Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures
Japanese Track (Bachelor of Arts in East Asian Language and Culture)
Students on Summer 2019, Fall 2019, or Spring 2020 requirements EALCJATRK1
Requirements
The major requires at least 31 credit hours*, including the requirements listed below.
- Japanese Language. Each of the following or demonstrated proficiency (4 courses)**:
- EALC-J 201 Second-Year Japanese I
- EALC-J 202 Second-Year Japanese II
- EALC-J 301 Third-Year Japanese I
- EALC-J 302 Third Year-Japanese II
EALC-J 201 Second-Year Japanese I
- Credits
- 4
- Prerequisites
- Grade of C or higher in EALC-J 102; or appropriate placement exam score
- Description
- Continuation of emphasis on communicative skills. Increased attention to reading and writing skills.
EALC-J 202 Second-Year Japanese II
- Credits
- 4
- Prerequisites
- Grade of C or higher in EALC-J 201; or appropriate placement exam score
- Description
- Continuation of EALC-J 201.
EALC-J 301 Third-Year Japanese I
- Credits
- 4
- Prerequisites
- Grade of C or higher in EALC-J 202; or appropriate placement exam score
- Description
- Primary emphasis on reading skills. Conversation stressed in drill sections.
EALC-J 302 Third Year-Japanese II
- Credits
- 4
- Prerequisites
- Grade of C or higher in EALC-J 301; or appropriate placement exam score
- Description
- Continuation of EALC-J 301.
- Introduction to East Asian Studies. One (1) course:
- EALC-E 310 Introduction to East Asian Studies
EALC-E 310 Introduction to East Asian Studies
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- Must be pursuing an undergraduate major or certificate in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures
- Description
- A broad survey of Chinese, Japanese, and Korean civilizations that examines the idea of East Asia as a region with unifying social, cultural, and political characteristics, and its different societies, introducing analytic frameworks that have guided recent understandings of East Asia as a region and of individual East Asian societies.
- Spring 2025CASE GCCcourseFall 2024CASE GCCcourse
- Spring 2025CASE SHcourseFall 2024CASE SHcourse
- Cultural Studies. Three (3) courses selected from ONE (1) of the following areas:
- History, Literature and Culture
- Courses within the department
- EALC-C 306 Literary Chinese I
- EALC-C 307 Literary Chinese II
- EALC-C 421 Introduction to Chinese Linguistics
- EALC-C 431 Readings in Modern Chinese Literature
- EALC-C 451 Advanced Classical Chinese I
- EALC-C 452 Advanced Classical Chinese II
- EALC-E 300
- EALC-E 301 Chinese Language and Culture
- EALC-E 303 Korean Folk and Elite Cultures
- EALC-E 305 Korean Language and Culture
- EALC-E 311 Korean Popular Culture
- EALC-E 320 Tasting Food in Japanese: Food, Language, and Linguistics
- EALC-E 321 Traditional Japanese Literature
- EALC-E 322 Modern Japanese Literature
- EALC-E 323 Introduction to Japanese Film
- EALC-E 324 Cinema in Millennial Japan
- EALC-E 330 Studies in Japanese Film
- EALC-E 331 Traditional Chinese Literature
- EALC-E 332 Chinese Literature since 1300
- EALC-E 333 Studies in Chinese Cinema
- EALC-E 336 Ghosts, Immortals, Animal Spirits: Encountering the Supernatural in Traditional Chinese Culture
- EALC-E 337 Premodern Japanese History
- EALC-E 338 Sex, Romance and Story-Telling in The Tale of Genji
- EALC-E 339 Studies in South Korean Cinema
- EALC-E 342 Modern Korean History
- EALC-E 351 Studies in East Asian Thought
- EALC-E 352 Studies in East Asian History
- EALC-E 353 Hiroshima: History, City, Event
- EALC-E 355 Visual Culture of Modern Japan
- EALC-E 358 Early Modern Japanese History
- EALC-E 369 Modern Japanese History
- EALC-E 371
- EALC-E 372 Japanese Fiction and Culture
- EALC-E 374 Early Chinese Philosophy
- EALC-E 384 East Asian Nationalism and Cultural Identity
- EALC-E 385 Asian Americans: Cultural Conflict and Identity
- EALC-E 473 History of Japanese Theatre and Drama
- EALC-J 421 Introduction to Japanese Linguistics
- EALC-J 431 Readings in Modern Japanese Literature
- EALC-J 461 Literary Japanese I
- EALC-J 462 Literary Japanese II
- EALC-J 491
- EALC-J 492
- EALC-J 493
- EALC-K 421
- The following require permission from the Director of Undergraduate Studies to count toward this requirement:
- EALC-H 399 Reading for Honors
- EALC-H 499 Honors Thesis
- EALC-X 473 Internship in East Asian Languages and Cultures
- EALC-X 490 Individual Readings
- SOC-S 346 Topics in Cross-Cultural Sociology
- Courses from other College departments and programs
- ANTH-E 347 The Anthropology of Contemporary Japan
- ANTH-P 399 Undergraduate Seminar
- ARTH-A 360 Topics in East Asian Art
- ARTH-A 464 Art and Archaeology of Early China
- ARTH-A 466 Early Chinese Painting
- ARTH-A 467 Later Chinese Painting
- CEUS-R 395 Politics of Identity in China and Inner Asia
- CMLT-C 365 Japanese-Western Literary Relations
- CMLT-C 375 Imagining China, Translating China
- FOLK-F 305 Asian Folklore/Folklife/Folk Music
- HIST-G 380 Early China
- HIST-G 382 China: The Age of Glory
- HIST-G 383 China: The Later Empires
- HIST-G 385 Modern China
- HIST-G 387 Contemporary China
- MSCH-F 398 National and Transnational Cinemas
- REL-B 300 Studies in South and East Asian Religions
- REL-B 310 East Asian Buddhism
- REL-B 360 Religions in Japan
- REL-B 410 Topics in the Buddhist Tradition
- REL-B 440 Topics in Daoism and Chinese Religion
- REL-B 460 Topics in East Asian Religions
- THTR-T 468 Asian Performance
EALC-C 306 Literary Chinese I
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- EALC-C 202
- Notes
- This course does not satisfy the College of Arts and Sciences foreign language requirement
- Description
- An introduction to wenyanwen, the written language of traditional Chinese literary and documentary forms, through the study of selected texts of different genres and periods. Texts may range from ancient writings to modern prose influenced by traditional style.
EALC-C 307 Literary Chinese II
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Notes
- This course does not satisfy the College of Arts and Sciences foreign language requirement
- Description
- A further introduction to wenyanwen, the written language of traditional Chinese literary and documentary forms, through the study of selected texts of different genres and periods. Texts may range from ancient writings to modern prose influenced by traditional style.
EALC-C 421 Introduction to Chinese Linguistics
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- Grade of C or higher in EALC-C 202, or consent of instructor
- Notes
- Not counted as a language course
- Description
- Introduction to the linguistic characteristics of Chinese, including its sound system, word structure, sentence structure, meaning, and use; relation between the Chinese language, culture, and cognition.
- Spring 2025CASE NMcourseFall 2024CASE NMcourse
EALC-C 431 Readings in Modern Chinese Literature
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- Grade of C or higher in EALC-C 402, or consent of instructor
- Description
- Selected readings in modern Chinese plays, stories, and essays.
