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Minor concentrations in East Asian Studies (18 credits):
Minor Concentration East Asian Cultural Studies: [program medium BA X EAC8 MINOR]
Supplementary Minor Concentration East Asian Language: [program medium BA X SEA8 MINOR]
Minor Concentration East Asian Language and Literature: [program medium BA X EAL8 MINOR]
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Major concentration
Program Requirement:
The Major Concentration in East Asian Studies provides in-depth training in the humanistic studies of East Asia (including language, society, literature, history, media, religion, politics, and art). The program includes core survey on China, Japan, and Korea.
Complementary Courses (36 credits)
Introduction to East Asian Culture
3-6 credits from the following courses:
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EAST 211 Intro:East Asian Culture:China 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Asian Language & Literature: This course provides a critical introduction to central themes in Chinese culture. The course will also examine the changing representations of the Chinese cultural tradition in the West. Readings will include original sources in translation from the fields of literature, philosophy, religion, and cultural history.
Offered by: East Asian Studies
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Gal Gvili
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EAST 212 Intro:East Asian Culture:Japan 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Asian Language & Literature: An introduction to Japan which presents various aspects of Japanese literature, culture, history, religions, philosophy and society.
Offered by: East Asian Studies
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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EAST 213 Intro:East Asian Culture:Korea 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Asian Language & Literature: This course provides a critical introduction to central themes in Korean culture, including Korean literature, religions, philosophy, and socio-economic formations.
Offered by: East Asian Studies
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Kimberly Chung
0-3 credits from the following:
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EAST 215 Introduction to East Asian Art 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Asian Language & Literature: Introductory survey of some of the major developments in the visual arts of Japan, China, and Korea. Emphasis will be placed on the diversity of artistic traditions in East Asia and the intersections among these traditions.
Offered by: East Asian Studies
- Restriction: Not open to students taking or who have taken ARTH 215.
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Davin Luce
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EAST 250 Intro to Asian Media Studies 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Asian Language & Literature: The course explores core methods and theoretical approaches to media in Asia and beyond: material culture, technicity, media infrastructures, intermediality, circulation, platforms, regionalism, and institutional history.
Offered by: East Asian Studies
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
East Asian Language
6-9 credits of East Asian language courses selected from the list below.
Note: Admission to language courses is subject to placement tests.
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EAST 220D1 First Level Korean 4.5 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Asian Language & Literature: Introduction to the basic structures of the standard Korean language. The aim of this course is to give students a basic knowledge of the Korean language. Special emphasis is put on handling everyday conversation, reading and writing short texts, and mastering basic grammar rules.
Offered by: East Asian Studies
- Students must register for both EAST 220D1 and EAST 220D2.
- No credit will be given for this course unless both EAST 220D1 and EAST 220D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Myung Hee Kim
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EAST 220D2 First Level Korean 4.5 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Asian Language & Literature: See EAST 220D1 for course description.
Offered by: East Asian Studies
- Prerequisite: EAST 220D1
- No credit will be given for this course unless both EAST 220D1 and EAST 220D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Myung Hee Kim
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EAST 230D1 First Level Chinese 4.5 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Asian Language & Literature: Introduction to the basic structures of Mandarin Chinese, Pin-yin romanization and 750 characters for reading and writing. Emphasis on developing aural and oral skills through communication games and interaction activities. Animated films are used as part of teaching materials.
Offered by: East Asian Studies
- Students must register for both EAST 230D1 and EAST 230D2.
- No credit will be given for this course unless both EAST 230D1 and EAST 230D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Renzhong Wang
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EAST 230D2 First Level Chinese 4.5 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Asian Language & Literature: See EAST 230D1 for course description.
Offered by: East Asian Studies
- Prerequisite: EAST 230D1
- No credit will be given for this course unless both EAST 230D1 and EAST 230D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Renzhong Wang
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EAST 240D1 First Level Japanese 4.5 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Asian Language & Literature: Introduction to the basic grammar and sentence patterns of the Japanese language in both oral and written forms. In reading and writing skills students will be introduced to katakana, hiragana and kanji.
Offered by: East Asian Studies
- Students must register for both EAST 240D1 and EAST 240D2.
- No credit will be given for this course unless both EAST 240D1 and EAST 240D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Jodie Beck, Tomoko Ikeda
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EAST 240D2 First Level Japanese 4.5 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Asian Language & Literature: See EAST 240D1 for course description.
Offered by: East Asian Studies
- Prerequisite: EAST 240D1
- No credit will be given for this course unless both EAST 240D1 and EAST 240D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Jodie Beck, Tomoko Ikeda
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EAST 241 Japanese Writing Beginners 1 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Asian Language & Literature: Grammar, vocabulary, kanji, and introduction ofsome new expressions.
Offered by: East Asian Studies
- Prerequisite(s): EAST 240 or equivalent or permission of the instructor
- Language of instruction: Japanese and English.
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Tomoko Ikeda
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EAST 242 Japanese Writing Beginners 2 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Asian Language & Literature: Grammar, vocabulary, kanji, and introduction ofsome new expressions.
Offered by: East Asian Studies
- Prerequisite(s): EAST 240 or EAST 241 or equivalent or permission of the instructor
- Language of instruction: Japanese and English.
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Tomoko Ikeda
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EAST 320D1 Second Level Korean 4.5 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Asian Language & Literature: The aim of this course is to give students a fluent speaking ability in daily conversation, advanced grammar knowledge, improved reading and writing skills. Special emphasis is put on the efficient use of grammar, enrichment of vocabulary, and mastering useful expressions encountered in everyday life.
Offered by: East Asian Studies
- Prerequisite: EAST 220 or equivalent
- Students must register for both EAST 320D1 and EAST 320D2.
- No credit will be given for this course unless both EAST 320D1 and EAST 320D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Myung Hee Kim
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EAST 320D2 Second Level Korean 4.5 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Asian Language & Literature: See EAST 320D1 for course description.
