Supernatural in Japanese Culture: Ghosts
Supernatural Japanese Cul
Covering a period from the 7th century to the present, this class draws on Japanese literature, folklore, painting, performance, and anime, to explore the world of the supernatural, particularly the role of ghosts, gods, demons, animals, and nature. Students are introduced to various strands of popular religion, including Buddhist cosmologies and native beliefs about nature and human life, with special attention to the relationship between the living and the dead, and explore the role of human intermediaries. The course looks at these texts and media in relationship to the local community, gender, social and occupational status, environment (both natural and urban), and historical period, exploring issues of social identity and power.
- W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Haruo Shirane
CULPA: 3 Wikipedia Info - 4 points
READINGS IN CLASSICAL CHINESE
Prerequisites: CHNS W4007 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
- WF 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
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Instructor:
Andrew Plaks
Info - 4 points
FIFTH YEAR CHINESE II
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.
SURVEY OF TIBETAN LITERATURE
Designed for both undergraduate and graduate students, this course introduces Tibetan belles-lettres and vernacular works (all in English translation) spanning from the imperial period to the present day. We will engage in close readings, together with discussion of the genre each text represents and its salience in current Tibetan intellectual discourse. In the final four weeks, we will read landmark works from the post-Mao period, with a view to the negotiation of traditional forms amidst the advent of new literary genres and the economics of cultural production.
Questions to address include:
How have Tibetan literary forms and content developed throughout history? How has the very concept of "Tibetan literature" been conceived? How have Tibetan writers and scholars—past and present—negotiated literary innovation?
Each session will consist of a brief lecture followed by discussion. Lectures will incrementally provide students with a general timeline of Tibetan literary and related historical developments, as well as biographical material regarding the authors assigned for that week.
Tibetan language students and heritage learners will be offered three optional sessions to read excerpts of selected texts in Tibetan.
- W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Lauran Hartley
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.
- T 10:10 a.m.-noon
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Instructor:
Fnu Gengqiugelai
Info - 4 points
HISTORY OF MODERN CHINA II
HIST OF MODERN CHINA II
China's search for a new order in the long twentieth century with a focus on political, social and cultural change.
- TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
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Instructor:
Sau-Yi Fong
Info - 3 points
CHINESE LINGUISTICS & PEDAGOGY
This course describes the morphological, syntactic and phonological structures of Chinese language within the framework of the functional grammar. The focus is placed on the “mapping” of linguistic forms and their semantic and pragmatic functions. Pedagogical suggestions on how to teach these structures are also provided.
Prerequisites: CHNS G5000x. This course is designed for graduate students who have successfully passed Course I (G5000) and who are permitted by the Department to take this course, which entails working as a teaching assistant in the Chinese language program. In addition to coordinating closely with his or her mentors and the course coordinator, the student TA has to design and teach first year drill sessions, team-teach with his or her mentors, and do other teaching-related assignments.
- MWR 2:10 p.m.-3 p.m.
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Instructor:
Lening Liu
CULPA: 9 Info - 3 points
FIFTH YEAR JAPANESE II
Prerequisites: JPNS GR5016 or the equivalent. This course is intended to help students to develop language skills necessary for academic research. Students will read articles, watch videos, and debate issues from a wide range of fields including economics, politics, history, comparative literature, and current issues.
- MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Miharu Nittono
CULPA: 10
Info
- 4 points
MA WORKSHOP/E ASIAN HISTORY
- M 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Zach S Berge-Becker
Info - 4 points
CRIT APPRO TO E ASIAN STUDIES
- T 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
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Instructor:
Ye Yuan
h-index: 13 Info - 4 points
The Chinese Avant-Garde: A Political His
CHINESE AVANT-GARDE
This course examines the rise and demise of the Chinese Revolution from the unique angles provided by avant-garde writers, artists, designers, graphic novelists, filmmakers, playwrights, and theatre directors in modern China.
Understanding Chinese Archaeology: Criti
Understanding CHNS Archae
This course aims to examine the purpose, essential promises, theoretical trends, and fieldwork methods in Chinese archaeology and their changes over time, through critical reading of scholarly articles published from the 1920s to the present. The course identifies key areas in Chinese archaeology and agendas commonly accepted or debated that have defined Chinese archaeology as a national academic tradition of archaeological practice in the global community of archaeology.
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:
Ye Yuan
h-index: 13 Info - 2 points
GRAD SEM-PREMODERN LITERATURE
Prerequisites: JPNS W4007-W4008 or the equivalent, and the instructors permission.
- T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
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Instructor:
David B Lurie
CULPA: 17
Info
- 4 points
Graduate Seminar in Japanese Cinema and
Grad Seminar Japanese Cin
In this course, we will examine a series of key writings on cinema and visual culture in Japan from the 1910s to the late 1960s. Major topics will include:
1. Cinema and its technology/technics (sound, color, and film form)
2. Cinema and its intersection with politics and aesthetics (Marxism and the Proletarian Film Movement, cinematic realism, colonialism, Third Worldism, and Japanese New Wave)
3. The articulations of cinema in broader intellectual, technological, socio-cultural, and institutional discourse (film education, documentary, and
bunka eiga
)
In an attempt to explore the transitional position of cinema and media culture in Japanese cultural history, the course also critically approaches contact points between cinema, theatre (especially
shingeki
), literature, photography, and television. All mandatory readings each week will be primary sources in Japanese, and additional scholarly and/or theoretical writings in English will also be assigned or provided for reference.
- M 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
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Instructor:
Takuya Tsunoda
Info - 4 points
COLLOQ:MODERN JAPANESE HISTORY
Reading, analysis, and research on modern Japan. Field(s): EA
- R 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
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Instructor:
Gregory Pflugfelder
CULPA: 25
Info
- 4 points
COLL ON MODERN CHINESE HISTORY
Research in and reading in Chinese history. Field(s): EA
- W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Madeleine H Zelin
CULPA: 12 h-index: 12 Info - 4 points
INDEPENDENT STUDIES
- W 10:10 a.m.-noon
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Instructor:
Nicholas A Bartlett
CULPA: 5
Info
- 1-4 points