perspective of traditions (broadly defined) delineate the realm of the ineffable, and the "accuracy" with which a classic text is represented in the translation, how cultural notions of the inexpressible shape the writing and reading but as a window into the nature of poetic tradition and poetic writing of poems, songs, and a selection of prose pieces, from the uses of itself. Works will be primarily drawn from the Chinese tradition, but in figurative language and prosody to genre and canon formation. In the interest of allowing a comparative discussion of the course's central addition, in order to deepen our understanding of how writing achieves themes, a significant amount of reading from ancient and modern Greek its aims, some attention will be given to nonverbal modes of expression, poetry will be included as well. The goal of the class is not simply to gain including calligraphy and painting--and attempts to render them in writing. familiarity with Chinese poetry and poets, but more fundamentally to Over this course of study, students will not only refine their sensitivity to gain skill and sophistication in reading, responding to, and thinking about the power of artistic modes of indirection, but will also hone their skills in poetry. close reading, analytical writing, and oral expression. All readings will be Revising the Classics: Chinese and Greek Poetry in Translation: Read in English. More [+] Expressing the Ineffable in China and Beyond: The Making of Meaning in Hours & Format Poetic Writing: Read More [+] Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week Hours & Format Additional Details Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week Subject/Course Level: East Asian Languages and Cultures/ Additional Details Undergraduate Subject/Course Level: East Asian Languages and Cultures/ Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required. Undergraduate Instructor: Ashmore Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required. Revising the Classics: Chinese and Greek Poetry in Translation: Read Instructor: Varsano Less [-] Expressing the Ineffable in China and Beyond: The Making of Meaning in Poetic Writing: Read Less [-] EA LANG 109 History of the Culture of Tea in China and Japan 4 Units EA LANG 107 War, Empire, and Literature in Terms offered: Spring 2020, Spring 2019, Summer 2016 First 6 Week East Asia 4 Units Session Terms offered: Fall 2021, Fall 2013, Fall 2008 In this course we compare the cultural traditions of tea in China This course will examine war, empire, and the writing and and Japan. In addition, using tea as the case study, we analyze the memorialization of history through an eclectic group of literary, graphic, mechanics of the flow of culture across both national boundaries and and cinematic texts from China, Japan, Europe, and the U.S. social practices (such as between poetry and the tea ceremony). War, Empire, and Literature in East Asia: Read More [+] Understanding the tea culture of these countries informs students of Hours & Format important and enduring aspects of both cultures, provides an opportunity to discuss the role of religion and art in social practice, provides a Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week forum for cultural comparison, and provides as well an example of the relationship between the two countries and Japanese methods of Additional Details importing and naturalizing another country's social practice. Korean tea traditions are also briefly considered. Subject/Course Level: East Asian Languages and Cultures/ History of the Culture of Tea in China and Japan: Read More [+] Undergraduate Hours & Format Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required. Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week War, Empire, and Literature in East Asia: Read Less [-] Summer: 6 weeks - 8 hours of lecture per week
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EA LANG 110 Bio-Ethical Issues in East EA LANG 112 The East Asian Sixties 4 Units Asian Thought 4 Units Terms offered: Spring 2022, Spring 2017, Spring 2014 Terms offered: Spring 2020, Spring 2017, Spring 2015 The 1960s were a time of historical transformation and upheaval in This course will explore some of the most difficult bioethical issues East Asia. It saw the overthrow of political regimes, the consolidation of confronting the world today from the perspective of traditional values communism, unprecedented capitalist expansion, and the emergence of embedded in the cultural history of India, China, and Japan as evidenced new technologies that affected aesthetic production and consumption. in their religions, legal codes, and political history. Possible topics include This course explores the multiple aspects of culture, aesthetics, and population control, abortion, sex-selection, euthanasia, suicide, genetic politics that defined this moment. It asks how and why we can define manipulation, brain-death, and organ transplants. the 1960s as a period, while considering the significance of defining Bio-Ethical Issues in East Asian Thought: Read More [+] East Asia (a term which denotes an imagined space of relations) as a Hours & Format particular region at this time. The East Asian Sixties: Read More [+] Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture and 1 hour of Rules & Requirements discussion per week Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes. Summer: 6 weeks - 8 hours of lecture and 2 hours of discussion per week Hours & Format
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Subject/Course Level: East Asian Languages and Cultures/ Summer: 6 weeks - 8 hours of lecture per week Undergraduate Additional Details Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required. Subject/Course Level: East Asian Languages and Cultures/ Instructor: Blum Undergraduate
