INTRO TO CLASSICAL CHINESE I
Prerequisites: completion of three years of modern Chinese at least, or four years of Japanese or Korean.
- MWF 10:10 a.m.-11:05 a.m.
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Instructor:
Lening Liu
CULPA: 9 Info - 3 points
Narrating Premodern Korea
This course examines historical narratives and record-keeping in premodern Korea, focusing on the Chosŏn dynasty (1392–1910). It explores writing as a medium of power that shaped politics, social order, gender relations, and cultural identity. Through diverse texts, including official chronicles, didactic texts, memoirs, and (auto)biographies, students will analyze how individuals and institutions used writing to assert authority, express dissent, and document their lives.
- M 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
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Instructor:
Jungwon Kim
CULPA: 2 Info - 4 points
READINGS IN CLASSICAL CHINESE
Prerequisites: CHNS W3302 or the equivalent. Admission after placement exam. Focusing on Tang and Song prose and poetry, introduces a broad variety of genres through close readings of chosen texts as well as the specific methods, skills, and tools to approach them. Strong emphasis on the grammatical and stylistic analysis of representative works. CC GS EN CE
- TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
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Instructor:
Wei Shang
CULPA: 4
Wikipedia
h-index: 96
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- 3 points
FIFTH YEAR KOREAN
Please see department for details.
- MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Joowon Suh
Info - 4 points
FIFTH YEAR CHINESE I
The Fifth Year Chinese course is designed for advanced learners who have a proficient command of the Chinese language in all four aspects: listening, speaking, reading, and writing, regardless of whether they have Chinese heritage. The course provides a wide variety of literary genres, ranging from short stories to aesthetic essays to academic articles, to enhance students' mastery of formal written Chinese. While the primary objectives of this course lie in reading, students also have opportunities to develop their speaking competence through a variety of in-class discussions, debates, and presentations.
- TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
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Instructor:
Lening Liu
CULPA: 9 Info - 4 points
Climate Change: The Tibetan Plateau as a
Climate Change: Tibet Pla
This course examines the intricate interplay between climate change, human activities, and environmental policies on the vulnerable Tibetan Plateau, the source of rivers for 3 billion people downstream. Topics to be covered include ecology, historical climate shifts, glacial retreat, water resource management, rangeland degradation and restoration, socioeconomic impacts, climate adaptation, and urbanization. With a multidisciplinary approach, and through lectures, discussions and guest speakers, students will gain a holistic understanding of this critical issue and learn skills to interpret and synthesize scientific research into a broader humanities context.
- W 10:10 a.m.-noon
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Instructor:
Tashi Monet
Info - 4 points
SOC OF CHOSON KOREA 1392-1910
Major cultural, political, social, economic and literary issues in the history of this 500-year long period. Reading and discussion of primary texts (in translation) and major scholarly works. All readings will be in English.
- T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Jungwon Kim
CULPA: 2 Info - 4 points
JAPAN BEFORE 1600
Spend a semester in Ancient Japan! This tour of premodern places and spaces introduces the history of the Japanese archipelago, from the Stone Age to the 16th century C.E., through various primary source materials in translation, including archaeological sites, literary works, and the anime Princess Mononoke. No prior knowledge of Japanese history required, and all course readings are in English.
- R 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
- T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
David B Lurie
CULPA: 17
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- 4 points
HISTORY OF MODERN CHINA I
China’s transformation under its last imperial rulers, with special emphasis on economic, legal, political, and cultural change.
- TR 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
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Instructor:
Palden Gyal Palden
Info - 3 points
FIFTH YEAR JAPANESE I
Prerequisites: Students must meet with the instructor prior to taking the course. This course is intended to help students increase their ability level in the four core language skills (reading, writing, listening, and speaking) from advanced to super-advanced. It serves as a bridge between mastering the overall Japanese language and using it for analysis, research, and literary criticism. This is a mandatory course for Ph.D students in Japanese Studies.
- MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Miharu Nittono
CULPA: 10
Info
- 4 points
M.A. THESIS RESEARCH
Provides students the opportunity to present work in progress or final drafts to other students and relevant faculty to receive guidance and feedback.
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Instructor:
Allison E Bernard
CULPA: 1 Info - 2 points
Historiography in Early Medieval China
Hist. Early Medieval Chin
This graduate seminar studies the culture of historiography in early medieval China, exploring topics such as the politics of history writing, modes of historical narration, narratology, historiographical thinking, and history (shi) as a bibliographic category and a field of knowledge.
Korean Cultural Studies Seminar
This course inaugurates a new seminar series that moves across the pre- and post-1945 divide to address cultural forms that navigate intersections among gender, sexuality, mind, body, self, race, empire, technology, militarism (among other concerns). Working across disciplines, the present seminar will focus on the institutionalization of care as central to the idea of the modern and the empirical project of modernization. We begin with an overview on science and technology followed by an engagement with clinical psychiatry, women’s health, and literary representations that connect incarceration to broader rehabilitative praxis. Building off of the discussion of the colonial medical complex, the seminar will conclude with a consideration of the relations between the colonial modern and postcolonial developmentalism.
- R 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
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Instructor:
Theodore Hughes
CULPA: 6
Info
- 4 points
COLL ON MODERN CHINESE HISTORY
Research in and reading in Chinese history. Field(s): EA
- M 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
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Instructor:
Eugenia Lean
CULPA: 17 Info - 4 points
TPC-MIDDLE PERIOD-CHINESE HIST
TPC-MIDDLE PERIOD-CHINESE:SONG
- W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
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Instructor:
Robert P Hymes
CULPA: 8 Info - 4 points
CHINESE MEDIA CULTURES
What is media and mediation? How do aesthetics, techniques and technologies of media shape perception, experience, and politics in our societies? And how have various forms of media and mediation been conceptualized and practiced in the Chinese-language environment? This graduate seminar examines critical issues in historical and contemporary Chinese media cultures, and guides students in a broad survey of primary texts, theoretical readings, and research methods that place Chinese media cultures in historical, comparative and interdisciplinary perspectives. We discuss a variety of media forms, including paintings and graphic arts, photography and cinema, soundscapes and the built environment, and television and digital media. The class covers a time span from mid-19 th century to the present, and makes use of the rich holdings at the Starr East Asian Library for historical research and media archaeology.
Open to MA and PhD students. Advanced undergraduates need to have instructor's approval.
Language prerequisites: intermediate or advanced Chinese; rare exceptions upon instructor’s approval.
INDEPENDENT STUDIES
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Instructor:
Wei Shang
CULPA: 4
Wikipedia
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- 1-4 points