Offered by: East Asian Studies
- Prerequisite: EAST 320D1
- No credit will be given for this course unless both EAST 320D1 and EAST 320D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Myung Hee Kim
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EAST 330D1 Second Level Chinese 4.5 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Asian Language & Literature: The same communicative approach as in EAST 230 is used to develop aural and oral skills on daily topics. In addition to textbooks, Chinese films on videotapes will be incorporated as teaching materials.
Offered by: East Asian Studies
- Prerequisite: EAST 230 or equivalent or permission of the instructor
- Students must register for both EAST 330D1 and EAST 330D2.
- No credit will be given for this course unless both EAST 330D1 and EAST 330D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Jennie H Chang, Joy C Lin
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EAST 330D2 Second Level Chinese 4.5 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Asian Language & Literature: See EAST 330D1 for course description.
Offered by: East Asian Studies
- Prerequisite: EAST 330D1
- No credit will be given for this course unless both EAST 330D1 and EAST 330D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Jennie H Chang
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EAST 340D1 Second Level Japanese 4.5 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Asian Language & Literature: Continuation of the study of oral and written Japanese.
Offered by: East Asian Studies
- Prerequisite: EAST 240 or equivalent or permission of instructor
- Students must register for both EAST 340D1 and EAST 340D2.
- No credit will be given for this course unless both EAST 340D1 and EAST 340D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Yasuko Senoo
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EAST 340D2 Second Level Japanese 4.5 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Asian Language & Literature: See EAST 340D1 for course description.
Offered by: East Asian Studies
- Prerequisite: EAST 340D1
- No credit will be given for this course unless both EAST 340D1 and EAST 340D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Yasuko Senoo
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EAST 341 Japanese Writing Intermed. 1 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Asian Language & Literature: Intermediate grammar, vocabulary and kanji,focusing on writing skills and reading comprehension.
Offered by: East Asian Studies
- Prerequisite(s): EAST 340 or equivalent or permission of the instructor
- Enrolment limitations: 15.
- Language of instruction: Japanese.
- This course will be offered twice a year (Fall and Winter).
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Tomoko Ikeda
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EAST 342 Japanese Writing Intermed. 2 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Asian Language & Literature: Intermediate grammar, vocabulary and kanji, focusing on writing skills and reading comprehension.
Offered by: East Asian Studies
- Prerequisite(s): Prerequisite(s): EAST 340 or EAST 341 or equivalent or permission of the instructor
- Language of Instruction: Japanese
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Tomoko Ikeda
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EAST 420 Third Level Korean 1 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Asian Language & Literature: grammar, enhancing written and oral comprehension and improving writing and speaking skills.
Offered by: East Asian Studies
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken or are taking EAST 420D1/D2.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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EAST 421 Third Level Korean 2 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Asian Language & Literature: Advanced grammar, enhancing written and oral comprehension and improving writing and speaking skills.
Offered by: East Asian Studies
- Prerequisite: EAST 420 or equivalent or permission of instructor.
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken or are taking EAST 420D1/D2.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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EAST 430D1 Third Level Chinese 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Asian Language & Literature: A communicative approach will be used to provide students with skills to communicate in various situations, express their ideas and feelings, and discuss various aspects of culture and life in China and in Canada. Teaching materials include Chinese movies on videotape and slides depicting Chinese life and culture.
Offered by: East Asian Studies
- Prerequisite: EAST 330 or equivalent or permission of instructor
- Students must register for both EAST 430D1 and EAST 430D2.
- No credit will be given for this course unless both EAST 430D1 and EAST 430D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Renzhong Wang
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EAST 430D2 Third Level Chinese 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Asian Language & Literature: See EAST 430D1 for course description.
Offered by: East Asian Studies
- Prerequisite: EAST 430D1
- No credit will be given for this course unless both EAST 430D1 and EAST 430D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Renzhong Wang
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EAST 440D1 Third Level Japanese 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Asian Language & Literature: More advanced study of the Japanese language. Emphasis will be placed on reading.
Offered by: East Asian Studies
- Prerequisite: EAST 340 or equivalent or permission of instructor
- Students must register for both EAST 440D1 and EAST 440D2.
- No credit will be given for this course unless both EAST 440D1 and EAST 440D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Jodie Beck
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EAST 440D2 Third Level Japanese 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Asian Language & Literature: See EAST 440D1 for course description.
Offered by: East Asian Studies
- Prerequisite: EAST 440D1
- No credit will be given for this course unless both EAST 440D1 and EAST 440D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Jodie Beck
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EAST 530D1 Fourth Level Chinese 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Asian Language & Literature: Development of skills required to conduct academic discussions in oral as well as in written forms. Teaching materials include original texts from Chinese newspapers, Chinese literature and videos.
Offered by: East Asian Studies
- Prerequisite (Undergraduate): EAST 430 or equivalent
- Students must register for both EAST 530D1 and EAST 530D2.
- No credit will be given for this course unless both EAST 530D1 and EAST 530D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
- EAST 530D1 and EAST 530D2 together are equivalent to EAST 530
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Joy C Lin
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EAST 530D2 Fourth Level Chinese 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Asian Language & Literature: See EAST 530D1 for course description.
Offered by: East Asian Studies
- Prerequisite: EAST 530D1
- No credit will be given for this course unless both EAST 530D1 and EAST 530D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
- EAST 530D1 and EAST 530D2 together are equivalent to EAST 530
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Jennie H Chang
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EAST 533 Classical Chinese 1 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Asian Language & Literature: An introduction to the grammar and syntax of classical Chinese. Readings are selected from well-known Confucian and Taoist classics, and philosophical and historical writings from premodern China.
Offered by: East Asian Studies
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Guojun Wang
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EAST 534 Classical Chinese 2 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Asian Language & Literature: Continuation of EAST 533 at a more advanced level.
Offered by: East Asian Studies
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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EAST 535 Chinese for Business 1 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Asian Language & Literature: This course aims to provide advanced students of Chinese with training in the terminology and syntax necessary for business communications. Topics will include many different aspects of business negotiations, such as price negotiation, methods of payment, etc.