Bio-Ethical Issues in East Asian Thought: Read Less [-] Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Alternative to final exam. EA LANG 111 Reading Global Politics in The East Asian Sixties: Read Less [-] Contemporary East Asian Literature 4 Units EA LANG 114 Illness Narratives, Vulnerable Terms offered: Spring 2016 Bodies 4 Units This class examines the global dynamics and local distinction of Terms offered: Spring 2021, Fall 2018, Fall 2017 literary writings from contemporary East Asia. Beginning with the The course will introduce students to narratives about illness, disease colonial connections among Tokyo, Shanghai and Seoul during the and healing written by patients, physicians, caretakers, and others. These 1920s-1940s, and moving on to texts composed since 2000 in Manila, narratives report an experience. They reveal the interactions between Hong Kong, India and elsewhere, the course considers how literary the unfolding life of the patient and the shifting social meanings attached writers have grappled with an increasingly integrated global marketplace to illness. We will study the relationships between illness and society in which culture, ideas and people circulate alongside (and as) capital. through readings of fiction, memoir, films, essays and graphic novels Discussions will reflect on the confluence of culture and politics in literary in order to understand how these varied forms of storytelling organize writings that treat race tension, ecological crisis, capitalist catastrophe and give meaning to crucial questions about embodiment, disability and and other themes. Primary readings will be supplemented by iconic emergent forms of sociality enabled by our bodily vulnerabilities. essays of cultural criticism and recent films. Illness Narratives, Vulnerable Bodies: Read More [+] Reading Global Politics in Contemporary East Asian Literature: Read Hours & Format More [+] Hours & Format Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
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Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required. Illness Narratives, Vulnerable Bodies: Read Less [-]
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EA LANG 115 Knowing Others, and Being EA LANG 117 Lu Xun and his Worlds 4 Units Known: The Art of Writing People 4 Units Terms offered: Spring 2018 Terms offered: Spring 2022, Spring 2017 This course provides a forum for reading and discussing East Asia’s What does it mean to use the medium of writing to “know” a person, and greatest and most iconic modern writers, Lu Xun. We will closely read precisely how does one avail oneself of that medium to make oneself— Lu Xun’s major works , discuss his role in the reinvention of the Chinese or someone else— “known”? This course will guide students in writing language and literary tradition, explore the global literary and intellectual about one of the most challenging of subjects: people. Students will have currents with which he was deeply engaged, as well as situating him the opportunity to (a) read deeply in a selection of writings drawn from within the tumultuous era of colonialism, modernization, and revolution. a range of genres and cultures, to acquaint themselves with a range of All readings will be available in English translation. rhetorical tools employed in the portrayal of human lives and character, Lu Xun and his Worlds: Read More [+] (b) identify the aims of their own writings, and (c) develop competency in Hours & Format applying what they have learned as readers to their own writing. Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week Knowing Others, and Being Known: The Art of Writing People: Read More [+] Additional Details Hours & Format Subject/Course Level: East Asian Languages and Cultures/ Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week Undergraduate
Additional Details Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Alternative to final exam.
Subject/Course Level: East Asian Languages and Cultures/ Lu Xun and his Worlds: Read Less [-] Undergraduate EA LANG 118 Sex and Gender in Premodern Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam not required. Chinese Culture 4 Units Knowing Others, and Being Known: The Art of Writing People: Read Less Terms offered: Spring 2021, Fall 2019, Fall 2015 [-] This course explores Chinese cultures of sex and gender from antiquity to the seventeenth century. We concentrate on three interconnected issues: EA LANG 116 Modern East Asian Fiction 4 women’s status, homoeroticism, and the human body. Our discussion Units will be informed by cross-cultural comparisons with ancient Greece, Terms offered: Fall 2017 Renaissance England, and Contemporary America. In contrast to our Comparative analysis of modern literature from China (including Hong modern regime of sexuality, which collapses all the three aforementioned Kong and Taiwan), Korea, and Japan with an emphasis on the short story issues into the issues of desire and identity intrinsic to the body, we will and the novel. We will think about both the specificities of the literatures see how the early Chinese regime of sexual act evolved into the early of the region as well as shared and interconnected experiences of modern regime of emotion that concerned less inherent identities than a modernity that broadly connect the cultures of East Asia during the media culture of life-style performance. twentieth century. Thematic concerns will include: modernism and Sex and Gender in Premodern Chinese Culture: Read More [+] modernity; nostalgia and homesickness; empire and its aftermath; and Rules & Requirements the cultures of globalization. Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes. Modern East Asian Fiction: Read More [+] Hours & Format Hours & Format
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Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Alternative to final exam. Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Alternative to final exam.