- Spring 2025CASE AHcourseFall 2024CASE AHcourse
EALC-C 451 Advanced Classical Chinese I
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- Grade of C or higher in EALC-C 307, or consent of instructor
- Description
- Selected readings of representative Chinese prose and poetry from the traditional period.
EALC-C 452 Advanced Classical Chinese II
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- Grade of C or higher in EALC-C 451, or consent of instructor
- Description
- Continuation of EALC-C 451.
EALC-E 301 Chinese Language and Culture
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- The relationship of Chinese language to its culture and society. Four topics emphasized: (1) unique characteristics of Chinese; (2) influence of language structure on thought patterns and social behavior; (3) traditional conception of life as it affects verbal behavior; and (4) interaction between linguistic and other factors in social life.
- Spring 2025CASE AHcourseFall 2024CASE AHcourse
- Spring 2025CASE GCCcourseFall 2024CASE GCCcourse
EALC-E 303 Korean Folk and Elite Cultures
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Introduction to Korean culture and society from earliest times to the present, including oral and written literature, religion, social customs, and performing arts.
- Spring 2025CASE AHcourseFall 2024CASE AHcourse
EALC-E 305 Korean Language and Culture
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- A survey of cultural, conceptual, and philosophical patterns, and the structure of Korean society, as reflected by the Korean language.
- Spring 2025CASE GCCcourseFall 2024CASE GCCcourse
- Spring 2025CASE SHcourseFall 2024CASE SHcourse
EALC-E 311 Korean Popular Culture
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Examines Korean popular culture through relevant technological innovations, sociopolitical changes, and historical forces. Engages with various forms of popular culture - popular music, television, film, digital/internet media, and food - to understand Korea as a dynamic site of cultural production and consumption.
- Spring 2025CASE AHcourseFall 2024CASE AHcourse
- Spring 2025CASE GCCcourseFall 2024CASE GCCcourse
EALC-E 320 Tasting Food in Japanese: Food, Language, and Linguistics
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Approaches the language of food from a linguistic point of view in order to understand why and how language plays a vital role in our food culture. Introduces basic linguistic tools used to examine the language of food within and among languages.
- Spring 2025CASE GCCcourseFall 2024CASE GCCcourse
- Spring 2025CASE SHcourseFall 2024CASE SHcourse
EALC-E 321 Traditional Japanese Literature
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Introduction to major works of Japanese literature from the tenth century to the early modern period (roughly 900-1600). Focuses on issues of gender, narration, and the connections between literature and the political, cultural, and religious discourses that were part of the texts' originating contexts. Readings in English.
- Spring 2025CASE AHcourseFall 2024CASE AHcourse
- Spring 2025CASE GCCcourseFall 2024CASE GCCcourse
EALC-E 322 Modern Japanese Literature
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Introduction to the major works of modern Japanese literature in English translation from the 1890s to the present. Examines issues central to this literature since Japan's opening to the West, such as self/national identity, sexuality, war, and modernity.
- Spring 2025CASE AHcourseFall 2024CASE AHcourse
- Spring 2025CASE GCCcourseFall 2024CASE GCCcourse
EALC-E 323 Introduction to Japanese Film
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Examines the history of Japanese film from 19th century experiments with film to the present day. Explores cinema as both historical and aesthetic objects that can help us learn about modern and contemporary Japanese history and culture. Develops close visual analysis skills.
EALC-E 324 Cinema in Millennial Japan
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Examines Japanese cinema from the Heisei period (1989-2019) to explore the history of contemporary Japan. Delves into cinema as both an art form and industrial commodity that represents the political, cultural, and economic transformations of the last thirty years.
EALC-E 330 Studies in Japanese Film
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Study of topics in Japanese film in the context of its history and culture. May include such topics as Introduction to Japanese Film and Gender and Sexuality in Japanese Film.
- Repeatability
- May be repeated with a different topic for a maximum of 6 credit hours.
- Spring 2025CASE AHcourseFall 2024CASE AHcourse
- Spring 2025CASE GCCcourseFall 2024CASE GCCcourse
EALC-E 331 Traditional Chinese Literature
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Introduction to Chinese historical and religious writing, narrative prose, and lyrical poetry from roughly 1300 BCE to 1300 CE. Studying English translations, students consider the roles of literature in Chinese history, and the way the written word served to construct Chinese culture.
- Spring 2025CASE AHcourseFall 2024CASE AHcourse
- Spring 2025CASE GCCcourseFall 2024CASE GCCcourse
EALC-E 332 Chinese Literature since 1300
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Introduction to major authors, works, and genres from the Yuan Dynasty to modern times. Studying English translations, students examine how literature is related to important political, ideological, and cultural concerns in the process of Chinese modernity, and explore issues of nationalism, revolution, and commercialism in modern literature and post-Mao writing.
- Spring 2025CASE AHcourseFall 2024CASE AHcourse
- Spring 2025CASE GCCcourseFall 2024CASE GCCcourse
EALC-E 333 Studies in Chinese Cinema
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Critical and historical perspectives on Chinese cinema from 1900 to the present, including cinema from Taiwan, Hong Kong, and beyond. Course topics include the silent era, melodrama, musicals, minority films, adaptation, filmmakers and generations, and urban cinema.
- Spring 2025CASE AHcourseFall 2024CASE AHcourse
- Spring 2025CASE GCCcourseFall 2024CASE GCCcourse
EALC-E 336 Ghosts, Immortals, Animal Spirits: Encountering the Supernatural in Traditional Chinese Culture
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Textual and visual representations of the supernatural in traditional Chinese culture spanning three millennia, from the earliest written records to the fiction of late imperial China. Offers a unique perspective into the ethics, literature, arts, and popular beliefs of traditional China. No prior knowledge of Chinese language is required.
- Spring 2025CASE AHcourseFall 2024CASE AHcourse
- Spring 2025CASE GCCcourseFall 2024CASE GCCcourse
EALC-E 337 Premodern Japanese History
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Survey of premodern Japanese history (until c. 1600). Critical historical analysis of selected issues within the period and readings of central works in English translations.
- Repeatability
- Credit given for only one of EALC-E 337 or HIST-G 357.
- Spring 2025CASE GCCcourseFall 2024CASE GCCcourse
- Spring 2025CASE SHcourseFall 2024CASE SHcourse
EALC-E 338 Sex, Romance and Story-Telling in The Tale of Genji
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- The Tale of Genji is a central text in the Japanese literary tradition. This course considers its depiction of romantic and/or sexual "love," the fictional characters whose experiences of love and marriage organize the narrative, and the dialogue the tale constructs with socio-political realities of the early Japanese court.
- Spring 2025CASE AHcourseFall 2024CASE AHcourse
EALC-E 339 Studies in South Korean Cinema
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Examines the intersection of gender, class, and nation in contemporary South Korea through the lens of cinema.
EALC-E 342 Modern Korean History
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Modern Korean history 1876-2010. Major themes: Korea's inclusion in world system, intrusion of capitalism and transformation from agrarian to industrialized/consumer society. Course will explore modern systems (colonialism/neocolonialism, capitalism, social revolution/socialist economic experiments, Cold War, and globalization) through the study of Korean history.
- Repeatability
- Credit given for only one of EALC-E 342 or HIST-G 372.
- Spring 2025CASE GCCcourseFall 2024CASE GCCcourse
- Spring 2025CASE SHcourseFall 2024CASE SHcourse
EALC-E 351 Studies in East Asian Thought
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Selected issues and problems of importance to the understanding of East Asian thought and religion.
