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(F) Proseminar I: Critical Approaches to East Asian Studies (3)
The major paradigms of literary and cultural theory as contexts for analyzing and understanding East Asian literature and culture in a comparative framework.
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(S) Proseminar II: Research Methodology (3)
Research bibliographies, tools, and technologies in the fields of East Asian studies.
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16:217:511
(F) The Silk Road (3)
The history of the Silk Road with a focus on the cultural and material exchanges among the peoples and cultures it connected during the period between 500 BCE-1500 CE.
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16:217:520
(S) History of Chinese Literature: Beginnings to 1300 (3)
Critical interpretation and discussion of major genres,
writers, and works in premodern Chinese literature.
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16:217:527
(S) Topics in Classical Chinese Poetry and Poetics (3)
Major genres, themes, and poets of the classical age. The art of reading poetry in relevant historical, biographical, and literary-historical contexts.
Swartz. Prerequisite: Proficiency in reading modern and classical Chinese.
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16:217:529
(F) Early China in the World (3)
An interdisciplinary review of the process through which early Chinese perceived
themselves, their realm, the world, and beyond from high antiquity to the
medieval period.
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16:217:531
(S) Readings in Modern Chinese Literature (3)
Modern Chinese literary and critical texts,
historical analysis, and cultural imagination.
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16:217:533
(S) The City in Modern Chinese Literature and Film (3)
Literature and film on major Chinese cities against the backdrop of literary and cultural criticism.
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16:217:535
(F) Chinese Grammar (3)
Topics relevant to the study of Chinese applied linguistics
and Chinese pedagogy, including analysis of Chinese sounds, word structure and
formation, and sentence and paragraph structure.
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16:217:536
(F) Chinese Historical Phonology (3)
Chinese phonology relevant to the
study of Chinese literature and research in Chinese, including phonology in the
history and development of the writing system, Medieval Chinese phonology, prosody,
and rhyming.
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16:217:555
(F) Seminar on Modern Korean History (3)
Emerging scholarship and major debates in modern Korean
history in a variety of topics from the late 19th century to the present.
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16:217:570
(F) Tale of Genji as World Literature (3)
Analysis of the Tale of Genji in the context of world
literature. The narrative as a court
romance, psychological novel, and feminist text. Extensive readings from scholarly literature
in English; issues of translation.
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16:217:577
(S) Japanese Film (3)
Major cinematic representations of 20th-century
Japan from the 1920s to the 1970s, including films by directors Kurosawa Akira,
Mizuguchi Kenji, and Ozu Yasujirô; particular focus given to the films of the
1950s and 1960s, the height of the popularity and influence of the film medium
in Japanese society.
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16:217:593
(F) Independent Study in East Asian Languages and Cultures (3)
Independent
study or directed research in areas of particular interest, such as
linguistics, literary history, critical and literary theory, cinema studies,
and studies of individual genres or issues. Intended for exploring areas not covered
in depth by regularly scheduled courses. Includes a written assignment to be determined in consultation with the
professor directing the independent study.
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16:217:594
(S) Independent Study in East Asian Languages and Cultures (3)
Independent
study or directed research in areas of particular interest, such as
linguistics, literary history, critical and literary theory, cinema studies,
and studies of individual genres or issues. Intended for exploring areas not
covered in depth by regularly scheduled courses. Includes a written assignment to be
determined in consultation with the professor directing the independent study.
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Special Topics (3,3)
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