Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures
The Language Flagship - Chinese Track (Bachelor of Arts in East Asian Language and Culture)
Students on Summer 2024, Fall 2024, or Spring 2025 requirements EALCLFTRK1
Requirements
The major requires at least 38 credit hours, including the requirements listed below.
- Chinese Language.
- Language. One (1) of the following options:
- Proficiency Through Fourth-Year Chinese II Option.
- Third-Year Chinese I. One (1) course:
- EALC-C 301 Third-Year Chinese I
EALC-C 301 Third-Year Chinese I
- Credits
- 4
- Prerequisites
- Grade of C or higher in EALC-C 202; or appropriate placement exam score
- Description
- Emphasis on practice in understanding the difference between oral and written expression, building up discourse-level narration skills, and developing reading strategies for coping with authentic texts.
- Third-Year Chinese II. One (1) course:
- EALC-C 302 Third-Year Chinese II
EALC-C 302 Third-Year Chinese II
- Credits
- 4
- Prerequisites
- Grade of C or higher in EALC-C 301; or appropriate placement exam score
- Description
- Continuation of EALC-C 301.
- Fourth-Year Chinese I. One (1) course:
- EALC-C 401 Fourth-Year Chinese I
EALC-C 401 Fourth-Year Chinese I
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- Grade of C or higher in EALC-C 302; or appropriate placement exam score
- Description
- Emphasis on understanding and appreciating Chinese literary genres and prose.
- Fourth-Year Chinese II. One (1) course:
- EALC-C 402 Fourth-Year Chinese II
EALC-C 402 Fourth-Year Chinese II
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- Grade of C or higher in EALC-C 401; or appropriate placement exam score
- Description
- Continuation of EALC-C 401.
- Third-Year Chinese I. One (1) course:
- Placement Exam Score Option. Score of 800 or above on one of the following Bloomington placement exams:
- The Indiana University Chinese (Simplified) Proficiency Exam
- The Indiana University Chinese (Traditional) Proficiency Exam
- Proficiency Through Fourth-Year Chinese II Option.
- Language through Culture. Two (2) courses:
- EALC-C 457 Chinese in Humanities
- EALC-C 467 Chinese in Social Science
EALC-C 457 Chinese in Humanities
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- Grade of B or higher in EALC-C 402; or appropriate placement exam score
- Description
- Advanced language practice associated with authentic academic texts in humanities disciplines. Emphasis on interpreting, analyzing, and presenting Chinese cultural concepts, artifacts, and events from a global perspective, for an authentic purpose, and within a performance assessment framework. May be offered independently in Chinese, or linked with an English-language content course.
- Repeatability
- May be repeated for a maximum of 6 credit hours.
EALC-C 467 Chinese in Social Science
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- Grade of B or higher in EALC-C 402; or appropriate placement exam score
- Description
- Advanced language practice associated with authentic academic texts in social science disciplines. Emphasis on interpreting, analyzing, and presenting Chinese cultural concepts, practice, and events from a global perspective, for an authentic purpose, and within a performance assessment framework. May be offered independently in Chinese, or linked with an English-language content course.
- Repeatability
- May be repeated for a maximum of 6 credit hours.
- Language. One (1) of the following options:
- Regional Studies.
- 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. Two (2) courses, each to be taken concurrently with EALC-C 457 or EALC-C 467.
- EALC courses
- Any EALC-E 300–399
- History, Literature and Culture courses in 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
- Politics, Social Science, and Business courses in 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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) additional course:
- History, Literature, and Culture
- 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
- 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
- Politics, Social Science, and Business
- 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
- 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
- Other courses
- 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
- ANTH-A 200 Topics in Anthropology of Culture and Society (approved topics only; see academic advisor)
- ARTH-A 262 Introduction to Japanese Art and Culture
- CMLT-C 257 Asian Literature and Other Arts (approved topics only; see academic advisor)
- CMLT-C 265 Introduction to East Asian Poetry
- CMLT-C 266 Introduction to East Asian Fiction
- CMLT-C 291 Studies in Non-Western Film (approved topics only; see academic advisor)
- HIST-G 200 Issues in Asian History (approved topics only; see academic advisor)
- HIST-H 208 American-East Asian Relations
- REL-B 202 Issues in South and East Asian Religions (approved topics only; see academic advisor)
- REL-B 230 Introduction to Chinese Religion
- 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.