- Repeatability
- May be repeated with a different topic for a maximum of 6 credit hours.
- Spring 2025CASE AHcourseFall 2024CASE AHcourse
EALC-E 352 Studies in East Asian History
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Selected issues and problems of importance to the understanding of East Asian history.
- Repeatability
- May be repeated with a different topic for a maximum of 6 credit hours.
- Spring 2025CASE SHcourseFall 2024CASE SHcourse
EALC-E 353 Hiroshima: History, City, Event
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Uses the history of the city of Hiroshima as a lens on urban history in Japan and globally, with examination of origin of cities; early modern political and economic arrangements leading to Hiroshima's success; modern change and continued importance; its place in modern war; the atomic bombing and aftermath; memory of the bomb and wider atomic cultures in Japan and the United States.
- Spring 2025CASE SHcourseFall 2024CASE SHcourse
EALC-E 355 Visual Culture of Modern Japan
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- History of visual culture in modern Japan in the context of social and cultural change. Emphasis on print cultures and painting and on the rise of photography and lithography during the emergence of modern mass consumerism. Considerable focus on the post-WWII era and the globalization of Japanese visual culture.
- Spring 2025CASE AHcourseFall 2024CASE AHcourse
EALC-E 358 Early Modern Japanese History
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Japanese history from the late sixteenth to late nineteenth centuries. Focuses on domestic politics, foreign policy, culture and the arts, literacy and education, urbanization, rise of the merchant class, and changes in rural life.
- Repeatability
- Credit given for only one of EALC-E 358 or HIST-G 358.
- Spring 2025CASE SHcourseFall 2024CASE SHcourse
EALC-E 369 Modern Japanese History
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Japanese history within the broader developments of modern world history: the Tokugawa regime; the Meiji Revolution; modern nation-state building; empire; capitalism; social movements; democracy; Japan\'s modern wars; U.S.-Japan relations and related cultural, political, and economic changes. Emphasizes post-World War II era, visual culture, Japan in global popular culture, and environmental history.
- Repeatability
- Credit given for only one of EALC-E 369 or HIST-G 369.
- Spring 2025CASE SHcourseFall 2024CASE SHcourse
EALC-E 372 Japanese Fiction and Culture
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Exploration of modern Japanese fiction and various forms of culture. Topics will vary depending on the year the course is offered. Some examples are: literature and film; modernity and the self; women writers; history of popular literature and culture.
- Repeatability
- May be repeated with a different topic for a maximum of 6 credit hours.
- Spring 2025CASE AHcourseFall 2024CASE AHcourse
EALC-E 374 Early Chinese Philosophy
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Origins of Chinese philosophical traditions in the classical schools of Confucianism, Daoism, Mohism, and Legalism. Explores contrasting agendas of early Chinese and Western traditions.
- Repeatability
- Credit given for only one of EALC-E 374, PHIL-P 374, REL-B 374, or REL-R 368.
- Spring 2025CASE AHcourseFall 2024CASE AHcourse
EALC-E 384 East Asian Nationalism and Cultural Identity
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Exploration of the impact of the metaphor of nation and Western nationalism theory on Western literature dealing with modern East Asia. Emphasis on how Western notions of political identity shape and sometimes obscure our understanding of East Asian cultural and political identity.
- Spring 2025CASE SHcourseFall 2024CASE SHcourse
EALC-E 385 Asian Americans: Cultural Conflict and Identity
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- An examination of the historical, cultural, and racial dynamics underpinning the evolution of contemporary Asian American identity. Students learn not only about cultural theory and how cultural identities are constructed within America's multiethnic and multicultural society, but also about themselves.
- Spring 2025CASE SHcourseFall 2024CASE SHcourse
EALC-E 473 History of Japanese Theatre and Drama
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- The social environment, textual content, stage conventions, artistic theories, and associated arts of traditional Japanese theatre and drama, viewed within the context of their historical development c. 1370-1870 and in the present day. Emphasis on Noh, bunraku, and kabuki; some attention to such performing arts as Kyogen and Kowaka.
- Repeatability
- May be repeated for a maximum of 6 credit hours.
- Grading
- S/F grading.
- Spring 2025CASE AHcourseFall 2024CASE AHcourse
EALC-J 421 Introduction to Japanese Linguistics
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- EALC-J 102 or consent of instructor
- Description
- A descriptive survey of issues in Japanese linguistics. Topics include syntax, phonology/phonetics, and semantics/ pragmatics of Japanese.
- Spring 2025CASE NMcourseFall 2024CASE NMcourse
EALC-J 431 Readings in Modern Japanese Literature
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- Grade of C or higher in EALC-J 402
- Description
- Selected reading in modern Japanese plays, novels, and essays.
- Spring 2025CASE AHcourseFall 2024CASE AHcourse
EALC-J 461 Literary Japanese I
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- Grade of C or higher in EALC-J 302
- Description
- A basic outline of the varieties of written Japanese known collectively as bungotai or "literary Japanese." Initial emphasis is on reading and close rhetorical and grammatical analysis of genres from the tenth through fifteenth centuries, with later attention to other periods and texts.
EALC-J 462 Literary Japanese II
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- Grade of C or higher in EALC-J 302
- Description
- A basic outline of the varieties of written Japanese known collectively as bungotai or "literary Japanese." Initial emphasis is on reading and close rhetorical and grammatical analysis of genres from the tenth through fifteenth centuries, with later attention to other periods and texts.
EALC-H 399 Reading for Honors
- Credits
- 2–6 credit hours
- Prerequisites
- Consent of departmental honors advisor
- Notes
- Honors course
- Description
- Readings for the superior students in preparation for work on a research project (EALC-H 499). Number of credits and texts must be approved by instructor.
- Repeatability
- May be repeated for a maximum of 15 credit hours.
EALC-H 499 Honors Thesis
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- EALC-H 399 and consent of departmental honors advisor
- Description
- Ordinarily taken under the supervision of the tutor who guided the student in EALC-H 399. A specialized research project.
EALC-X 473 Internship in East Asian Languages and Cultures
- Credits
- 1–3 credit hours
- Prerequisites
- Junior or senior standing; 15 credits of department coursework; and project approved by faculty supervisor
- Notes
- Does not count toward major
- Description
- Selected career-related work in a cooperating institution or business. Evaluation by faculty supervisor and employer.
- Repeatability
- May be repeated for a maximum of 6 credit hours in EALC-E 498 and EALC-X 473.
- Grading
- S/F grading.
EALC-X 490 Individual Readings
- Credits
- 1–3 credit hours
- Prerequisites
- Consent of the undergraduate advisor
- Description
- None
- Repeatability
- May be repeated for a maximum of 6 credit hours in EALC-E 495 and EALC-X 490.
SOC-S 346 Topics in Cross-Cultural Sociology
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Study of selected sociological issues with an emphasis on cross-cultural analysis. Specific topics announced each semester; examples include work, family, childhood, religion, and education.
- Repeatability
- May be repeated with different topics for a maximum of 9 credit hours.
- Spring 2025CASE SHcourseFall 2024CASE SHcourse
ANTH-E 347 The Anthropology of Contemporary Japan
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Frames in anthropological perspective the history, present, and future of Japanese society. Explores anthropological research on Japanese attitudes toward ethnic and national identity; gender and education; and the wide-ranging impact of Japan's economic decline on attitudes toward work, play, consumption, and travel overseas.
