EAS 160A1 – The Worlds of Buddhism

Gen Ed Diversity Emphasis

Tier 1 Traditions and Cultures

EAS 160A3 – Chinese Civilization

Gen Ed Diversity Emphasis

Tier 1 Traditions and Cultures

EAS 160A5 – Languages and Cultures of East Asia

Gen Ed Diversity Emphasis

Tier 1 Traditions and Cultures

EAS 202 – Symbol, Society, and Social Change--Contemporary East Asia

Gen Ed Diversity Emphasis

Tier 2 Individuals & Societies

Honors Contract

EAS 222 – Introduction to Zen Buddhism

Cross Listed

EAS 270 – Modern East Asia

Cross Listed

EAS 359 – Buddhism and Healing

Cross Listed

Gen Ed Diversity Emphasis

Tier 2 Humanities

Honors Contract

Writing Emphasis Course

EAS 376 – Communist China: History and Narrative

Cross Listed

Pass/Fail Option

EAS 391 – Preceptorship

EAS 391H – Honors Preceptorship

Honors Course

EAS 482 – Tantric Buddhism

Cross Listed

Writing Emphasis Course

EAS 496C – Special Topics in East Asian Studies

Gen Ed Diversity Emphasis

EAS 498 – Senior Capstone

EAS 498H – Honors Thesis

Honors Course

Writing Emphasis Course

EAS 556 – Humanities and the Global Creative Economy

Cross Listed

EAS 577 – Qualitative Research in Applied Linguistics: East Asia and Beyond

Cross Listed

EAS 582 – Tantric Buddhism

Cross Listed

EAS 595A – Graduate Colloquium

EAS 596A – Topics in East Asian Buddhism

EAS 596C – Special Topics in East Asian Studies

EAS 599 – Independent Study

EAS 910 – Thesis

EAS 920 – Dissertation

CHN 101 – Elementary Chinese

CHN 102 – Elementary Chinese

CHN 199 – Independent Study

CHN 201 – Intermediate Modern Chinese

CHN 202 – Intermediate Modern Chinese

CHN 241 – Introduction to Chinese Religions

Cross Listed

Tier 2 Humanities

Honors Contract

The course is a comprehensive historical survey of the main religious traditions in China, including Buddhism, Confucianism, Daoism, and popular religion. Through lectures, discussions, and reading of select primary and secondary sources, we will explore the formulations and subsequent transformations of key beliefs, doctrines, practices, and institutions that characterized specific religious traditions. We will also examine the patterns of interaction among different traditions, as well as the general character of religious life in both traditional and modern China.

CHN 251 – New Chinese Cinema

Cross Listed

CHN 302 – Third-Year Chinese II

CHN 331 – Taoist Traditions of China

Cross Listed

Gen Ed Diversity Emphasis

Intellectual foundations of Taoism in its two classical sources, the Lao Tzu and the Chuang Tzu, and a sampling of the varieties of religious practice which developed later.

CHN 345 – Buddhists, Bandits, and Beauties: Masterworks of Chinese Fiction from the 1500s to the Digital Age

