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Fall 2021 Courses UNDERGRADUATE COURSE DESCRIPTIONS Fall 2021 Bulletin and modern languages, the caste system An introduction to the stories, histories, and AAS and reform movements, Asohka, Akbar and aesthetics of Indian classical performing great emperors, impact of Islam and Western arts. The course focuses on Bharatanatyam, Asian & Asian American colonization, and Gandhi and the impact of the solo dance form from South India. Studies South Asia on the world. Kathakali, Manipuri, Odissi, and Kathak will be introduced to compare and contrast DEC: J AAS 102: Eastern Religions dance-theatre forms of South Asia. Students SBC: GLO Historical introduction to Hinduism, will be introduced to each performance form Buddhism, Confucianism, and Taoism. 3 credits by studying its ancient and modern history, Attention is given to the cultural background, practitioners, technique, stage presentation, AAS 209: Indian Classical Dance: art, literature, philosophy, and institutional and aesthetics. The course explores the Bharatanatyam development of each tradition. This course is commonalities of all these performing art offered as both AAS 102 and RLS 102. Introduction to the basics of Bharatanatyam forms including: mythology, the classic text: (South Indian classical dance) technique. Natya Shastra, abhinaya (mime) and the DEC: B Includes primary postures and basic steps, theory of rasa. Lessons will be accompanied SBC: GLO, HUM or adavus. Class also covers the theory of by suitable reading material and visual 3 credits Bharatanatyam including hand gestures, head, demonstrations either on video or by a neck and eye movements, as delineated in practitioner of the art form. AAS 110: Appreciating Indian Music Nandikeswara's Abhinaya Darpana. Students DEC: D An introduction to the basic elements of Indian will gain a well-rounded knowledge of the SBC: ARTS classical music, such as "raga" and "tala", dance by studying Bharatanatyam's form, "gharanas" (schools) and styles. Vocal and content, basic history, music, and repertoire. 3 credits instrumental masterpieces are studied. Topics By the end of the class, students will learn and AAS 216: Introduction to Japanese include: the roles of stringed and percussion present short dance pieces including a Jathi Studies instruments; the intimate relationship between (string for adavus) and a Shlokam (poem). music and religion, and music and ethnicity; Advisory Prerequisite: Any dance class An introduction to Japanese culture as a foundation for understanding Japan. The and the influence of Indian classical music DEC: D changing historical experiences of the Japanese on contemporary art forms such as films and SBC: ARTS folk music. No previous musical training is people are examined, exposing students to the required. 3 credits diversity of backgrounds, values, and opinions in Japan. Japanese history and culture are also DEC: G AAS 211: Asian and Asian American explored in relation to other countries and SBC: ARTS Studies Topics in the Social Sciences2021peoples, especially Korea and China. 3 credits Using the methodologies of the social sciences Advisory Prerequisite: one D.E.C. B or HUM disciplines of history, political science, course AAS 118: Introduction to Asian Studies sociology, and economics, this course provides DEC: J Provides students with information on subjects an introductory overview of important topics SBC: ESI, GLO of common concern to people in both Asia in Asian and Asian American studies. May be and America, including education, health, repeated as the topic changes. 3 credits religion and values, consumer issues, family DEC: F AAS 217: Introduction to Korean and home, mobility (including immigration), SBC: SBS Culture children, careers and work, entertainment and leisure, etc. In this context, Asia as a cultured 3 credits A general survey of Korean culture from the space includes India, Southeast Asia, China, earliest recorded periods to the 20th century, AAS 212: Asian and Asian American Korea and Japan. Students will design their including painting, music, dance, ceramic Studies Topics in the Humanities own maps and timelines to represent tongues, art, sculpture, architecture, literature, and texts, and scripts, as well as ethnic identities. Using methodologies of the Humanities folklore. These are discussed in relation to This course has been offered previouslySpring as a disciplines, such as literature, linguistics, the intellectual, philosophical, and religious topic in AAS 211, AAS Topics in the Social classics, cultural studies, philosophy, religious movements of their time. Previously offered as Sciences and is not for credit in addition to the studies, art history and criticism, this course KRH 240. Not for credit in addition to KRH topic of the same name offered as AAS 