Modern East Asian Fiction: Read Less [-] Instructor: Lam
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EA LANG 119 The History of Heaven 4 Units EA LANG 125 The Art of Writing: Writing the Terms offered: Fall 2021, Spring 2021, Fall 2020 Limits of Empathy 4 Units Higher Learning begins with the study of heaven. As the source of Terms offered: Fall 2021 orientation in space and time, heaven provides humanity the foundation How far can we go into the minds and bodies of others? How strongly for its knowledge and political order. To understand what knowledge can we sense their presence? When, and why, do we hit a wall is or how politics function, we need a basic understanding of the ways separating us from the world beyond us? In this course we will of heaven. This course examines the function heaven serves in the experiment, through a number of genres and media, with the art of founding of order against the void in nature through the formation writing (and thinking and feeling) empathetically. These genres and of conventional systems of time and space and the role heaven has media include diary, fiction, poetry, editorial, letter writing, reportage, played in the promulgation of governments. From a cross-cultural, description (of nature, art, emotions, psychic states, etc.), film, video, and interdisciplinary perspective that covers the course of Eurasian history photography. and using primary sources in translation, we will see heaven unfold The Art of Writing: Writing the Limits of Empathy: Read More [+] through the developments that leave us with the world we know today. Hours & Format The History of Heaven: Read More [+] Hours & Format Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week Additional Details
Additional Details Subject/Course Level: East Asian Languages and Cultures/ Undergraduate Subject/Course Level: East Asian Languages and Cultures/ Undergraduate Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Alternative to final exam.
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required. The Art of Writing: Writing the Limits of Empathy: Read Less [-] The History of Heaven: Read Less [-] EA LANG C126 Buddhism and the EA LANG C120 Buddhism on the Silk Road 4 Environment 4 Units Terms offered: Spring 2011, Fall 2009, Spring 2008 Units A thematic course on Buddhist perspectives on nature and Buddhist Terms offered: Spring 2022, Fall 2016, Fall 2015, Fall 2014 responses to environmental issues. The first half of the course focuses This course will discuss the social, economic, and cultural aspects on East Asian Buddhist cosmological and doctrinal perspectives on the of Buddhism as it moved along the ancient Eurasian trading network place of the human in nature and the relationship between the salvific referred to as the “Silk Road”. Instead of relying solely on textual goals of Buddhism and nature. The second half of the course examines sources, the course will focus on material culture as it offers evidence Buddhist ethics, economics, and activism in relation to environmental concerning the spread of Buddhism. Through an examination of the issues in contemporary Southeast Asia, East Asia, and America. Buddhist archaeological remains of the Silk Road, the course will address Buddhism and the Environment: Read More [+] specific topics, such as the symbiotic relationship between Buddhism and Rules & Requirements commerce; doctrinal divergence; ideological shifts in the iconography of the Buddha; patronage (royal, religious and lay); Buddhism and political Prerequisites: One lower-division course in Buddhist Studies or consent power; and art and conversion. All readings will be in English. of instructor Buddhism on the Silk Road: Read More [+] Hours & Format Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
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Additional Details Subject/Course Level: East Asian Languages and Cultures/ Undergraduate Subject/Course Level: East Asian Languages and Cultures/ Undergraduate Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam not required. Also listed as: BUDDSTD C126
Also listed as: BUDDSTD C120 Buddhism and the Environment: Read Less [-]