Offered by: East Asian Studies
- Prerequisite: EAST 430D1 and EAST 430D2 or equivalent or permission of instructor.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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EAST 536 Chinese for Business 2 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Asian Language & Literature: This course is a continuation of EAST 535. It is designed to further develop students' linguistic competence for business communication, and to provide students with some knowledge on China's trade policies as well as on different methods of trading with China.
Offered by: East Asian Studies
- Prerequisite: EAST 535 or equivalent or permission of instructor
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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EAST 540D1 Fourth Level Japanese 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Asian Language & Literature: Advanced study of Japanese, with emphasis on reading Japanese newspapers. Classes will be conducted entirely in Japanese.
Offered by: East Asian Studies
- Prerequisite (Undergraduate): EAST 440 or equivalent or permission of instructor
- Students must register for both EAST 540D1 and EAST 540D2.
- No credit will be given for this course unless both EAST 540D1 and EAST 540D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Yasuko Senoo
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EAST 540D2 Fourth Level Japanese 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Asian Language & Literature: See EAST 540D1 for course description.
Offered by: East Asian Studies
- Prerequisite: EAST 540D1
- No credit will be given for this course unless both EAST 540D1 and EAST 540D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Yasuko Senoo
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EAST 544 Classical Japanese 2 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Asian Language & Literature: The grammar and syntax of classical Japanese. Readings in well-known writings of pre-modern Japan.
Offered by: East Asian Studies
- Prerequisite (Undergraduate): EAST 543 or permission of instructor
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
East Asian Literature, Culture and Society (21-24 credits)
21-24 credits of courses in East Asian Literature, Culture and Society selected from the list below. At least 6 credits must be taken at the 400 or 500 level.
East Asian Studies (EAST)
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EAST 215 Introduction to East Asian Art 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Asian Language & Literature: Introductory survey of some of the major developments in the visual arts of Japan, China, and Korea. Emphasis will be placed on the diversity of artistic traditions in East Asia and the intersections among these traditions.
Offered by: East Asian Studies
- Restriction: Not open to students taking or who have taken ARTH 215.
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Davin Luce
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EAST 250 Intro to Asian Media Studies 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Asian Language & Literature: The course explores core methods and theoretical approaches to media in Asia and beyond: material culture, technicity, media infrastructures, intermediality, circulation, platforms, regionalism, and institutional history.
Offered by: East Asian Studies
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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EAST 279 Introduction to Film History 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Asian Language & Literature: An introduction to representative periods, movements and styles in the history of cinema, as well as questions of film historiography.
Offered by: East Asian Studies
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken or are taking FILM 279 or LLCU 279
- Language of instruction: English.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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EAST 303 Current Topics:Chin Studies 1 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Asian Language & Literature: Consideration of important issues in Chinese Studies. Content of the course will vary from year to year.
Offered by: East Asian Studies
- Fall
- Restriction: Departmental approval required
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Gal Gvili
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EAST 304 Current Topics:Chin Studies 2 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Asian Language & Literature: Consideration of important issues in Chinese Studies. Content of the course will vary from year to year.
Offered by: East Asian Studies
- Winter
- Restriction: Departmental approval required
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Rongdao Lai
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EAST 305 Curr Topics:Japanese St 1 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Asian Language & Literature: Consideration of important issues in Japanese studies. The content of the course will vary from year to year.
Offered by: East Asian Studies
- Fall
- Restriction: Departmental approval required
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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EAST 306 Curr Topics:Japanese St 2 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Asian Language & Literature: Consideration of important issues in Japanese studies. The content of the course will vary from year to year.
Offered by: East Asian Studies
- Winter
- Restriction: Departmental approval required
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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EAST 307 Topics:East Asian Lang & Lit 1 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Asian Language & Literature: Consideration of selected topics and aspects of East Asian literature and/or language.
Offered by: East Asian Studies
- Fall
- Prerequisite: EAST 211 or permission of instructor
- The topic of the course may vary from year to year.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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EAST 308 Topics:East Asian Lang & Lit 2 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Asian Language & Literature: Consideration of selected topics and aspects of East Asian literature and/or language.
Offered by: East Asian Studies
- Winter
- Prerequisite: EAST 211 or permission of instructor
- Restriction: Departmental approval required
- The topic of the course may vary from year to year.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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EAST 313 Current Topics:Korean St 1 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Asian Language & Literature: Consideration of important issues in Korean Studies. Content of the course will vary from year to year.
Offered by: East Asian Studies
- Fall
- Restriction: Departmental approval required.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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EAST 314 Current Topics:Korean St 2 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Asian Language & Literature: Consideration of important issues in Korean Studies. Content of the course will vary from year to year.
Offered by: East Asian Studies
- Winter
- Restriction: Departmental approval required
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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EAST 328 Archaeology East Asian Empires 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Asian Language & Literature: An examination of utilitarian and elite objects, art, architecture, cities and tombs from the early to medieval period dynastic states (ca. 221 BCE1-279 CE) to gain understandings of developments and changes in economic organization, art, religion, political orgranization, internal interactions, and external connections, along with both elite and commoner life based on recent archaeological discoveries and research. Issues in archaeological practices and theories, and the use of received texts to understand the past will also be examined.
Offered by: East Asian Studies
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken ANTH 328.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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EAST 350 Gender&Sexuality in ChineseLit 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Asian Language & Literature: Gender and sexuality in modern and/or premodern Chinese literature with emphasis on representation of gender relations, notions of masculinity and femininity, morality and sexuality. Readings from fiction, drama, poetry, and/or other genres are approached from a variety of critical perspectives.
Offered by: East Asian Studies
- Prerequisite: EAST 211 or permission of instructor.
- Note: Readings in English translation.
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Guojun Wang
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EAST 351 Women Writers of China 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Asian Language & Literature: A study of fiction, drama, and poetry by women writers in imperial, modern, and/or contemporary China.
Offered by: East Asian Studies
- Core course for the Women's Studies program
- Prerequisite: EAST 211 or permission of instructor.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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EAST 352 Crit Approaches to Chinese Lit 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Asian Language & Literature: This course will examine traditional and/or modern genres of Chinese literature with a focus on different forms of Chinese and Western literary analysis.