- Spring 2025CASE SHcourseFall 2024CASE SHcourse
ANTH-P 399 Undergraduate Seminar
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Intensive examination of selected topics in archaeology. Development of skills in analysis and criticism. Topics vary.
- Repeatability
- May be taken with different topics for a maximum of 9 credit hours.
ARTH-A 360 Topics in East Asian Art
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Topics vary; each is focused on a specific aspect or issue in East Asian art, studied in the context of social and intellectual history.
- Repeatability
- May be repeated with different topics for a maximum of 9 credit hours in ARTH-A 360 and FINA-A 360.
- Spring 2025CASE AHcourseFall 2024CASE AHcourse
- Spring 2025CASE GCCcourseFall 2024CASE GCCcourse
ARTH-A 464 Art and Archaeology of Early China
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- The arts of China from Neolithic times through the T'ang Dynasty (618-906 A.D.): prehistoric ceramics, ritual bronzes, jades, animal sculpture, Buddhist art, and early pictorial art. Particular attention will be paid to major archaeological discoveries, and the material will be discussed in the context of the development of Chinese culture and civilization.
- Repeatability
- Credit given for only one of ARTH-A 464 or FINA-A 464.
- Spring 2025CASE SHcourseFall 2024CASE SHcourse
ARTH-A 466 Early Chinese Painting
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Chinese painting and pictorial art from the Bronze Age to the end of the Sung dynasty (A.D. 1279): tomb paintings and reliefs, Buddhist cave paintings, courtly art and imperial patronage, and landscapes. Materials and techniques, art theory, and the relationship between painting and calligraphy will also be considered.
- Repeatability
- Credit given for only one of ARTH-A 466 or FINA-A 466.
- Spring 2025CASE GCCcourseFall 2024CASE GCCcourse
- Spring 2025CASE SHcourseFall 2024CASE SHcourse
ARTH-A 467 Later Chinese Painting
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Chinese painting from the Yuan dynasty (A.D.1279-1368) to the twentieth century: the emergence, development, and interaction of diverse painting schools; amateurs and professionals, regional styles, political and social contexts, the role of patronage and collecting, and art theory and criticism.
- Repeatability
- Credit given for only one of ARTH-A 467 or FINA-A 467.
- Spring 2025CASE SHcourseFall 2024CASE SHcourse
CEUS-R 395 Politics of Identity in China and Inner Asia
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Challenges the assumption that terms such as "Chinese," "Taiwanese," or "Kazakh" represent straightforward concepts. Via theories of identity, and careful attention to the history of China and Inner Asia, explores and explodes the association of identity and descent, language and ethnicity, citizenship and nationality.
CMLT-C 365 Japanese-Western Literary Relations
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Japanese influences on Western poets and dramatists: color prints, haiku, and Noh plays. The Western impact on Japanese literature: the Japanese adaptation of movements such as romanticism, realism, naturalism, and symbolism, with special emphasis on the Japanese traits that these movements acquired.
- Spring 2025CASE AHcourseFall 2024CASE AHcourse
CMLT-C 375 Imagining China, Translating China
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Notes
- R: CMLT-C 205 or 3 credit hours of literature
- Description
- Topics may include comparison of Chinese and European philosophical traditions, Western representations of China, East-West contact in the larger historical context, and the translation of literary works across cultures. Readings by authors such as Marco Polo, Voltaire, Pound, and Sigrid Nunez.
- Spring 2025CASE AHcourseFall 2024CASE AHcourse
FOLK-F 305 Asian Folklore/Folklife/Folk Music
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Forms and functions of folklore, folklife, or folk music in the traditional and developing societies of Asia. Folklore as a reflection of culture. Relationship between folklore forms and belief systems in Asia.
- Repeatability
- May be repeated once with a different topic.
- Spring 2025CASE AHcourseFall 2024CASE AHcourse
HIST-G 380 Early China
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- China from its neolithic background through the Qin and Western Han dynasties. Examines the Shang tribal polity, royal and aristocratic phases of the Zhou state, and the creation of the imperial system in the Qin-Han period. Changing patterns of ideology, political legitimacy, and social organization through archaeological and textual sources.
- Spring 2025CASE GCCcourseFall 2024CASE GCCcourse
- Spring 2025CASE SHcourseFall 2024CASE SHcourse
HIST-G 382 China: The Age of Glory
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Notes
- R: Previous history course in any field, or previous East Asian Studies course related to China
- Description
- The Chinese empire from the Han through the Tang dynasties (second century B.C. through tenth century A.D.). Relations among demographic patterns. political forms, social classes, economic developments, religious movements, and cultural diversification, investigated through secondary and translated primary sources.
- Repeatability
- Credit given for only one of HIST-G 382 or HIST-G 482.
- Spring 2025CASE GCCcourseFall 2024CASE GCCcourse
- Spring 2025CASE SHcourseFall 2024CASE SHcourse
HIST-G 383 China: The Later Empires
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Notes
- R: Previous history course in any field, or previous East Asian Studies course related to China
- Description
- The Chinese empire from the Song through the middle Qing dynasties (tenth to eighteenth centuries A.D.). Relations among demographic patterns, political forms, social classes, economic developments, philosophical movements, and cultural diversification, investigated through secondary and translated primary sources.
- Repeatability
- Credit given for only one of HIST-G 383 or HIST-G 483.
- Spring 2025CASE GCCcourseFall 2024CASE GCCcourse
- Spring 2025CASE SHcourseFall 2024CASE SHcourse
HIST-G 385 Modern China
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Notes
- R: Previous history course in any field, or previous East Asian Studies course related to China
- Description
- A survey of the final century of dynastic rule and the rise to power of the Nationalist and Communist parties, highlighting social and cultural developments, the impact of Western imperialism, and the evolution of revolutionary ideologies.
- Repeatability
- Credit given for only one of HIST-G 385 or HIST-G 485.
- Spring 2025CASE GCCcourseFall 2024CASE GCCcourse
- Spring 2025CASE SHcourseFall 2024CASE SHcourse
HIST-G 387 Contemporary China
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Notes
- R: Previous history course in any field, or previous East Asian Studies course related to China
- Description
- A survey of recent Chinese history focusing on social, cultural, and political life in the People\'s Republic of China and post-1949 Taiwan. Events covered include the Long March, the Cultural Revolution, and the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989.
- Repeatability
- Credit given for only one of HIST-G 387 or HIST-G 487.
- Spring 2025CASE GCCcourseFall 2024CASE GCCcourse
- Spring 2025CASE SHcourseFall 2024CASE SHcourse
MSCH-F 398 National and Transnational Cinemas
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Historical survey of major national cinemas. Subject varies. Topics include Brazilian cinema, British cinema, Chinese cinema, French National cinema, German film culture, Indian cinema, and Italian cinema.
- Repeatability
- May be repeated with a different topic for a maximum of 6 credit hours in CMCL-C 398 and MSCH-F 398.
- Spring 2025CASE AHcourseFall 2024CASE AHcourse
REL-B 300 Studies in South and East Asian Religions
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Selected topics and movements in South and East Asian religions.
- Repeatability
- May be repeated with a different topic for a maximum of 6 credit hours.