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EA LANG C128 Buddhism in Contemporary EA LANG C132 Pure Land Buddhism 4 Units Society 4 Units Terms offered: Fall 2019, Fall 2017, Fall 2015 Terms offered: Spring 2022, Spring 2021, Spring 2020 This course will discuss the historical development of the Pure Land A study of the Buddhist tradition as it is found today in Asia. The course school of East Asian Buddhism, the largest form of Buddhism practiced will focus on specific living traditions of East, South, and/or Southeast today in China and Japan. The curriculum is divided into India, China, Asia. Themes to be addressed may include contemporary Buddhist ritual and Japan sections, with the second half of the course focusing practices; funerary and mortuary customs; the relationship between exclusively on Japan where this form of religious culture blossomed Buddhism and other local religious traditions; the relationship between most dramatically, covering the ancient, medieval, and modern periods. Buddhist institutions and the state; Buddhist monasticism and its The curriculum will begin with a reading of the core scriptures that form relationship to the laity; Buddhist ethics; Buddhist "modernism," and so the basis of the belief system and then move into areas of cultural on. expression. The course will follow two basic trajectories over the Buddhism in Contemporary Society: Read More [+] centuries: doctrine/philosophy and culture/society. Hours & Format Pure Land Buddhism: Read More [+] Hours & Format Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture and 1 hour of discussion per week Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details Summer: 6 weeks - 8 hours of lecture per week
Subject/Course Level: East Asian Languages and Cultures/ Additional Details Undergraduate Subject/Course Level: East Asian Languages and Cultures/ Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required. Undergraduate
Instructor: von Rospatt Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Alternative to final exam.
Also listed as: BUDDSTD C128/S,SEASN C145 Instructor: Blum
Buddhism in Contemporary Society: Read Less [-] Also listed as: BUDDSTD C132 EA LANG C130 Zen Buddhism 4 Units Pure Land Buddhism: Read Less [-] Terms offered: Fall 2013, Spring 2010, Summer 2007 Second 6 Week EA LANG C134 Russia and Asia 4 Units Session Terms offered: Spring 2020 This course will introduce students to the Zen Buddhist traditions of China This course offers a cultural history of encounters between Russia and Japan, drawing on a variety of disciplinary perspectives (history, and Asia in literature, film and visual art. The lenses of Orientalism, anthropology, philosophy, and so on). The course will also explore a Eurasianism and Internationalism will be used to analyze Russian range of hermeneutic problems (problems involved in interpretation) interactions with three spaces: the Caucasus, Central Asia, and East entailed in understanding a sophisticated religious tradition that emerged Asia. We will discuss works by classic Russian writers and artists in a time and culture very different from our own. (including Tolstoy, Blok and Platonov) that address the question of Zen Buddhism: Read More [+] Russia’s engagement with Asia and consider Russia’s ambiguous spatial Rules & Requirements identity between Europe and Asia. We will also examine responses to Prerequisites: One lower division course in Asian religion recommended Russian culture and the Russian/Soviet state in the literature and culture of China (Lu Xun, Xiao Hong), Japan (Kurosawa), Central Asia (Aitmatov) Hours & Format and the Caucasus (Sadulaev). All readings in English. Russia and Asia: Read More [+] Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture and 1 hour of Hours & Format discussion per week Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week Summer: 6 weeks - 8 hours of lecture and 2 hours of discussion per week Additional Details
Additional Details Subject/Course Level: East Asian Languages and Cultures/ Undergraduate Subject/Course Level: East Asian Languages and Cultures/ Undergraduate Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Alternative to final exam.