- 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.
- 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
- 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
- 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.
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- Grade of C or higher in EALC-C 451, or consent of instructor
- Description
- Continuation of EALC-C 451.
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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.
- 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.
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Examines the intersection of gender, class, and nation in contemporary South Korea through the lens of cinema.
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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.
- 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.
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Selected topics in the anthropological study of social and cultural institutions. Emphasizes understanding and developing anthropological approaches to questions about social, economic, political, and historical relationships among groups and individuals in contexts across the globe. Course topics may utilize ethnographic, archaeological, linguistic, and historical information.
- Repeatability
- May be repeated with a different topic for a maximum of 6 credit hours.
- Spring 2025CASE SHcourseFall 2024CASE SHcourse
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Traces the transformation of painting and other artistic media, including ceramics, sculpture, scroll painting, and screens, through the epochs of Japanese art history. Emphasizes major moments of change, placing the visual arts in the context of international contact and the political and social order of Japan.
- Spring 2025CASE SHcourseFall 2024CASE SHcourse
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Explores selected literary texts of Asia in the context of the art forms and cultures of a particular country or region. Geographical regions covered vary each term.
- Repeatability
- May be repeated once with different topic.
- Spring 2025CASE AHcourseFall 2024CASE AHcourse
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Major forms of East Asian poetry in a comparative context, with attention to issues such as poetics, gender, Zen, historical development, and interactions with other literary genres. Authors such as Bei Dao, Li Bo, and Basho.
- Spring 2025CASE AHcourseFall 2024CASE AHcourse
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Readings from the major novels of East Asia, such as "Monkey," "Story of the Stone," "The Tale of Genji," and "The Cloud Dream of the Nine," along with shorter fictional forms (both vernacular and classical). Exploration of issues such as self and society, desire and enlightenment, the relationship between fictional and other genres, historical development of fiction, and comparison with Western conceptions of narrative.
- Spring 2025CASE AHcourseFall 2024CASE AHcourse
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Emphasis on non-Western film in relation to literary and cultural texts. Films may be studied as adaptations of literary works, as reworkings of generic or ideological traditions, and in their engagement with the aesthetics of non-Western theater and Hollywood. Focus on one regional tradition (African, Asian, Middle Eastern) each time the course is offered.
- Repeatability
- May be repeated with a different topic for a maximum of 6 credit hours.
- Spring 2025CASE AHcourseFall 2024CASE AHcourse
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Study and analysis of selected historical issues and problems of general import. Topics vary from semester to semester but usually are 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
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Describes and analyzes the mutual interaction of the American countries and the major countries of East Asia--China, Japan, Korea, and Vietnam--during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Emphasis on cultural interrelations and changing images.
- Spring 2025CASE SHcourseFall 2024CASE SHcourse
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Selected issues 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
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Introduction to religion in premodern and contemporary China. Examines the concept of religion, the notion of religious identity, and various debates that have shaped religious traditions (Confucians, Daoists, Mohists, Chinese Buddhists, Confucian-Muslims) in China.
- Spring 2025CASE AHcourseFall 2024CASE AHcourse
- Spring 2025CASE GCCcourseFall 2024CASE GCCcourse
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
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
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 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 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
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 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
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
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-A 200 Topics in Anthropology of Culture and Society
ARTH-A 262 Introduction to Japanese Art and Culture
CMLT-C 257 Asian Literature and Other Arts
CMLT-C 265 Introduction to East Asian Poetry
CMLT-C 266 Introduction to East Asian Fiction
CMLT-C 291 Studies in Non-Western Film
HIST-G 200 Issues in Asian History
HIST-H 208 American-East Asian Relations
REL-B 202 Issues in South and East Asian Religions
REL-B 230 Introduction to Chinese Religion
- Introduction to East Asian Studies. One (1) course:
- Overseas Study at Nanjing University.
