Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures
Minor in East Asian Studies
Students on Summer 2019, Fall 2019, or Spring 2020 requirements EASTMIN
Requirements
The minor requires at least 15 credit hours, including the requirements listed below.
- Courses. Complete at least five (5) courses from the East Asian Studies Course list.
- 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 170 Contemporary Chinese Society
- 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-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 208 Bubble Tea versus Bubble Gum: Languages and Cultures of East Asia and the World
- 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 258 Work, Economy, and Inequality in East Asia
- EALC-E 270 Japanese Language and Society
- EALC-E 271 Modern and Contemporary Japanese Culture
- EALC-E 300 Studies in East Asian Literature
- EALC-E 301 Chinese Language and Culture
- EALC-E 303 Korean Folk and Elite Cultures
- EALC-E 305 Korean Language and Culture
- EALC-E 306 Psychology of Chinese
- EALC-E 307 Cultures of Protest in South Korea
- EALC-E 308 South Korean Education: Examination Hell or Model for the World?
- EALC-E 309 Dating, Sex, and Marriage in South Korea
- EALC-E 310 Introduction to East Asian Studies
- EALC-E 311 Korean Popular Culture
- EALC-E 316 Computer-Enhanced Language Learning
- 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 328 Voices from the Inner Chamber: Writing Women of Traditional China
- 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 350 Studies in East Asian Society
- 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 354 Society and Education in Japan
- EALC-E 355 Visual Culture of Modern Japan
- EALC-E 356 Understanding Two Koreas: Politics, Society, and U. S. Policy
- EALC-E 358 Early Modern Japanese History
- EALC-E 362 Nature, Culture, and the Environment in Japan
- EALC-E 369 Modern Japanese History
- EALC-E 371 Twentieth-Century Chinese Literature
- 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 386 United States-East Asian Relations
- EALC-E 387 Gender, Sex, and Sexuality in Japan
- EALC-E 388 Japanese Politics and Society
- EALC-E 390 Contemporary Chinese Politics
- EALC-E 391 Law and Authoritarianism through the Lens of China
- 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-E 473 History of Japanese Theatre and Drama
- EALC-E 496 Foreign Study (East Asian Exchange Programs)
- EALC-E 497 Overseas Study Tour
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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EALC-E 170 Contemporary Chinese Society
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Explores the social, cultural, and historical "literacy" of contemporary China (defined loosely as Chinese society since the establishment of the People's Republic of China in 1949). Emphasis on the fundamental units of social organization in China--the family, the workplace, neighborhoods, and cities and villages--and how they have changed over the past fifty years.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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EALC-E 208 Bubble Tea versus Bubble Gum: Languages and Cultures of East Asia and the World
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Introduces East Asian languages and cultures in terms of writing systems, food and menus, family relations, sense of time and space, humor, gender, sexuality, politeness, religions, translations. Uses East Asian languages--Chinese, Japanese, and Korean--as a window to understand human thinking, communicative behaviors, and cultures.
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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EALC-E 258 Work, Economy, and Inequality in East Asia
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Explores profound changes in the character of work in East Asia since the mid-twentieth century, with a particular focus on China, Japan, and Korea. Covers contemporary East Asian history, society, and culture through the lens of the workplace and its transformation over recent decades.
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.
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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.
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EALC-E 300 Studies in East Asian Literature
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Selected issues and problems of importance to the understanding of East Asian literature, film or linguistics.
- Repeatability
- May be repeated with a different topic for a maximum of 6 credit hours.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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EALC-E 306 Psychology of Chinese
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Focuses on the cognitive mysteries that underlie key properties of the Chinese languages. Offers a roadmap for thinking about the cognitive as well as sociocultural issues related to the Chinese languages at different linguistic levels (speech, words, sentences, writing, classifiers, metaphor, etc.).
EALC-E 307 Cultures of Protest in South Korea
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- A historical and cultural survey of social movements and political protest in South Korea through various cultural artifacts including but not limited to literature, films, music, graphic art, new and digital media.
EALC-E 308 South Korean Education: Examination Hell or Model for the World?
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Examines the role of education in contemporary South Korean society. Korea\'s investment in education has produced substantial benefits for the nation, but there is also a significant downside to the hyper-competitiveness that has overtaken the Korean education system.