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required. Also listed as: SLAVIC C134N
Instructor: Sharf Russia and Asia: Read Less [-]
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EA LANG C135 Tantric Traditions of Asia 4 EA LANG C152 Buddhist Astral Science 4 Units Units Terms offered: Fall 2020, Fall 2019, Spring 2013, Spring 2010 Terms offered: Spring 2022, Spring 2021 The emergence of the tantras in seventh and eighth-century India This course studies the purview of astral science under Buddhist marked a watershed for religious practice throughout Asia. These dominion. Here it is at once promoted for promulgating Buddhist world esoteric scriptures introduced complex new ritual technologies that order and repudiated for begetting the suffering-inducing physical transformed the religious traditions of India, from Brahmanism to Jainism universe, a warped vessel of ceaselessly turning stars that the Buddhist and Buddhism, as well as those of Southeast Asia, Tibet, Mongolia, dharma must transcend. The course begins with the part astral science China, Korea, and Japan. This course provides an overview of tantric plays in genesis, the creation of Buddhist world order. It then covers the religion across these regions. science’s central aspects, celestial systems, spatial orientation, time Tantric Traditions of Asia: Read More [+] reckoning, the making of a calendar, and publication of an almanac. Hours & Format Thereafter, it treats the science’s outgrowth into interrelated forms of Buddhist propaganda manifest as divination, magic, medicine, ritual, Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week scripture, and iconography. Buddhist Astral Science: Read More [+] Additional Details Hours & Format Subject/Course Level: East Asian Languages and Cultures/ Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week Undergraduate Additional Details Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required. Subject/Course Level: East Asian Languages and Cultures/ Instructor: Dalton Undergraduate Also listed as: BUDDSTD C135/S,SEASN C135 Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required. Tantric Traditions of Asia: Read Less [-] Also listed as: BUDDSTD C152
EA LANG C142 Psychoanalytic Theory, Asian Buddhist Astral Science: Read Less [-] Texts 4 Units Terms offered: Fall 2021 EA LANG 160 Neurodiversity in Literature 4 Through the prism of psychoanalytical theories, early and contemporary, Units this course explores a variety of pre-modern and modern East Asian Terms offered: Summer 2020 Second 6 Week Session texts—literary, artistic, religious, and theoretical. We will be asking both This course will investigate how neurotypical and neurodiverse authors how these theories enrich our reading of the texts, and how the texts depict and discuss neurodiversity. By first seeking to understand what enrich our understanding of the theories. Through close readings of all is meant by the term “neurodiversity”, we will pay particular attention the material we will begin to discern how theory and text reshape one to how the autistic community have embraced it. We will give special another, where they mesh productively, and where they insistently stay emphasis to two Japanese authors: Nobel Prize-winner Oe Kenzaburô apart. Topics include: the unconscious, selfhood, repression, attachment, and Higashida Naoki. To better contextualize the two main Japanese beauty, dreams, ritual, ghosts and haunting, madness, meditative states, authors, we will read essays on disability and neurodiversity in Japan. mystical experience, mourning, healing, therapeutic method and cure. No Taking a comparative, cross-cultural approach to this topic will bring into prerequisites. relief the different ways in which neurodiversity is understood, depicted Psychoanalytic Theory, Asian Texts: Read More [+] and expressed; and the unique difficulties with representation relative to Hours & Format the respective cultures we study. Neurodiversity in Literature: Read More [+] Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week Hours & Format Additional Details Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week Subject/Course Level: East Asian Languages and Cultures/ Summer: 6 weeks - 8 hours of lecture per week Undergraduate Additional Details Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Alternative to final exam. Subject/Course Level: East Asian Languages and Cultures/ Also listed as: S,SEASN C142 Undergraduate Psychoanalytic Theory, Asian Texts: Read Less [-] Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Alternative to final exam.
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EA LANG C175 Archaeology of East Asia 4 EA LANG 181 East Asian Film: Special Units Topics in Genre 4 Units Terms offered: Fall 2020, Fall 2018, Fall 2017 Terms offered: Spring 2022, Fall 2021, Spring 2021 Prehistoric and protohistoric archaeology in China, Japan, and Korea. The study of East Asian films as categorized either by industry-identified Archaeology of East Asia: Read More [+] genres (westerns, horror films, musicals, film noir, etc.) or broader Hours & Format interpretive modes (melodrama, realism, fantasy, etc). East Asian Film: Special Topics in Genre: Read More [+] Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week Hours & Format