- Spring 2025CASE AHcourseFall 2024CASE AHcourse
REL-B 310 East Asian Buddhism
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Adaptation and assimilation of Buddhism in East Asia, early philosophical and ritual schools, social issues, Tiantai synthesis of Mahayana Buddhism, devotional Buddhism, Ch\'an/Zen school of meditation, impact of Buddhism on East Asian cultures and arts.
- Repeatability
- Credit given for only one of REL-B 310 or REL-R 350.
- Spring 2025CASE AHcourseFall 2024CASE AHcourse
- Spring 2025CASE GCCcourseFall 2024CASE GCCcourse
REL-B 360 Religions in Japan
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Religious movements in Japan, with emphasis on the development of Shinto, Buddhism, Confucianism, Christianity, and the rise of the \"new religions.\"
- Repeatability
- Credit given for only one of REL-B 360 or REL-R 357.
- Spring 2025CASE AHcourseFall 2024CASE AHcourse
- Spring 2025CASE GCCcourseFall 2024CASE GCCcourse
REL-B 410 Topics in the Buddhist Tradition
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Selected topics such as Mahayana Sutra literature, Buddhist cult practice, Indian Buddhist inscriptions, Prajñåpåramitå thought, or Zen in Korea and Japan.
- Repeatability
- May be repeated with a different topic for a maximum of 6 credit hours in REL-B 410 and REL-R 450.
- Spring 2025CASE AHcourseFall 2024CASE AHcourse
REL-B 440 Topics in Daoism and Chinese Religion
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Selected topics within the Chinese religious traditions.
- Repeatability
- May be repeated with a different topic for a maximum of 6 credit hours in REL-B 440 and REL-R 469.
- Spring 2025CASE AHcourseFall 2024CASE AHcourse
REL-B 460 Topics in East Asian Religions
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Examination of a selected theme, movement, or period in the religious history of China, Japan, or Korea. Topics might include interactions of traditions, new religions in Japan, or religious change in Sung China.
- Repeatability
- May be repeated with a different topic for a maximum of 6 credit hours in REL-B 460 and REL-R 452.
- Spring 2025CASE AHcourseFall 2024CASE AHcourse
THTR-T 468 Asian Performance
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- An in-depth study of the major forms and styles of traditional and contemporary theatre, dance, and puppet performances from around Asia (broadly defined).
- Spring 2025CASE AHcourseFall 2024CASE AHcourse
- History, Literature and Culture
- Politics, Social Science, and Business
- Courses within the department
- EALC-C 421 Introduction to Chinese Linguistics
- EALC-E 305 Korean Language and Culture
- EALC-E 316 Computer-Enhanced Language Learning
- EALC-E 320 Tasting Food in Japanese: Food, Language, and Linguistics
- EALC-E 350 Studies in East Asian Society
- EALC-E 354 Society and Education in Japan
- EALC-E 356 Understanding Two Koreas: Politics, Society, and U. S. Policy
- EALC-E 384 East Asian Nationalism and Cultural Identity
- EALC-E 385 Asian Americans: Cultural Conflict and Identity
- EALC-E 386 United States-East Asian Relations
- EALC-E 390 Contemporary Chinese Politics
- EALC-E 391
- EALC-E 392 Chinese Foreign Policy
- EALC-E 393 China's Political Economy
- EALC-E 395 Japan in World Trade and Politics
- EALC-E 398 International Relations of East Asia
- EALC-E 399 Japanese Foreign Policy
- EALC-J 421 Introduction to Japanese Linguistics
- EALC-K 421
- The following require permission from the Director of Undergraduate Studies to count toward this requirement:
- EALC-H 399 Reading for Honors
- EALC-H 499 Honors Thesis
- EALC-X 473 Internship in East Asian Languages and Cultures
- EALC-X 490 Individual Readings
- SOC-S 346 Topics in Cross-Cultural Sociology
- Courses from other College departments and programs
- ANTH-E 347 The Anthropology of Contemporary Japan
- ANTH-P 399 Undergraduate Seminar
- CEUS-R 330 Politics in Modern Xinjiang
- CEUS-R 395 Politics of Identity in China and Inner Asia
- HIST-G 380 Early China
- HIST-G 382 China: The Age of Glory
- HIST-G 383 China: The Later Empires
- HIST-G 385 Modern China
- HIST-G 387 Contemporary China
- POLS-Y 333 Chinese Politics
- POLS-Y 334 Japanese Politics
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- Grade of C or higher in EALC-C 202, or consent of instructor
- Notes
- Not counted as a language course
- Description
- Introduction to the linguistic characteristics of Chinese, including its sound system, word structure, sentence structure, meaning, and use; relation between the Chinese language, culture, and cognition.
- Spring 2025CASE NMcourseFall 2024CASE NMcourse
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- A survey of cultural, conceptual, and philosophical patterns, and the structure of Korean society, as reflected by the Korean language.
- Spring 2025CASE GCCcourseFall 2024CASE GCCcourse
- Spring 2025CASE SHcourseFall 2024CASE SHcourse
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Notes
- R: Basic computer literacy required
- Description
- An exploration of the use of computer technology in foreign language learning, to equip students with concepts and tools to improve language studies, and an examination of research and findings on the effectiveness of technology in language skill development.
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Approaches the language of food from a linguistic point of view in order to understand why and how language plays a vital role in our food culture. Introduces basic linguistic tools used to examine the language of food within and among languages.
- Spring 2025CASE GCCcourseFall 2024CASE GCCcourse
- Spring 2025CASE SHcourseFall 2024CASE SHcourse
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Selected issues and problems of importance to the understanding of East Asian society.
- Repeatability
- May be repeated with a different topic for a maximum of 6 credit hours.
- Spring 2025CASE GCCcourseFall 2024CASE GCCcourse
- Spring 2025CASE SHcourseFall 2024CASE SHcourse
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Survey of social change in Japan, with a focus on educational institutions, patterns of learning, educational thought, and the spread of literacy.
- Spring 2025CASE SHcourseFall 2024CASE SHcourse
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Exploration of the patterns and complexities of the relationship between two Koreas and the U.S., with a focus on the division of Korea, domestic politics of two Koreas, the changes and continuities of U. S. policies toward the Korean Peninsula, and post-Cold War developments including the North Korean nuclear crisis.
- Spring 2025CASE SHcourseFall 2024CASE SHcourse
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Exploration of the impact of the metaphor of nation and Western nationalism theory on Western literature dealing with modern East Asia. Emphasis on how Western notions of political identity shape and sometimes obscure our understanding of East Asian cultural and political identity.
- Spring 2025CASE SHcourseFall 2024CASE SHcourse
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- An examination of the historical, cultural, and racial dynamics underpinning the evolution of contemporary Asian American identity. Students learn not only about cultural theory and how cultural identities are constructed within America's multiethnic and multicultural society, but also about themselves.
- Spring 2025CASE SHcourseFall 2024CASE SHcourse
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- We will examine the love-hate relationship between East Asia and the U.S. since 1945. Security, economic, and political ties between the U.S. and the individual East Asian countries, and with the region as a whole are considered. Particular attention is given to the diverse Asian perspectives of the relationship.
- Spring 2025CASE SHcourseFall 2024CASE SHcourse
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Analysis of trends and patterns in Chinese politics since 1949, with a focus on ideology and political culture, elites, party and government institutions, the policy-making process, popular political participation, and the relationship between economic and political change. Political evolution of Taiwan is also considered.