Offered by: East Asian Studies
- Prerequisite: EAST 211.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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EAST 353 Approaches to Chinese Cinema 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Asian Language & Literature: Development of Chinese film in the 20th century, with an emphasis on both critical approaches to film as well as film history.
Offered by: East Asian Studies
- Prerequisite: EAST 211.
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Dylan Suher
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EAST 356 Modern & Contemp. Chinese Art 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Asian Language & Literature: Examination of modern Chinese art and visual culture from the 1920's to the present. Emphasis will be placed on the formation of the artistic avant-garde in the 20th century and its relation to socialist and post-socialist mass culture.
Offered by: East Asian Studies
- Restriction: Not open to students taking or who have taken ARTH 356.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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EAST 361 Animation and New Media 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Asian Language & Literature: Animation and new media in East Asia, with an emphasis on postwar developments.
Offered by: East Asian Studies
- Restrictions: Not open to students who have taken EAST 214.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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EAST 362 Japanese Cinema 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Asian Language & Literature: This course will study the development of film in Japan during the 20th century with a particular focus on the analysis of film form, genres and history.
Offered by: East Asian Studies
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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EAST 363 Early and Medieval Japan 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Asian Language & Literature: This course examines cultural production in early and medieval Japan, focusing on calligraphy, painting, picture scrolls, gestures and their relation to textual production. Readings explore various classic texts, taboos against seeing and narrative modes of cognition.
Offered by: East Asian Studies
- Prerequisite: EAST 212 or permission of instructor
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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EAST 364 Mass Culture & Postwar Japan 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Asian Language & Literature: This course addresses a number of analytic approaches to mass culture in order to examine the culture industry of post-war Japan. Emphasis on narrative strategies in popular or consumer fiction and on the problems of marginalized writers.
Offered by: East Asian Studies
- Prerequisite: Any introductory course in literature or cultural studies, or permission of instructor
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Marianne Tarcov
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EAST 369 Gen & Sex in Asian Media 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Asian Language & Literature: In this course, we examine contesting notions of gender, sexuality, femininity, and masculinity in Asian cinema and media. We study how individual works negotiate the social discourses on gender and sexual representation, identities, and performance, and how we may borrow conceptual frameworks from queer theories and histories at large to discuss them.
Offered by: East Asian Studies
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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EAST 370 History of Sexuality in Japan 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Asian Language & Literature: Social and cultural history of sexuality in Japan. Possible topics include pre-modern sexuality and relations to court, religion and anthropology; pre-modern sex and gender relations; modern sexuality and gender identities; sexuality and the rise of science; relation to nationalism; feminism and queer movements.
Offered by: East Asian Studies
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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EAST 372 Topics in Television: Asia 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Asian Language & Literature: This course approaches television and televisuality historically, in regional, transnational, and global perspectives.
Offered by: East Asian Studies
- Prerequisite(s): A 200-level course in EAST or permission of instructor.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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EAST 375 Korean Media & Popular Culture 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Asian Language & Literature: This course approaches popular culture and mass media in postwar Korea from historical and theoretical perspectives, with a focus on the connections between activism, mass media, and commodity culture.
Offered by: East Asian Studies
- Prerequisite(s): EAST 213 or permission of the instructor.
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Kimberly Chung
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EAST 377 Topics: Transnat Asian Culture 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Asian Language & Literature: Investigation of cinema's border-crossing modes of cultural production, reception, and circulation, to uncover the ways that the study of culture enriches current theories and approaches to the transnational.
Offered by: East Asian Studies
- Prerequisite(s): A 200-level course in EAST or permission of instructor.
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Kimberly Chung
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EAST 385 Global Korea 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Asian Language & Literature: This course considers Korean culture and society in the modern period by examining changing attitudes about the relationship between the national and the global, across social institutions, political discourse, and popular media.
Offered by: East Asian Studies
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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EAST 388 Asian Migrations and Diasporas 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Asian Language & Literature: Introduction to the interdisciplinary study of Asian migrations and diasporas. Topics include colonialism and diaspora, transnationalism, globalization, citizenship, migration and the state, gender and migration, human trafficking, and forced migration.
Offered by: East Asian Studies
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Maria C Hwang
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EAST 389 Global Cinema and Media Asia 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Asian Language & Literature: Ascendancy of East Asian cinema and media as global culture; the aesthetic, technological, economic and political conditions of cinema as a transnational commodity; and the history of globalization and East Asia media platforms.
Offered by: East Asian Studies
- Prerequisite(s): A 200-level course in EAST or permission of instructor.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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EAST 390 The Chinese Family in History 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Asian Language & Literature: Exploration of the Chinese family in history both as an institution - in its religious, legal, economic, political aspects - and as a lived reality.
Offered by: East Asian Studies
- Prerequisite: EAST 211 or HIST 208 or HIST 218 or permission of the instructor.
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken or are taking HIST 344.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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EAST 453 Topics: Chinese Literature 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Asian Language & Literature: Advanced seminar in selected genres, themes and issues in Chinese literature.
Offered by: East Asian Studies
- Prerequisite: A 300-level course in any literature.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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EAST 454 Topics: Chinese Cinema 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Asian Language & Literature: Advanced seminar in selected themes and issues in Chinese film.
Offered by: East Asian Studies
- Prerequisites: EAST 353, a 300-level film studies course, or permission of the instructor.
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Xinyu Dong
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EAST 461 Inventing Mod Japanese Novel 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Asian Language & Literature: An examination of the modern Japanese novel as a form which both affirms and resists the form of the European novel. Readings explore the particular problems of the Japanese novel in the context of modernization, westernization, and colonialism.
Offered by: East Asian Studies
- Prerequisite: Any course in literature or cultural studies above the introductory level, or permission of instructor
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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EAST 462 Japan in Asia 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Asian Language & Literature: This course introduces theories of cultural interaction, interpellation, and intertexuality in order to reconsider Japanese modes of reception and selection of Chinese texts and technologies. Readings range from early Japanese to 20th century texts. Readings in translation.