Additional Details Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture and 2 hours of discussion per week Subject/Course Level: East Asian Languages and Cultures/ Undergraduate Summer: 6 weeks - 8 hours of lecture and 2 hours of discussion per week Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required. Additional Details Also listed as: ANTHRO C125A Subject/Course Level: East Asian Languages and Cultures/ Archaeology of East Asia: Read Less [-] Undergraduate
EA LANG 180 East Asian Film: Directors and Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required. their Contexts 4 Units Terms offered: Spring 2011, Spring 2008 East Asian Film: Special Topics in Genre: Read Less [-] A close analysis of the oeuvre of an East Asian director in its aesthetic, cultural, and political contexts. EA LANG 191 Tools and Methods in the East Asian Film: Directors and their Contexts: Read More [+] Study of East Asian Philosophy and Religion Rules & Requirements 4 Units Terms offered: Spring 2022, Spring 2020, Fall 2018 Prerequisites: Upper division or graduate standing This course is a capstone experience that centers on the philosophies Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit without restriction. and religions of East Asia examined from multiple theoretical perspectives. It comprises several thematic units within which a short Hours & Format set of readings about theory are followed by chronologically arranged readings about East Asia. Themes will alternate from year to year but Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture and 2 hours of may include: ritual and performance studies; religion and evolution; discussion per week definitions of religion and theories of its origins; and the role of sacrifice. Additional Details Tools and Methods in the Study of East Asian Philosophy and Religion: Read More [+] Subject/Course Level: East Asian Languages and Cultures/ Rules & Requirements Undergraduate Prerequisites: Preference will be given to majors, especially those with Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam not required. junior or senior standing
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EA LANG H195A Honors Course 2 - 5 Units EA LANG 198 Directed Group Study 1 - 4 Terms offered: Fall 2018 Units Directed independent study and preparation of senior honors thesis. Terms offered: Spring 2010, Fall 2009, Spring 2009 Limited to senior honors candidates in the East Asian Religion, Thought, Small group instruction in topics not covered by regularly scheduled and Culture major (for description of Honors Program, see Index). courses. Honors Course: Read More [+] Directed Group Study: Read More [+] Rules & Requirements Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: Senior honors standing in the East Asian Religion, Prerequisites: Junior or senior standing Thought, and Culture major, 3.5 GPA in major, 3.3 overall Credit Restrictions: Enrollment is restricted; see the Introduction to Hours & Format Courses and Curricula section of this catalog.
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 2-5 hours of independent study per week Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit without restriction.
Summer: 10 weeks - 3-7.5 hours of independent study per week Hours & Format
Additional Details Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 1-4 hours of directed group study per week Subject/Course Level: East Asian Languages and Cultures/ Undergraduate Summer: 3 weeks - 3-20 hours of directed group study per week Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. This is part one of a year long 6 weeks - 2.5-10 hours of directed group study per week series course. A provisional grade of IP (in progress) will be applied and 8 weeks - 1.5-7.5 hours of directed group study per week later replaced with the final grade after completing part two of the series. Final exam not required. Additional Details
Honors Course: Read Less [-] Subject/Course Level: East Asian Languages and Cultures/ Undergraduate EA LANG H195B Honors Course 2 - 5 Units Terms offered: Prior to 2007 Grading/Final exam status: Offered for pass/not pass grade only. Final Directed independent study and preparation of senior honors thesis. exam not required. Limited to senior honors candidates in the East Asian Religion, Thought, and Culture major (for description of Honors Program, see Index). Directed Group Study: Read Less [-] Honors Course: Read More [+] Rules & Requirements EA LANG 199 Independent Study 1 - 4 Units Terms offered: Fall 2007, Spring 2007 Prerequisites: Senior honors standing in the East Asian Religion, Independent study in topics not covered by regularly scheduled courses. Thought, and Culture major, 3.5 major GPA, 3.3 overall Independent Study: Read More [+] Rules & Requirements Hours & Format Prerequisites: Junior or senior standing Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 2-5 hours of independent study per week Credit Restrictions: Enrollment is restricted; see the Introduction to Summer: 10 weeks - 3-7.5 hours of independent study per week Courses and Curricula section of this catalog.
Additional Details Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit without restriction.