- Spring 2025CASE GCCcourseFall 2024CASE GCCcourse
- Spring 2025CASE SHcourseFall 2024CASE SHcourse
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Consideration of the various factors (such as world views, power, domestic politics, and international norms) that may shape China's policies toward different regions of the world (the U.S. and East Asia) and toward international regimes (trade, arms controls, and human rights). Both historical and comparative perspectives are utilized.
- Spring 2025CASE GCCcourseFall 2024CASE GCCcourse
- Spring 2025CASE SHcourseFall 2024CASE SHcourse
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Examines key aspects of China's political economy: the obstacles and sources of economic development, the foundations for democratization, the distribution of political power, and the forces affecting national unity. Use of comparative and historical perspectives, with emphasis on the Reform era. Sources range from macro analyses to company case studies.
- Spring 2025CASE SHcourseFall 2024CASE SHcourse
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Examines Japan's foreign relations. After a brief historical survey, the course covers Japan's contemporary relations with the United States, China, Korea, Russia, and Southeast Asia. Topics include economic as well as military and political relations, which have undergone much change in recent years.
- Spring 2025CASE GCCcourseFall 2024CASE GCCcourse
- Spring 2025CASE SHcourseFall 2024CASE SHcourse
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Examines international relations of the dynamic East Asian region. Develops the tools to think critically about the opportunities and challenges facing the major players within it, including the United States. Topics include security issues, political affairs, and economic relations, which are experiencing rapid change in the twenty-first century.
- Spring 2025CASE GCCcourseFall 2024CASE GCCcourse
- Spring 2025CASE SHcourseFall 2024CASE SHcourse
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Survey of Japan\'s foreign relations since World War II, with a particular focus on contemporary foreign policy challenges. Also uses the prism of Japanese foreign policy to examine Japan\'s domestic politics, relations with its East Asian neighbors, and U.S. strategy toward this dynamic region.
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- EALC-J 102 or consent of instructor
- Description
- A descriptive survey of issues in Japanese linguistics. Topics include syntax, phonology/phonetics, and semantics/ pragmatics of Japanese.
- Spring 2025CASE NMcourseFall 2024CASE NMcourse
- Credits
- 2–6 credit hours
- Prerequisites
- Consent of departmental honors advisor
- Notes
- Honors course
- Description
- Readings for the superior students in preparation for work on a research project (EALC-H 499). Number of credits and texts must be approved by instructor.
- Repeatability
- May be repeated for a maximum of 15 credit hours.
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- EALC-H 399 and consent of departmental honors advisor
- Description
- Ordinarily taken under the supervision of the tutor who guided the student in EALC-H 399. A specialized research project.
- Credits
- 1–3 credit hours
- Prerequisites
- Junior or senior standing; 15 credits of department coursework; and project approved by faculty supervisor
- Notes
- Does not count toward major
- Description
- Selected career-related work in a cooperating institution or business. Evaluation by faculty supervisor and employer.
- Repeatability
- May be repeated for a maximum of 6 credit hours in EALC-E 498 and EALC-X 473.
- Grading
- S/F grading.
- Credits
- 1–3 credit hours
- Prerequisites
- Consent of the undergraduate advisor
- Description
- None
- Repeatability
- May be repeated for a maximum of 6 credit hours in EALC-E 495 and EALC-X 490.
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Study of selected sociological issues with an emphasis on cross-cultural analysis. Specific topics announced each semester; examples include work, family, childhood, religion, and education.
- Repeatability
- May be repeated with different topics for a maximum of 9 credit hours.
- Spring 2025CASE SHcourseFall 2024CASE SHcourse
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Frames in anthropological perspective the history, present, and future of Japanese society. Explores anthropological research on Japanese attitudes toward ethnic and national identity; gender and education; and the wide-ranging impact of Japan's economic decline on attitudes toward work, play, consumption, and travel overseas.
- Spring 2025CASE SHcourseFall 2024CASE SHcourse
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Intensive examination of selected topics in archaeology. Development of skills in analysis and criticism. Topics vary.
- Repeatability
- May be taken with different topics for a maximum of 9 credit hours.
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Exploration of Xinjiang's politics from 1900 to the present, focusing on Islam, identity politics, immigration, language battles, cultural resistance, the Production and Construction Corps, political economy, and oil.
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Challenges the assumption that terms such as "Chinese," "Taiwanese," or "Kazakh" represent straightforward concepts. Via theories of identity, and careful attention to the history of China and Inner Asia, explores and explodes the association of identity and descent, language and ethnicity, citizenship and nationality.
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- China from its neolithic background through the Qin and Western Han dynasties. Examines the Shang tribal polity, royal and aristocratic phases of the Zhou state, and the creation of the imperial system in the Qin-Han period. Changing patterns of ideology, political legitimacy, and social organization through archaeological and textual sources.
- Spring 2025CASE GCCcourseFall 2024CASE GCCcourse
- Spring 2025CASE SHcourseFall 2024CASE SHcourse
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Notes
- R: Previous history course in any field, or previous East Asian Studies course related to China
- Description
- The Chinese empire from the Han through the Tang dynasties (second century B.C. through tenth century A.D.). Relations among demographic patterns. political forms, social classes, economic developments, religious movements, and cultural diversification, investigated through secondary and translated primary sources.
- Repeatability
- Credit given for only one of HIST-G 382 or HIST-G 482.
- Spring 2025CASE GCCcourseFall 2024CASE GCCcourse
- Spring 2025CASE SHcourseFall 2024CASE SHcourse
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Notes
- R: Previous history course in any field, or previous East Asian Studies course related to China
- Description
- The Chinese empire from the Song through the middle Qing dynasties (tenth to eighteenth centuries A.D.). Relations among demographic patterns, political forms, social classes, economic developments, philosophical movements, and cultural diversification, investigated through secondary and translated primary sources.
- Repeatability
- Credit given for only one of HIST-G 383 or HIST-G 483.
- Spring 2025CASE GCCcourseFall 2024CASE GCCcourse
- Spring 2025CASE SHcourseFall 2024CASE SHcourse
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Notes
- R: Previous history course in any field, or previous East Asian Studies course related to China
- Description
- A survey of the final century of dynastic rule and the rise to power of the Nationalist and Communist parties, highlighting social and cultural developments, the impact of Western imperialism, and the evolution of revolutionary ideologies.
- Repeatability
- Credit given for only one of HIST-G 385 or HIST-G 485.
- Spring 2025CASE GCCcourseFall 2024CASE GCCcourse
- Spring 2025CASE SHcourseFall 2024CASE SHcourse
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Notes
- R: Previous history course in any field, or previous East Asian Studies course related to China
- Description
- A survey of recent Chinese history focusing on social, cultural, and political life in the People\'s Republic of China and post-1949 Taiwan. Events covered include the Long March, the Cultural Revolution, and the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989.
- Repeatability
- Credit given for only one of HIST-G 387 or HIST-G 487.
- Spring 2025CASE GCCcourseFall 2024CASE GCCcourse
- Spring 2025CASE SHcourseFall 2024CASE SHcourse
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Explores contemporary politics and policy issues in the People\'s Republic of China. Influence of revolutionary practice and ideology; analysis of contemporary economic, political and social organizations; examination of policy issues including social reforms, economic growth, and democratization and globalization.
- Spring 2025CASE GCCcourseFall 2024CASE GCCcourse
- Spring 2025CASE SHcourseFall 2024CASE SHcourse
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Political development of Japan, with emphasis on changing attitudes toward modernization; cultural and sociological factors affecting the functioning of contemporary political institutions; and the implication of Japanese experience in modernization of other developing societies.