Gen Ed Diversity Emphasis

Tier 2 Humanities

Honors Contract

Writing Emphasis Course

CHN 399 – Independent Study

CHN 417 – Advanced Modern Chinese

CHN 460 – US and China Relations in the Modern World

Cross Listed

CHN 465 – Chinese/English Translation: Theory and Practice

CHN 468 – Women in China

Cross Listed

Gen Ed Diversity Emphasis

CHN 483 – Confucianism: The Classical Period

Cross Listed

Gen Ed Diversity Emphasis

Writing Emphasis Course

CHN 517 – Advanced Modern Chinese

CHN 547 – Readings in Premodern Chinese Prose

CHN 565 – Chinese/English Translation: Theory and Practice

CHN 583 – Confucianism: The Classical Period

Cross Listed

CHN 599 – Independent Study

CHN 900 – Research

CHN 910 – Thesis

CHN 920 – Dissertation

JPN 101 – Elementary Japanese

JPN 102 – Elementary Japanese

JPN 201 – Intermediate Japanese

JPN 202 – Intermediate Japanese

JPN 245 – Japanese Anime and Visual Culture

Gen Ed Diversity Emphasis

Tier 2 Arts

JPN 245 – Japanese Anime and Visual Culture

Gen Ed Diversity Emphasis

Tier 2 Arts

Honors Contract

JPN 272 – Japanese Civilization

Cross Listed

Gen Ed Diversity Emphasis

Tier 2 Humanities

Honors Contract

JPN 302 – Advanced Japanese

JPN 304 – Introduction to Japanese Language and Linguistics

Cross Listed

Gen Ed Diversity Emphasis

JPN 310 – Japanese Literature and War

Gen Ed Diversity Emphasis

Writing Emphasis Course

JPN 399 – Independent Study

JPN 422 – Advanced Practice in Japanese

JPN 486 – History of Japanese Religions: Medieval

Cross Listed

Gen Ed Diversity Emphasis

JPN 496A – Japanese Literature

Gen Ed Diversity Emphasis

JPN 496C – Topics in Japanese Linguistics

Cross Listed

Gen Ed Diversity Emphasis

JPN 522 – Advanced Practice in Japanese

JPN 586 – History of Japanese Religions: Medieval

Cross Listed

JPN 596A – Japanese Literature

JPN 596C – Topics in Japanese Linguistics

Cross Listed

JPN 599 – Independent Study

JPN 699 – Independent Study

JPN 910 – Thesis

JPN 920 – Dissertation

KOR 101 – Elementary Korean I

KOR 102 – Elementary Korean II

KOR 202 – Intermediate Korean II

KOR 245 – K-pop, Webtoons, Ethnic Food, and More: Understanding Korean Popular Culture

Tier 2 Individuals & Societies

KOR 391 – Preceptorship

Specialized work on an individual basis, consisting of instruction and practice in actual service in a department, program, or discipline. Requires faculty member approval, preceptor application on file with department.

KOR 391H – Honors Preceptorship

Honors Course

Specialized work on an individual basis, consisting of instruction and practice in actual service in a department, program, or discipline. Teaching formats may include seminars, in-depth studies, laboratory work and patient study.

KOR 399 – Independent Study

KOR 491 – Preceptorship

Specialized work on an individual basis, consisting of instruction and practice in actual service in a department, program, or discipline. Requires faculty member approval, preceptor application on file with department.

KOR 491H – Honors Preceptorship

Honors Course

Specialized work on an individual basis, consisting of instruction and practice in actual service in a department, program, or discipline. Teaching formats may include seminars, in-depth studies, laboratory work and patient study.

EAS 130 – Asian Religions

Cross Listed

Gen Ed Diversity Emphasis

The course surveys six religious traditions founded and developed in Asian including two from India: Hinduism and Buddhism, two from China: Confucianism and Taoism, and two from Japan: Shinto and Japanese New Religions. The survey of each religion includes: 1. a primary or sacred text, 2. contemporary practices in Asia, 3. contemporary practices in America, and 4. depictions in modern media. The course studies how the central tenets and teachings of Asian religions create the cultural roots of contemporary Asian cultures and how these teachings have influenced America's religious diversity.

EAS 160A1 – The Worlds of Buddhism

Gen Ed Diversity Emphasis

Tier 1 Traditions and Cultures

An introduction to Buddhism as both a religion and an array of cultural traditions, with emphasis on its various contributions to the formation of the South, Central, Southeast, and East Asian civilizations.

EAS 160A2 – Writing Systems of the World

Gen Ed Diversity Emphasis

Tier 1 Traditions and Cultures

Explores the nature of writing and the origin of the oldest known systems. Surveys the history and modern decipherment of ancient writing systems, and examines the variety of systems in use in the modern world.

EAS 160A3 – Chinese Civilization

Gen Ed Diversity Emphasis

Tier 1 Traditions and Cultures

Introduces you to traditional Chinese civilization for the purposes of this course defined as: "the totality of a culture's perception of itself and the world it occupies and the ways in which that self-perception is expressed in society, politics, religion, philosophy, and the arts." The content of the course is arranged in thematic units, each unit being placed in the context of a specific historical period. We will examine the religious symbolism of ancient Chinese bronze vessels, Chinese theories of nature based on concepts like Yin and Yang, the great medieval religions of Taoism and Buddhism, and other topics. Over the semester you will learn to think more like the Chinese of centuries past to exercise your imagination, and to explore a world that is different from your own.

EAS 160A5 – Languages and Cultures of East Asia

Gen Ed Diversity Emphasis

Tier 1 Traditions and Cultures

This course will explore the social, historical, and linguistic aspects of the languages and cultures of East Asia and how they have changed over time, drawing from anthropology, linguistics, sociology, and history.

EAS 222 – Introduction to Zen Buddhism

Cross Listed

This course is designed to introduce students to the history,teachings,and practice of Zen Buddhism in China,Japan, Korea and the United States. The course will discuss Zen from a variety of perspectives but will center around the question of the meaning of history. Zen is a tradition of Buddhism that claims to have inherited and to pass on, in an unbroken historical transmission from patriarch to patriarch, the living experience of the Buddha's enlightenment. The course will discuss how Zen's conception of its history is related to its identity as a special tradition within Buddhism, as well as its basic teachings on the primacy of enlightenment, the role of practice, the nature of the mind, and the limitations of language.