Subject/Course Level: East Asian Languages and Cultures/ Hours & Format Undergraduate Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 1-4 hours of independent study per week Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. This is part two of a year long series course. Upon completion, the final grade will be applied to both Summer: parts of the series. Final exam not required. 3 weeks - 5-20 hours of independent study per week 6 weeks - 2.5-10 hours of independent study per week Honors Course: Read Less [-] 8 weeks - 1.5-7.5 hours of independent study per week
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EA LANG 200 Proseminar: Approaches to EA LANG 204 Topics in East Asian Studies 2 East Asian Studies 2 or 4 Units or 4 Units Terms offered: Fall 2021, Fall 2020, Fall 2018 Terms offered: Spring 2022, Fall 2021, Fall 2019 This course is a pro-seminar required for all entering graduate students This course provides a place for graduate-level seminars in East in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures no matter their Asian Studies that rely primarily on secondary scholarship and texts in particular areas of interest. Its purpose is to introduce graduate students translation. Content will vary between semesters but will typically focus in the program to the major theoretical concerns, academic issues, and on a particular theme. Themes will be chosen according to faculty and interpretive methodologies relevant to humanistic studies more generally student interests, with an eye toward introducing students to the breadth and to the study of East Asian literature, thought, religion, and culture of available western scholarship on that subject, from classics in the field in particular. Supervising faculty change from year to year, as does the to the latest publications. focus of the seminar. Topics in East Asian Studies: Read More [+] Proseminar: Approaches to East Asian Studies: Read More [+] Rules & Requirements Hours & Format Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes. Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3-3 hours of seminar per week Hours & Format Additional Details Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3-3 hours of seminar per week Subject/Course Level: East Asian Languages and Cultures/Graduate Additional Details Grading: Letter grade. Subject/Course Level: East Asian Languages and Cultures/Graduate Proseminar: Approaches to East Asian Studies: Read Less [-] Grading: Letter grade. EA LANG 202 Close Reading Area Studies: Topics in East Asian Studies: Read Less [-] China and Japan in the World 2 or 4 Units Terms offered: Spring 2009 EA LANG C220 Seminar in Buddhism and This course will consider alternative strategies and modes of close Buddhist Texts 2 or 4 Units reading that can be relevant to the study of East Asia with a focus on Terms offered: Spring 2022, Fall 2020, Fall 2019, Spring 2019, Fall 2016 China and Japan. As we concentrate on the historical role of philological Content varies with student interests. The course will normally focus on research, translation studies, interdisciplinary scholarship and ask how classical Buddhist texts that exist in multiple recensions and languages, "knowledge" about East Asia is produced in our fields, our readings on including Chinese, Sanskrit, and Tibetan. "close reading" will help us question the common sense of "civilization," Seminar in Buddhism and Buddhist Texts: Read More [+] culture," and "tradition," and explore new ways of asking questions about Rules & Requirements text and context, aesthetics and politics, cultural memory, historical narratives, and regimes of knowledge. Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit without restriction. Close Reading Area Studies: China and Japan in the World: Read More [+] Hours & Format Rules & Requirements Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3-3 hours of seminar per week Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit without restriction. Additional Details Hours & Format Subject/Course Level: East Asian Languages and Cultures/Graduate Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3-3 hours of seminar per week Grading: Letter grade. Additional Details Also listed as: BUDDSTD C220/S,SEASN C220 Subject/Course Level: East Asian Languages and Cultures/Graduate Seminar in Buddhism and Buddhist Texts: Read Less [-] Grading: Letter grade.
Instructor: O'Neill
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EA LANG 291 Teaching East Asian Philosophy and Religion 4 Units Terms offered: Spring 2015 This course is taught in parallel with the EA LANG 191 capstone course on the philosophies and religions of East Asia examined from multiple theoretical perspectives. It comprises several thematic units within which a short set of readings about theory are followed by chronologically arranged readings about East Asia. Themes will alternate from year to year but may include: ritual and performance studies; religion and evolution; definitions of religion and theories of its origins; and the role of sacrifice. Graduate students will additionally attend five “teaching East Asia thought” lectures and also produce an original syllabus in a related area of their interest. Teaching East Asian Philosophy and Religion: Read More [+] Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: East Asian Languages and Cultures/Graduate
Grading: Letter grade.
Teaching East Asian Philosophy and Religion: Read Less [-] EA LANG 375 Methods of Teaching East Asian Languages 2 Units Terms offered: Prior to 2007 This course aims to provide basic pedagogical training for teaching East Asian languages as second/foreign language. It involves critical reading and discussion of major pedagogical principles and issues in teaching Asian languages as second languages, with emphasis on the following topics: Practical topics such as lesson planning, classroom observation, peer teaching, classroom activities, self- and peer evaluations, best practices in teaching. The focus of this course is on teaching theory, methodology, curriculum and lesson plan design, focusing on the teaching of Chinese, Japanese and Korean as foreign/second languages. Classes include lecture, discussion of readings, activities and feedback on observed language classes. Methods of Teaching East Asian Languages: Read More [+] Rules & Requirements
Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit with instructor consent.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 2 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: East Asian Languages and Cultures/Professional course for teachers or prospective teachers
Grading: Letter grade.
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