- Spring 2025CASE SHcourseFall 2024CASE SHcourse
- Elective. One (1) course:
- Additional course(s) from the History Literature and Culture list above
- Additional course(s) from the Politics, Social Science, and Business list above
- One (1) of the following:
- EALC-J 401
- EALC-J 402
- EALC-C 425 Teaching Chinese Language
- EALC-C 450 Chinese Writing and Rhetoric
- EALC-E 201 Issues in East Asian Literature
- EALC-E 202 Issues in East Asian Traditions and Ideas
- EALC-E 203 Issues in East Asian Cultural History
- EALC-E 204 Issues in East Asian Society
- EALC-E 231 Japan: The Living Tradition
- EALC-E 232 China Past and Present: Culture in Continuing Evolution
- EALC-E 233 Survey of Korean Civilization
- EALC-E 237 Samurai: Culture and Violence in Premodern Japan
- EALC-E 250 Modern Korean Culture and Society
- EALC-E 251 Traditional East Asian Civilizations
- EALC-E 252 Modern East Asian Civilization
- EALC-E 270 Japanese Language and Society
- EALC-E 271 Modern and Contemporary Japanese Culture
- EALC-E 497 Overseas Study Tour
- EALC-J 425 Teaching Japanese Language
- EALC-J 441 Readings in Japanese Scholarly Materials
- One (1) of the following:
- EALC-E 100 East Asia: An Introduction
- EALC-E 110 Popular Culture in East Asia
- EALC-E 111 War and Violence in East Asia
- EALC-E 115 Romancing East Asia: Literatures of Love from Early Times to the Present
- EALC-E 120 Japanese Business and Public Policy
- EALC-E 160 The Daoist Body
- EALC-E 180 Cross-Cultural Experiences of War: East Asia and the United States
- EALC-E 190 The Rise of China: Challenges and Opportunities for East Asia
EALC-C 425 Teaching Chinese Language
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- Grade of C or higher in EALC-C 302, and consent of the instructor
- Description
- Taught in seminar-practice format, the course examines contemporary paradigms of foreign language instruction, identifies critical issues in language pedagogy, and explores various techniques of teaching the four language skills (speaking, listening, reading, writing). Active participation mandatory.
EALC-C 450 Chinese Writing and Rhetoric
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- Grade of C or higher in EALC-C 402 or consent of instructor
- Description
- Practice in reading, writing, and speaking through analysis of modern prose and literary texts. Examination of how Chinese speakers frame discourse, so students may develop their ability to present ideas with precise diction, in appropriate registers, in extended discourse.
EALC-E 201 Issues in East Asian Literature
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Survey and analysis of selected issues in East Asian literature and arts. Topics vary, but are generally on broad subjects that cut across fields, regions, and periods.
- Repeatability
- May be repeated with a different topic for a maximum of 6 credit hours.
- Spring 2025CASE AHcourseFall 2024CASE AHcourse
- Spring 2025CASE GCCcourseFall 2024CASE GCCcourse
EALC-E 202 Issues in East Asian Traditions and Ideas
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Survey and analysis of selected issues in thought and religion of general import. Topics vary, but are generally on broad subjects that cut across fields, regions, and periods.
- Repeatability
- May be repeated with a different topic for a maximum of 6 credit hours.
- Spring 2025CASE AHcourseFall 2024CASE AHcourse
EALC-E 203 Issues in East Asian Cultural History
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Survey and analysis of selected issues pertinent to changes in the human condition over time in East Asia. Topics vary, but are generally on broad subjects that cut across fields, regions, and periods.
- Repeatability
- May be repeated with a different topic for a maximum of 6 credit hours.
- Spring 2025CASE GCCcourseFall 2024CASE GCCcourse
- Spring 2025CASE SHcourseFall 2024CASE SHcourse
EALC-E 204 Issues in East Asian Society
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Survey and analysis of selected issues in East Asian political, economic, and cultural institutions of society. Topics vary, but are generally on broad subjects that cut across fields, regions, and periods.
- Repeatability
- May be repeated with a different topic for a maximum of 6 credit hours.
- Spring 2025CASE SHcourseFall 2024CASE SHcourse
EALC-E 231 Japan: The Living Tradition
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- An introduction into the patterns of Japanese culture: society, history, visual arts, literary masterpieces, performing arts, and living religious traditions.
- Spring 2025CASE AHcourseFall 2024CASE AHcourse
EALC-E 232 China Past and Present: Culture in Continuing Evolution
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Chinese culture and its modern transformations. Intellectual, artistic, and literary legacies of the Chinese people.
- Spring 2025CASE AHcourseFall 2024CASE AHcourse
EALC-E 233 Survey of Korean Civilization
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- An introduction to the major cultural, social, and political features of Korean society from its prehistorical past to contemporary times. Focuses on how Koreans blended Chinese civilization and, in the twentieth century, institutions from the West and Japan, with indigenous traditions to produce a unique civilization.
- Spring 2025CASE GCCcourseFall 2024CASE GCCcourse
- Spring 2025CASE SHcourseFall 2024CASE SHcourse
EALC-E 237 Samurai: Culture and Violence in Premodern Japan
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- An introduction to the history of the Japanese warriors (samurai) and how their culture shaped the use and perception of violence in society, politics, religion, and literature.
- Spring 2025CASE GCCcourseFall 2024CASE GCCcourse
- Spring 2025CASE SHcourseFall 2024CASE SHcourse
EALC-E 250 Modern Korean Culture and Society
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Examines the intersection of gender, culture and political economy in contemporary South Korean society. Pays special attention to the process of compressed modernization that South Korea experienced in recent decades and to the nature of the political and social movements that came into being during this process.
EALC-E 251 Traditional East Asian Civilizations
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- A chronological and comparative survey of the traditional civilizations of East Asia through lectures and readings of source materials (in translation) in literature, history, philosophy, and the arts, with emphasis on the interrelationship among the cultures of East Asia from ancient times to the early modern era.
- Repeatability
- Credit given for only one of EALC-E 251 or HIST-H 237.
- Spring 2025CASE SHcourseFall 2024CASE SHcourse
EALC-E 252 Modern East Asian Civilization
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Contrasting patterns of indigenous change and response to Western imperialism in East Asia during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. China and Japan receive primary consideration; Korea and Vietnam, secondary. Emphasis on the rise of nationalism and other movements directed toward revolutionary change.
- Repeatability
- Credit given for only one of EALC-E 252 or HIST-H 207.
- Spring 2025CASE SHcourseFall 2024CASE SHcourse
EALC-E 270 Japanese Language and Society
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- A survey of Japanese cultural patterns and the structure of Japanese society as reflected in the Japanese language. Comparisons with aspects of American culture and language will be included. Knowledge of Japanese language is not required.
- Spring 2025CASE AHcourseFall 2024CASE AHcourse
- Spring 2025CASE GCCcourseFall 2024CASE GCCcourse
EALC-E 271 Modern and Contemporary Japanese Culture
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Examination of a range of Japanese culture expressions of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, such as literature, theater, film, popular culture, and their historical contexts.
- Spring 2025CASE AHcourseFall 2024CASE AHcourse
EALC-E 497 Overseas Study Tour
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- Consent of instructor
- Description
- For students who want to learn firsthand about the customs, culture, and language of an East Asian country in a course which includes a structured tour setting. Students will meet and study throughout the semester, both before and after the tour, which is a mandatory part of the class.