- Core Courses. Three (3) courses:
- EALC-C 433 Foreign Study in Chinese, Fourth Year
- EALC-C 450 Chinese Writing and Rhetoric
- EALC-C 496 Flagship Overseas Study in China
EALC-C 433 Foreign Study in Chinese, Fourth Year
- Credits
- 1–10 credit hours
- Prerequisites
- Acceptance into an Indiana University-approved overseas study program
- Description
- Credit for foreign study in Chinese language when no specific equivalent is available among departmental offerings.
- Repeatability
- May be repeated for a maximum of 10 credit hours.
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-C 496 Flagship Overseas Study in China
- Credits
- 3–12 credit hours
- Prerequisites
- EALC-C 457 and EALC-C 467; and junior or senior standing
- Description
- Advanced language and culture study in an approved Language Flagship program in China. Arrangements for credit made in advance in consultation with the Chinese Flagship director and the director of undergraduate studies.
- Internship. One (1) course:
- EALC-C 498 Flagship Overseas Internship in China
EALC-C 498 Flagship Overseas Internship in China
- Credits
- 3–12 credit hours
- Prerequisites
- EALC-C 457 and EALC-C 467; junior or senior standing; and project approval by the Chinese Flagship director and the director of undergraduate studies
- 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 12 credit hours.
- Core Courses. Three (3) courses:
- Overseas Study at National Taiwan University.
- Core Courses. Three (3) courses:
- EALC-C 433 Foreign Study in Chinese, Fourth Year
- EALC-C 450 Chinese Writing and Rhetoric
- EALC-C 496 Flagship Overseas Study in China
EALC-C 433 Foreign Study in Chinese, Fourth Year
- Credits
- 1–10 credit hours
- Prerequisites
- Acceptance into an Indiana University-approved overseas study program
- Description
- Credit for foreign study in Chinese language when no specific equivalent is available among departmental offerings.
- Repeatability
- May be repeated for a maximum of 10 credit hours.
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-C 496 Flagship Overseas Study in China
- Credits
- 3–12 credit hours
- Prerequisites
- EALC-C 457 and EALC-C 467; and junior or senior standing
- Description
- Advanced language and culture study in an approved Language Flagship program in China. Arrangements for credit made in advance in consultation with the Chinese Flagship director and the director of undergraduate studies.
- Internship. One (1) course:
- EALC-C 498 Flagship Overseas Internship in China
EALC-C 498 Flagship Overseas Internship in China
- Credits
- 3–12 credit hours
- Prerequisites
- EALC-C 457 and EALC-C 467; junior or senior standing; and project approval by the Chinese Flagship director and the director of undergraduate studies
- 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 12 credit hours.
- Core Courses. Three (3) courses:
- Major GPA. 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.
- Major Minimum Grade. Except for the GPA requirement, a grade of C- or higher is required for a course to count toward a requirement in the major.
- Major Upper Division Credit Hours. At least 18 credit hours in the major must be completed at the 300–499 level.
- Major Residency. 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.
- College Breadth. At least 58 credit hours must be completed in courses from College of Arts and Sciences disciplines outside of the major area.
