Asia Related Courses offered in the Spring 2019 Semester
CAS is pleased to announce a number of exciting Asia-related courses that are being offered next semester. Interested in learning more about Asia in Spring 2019?
| Sex and Gender in Asian Film and Literature
T/Th 9:30-10:45
Dr. Colleen Berry
This class explores configurations of gender, sexual identities, and relationships in cultures across Asia using materials such as feature films, fiction, documentaries, and academic articles.
| Modern Korean Literature in English Translation
T/Th 3:30-4:45
Dr. Jae Won Chung
(ASIA 4001 Advanced Language co-seminar in Korean available for additional credit)
| Indonesian (3 credits pending admin. approval)
MWF 1-1:50, ALTEC
Dr. Fransiska Oktoprimasakti
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SOCY 3046 | NEW COURSE: Special Topics: Sex, Gender, and Social Change in Southeast Asia
T/Th 3:30-4:45, Dr. Rachel Rinaldo
We will investigate gender relations and norms in tIndonesia, Malaysia, Vietnam, Thailand, and the Philippines as well as contemporary issues such as women’s work in global factories, sex work, migration, religion, feminist activism, and LGBTQ issues.
| Gateway to Asian Studies
T/Th 2:00-3:15, Dr. Colleen Berry
Introduces main themes, intellectual approaches used in Asian Studies through a transdisciplinary perspective that focuses on interactions and links between geographic regions and national boundaries. Presents Asia as a concept, a powerful imaginary geography, and historically dynamic construct that has shaped / been shaped by global patterns of economic development, nation building, war and diplomacy, colonialism and aspirations for better lives.
| Studies in Korean Pop Culture
T/Th 12:30-1:45, Dr. Jae Won Chung
Introduces Korean popular culture, considering its ideological, economic, and socio-political function, its reception and use, and medium-specific textual operations of individual works, drawing from music, cinema, dance, music videos, literature, comics, and other forms of texts and events. The course moves from the Japanese colonial period to the contemporary moment, providing coverage of North and South Korea. Taught in English.
Global Frontiers in Southeast Asia
MW 3:00-4:15, Dr. Mike Dwyer
Uses the theme of the global frontier to examine and compare three key moments in the modern history of Southeast Asia: the colonial encounter, the rise of the modern territorial state, and the age of contemporary globalization. Examines case studies from earlier eras to analyze emerging global frontiers at the junction of state territoriality and transnational economic expansion.
| THAI and TIBETAN (Directed Independent Language Study, non-credit, free to enroll)
MORE ASIA-RELATED COURSES
| Kinship: Being and Belonging | M 1-3:30
| Readings in Classical Chinese | MWF 11-11:50
GEOG 3622 / IAFS 3670 | Cities of the Global South | MW 3:00-4:15
| The Many Faces of Krishna in South Asia Literature and Culture | T/Th 12:30 – 1:45
| Intro to South Asian Hist to 1757 | MW 3:00-4:15
| Intro to Chinese Hist since 1644 | T/Th 9:30-10:45
| Intro to Japanese History | T/TH 12:30-1:45
| Global Warfare in India | MWF 1:00-1:50
HIST 2220-003 | History of War & Society: World War II in Asia and the Pacific | T/TH 2:00-3:15
| China in World History: China and India | T/TH 5:00-6:15
| Modernity in China and Japan | T/TH 12:30-1:45
| Early Modern China: Gehghis Khan to the Opium War | MWF 1:00-1:50
| Modern Japanese History | T/TH 5:00-6:15
| Japan in the Modern World | MWF 2:00-2:50
| Muslim World: 600-1300 | T/Th 12:30-1:45
| Religions of India | MWF 1:00-1:50
| Meditation: Ancient and Modern | MW 12-12:50
| Women in Buddhism | T/Th 2:30-3:45
| The Mediterranean: Religion Before Modernity | T/Th 9:30-10:45