- Spring 2025CASE AHcourseFall 2024CASE AHcourse
EALC-J 425 Teaching Japanese Language
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- Grade of C or higher in EALC-J 302, and consent of the instructor
- Description
- Taught in seminar-practice format, the course examines contemporary paradigms of foreign language instruction, identifies critical issues in language pedagogy, and explores various techniques of teaching the four language skills (speaking, listening, reading, writing). Active participation mandatory.
EALC-J 441 Readings in Japanese Scholarly Materials
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- Grade of C or higher in EALC-J 402
- Description
- Social, political, historical, and other types of writings in modern Japanese prose, excluding
- Spring 2025CASE SHcourseFall 2024CASE SHcourse
EALC-E 100 East Asia: An Introduction
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Basic introduction to China, Japan, and Korea. Intended to help students understand the unique character of each of these three cultures within the general framework of East Asian civilization, comprehend the historical importance of the three countries, and appreciate the crucial role they play in the world today.
- Spring 2025CASE AHcourseFall 2024CASE AHcourse
- Spring 2025CASE GCCcourseFall 2024CASE GCCcourse
EALC-E 110 Popular Culture in East Asia
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Surveys East Asian popular culture by examining the evolution and contemporary forms of mass culture in the region. Students will study the structure and political, social, and cultural implications of transnational cultural flows between East Asia and the West.
- Spring 2025CASE AHcourseFall 2024CASE AHcourse
- Spring 2025CASE GCCcourseFall 2024CASE GCCcourse
EALC-E 111 War and Violence in East Asia
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Explores the history of physical violence in China, Japan, and Korea, with a special emphasis on state-sanctioned conflict. Examines the forms that war and violence took in the lives and minds of the residents of East Asia before the nineteenth century.
- Spring 2025CASE SHcourseFall 2024CASE SHcourse
EALC-E 115 Romancing East Asia: Literatures of Love from Early Times to the Present
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Explores diverse expressions of love--sexual, romantic, fantastic, erotic, brotherly, filial, nationalistic, etc., in different forms of literary works (myths, poetry, prose fiction). Examines how the concept of love was used by writers to explore questions of gender, class, and/or national identity.
- Spring 2025CASE AHcourseFall 2024CASE AHcourse
- Spring 2025CASE GCCcourseFall 2024CASE GCCcourse
EALC-E 120 Japanese Business and Public Policy
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Examines modern Japan's economic performance including treatment of economic history, business organization, techniques of factory management, the employment system, trade unions, the role of women, and state policy toward industry and welfare. Also briefly examines U.S.–Japan trade conflicts.
- Spring 2025CASE SHcourseFall 2024CASE SHcourse
EALC-E 160 The Daoist Body
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Daoism, also spelled "Taoism," is commonly known as the "religion of immortality." But of course, Daoists did die. Through Daoist scriptures, images, stories, and meditations, we will explore in this course what the attainment of immortality meant in flesh and blood terms to early Chinese Daoists.
- Spring 2025CASE AHcourseFall 2024CASE AHcourse
EALC-E 180 Cross-Cultural Experiences of War: East Asia and the United States
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- This course examines the impact of twentieth century wars on American–East Asian cultural and political relations. We will consider World War II, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War from the viewpoint of ordinary people, soldiers, and civilians, while exploring how their experiences shape mutual perceptions of culture, values, and race.
- Spring 2025CASE SHcourseFall 2024CASE SHcourse
EALC-E 190 The Rise of China: Challenges and Opportunities for East Asia
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Introduction to issues relating to China's rise in the context of East Asia. Covers the regional implications of China's rise and the myriad drivers of China's domestic political, economic, and foreign policy trajectory in comparison to other East Asian nations.
- Spring 2025CASE GCCcourseFall 2024CASE GCCcourse
- Spring 2025CASE SHcourseFall 2024CASE SHcourse
- Major GPA, Hours, and Minimum Grade Requirements.
- At least 18 credit hours in the major must be completed in courses taken through the Indiana University Bloomington campus or an IU-administered or IU co-sponsored Overseas Study program.
- At least 18 credit hours in the major must be completed at the 300–499 level.
- Except for the GPA requirement, a grade of C- or higher is required for a course to count toward a requirement in the major.
- A GPA of at least 2.000 for all courses taken in the major—including those where a grade lower than C- is earned—is required.
- Exceptions to major requirements may be made with the approval of the department's Director of Undergraduate Studies, subject to final approval by the College of Arts and Sciences.
EALC-C 421 Introduction to Chinese Linguistics
EALC-E 305 Korean Language and Culture
EALC-E 316 Computer-Enhanced Language Learning
EALC-E 320 Tasting Food in Japanese: Food, Language, and Linguistics
EALC-E 350 Studies in East Asian Society
EALC-E 354 Society and Education in Japan
EALC-E 356 Understanding Two Koreas: Politics, Society, and U. S. Policy
EALC-E 384 East Asian Nationalism and Cultural Identity
EALC-E 385 Asian Americans: Cultural Conflict and Identity
EALC-E 386 United States-East Asian Relations
EALC-E 390 Contemporary Chinese Politics
EALC-E 392 Chinese Foreign Policy
EALC-E 393 China's Political Economy
EALC-E 395 Japan in World Trade and Politics
EALC-E 398 International Relations of East Asia
EALC-E 399 Japanese Foreign Policy
EALC-J 421 Introduction to Japanese Linguistics
EALC-H 399 Reading for Honors
EALC-H 499 Honors Thesis
EALC-X 473 Internship in East Asian Languages and Cultures
EALC-X 490 Individual Readings
SOC-S 346 Topics in Cross-Cultural Sociology
ANTH-E 347 The Anthropology of Contemporary Japan
ANTH-P 399 Undergraduate Seminar
CEUS-R 330 Politics in Modern Xinjiang
CEUS-R 395 Politics of Identity in China and Inner Asia
HIST-G 380 Early China
HIST-G 382 China: The Age of Glory
HIST-G 383 China: The Later Empires
HIST-G 385 Modern China
HIST-G 387 Contemporary China
POLS-Y 333 Chinese Politics
POLS-Y 334 Japanese Politics
Notes
The Bachelor of Arts degree requires at least 120 credit hours, to include the following:
- College of Arts and Sciences Credit Hours. At least 100 credit hours must come from College of Arts and Sciences disciplines.
- Upper Division Courses. At least 42 credit hours (of the 120) must be at the 300–499 level.
- College Residency. Following completion of the 60th credit hour toward degree, at least 36 credit hours of College of Arts and Sciences coursework must be completed through the Indiana University Bloomington campus or an IU-administered or IU co-sponsored Overseas Study program.
- College GPA. A cumulative grade point average (GPA) of at least 2.000 is required for all courses taken at Indiana University.
- CASE Requirements. The following College of Arts and Sciences Education (CASE) requirements must be completed:
- CASE Foundations
- CASE Breadth of Inquiry
- CASE Culture Studies
- CASE Critical Approaches: 1 course
- CASE Foreign Language: Proficiency in a single foreign language through the second semester of the second year of college-level coursework
- CASE Intensive Writing: 1 course
- CASE Public Oral Communication: 1 course
- Major. Completion of the major as outlined in the Major Requirements section above.
Most students must also successfully complete the Indiana University Bloomington General Education program.