211. provides an introductory overview of 240. important topics in Asian and Asian American DEC: F Studies. Topics may range from Women in DEC: J SBC: GLO, SBS Japanese fiction to Mahatma Gandhi's impact SBC: GLO, HUM 3 credits on politics and ethics. May be repeated as the 3 credits topic changes. AAS 201: Introduction to the AAS 218: Ancient, Medieval, & Early Civilization of the Indian Subcontinent DEC: G Modern South Asia SBC: HUM Key concepts in South Asian civilization in Surveys the history of South Asia art, architecture, religion, philosophy, science, 3 credits (contemporary India, Pakistan, and society, literature, and politics from the Indus Bangladesh, with some consideration of AAS 215: Classical Performing Arts of Valley to the present. Topics include evolution Afghanistan, Myanmar, Tibet, and Sri Lanka) India of Hinduism, Buddhism, yoga, classical in ancient, medieval, and early modern eras. Stony Brook University: www.stonybrook.edu/ugbulletin 1 UNDERGRADUATE COURSE DESCRIPTIONS Fall 2021 Bulletin Central themes include the emergence of social AAS 222: Indian Cinemas and Cultures lives of the religious leaders from ancient orders, religions, and regions; global and The course examines the contemporary global times to the present. regional mobility and connections; relations art form known as 'Indian cinemas' from DEC: J between social and religious communities its advent of the moving picture in the late SBC: GLO, HUM (Buddhists, Hindus, Muslims; peasants, elites, 1800's to the present. In this Asian film course, 3 credits genders); changing state structures; and early we explore the various cinemas of India European presence. This course is offered as and the Indian diaspora such as Bollywood both AAS 218 and HIS 218. Formerly offered AAS 237: Introduction to Japanese cinema, art cinema, films by Indian directors Literature as AAS/HIS 347; not for credit in addition to inside and outside India, music videos, and AAS/HIS 347. documentaries. Factors behind its ascent An introduction in English to the great literary to the most popular art form as well as a works of Japan from the earliest extant writing DEC: J to works of the present. SBC: GLO, HUM lucrative medium of entertainment and potent vehicle for social change not only in India 3 credits DEC: G but also beyond its shores are examined in SBC: HUM some depth. We discover how these various AAS 219: Japan in the Age of Courtier 3 credits and Samurai Indian cinemas address and depict the social mores, cultural practices and political issues AAS 240: Confucianism and Daoism Surveys the history of Japan from ancient of the South Asian subcontinent. Themes for An introduction to the basic philosophies times to the late nineteenth century. Examines our discussions include but are not limited to and doctrines of Confucianism and Daoism, the complex processes of political, economic, nationalism, sexuality, censorship, activism, such as the concept of Dao, non-action, social, and cultural change in Japan's tradition, modernity, identity, gender roles, benevolence, and propriety. The course transformation from aristocratic rule under and the pleasures and politics of song, dance explores both the similarities and the the emperor to warrior rule under the samurai. and music, as we look at historical, thematic differences between these two traditions. This This course is offered as both AAS 219 and and aesthetic issues of these cinemas and course is offered as both AAS 240 and RLS HIS 220. their impact and influence in India as well as 240. DEC: J globally. DEC: J SBC: GLO, SBS DEC: D SBC: GLO, HUM 3 credits SBC: ARTS, GLO 3 credits AAS 220: China: Language and Culture 3 credits AAS 247: Modern Korea through Visual A survey of regional languages and cultures AAS 232: Introduction to Asian Culture of China. Addresses issues of diversity and American Fiction and Film 2021 Examines Korea's historical experiences and standardization in the world's most populous The course is an introductory survey of Asian social transformation from mid-nineteenth country, particularly the role of language as American fiction (short stories and novels) and century to present through visual materials both a system of spoken and written signs as films (narratives and documentaries). A central such as photographs, films, postcards, print well as a resource for cultural reproduction premise of the course is that the histories materials and paintings as well as historical and social change. Explores discourse norms, of racial segregation in the U.S., immigrant texts and secondary analysis. Students will key cultural concepts, and the unique problems exclusion acts, colonial and contemporary acquire in-depth knowledge of Korea's modern posed by cross-cultural translation and wars in Asia,
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