Offered by: East Asian Studies
- Prerequisite: Any East Asian Studies course above the introductory level, or permission of the instructor
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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EAST 464 Image, Text, Performance 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Asian Language & Literature: Drawing on theoretical approaches from a variety of cultural and media studies, including cinema, performance and performativity, and elsewhere, this course addresses cultural production in premodern and/or modern East Asia. Topics to be addressed range from calligraphy and writing, to theatre, and film.
Offered by: East Asian Studies
- Prerequisite: Any East Asian Studies course above the introductory level, or permission of the instructor
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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EAST 467 Topics: Japanese Cinema 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Asian Language & Literature: Topics in the study of Japanese cinema.
Offered by: East Asian Studies
- Prerequisites: EAST 362 or permission of the instructor.
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Marianne Tarcov
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EAST 468 Science and Technology: Asia 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Asian Language & Literature: History of science and technology in Asia with an emphasis on social and cultural impact and the legacy non-Western traditions.
Offered by: East Asian Studies
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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EAST 477 Media and Environment in Asia 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Asian Language & Literature: The course explores the intersection between media and "environment" in Asia and beyond; topics range from media ecology, cybernetics, environmental art and activism, urban planning, and the history of communications networks in Asia in the modern period.
Offered by: East Asian Studies
- Prerequisite(s): Any East Asian Studies course at the 200 level or above.
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Yuriko Furuhata
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EAST 478 Topics: Korean Film & Media 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Asian Language & Literature: Advanced seminar in the study of Korean film and media. Taught in English.
Offered by: East Asian Studies
- Prerequisite(s): EAST 213 or permission of instructor.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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EAST 491 Tutorial:East Asian Lang&Lit 1 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Asian Language & Literature: Advanced reading course in language or literature.
Offered by: East Asian Studies
- Fall
- Restriction: Departmental approval required
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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EAST 492 Tutorial:East Asian Lang&Lit 2 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Asian Language & Literature: Advanced reading course in language or literature.
Offered by: East Asian Studies
- Winter
- Restriction: Departmental approval required
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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EAST 493 Spec Topics:East Asian St 1 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Asian Language & Literature: Advanced reading course under supervision of instructor on certain aspects of East Asian Studies. Topics will vary from year to year.
Offered by: East Asian Studies
- Fall
- Prerequisite: Any EAST course at the 300-level or above or permission of instructor
- Restriction: Departmental approval required
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Kimberly Chung
- David C Porter
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EAST 494 Spec Topics:East Asian St 2 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Asian Language & Literature: Advanced reading course under supervision of instructor on certain aspects of East Asian Studies. Topics will vary from year to year.
Offered by: East Asian Studies
- Winter
- Prerequisite: Any EAST course at the 300-level or above or permission of instructor
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- David C Porter
- Jeehee Hong
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EAST 501 Adv Top in Japanese Studies 1 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Asian Language & Literature: Consideration of selected topics and aspects of Japanese culture and society.
Offered by: East Asian Studies
- Fall
- Prerequisite (Undergraduate): permission of instructor
- Restriction: Departmental approval required
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Marianne Tarcov
- Marianne Tarcov
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EAST 502 Adv Top in Japanese Studies 2 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Asian Language & Literature: Consideration of selected topics and aspects of Japanese culture and society.
Offered by: East Asian Studies
- Winter
- Prerequisite (Undergraduate): permission of instructor
- Restriction: Departmental approval required
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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EAST 503 Adv Top in Chinese Studies 1 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Asian Language & Literature: Consideration of selected topics and aspects of Chinese culture and society.
Offered by: East Asian Studies
- Fall
- Prerequisite (Undergraduate): permission of instructor
- Restriction: Departmental approval required
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Jeehee Hong
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EAST 504 Adv Top in Chinese Studies 2 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Asian Language & Literature: Consideration of selected topics and aspects of Chinese culture and society.
Offered by: East Asian Studies
- Winter
- Prerequisite (Undergraduate): permission of instructor
- Restriction: Departmental approval required
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Renzhong Wang
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EAST 505 Advanced Topics:Korean Studies 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Asian Language & Literature: Consideration of selected topics and aspects of Korean culture and society. Taught in English.
Offered by: East Asian Studies
- Prerequisite(s): Permission of instructor.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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EAST 515 Seminar: Beyond Orientalism 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Asian Language & Literature: Examines the cultural stakes and ethical implications of applying Western European models of understanding to East Asian societies. Provides background on interdisciplinary debates around "otherness", "cultural appropriation", and "postcolonialism", focusing on their history within East Asian Studies and their impact on that field's methodological assumptions, self-definition, and institutional practices.
Offered by: East Asian Studies
- Prerequisite (Undergraduate): any EAST course at the 300 level or above or permission of instructor
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Gal Gvili, Sandeep Banerjee
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EAST 525 Critical Area Studies in Asia 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Asian Language & Literature: The course introduces students to foundational concepts, key debates, recent research areas, theoretical methods, and critical approached in area studies.
Offered by: East Asian Studies
- Prerequisite(s): At least one EAST 400- or 500-level seminar course, or permission of the instructor.
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Maria C Hwang
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EAST 527 Culture and Capital in Asia 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Asian Language & Literature: This seminar introduces the major anthropological, psychological, and political economic theories of the relation between culture and capital that have affected social and political formations in East Asia. Language of Instruction: English.
Offered by: East Asian Studies
- Prerequisite(s): Any EAST 400-level course or above, or permission of the instructor.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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EAST 550 Class Chin PoetryThemes&Genres 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Asian Language & Literature: A study of major themes and genres of classical Chinese poetry from its beginnings to the Yuan dynasty (14th century), with emphasis on critical analysis of text and context. Readings of poems in the original.
Offered by: East Asian Studies
- Prerequisite (Undergraduate): EAST 533 or permission of the instructor
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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EAST 551 Technol of Self in Early China 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Asian Language & Literature: Readings on self-cultivation drawn from Confucian, Legalist, and Taoist philosophic texts of early China (5th-2nd centuries B.C.) in translation will be compared with historical and archaeological materials on the evolving construction of the "individual'' in Chinese social structure, military organization, political and ritual codes.
