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?
聽|聽Sex and Gender in Asian Film and Literature
T/Th 9:30-10:45
Dr. Colleen Berry聽
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.
聽|聽Modern Korean Literature in English Translation聽
T/Th 3:30-4:45
Dr.聽Jae Won Chung
(ASIA 4001 Advanced Language co-seminar in Korean available for additional credit)
聽|聽Indonesian聽(3 credits pending admin. approval)
MWF 1-1:50, ALTEC
Dr. Fransiska Oktoprimasakti
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SOCY 3046聽|聽NEW COURSE:聽Special Topics: Sex, Gender, and Social Change in Southeast Asia聽
T/Th 3:30-4:45, Dr. Rachel Rinaldo
We will investigate gender relations and norms in tIndonesia, Malaysia, Vietnam, Thailand, and the Philippines聽as well as contemporary聽issues such as women鈥檚 work in global factories, sex work, migration, religion,聽feminist activism, and LGBTQ issues.
聽|聽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.
聽|聽Studies in Korean Pop聽Culture
T/Th 12:30-1:45,聽Dr. Jae聽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.
聽Global Frontiers in Southeast Asia聽
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.
聽|聽THAI聽and聽TIBETAN聽(Directed Independent Language Study, non-credit, free to enroll)
MORE ASIA-RELATED COURSES
聽|聽Kinship: Being and Belonging聽|聽M 1-3:30聽
聽|聽Readings in Classical Chinese聽|聽MWF 11-11:50
GEOG 3622 / IAFS 3670聽|聽Cities of the Global South聽| MW 3:00-4:15
聽|聽The Many Faces of Krishna in South Asia Literature and Culture聽|聽T/Th聽12:30 鈥� 1:45
聽|聽Intro to South Asian Hist to 1757聽| MW 3:00-4:15
聽|聽Intro to Chinese Hist since 1644聽| T/Th 9:30-10:45
聽|聽Intro to Japanese History聽| T/TH 12:30-1:45
聽|聽Global Warfare in India聽| MWF 1:00-1:50
HIST聽2220-003 |聽History of War & Society: World War II in Asia and the Pacific |聽T/TH 2:00-3:15
聽|聽China in World History: China and India聽| T/TH 5:00-6:15
聽|聽Modernity in China and Japan聽| T/TH 12:30-1:45
聽|聽Early Modern China: Gehghis Khan to the Opium War聽| MWF 1:00-1:50
聽|聽Modern Japanese History聽| T/TH 5:00-6:15
聽|聽Japan in the Modern World聽| MWF 2:00-2:50
聽|聽Muslim World: 600-1300聽|聽T/Th 12:30-1:45聽
聽|聽Religions of India聽| MWF 1:00-1:50
聽|聽Meditation: Ancient and Modern聽| MW 12-12:50
聽|聽Women in Buddhism聽| T/Th聽2:30-3:45
聽|聽The Mediterranean: Religion Before Modernity聽| T/Th 9:30-10:45