EALC-E 309 Dating, Sex, and Marriage in South Korea
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Examines dating, sex, and marriage in contemporary South Korea. Explores two main questions: What kind of society is South Korea becoming as a consequence of its rapid economic and social changes? How do Koreans adjust and negotiate these changes in regard to dating, sex, and marriage?
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.
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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.
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EALC-E 316 Computer-Enhanced Language Learning
- 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.
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.
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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.
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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.
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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 328 Voices from the Inner Chamber: Writing Women of Traditional China
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Rather than passive victims of the Confucian patriarchy, traditional Chinese women were mothers, daughters, wives, concubines, courtesans, palace ladies, and religious figures with diverse voices. By examining women's life stories by their own accounts, the course explores the otherwise missing half of traditional Chinese literary, social, and cultural history.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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EALC-E 350 Studies in East Asian Society
- 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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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EALC-E 354 Society and Education in Japan
- 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.
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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.
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EALC-E 356 Understanding Two Koreas: Politics, Society, and U. S. Policy
- 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.
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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.
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EALC-E 362 Nature, Culture, and the Environment in Japan
- Credits
- 3–3 credit hours
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Traces the relations between cultural forms, ideas of nature, and the realities of environmental history in the Japanese islands from early times to the present. Japan represents a case study of the ways culture and social arrangements shape human relations with the environment and our changing understanding of it.
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.
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EALC-E 371 Twentieth-Century Chinese Literature
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Twentieth-century Chinese literature in translation, with readings from Liu E, Mao Dun, Lao She, and selected contemporary authors from China and Taiwan.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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EALC-E 386 United States-East Asian Relations
- 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.
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EALC-E 387 Gender, Sex, and Sexuality in Japan
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Explores the political, social, and economic forces that have shaped gender roles in Japan. Investigates how gender norms impact individuals and illuminates the ways in which individuals both contest and embrace normative gender roles in Japan.
EALC-E 388 Japanese Politics and Society
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Provides a grounding in Japan's modern history and introduces four major institutions of Japanese society: family and the education, employment, and political systems. Explores how conflict and social change play out within these institutions in contemporary Japan.
EALC-E 390 Contemporary Chinese Politics
- 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.
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EALC-E 391 Law and Authoritarianism through the Lens of China
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- We are witnessing a global turn towards populist and illiberal governance. Authoritarian leaders often embrace international legal norms symbolically and rhetorically while subverting them in practice through various means of local political control and interference. This course uses the case of China to explore the functions and behavior of legal systems in authoritarian political contexts because China overwhelmingly dominates scholarship on the topic. Despite a burgeoning scholarly literature chronicling the reconstruction, expansion, and proliferation of laws, courts, and lawyers in China since 1979, scholars disagree about the significance and implications of these developments. Does the Chinese legal system offer meaningful redress to people with grievances, or should it be understood as ornamental "window dressing"? Does it do more to limit or to strengthen the power of the government and its ruling party? Does it do more to help people challenge or to prevent people from challenging the state? In this interdisciplinary course we will not only explore and debate these questions, but will also (re)consider conventional scholarly notions about authoritarianism and popular political participation, single-party rule and judicial governance, democracy and political legitimacy, and legal professionals and their fights for legal and political freedoms. In the process we will scrutinize recent developments in China, including the so-called "turn from law," the rise of "stability maintenance," and a crackdown on lawyers. Our inquiry will be heavily empirical and evidence-based. When we attempt to reconcile, adjudicate, or explain scholarly disagreements, we will scrutinize available data on the issue at hand. Our approach will be not only empirical, but also comparative. Throughout the semester we will endeavor to situate China in comparative global perspective.
EALC-E 392 Chinese Foreign Policy
- 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.
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EALC-E 393 China's Political Economy
- 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.
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EALC-E 395 Japan in World Trade and Politics
- 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.
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EALC-E 398 International Relations of East Asia
- 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.
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EALC-E 399 Japanese Foreign Policy
- 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.
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.
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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-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.
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- One (1) of the following:
- Additional Requirements.
- At least 12 credit hours of the above must be at the 200–499 level.
- At least 9 credit hours of the above must be at the 300–499 level.
- Minor GPA, Hours, and Minimum Grade Requirements.
- At least 9 credit hours in the minor 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 9 credit hours in the minor 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 minor.
- A GPA of at least 2.000 for all courses taken in the minor—including those where a grade lower than C- is earned—is required.
- Exceptions to minor 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.