Major Area Courses
-
Unless otherwise noted below, the following courses are considered in the academic program and will count toward academic program requirements as appropriate:
- Any course at the 100–499 level with the
EALC
subject area prefix—as well as any other subject areas that are deemed functionally equivalent - Any course contained on the course lists for the academic program requirements at the time the course is taken—as well as any other courses that are deemed functionally equivalent—except for those listed only under Addenda Requirements
- Any course directed to a non-Addenda requirement through an approved exception
- Any course at the 100–499 level with the
Exclusions
The following courses cannot be applied toward major requirements or the College Breadth requirement (unless otherwise noted) :
- EALC-C 101 Elementary Chinese I *
- EALC-C 102 Elementary Chinese II *
- EALC-C 201 Second-Year Chinese I *
- EALC-C 202 Second-Year Chinese II *
- EALC-E 496 Foreign Study (East Asian Exchange Programs)
- EALC-J 101 Elementary Japanese I *
- EALC-J 102 Elementary Japanese II *
- EALC-J 201 Second-Year Japanese I *
- EALC-J 202 Second-Year Japanese II *
- EALC-K 101 Elementary Korean I *
- EALC-K 102 Elementary Korean II *
- EALC-K 201 Second-Year Korean I *
- EALC-K 202 Second-Year Korean II *
EALC-C 101 Elementary Chinese I
- Credits
- 4
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- An introductory course that lays groundwork for the study of modern Chinese. It aims at fostering proficiency in all four language skills (aural understanding, speaking, reading, and writing), and helping students handle simple tasks in daily routines. Basic sentence patterns, vocabulary, and characters are all practiced in meaningful contexts.
EALC-C 102 Elementary Chinese II
- Credits
- 4
- Prerequisites
- Grade of C or higher in EALC-C 101; or appropriate placement exam score
- Description
- Continuation of EALC-C 101.
EALC-C 201 Second-Year Chinese I
- Credits
- 4
- Prerequisites
- Grade of C or higher in EALC-C 102, EALC-C 104; or appropriate placement exam score
- Description
- Explores the broader cultural context in which language is used, including more subtle oral and written forms. Investigates multiple perspectives in addition to the speaker's.
EALC-C 202 Second-Year Chinese II
- Credits
- 4
- Prerequisites
- Grade of C or higher in EALC-C 201; or appropriate placement exam score
- Description
- Continuation of EALC-C 201.
EALC-E 496 Foreign Study (East Asian Exchange Programs)
- Credits
- 1–3 credit hours
- Prerequisites
- Acceptance into an East Asian student exchange program
- Description
- Report due at the end of each semester. Arrangements for credit made in advance in consultation with the East Asian Student Exchange Committee.
EALC-J 101 Elementary Japanese I
- Credits
- 4
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- An introductory, skills-oriented course emphasizing learning language in context. Development of listening and speaking in simple interactional situations, and controlled reading and writing skills.
EALC-J 102 Elementary Japanese II
- Credits
- 4
- Prerequisites
- Grade of C or higher in EALC-J 101; or appropriate placement exam score
- Description
- Continuation of EALC-J 101.
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-K 101 Elementary Korean I
- Credits
- 4
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- This course provides students with basic conversational and grammatical patterns, assuming that the students have no or little previous background knowledge of Korean. The objective of the course is to equip students with communicative skills in speaking, listening, reading, and writing at a basic level.
EALC-K 102 Elementary Korean II
- Credits
- 4
- Prerequisites
- Grade of C or higher in EALC-K 101
- Description
- Continuation of EALC-K 101.
EALC-K 201 Second-Year Korean I
- Credits
- 4
- Prerequisites
- Grade of C or higher in EALC-K 102
- Description
- Both spoken and written aspects stressed.
EALC-K 202 Second-Year Korean II
- Credits
- 4
- Prerequisites
- Grade of C or higher in EALC-K 201
- Description
- Continuation of EALC-K 201.
Courses marked with an asterisk (*) will count toward the College Breadth requirement.
This program of study cannot be combined with the following:
- Bachelor of Arts in East Asian Studies (EASTBA1)
- Certificate in Advanced Chinese Language and Culture (ACLCACRT)
- Chinese Track (Bachelor of Arts in East Asian Language and Culture) (EALCCHTRK1)
- Japanese Track (Bachelor of Arts in East Asian Language and Culture) (EALCJATRK1)
- Korean Track (Bachelor of Arts in East Asian Language and Culture) (EALCKOTRK1)
- Minor in East Asian Languages (EALANMIN)
- Minor in East Asian Studies (EASTMIN)
Exceptions to and substitutions for major requirements may be made with the approval of the unit's Director of Undergraduate Studies, subject to final approval by the College of Arts and Sciences.
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 College grade point average (GPA) of at least 2.000 is required.
- 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
- CASE Sustainability Literacy: 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.