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
TIBETAN SACRED SPACE(IN COMPARATIVE CONT
- R 10:10 a.m.-noon
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Instructor:
Gray W Tuttle
CULPA: 3
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
Info
- 3 points
FIFTH YEAR KOREAN
Please see department for details.
- W 6:10 p.m.-8:45 p.m.
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Instructor:
Ji-Young Jung
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.
BEYOND THE BAMBOO CURTAIN: SOCIALIST CHI
SOCIALIST CHINA IN THE WO
- W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Gavin Healy
Info - 4 points
ADVANCED LITERARY TIBETAN I
This course develops greater proficiency in literary/classical Tibetan, which is the formal language used in all Tibetan publications and foundational to regional dialects. Students engage with diverse genres of writing, including ancient Buddhist canonical and Tibetan historical works, to support their academic research.
- TR 1:10 p.m.-3 p.m.
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Instructor:
Sonam Tsering
Info - 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:
Gavin Healy
Info - 3 points
ACQ OF CHINESE AS A 2ND LANG
For more than forty years, second language acquisition (SLA) has been emerging as an independent field of inquiry with its own research agenda and theoretical paradigms. The study of SLA is inherently interdisciplinary, as it draws on scholarship from the fields of linguistics, psychology, education, and sociology. This course explores how Chinese is acquired by non-native speakers. Students will learn about general phenomena and patterns during the process of acquiring a new language. They will become familiar with important core concepts, theoretical frameworks, and research practices of the field of SLA, with Chinese as the linguistic focus.
- TR 2:40 p.m.-4:05 p.m.
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Instructor:
Shaoyan Qi
CULPA: 25
Info
- 4 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 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Miharu Nittono
CULPA: 10
Info
- 4 points
Vietnam Studies Historiography and Metho
VIET Historiography & Met
This course brings graduate students interested in Vietnam Studies together across field lines and period focus to discuss some foundational questions of historiography and methods within the field. We have striven to combine key conceptual or theoretical work with examples drawn from the specific context of the study of Vietnam. The course is intended to provide a common vocabulary for the discussion of Vietnam Studies.
- T 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
- 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
ADV KOREAN IN MIXED SCRIPT
This course is designed to provide both M.A. and Ph.D. students in Korean studies with the necessary skills for reading and understanding Korean mixed script and to provide them with reading materials focusing on period from the late-19th century to the mid-20th century. Readings from this period feature a strong mixture of Chinese and Korean characters, so a wide choice of materials is available which represents all subject areas. This course will be part of the graduate program in Korean studies.
- F 10:10 a.m.-noon
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Instructor:
Hyunkyu Yi
CULPA: 8
Info
- 4 points
GRAD SEM IN MOD JAPANESE LIT
Prerequisites: JPNS W4017-W4018 and the instructors permission. Selected works in modern Japanese fiction and criticism.
- M 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
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Instructor:
Christina S Yi
Info - 4 points
PRE-MODERN CHINESE FICTION
- M 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Wei Shang
CULPA: 4
Wikipedia
h-index: 96
Info
- 4 points
TPC-MIDDLE PERIOD-CHINESE HIST
TPC-MIDDLE PERIOD-CHINESE:MING
- W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
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Instructor:
Robert P Hymes
CULPA: 8 Info - 4 points
SCI/TECH-LATE IMPER/MOD CHINA
The aim of this graduate course is to provide a broad introduction to science, medicine and technology in late imperial and modern China, and their relationship to the world. The course examines how the understanding and politics of technology, body, the natural world, and medicine undergo drastic reconfiguration from the late imperial period to the modern period. To understand this shift, we will consider questions of technology and imperialism, global circuits and knowledge transfer, the formulation of the modern episteme of “science,” the popularization and wonder of science, as well as commerce, politics and changing regimes of corporeality, in both the imperial and modern periods while placing close attention to the global context and transnational connections. In addition to getting a sense of the existing historiography on Chinese science, we will also be closely examining primary documents, pertinent theoretical writings, and comparative historiography. A central goal of the course is to explore different methodological approaches including history of science, translation studies, material culture, and global history. Reading ability in Classical Chinese and modern Chinese and facility in critical theory are all required.
- M 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
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Instructor:
Eugenia Lean
CULPA: 17 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.
SEMINAR IN WESTERN ZHOU HISTORY
SEM IN WESTERN ZHOU HISTO
Techniques of Governance and Institutional Perimeters: This course discusses the method of governance and political-legal institutions of one of the best-documented Bronze-Age states in world history: Western Zhou (1045-771 BCE). By clarifying the essential features of the Zhou institutions and bringing to light the workings of its government, the course provides key to understanding the long duration or China as both a political state and a civilization.