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?
ASIA 3300 | Sex and Gender in Asian Film and Literature
T/Th 9:30-10:45
Dr. Colleen Berry
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.
KREN 3841 | Modern Korean Literature in English Translation
T/Th 3:30-4:45
Dr. Jae Won Chung
(ASIA 4001 Advanced Language co-seminar in Korean available for additional credit)
INDO 1120 | Indonesian (3 credits pending admin. approval)
MWF 1-1:50, ALTEC
Dr. Fransiska Oktoprimasakti
See ALTEC website
SOCY 3046 | NEW COURSE: Special Topics: Sex, Gender, and Social Change in Southeast Asia
T/Th 3:30-4:45, Dr. Rachel Rinaldo
We will investigate gender relations and norms in tIndonesia, Malaysia, Vietnam, Thailand, and the Philippines as well as contemporary issues such as women’s work in global factories, sex work, migration, religion, feminist activism, and LGBTQ issues.
ASIA 2000 | 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.
KREN 3851 | Studies in Korean Pop Culture
T/Th 12:30-1:45, Dr. Jae 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.
ASIA/GEOG 4842/5842 Global Frontiers in Southeast Asia
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.
ALTEC DILS LANGUAGE CLASSES | THAI and TIBETAN (Directed Independent Language Study, non-credit, free to enroll)
MORE ASIA-RELATED COURSES
ANTH 4020 / 5020 | Kinship: Being and Belonging | M 1-3:30
CHIN 4220 | Readings in Classical Chinese | MWF 11-11:50
GEOG 3622 / IAFS 3670 | Cities of the Global South | MW 3:00-4:15
HIND 3831 | The Many Faces of Krishna in South Asia Literature and Culture | T/Th 12:30 – 1:45
HIST 1518 | Intro to South Asian Hist to 1757 | MW 3:00-4:15
HIST 1628 | Intro to Chinese Hist since 1644 | T/Th 9:30-10:45
HIST 1708 | Intro to Japanese History | T/TH 12:30-1:45
HIST 2220 | Global Warfare in India | MWF 1:00-1:50
HIST 2220-003 | History of War & Society: World War II in Asia and the Pacific | T/TH 2:00-3:15
HIST 2629 | China in World History: China and India | T/TH 5:00-6:15
HIST 4020 | Modernity in China and Japan | T/TH 12:30-1:45
HIST 4618 | Early Modern China: Gehghis Khan to the Opium War | MWF 1:00-1:50
HIST 4728 | Modern Japanese History | T/TH 5:00-6:15
HIST 4808 | Japan in the Modern World | MWF 2:00-2:50
RLST 2320 | Muslim World: 600-1300 | T/Th 12:30-1:45
RLST 2610 | Religions of India | MWF 1:00-1:50
RLST 2650 | Meditation: Ancient and Modern | MW 12-12:50
RLST 3750 / WMST 3750 | Women in Buddhism | T/Th 2:30-3:45
RLST 3850 | The Mediterranean: Religion Before Modernity | T/Th 9:30-10:45