Offered by: East Asian Studies
- Prerequisite (Undergraduate): One advanced course in EAST or permission of the instructor
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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EAST 559 Adv Topics: Chinese Literature 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Asian Language & Literature: Consideration of selected topics and aspects of Chinese literature. The content of the course may vary from year to year, ranging from contemporary to modern to pre-modern literature.
Offered by: East Asian Studies
- Prerequisite (Undergraduate): one advanced course in EAST or permission of instructor
- Restriction: Departmental approval required
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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EAST 562 Japanese Lit Theory & Practice 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Asian Language & Literature: This course examines Japanese theories of literary production and practice with an emphasis on 20th century thought.
Offered by: East Asian Studies
- Prerequisite (Undergraduate): Any course in EAST above the 200 level and at least a year of an East Asian Language, or permission of instructor
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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EAST 564 Structures of Modernity: Asia 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Asian Language & Literature: This course explores relations between some of the principal sites which structure the experience of "modernity" in Asia (and elsewhere) - from bodies and cities, to the urban context in general. Along with general approaches (e.g. the idea of everyday life途 questions of time), specific topics may include speed, music, architecture, crime, etc.
Offered by: East Asian Studies
- Prerequisite (Undergraduate): Any East Asian Studies course above the introductory level, or permission of the instructor
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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EAST 569 Adv Topics:Japanese Literature 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Asian Language & Literature: Consideration of selected topics and aspects of Japanese literature. The content of the course may vary from year to year from contemporary to modern to pre-modern literature.
Offered by: East Asian Studies
- Prerequisite: one advanced course in EAST or permission of instructor
- Restriction: Departmental approval required
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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LLCU 279 Introduction to Film History 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Languages, Literatures&Culture: An introduction to representative periods, movements and styles in the history of cinema, as well as questions of film historiography.
Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken or are taking EAST 279 or FILM 279.
- Language of instruction: English.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
Anthropology (ANTH)
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ANTH 331 Prehistory of East Asia 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Anthropology: Comparative study of prehistoric hunting and gathering cultures in China, Japan, Korea, Mongolia and Eastern Siberia; origins and dispersal of food production; cultural processes leading to the rise of literate civilizations in certain regions of East Asia.
Offered by: Anthropology
- Fall
- Prerequisite: ANTH 201 or permission of instructor
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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ANTH 500 Chinese Diversity & Diaspora 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Anthropology: Explores ethnic diversity within mainland China, as well as the diversity of Chinese cultures of diaspora, living outside the mainland, often as minorities subject to other dominant cultures.
Offered by: Anthropology
- Winter
- Restrictions: Reserved for U3 Anthropology undergraduate students or graduate students, any other students by permission of instructor.
- Enrolment Limit: 25 students.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
Economics (ECON)
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ECON 335 The Japanese Economy 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Economics (Arts): The first part of the course covers the economic institutions in, changing structure of, and public policies employed by the Japanese economy. The second part probes the economic "logic" of the Japanese capitalist system, explores its relationship to the ideas of Joseph Schumpeter, and makes comparisons with the American economy.
Offered by: Economics
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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ECON 411 Econ Development:A World Area 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Economics (Arts): An advanced course in the economic development of a pre-designated underdeveloped country or a group of countries.
Offered by: Economics
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
Geography (GEOG)
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GEOG 408 Geography of Development 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Geography: Examines the geographical dimensions of development policy, specifically the relationships between the process of development and human-induced environmental change. Focuses on environmental sustainability, struggles over resource control, population and poverty, and levels of governance (the role of the state, non-governmental organizations, and local communities).
Offered by: Geography
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Jon D Unruh
History (HIST)
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HIST 208 Intro to East Asian History 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:History: An introduction to the history of East Asian civilization from earliest times to 1600, with emphasis on China and Japan, including social, intellectual, and economic developments as well as political history.
Offered by: History and Classical Studies
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- David C Porter
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HIST 218 Modern East Asian History 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:History: An introduction to the history of China and Japan from the seventeenth century to the present, including modernization, nationalism, and the interaction of the two countries.
Offered by: History and Classical Studies
- Winter
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Lorenz M Luthi
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HIST 308 Formation of Chinese Tradition 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:History: An examination of the multiple sources of the Chinese imperial system from the period of the neolithic culture interaction sphere to the fall of the Han dynasty in 220 C.E. Special attention is paid to socio-economic developments as well as to the evolution of philosophy, ideology, and social practice. The sequel to this course is HIST 358.
Offered by: History and Classical Studies
- Prerequisite: HIST 208 recommended
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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HIST 338 Twentieth-Century China 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:History: Examines 20th Century China from the fall of the Qing, through Republican China, the emergence of communism, war with Japan, revolution and civil war, the Cultural Revolution, and later economic reforms.
Offered by: History and Classical Studies
- Prerequisite: HIST 218 recommended.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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HIST 358 China's Middle Empires 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:History: Developments of China's middle empires, ca. 600-1300 CE. Studies changing international relations, rapid commercialization, religious developments, the rise of the civil service examination system, and ensuing social change.
Offered by: History and Classical Studies
- Prerequisite: HIST 208 recommended.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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HIST 439 History of Women in China 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:History: This course examines the changing roles of women in traditional and modern China. Topics include political, social, and legal status, sexuality and medicine, religion and culture.
Offered by: History and Classical Studies
- Prerequisite: a previous course in Chinese history
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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HIST 441 Topics:Culture&Ritual in China 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:History: An examination of selected aspects of the cultural and intellectual life of China. Topics vary from year to year, but include the history of popular religion, Chinese science and medicine, the esoteric arts including divination practices, law, and the influence of ideas in the production of Chinese culture.
Offered by: History and Classical Studies
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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HIST 442 Asian Diasp: Chinese Overseas 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:History: The contexts and causes of Chinese emigration; historical patterns of migration; Overseas Chinese communities on five continents, with emphasis on Southeast Asia and North America; alienation and identity in Chinatown; relations between the Overseas Chinese and China.
Offered by: History and Classical Studies
- Prerequisite: One previous course in Chinese or Asian history or permission of instructor
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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HIST 443 Topics: Modern Japan 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:History: An intensive study of selected aspects related to the history of modern Japan.
Offered by: History and Classical Studies
- Prerequisite: HIST 218 or permission of the instructor.
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- David C Porter
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HIST 445 Late Imperial China 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:History: An introduction to the social and economic history of Late Imperial China, focusing on the Ming and early to mid Qing Dynasties (1368 - 1800), and current interpretations thereof. Was this a discrete period in Chinese history? If so, why.
Offered by: History and Classical Studies
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- David C Porter
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HIST 508 The Art of War in China 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:History: A study of the historical development of military theory and practice from earliest times to 1911 from a variety of perspectives, technological, scientific, social, and cultural.
Offered by: History and Classical Studies
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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HIST 568D1 Topics in Chinese History 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:History: A research seminar on aspects of Chinese history from early time to the present, with emphasis on social history.
Offered by: History and Classical Studies
- Students must register for both HIST 568D1 and HIST 568D2
- No credit will be given for this course unless both HIST 568D1 and HIST 568D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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HIST 568D2 Topics in Chinese History 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:History: See HIST 568D1 for course description.
Offered by: History and Classical Studies
- Prerequisite: HIST 568D1
- No credit will be given for this course unless both HIST 568D1 and HIST 568D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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HIST 578D1 Seminar in Japanese History 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:History: Particular attention will be paid to Japanese responses to the impact of Western culture from the sixteenth century, and to aspects of Japanese intellectual history.
Offered by: History and Classical Studies
- Students must register for both HIST 578D1 and HIST 578D2
- No credit will be given for this course unless both HIST 578D1 and HIST 578D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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HIST 578D2 Seminar in Japanese History 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:History: See HIST 578D1 for course description.
Offered by: History and Classical Studies
- Prerequisite: HIST 578D1
- No credit will be given for this course unless both HIST 578D1 and HIST 578D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
Management (ORGB)
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ORGB 380 Cross Cultural Management 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Organizational Behaviour: Addresses dilemmas and opportunities that managers experience in international, multicultural environments. Development of conceptual knowledge and behavioural skills (e.g. bridging skills, communication, tolerance of ambiguity, cognitive complexity) relevant to the interaction of different cultures in business and organizational settings, using several methods including research, case studies and experiential learning.
Offered by: Management
- Restriction: Open to U2, U3 students only
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Tatiana L Gauvin
- Matissa Hollister
Political Science (POLI)
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POLI 349 Foreign Policy: Asia 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: An overview of the foreign policies of two rising powers - China and India - in addition to Japan, covering the historical evolution, goals and determinants of their foreign policies, interactions with the rest of Asia and the world, and efforts at institutionalised cooperation in South and East Asia.
Offered by: Political Science
- Prerequisites: POLI 243 or 244, or permission of the instructor.
- Note: The field is International Politics.
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- T V Paul
Religious Studies (RELG)
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RELG 253 Religions of East Asia 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Religious Studies: This course introduces East Asia's major religions comparatively by addressing the continuous exchange of ideas and practices between traditions. Rather than adopting a mere chronological approach, Buddhism, Daoism, and Confucianism will be discussed thematically, taking in to account topics such as gender constructs, the secular and the sacred, material culture, and the apparent contrast between doctrine and practice.
Offered by: Religious Studies
- Winter
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Rongdao Lai
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RELG 264 Introductory Tibetan 1 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Religious Studies: An introduction to the language of Classical Tibetan, specifically Tibetan script and basic grammar.
Offered by: Religious Studies
- Fall
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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RELG 265 Introductory Tibetan 2 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Religious Studies: A continuation of the introduction to the language of Classical Tibetan, specifically Tibetan script and basic grammar.
Offered by: Religious Studies
- Winter
- Prerequisite: RELG 264
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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RELG 352 Japanese Relig: Hist & Thought 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Religious Studies: This course provides an in-depth introduction to the religious traditions of Japan from the emerging of the Japanese state to the role of religion in contemporary Japan. Kami worship, the Buddhist tradition, Yin Yang divination, Confucianism, and the modern construct of Shinto are addressed in an interdisciplinary approach, taking into account insights from the fields of History, Literature, and Art.
Offered by: Religious Studies
- Fall
- Prerequisite: RELG 253 or permission of instructor
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Mika毛l P Bauer
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RELG 354 Chinese Religions 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Religious Studies: Introduction to the diverse religiosities in the Chinese cultural sphere. Examination of the everyday practice of ancestor worship, longevity practices, morality, rituals, and the veneration of deities and spirits.
Offered by: Religious Studies
- Fall
- Prerequisite: RELG 253
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Rongdao Lai
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RELG 364 Intermediate Tibetan 1 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Religious Studies: Advanced Tibetan grammar, and translation of selected Tibetan texts.
Offered by: Religious Studies
- Fall
- Prerequisite: RELG 265 or permission of the instructor.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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RELG 365 Intermediate Tibetan 2 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Religious Studies: Continuation of advanced Tibetan grammar and translation of selected Tibetan texts.
Offered by: Religious Studies
- Winter
- Prerequisite: RELG 364 or permission of the instructor.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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RELG 442 Pure Land Buddhism 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Religious Studies: The concept of Buddha Countries and Pure Lands in Buddhism, the Western Pure Land of Amida (Jodokyo) and its basic scriptures, the Chinese Buddhist schools, the introduction to Japan and the foundation of the Pure Land school by Honen, the Pure Land School of Shinran and its development, and the other Pure Land related schools.
Offered by: Religious Studies
- Prerequisite: six credits in EAST/RELG or permission of instructor
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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RELG 451 Zen Buddhism: Poetry and Art 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Religious Studies: A general overview of Japanese Zen Buddhism through the reading of poetry, diaries, sculpture and architecture.
Offered by: Religious Studies
- Prerequisite: six credits in EAST/RELG or permission of instructor
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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RELG 464 Advanced Tibetan 1 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Religious Studies: Translation of specially selected Tibetan texts.
Offered by: Religious Studies
- Fall
- Prerequisite: RELG 365 or permission of instructor.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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RELG 465 Advanced Tibetan 2 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Religious Studies: Continuation of translation of specially selected Tibetan texts.
Offered by: Religious Studies
- Winter
- Prerequisite: RELG 464 or permission of the instructor.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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RELG 549 Japanese Buddhism: Hist Cont 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Religious Studies: This research-oriented seminar critically analyses key-questions from the field of pre-modern Japanese Buddhism. By engaging with recent research, students are expected to adopt an interdisciplinary approach and address questions and methodologies from both History and Buddhist Studies.
Offered by: Religious Studies
- Prerequisites: RELG 344, or RELG 451, or permission of the instructor.
- Note: Taught in alternate years.
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Mika毛l P Bauer
Major EAS credit form
Honours
Program Requirement:
The B.A.; Honours in East Asian Studies provides in-depth training in the humanistic studies of East Asia (including language, society, literature, history, media, religion, politics, and art). The program includes core survey on China, Japan, and Korea
Required Courses (6 credits)
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EAST 498D1 Honours Thesis:East Asian Stud 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Asian Language & Literature: Supervised reading and preparation of an Honours thesis under the direction of a member of staff.
Offered by: East Asian Studies
- Prerequisite: U3 Honours status and permission of the instructor
- Restriction: Departmental approval required
- Students must register for both EAST 498D1 and EAST 498D2.
- No credit will be given for this course unless both EAST 498D1 and EAST 498D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Marianne Tarcov
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EAST 498D2 Honours Thesis:East Asian Stud 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Asian Language & Literature: See EAST 498D1 for course description.
Offered by: East Asian Studies
- Prerequisite: EAST 498D1
- No credit will be given for this course unless both EAST 498D1 and EAST 498D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Marianne Tarcov
Complementary Courses (54 credits)
Introduction to East Asian Culture
3-6 credits from:
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EAST 211 Intro:East Asian Culture:China 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Asian Language & Literature: This course provides a critical introduction to central themes in Chinese culture. The course will also examine the changing representations of the Chinese cultural tradition in the West. Readings will include original sources in translation from the fields of literature, philosophy, religion, and cultural history.
Offered by: East Asian Studies
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Gal Gvili
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EAST 212 Intro:East Asian Culture:Japan 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Asian Language & Literature: An introduction to Japan which presents various aspects of Japanese literature, culture, history, religions, philosophy and society.
Offered by: East Asian Studies
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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EAST 213 Intro:East Asian Culture:Korea 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Asian Language & Literature: This course provides a critical introduction to central themes in Korean culture, including Korean literature, religions, philosophy, and socio-economic formations.
Offered by: East Asian Studies
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Kimberly Chung
0-3 credits from:
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EAST 215 Introduction to East Asian Art 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Asian Language & Literature: Introductory survey of some of the major developments in the visual arts of Japan, China, and Korea. Emphasis will be placed on the diversity of artistic traditions in East Asia and the intersections among these traditions.
Offered by: East Asian Studies
- Restriction: Not open to students taking or who have taken ARTH 215.
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Davin Luce
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EAST 250 Intro to Asian Media Studies 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Asian Language & Literature: The course explores core methods and theoretical approaches to media in Asia and beyond: material culture, technicity, media infrastructures, intermediality, circulation, platforms, regionalism, and institutional history.
Offered by: East Asian Studies
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
East Asian Language
24 credits of an East Asian language selected from the list below.
Note: Admission to language courses is subject to placement tests.
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EAST 220D1 First Level Korean 4.5 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Asian Language & Literature: Introduction to the basic structures of the standard Korean language. The aim of this course is to give students a basic knowledge of the Korean language. Special emphasis is put on handling everyday conversation, reading and writing short texts, and mastering basic grammar rules.
Offered by: East Asian Studies
- Students must register for both EAST 220D1 and EAST 220D2.
- No credit will be given for this course unless both EAST 220D1 and EAST 220D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Myung Hee Kim
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EAST 220D2 First Level Korean 4.5 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Asian Language & Literature: See EAST 220D1 for course description.
Offered by: East Asian Studies
- Prerequisite: EAST 220D1
- No credit will be given for this course unless both EAST 220D1 and EAST 220D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Myung Hee Kim
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EAST 230D1 First Level Chinese 4.5 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Asian Language & Literature: Introduction to the basic structures of Mandarin Chinese, Pin-yin romanization and 750 characters for reading and writing. Emphasis on developing aural and oral skills through communication games and interaction activities. Animated films are used as part of teaching materials.
Offered by: East Asian Studies
- Students must register for both EAST 230D1 and EAST 230D2.
- No credit will be given for this course unless both EAST 230D1 and EAST 230D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Renzhong Wang
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EAST 230D2 First Level Chinese 4.5 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Asian Language & Literature: See EAST 230D1 for course description.
Offered by: East Asian Studies
- Prerequisite: EAST 230D1
- No credit will be given for this course unless both EAST 230D1 and EAST 230D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Renzhong Wang
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EAST 240D1 First Level Japanese 4.5 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Asian Language & Literature: Introduction to the basic grammar and sentence patterns of the Japanese language in both oral and written forms. In reading and writing skills students will be introduced to katakana, hiragana and kanji.
Offered by: East Asian Studies
- Students must register for both EAST 240D1 and EAST 240D2.
- No credit will be given for this course unless both EAST 240D1 and EAST 240D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Jodie Beck, Tomoko Ikeda
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EAST 240D2 First Level Japanese 4.5 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Asian Language & Literature: See EAST 240D1 for course description.
Offered by: East Asian Studies
- Prerequisite: EAST 240D1
- No credit will be given for this course unless both EAST 240D1 and EAST 240D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Jodie Beck, Tomoko Ikeda
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EAST 241 Japanese Writing Beginners 1 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Asian Language & Literature: Grammar, vocabulary, kanji, and introduction ofsome new expressions.
Offered by: East Asian Studies
- Prerequisite(s): EAST 240 or equivalent or permission of the instructor
- Language of instruction: Japanese and English.
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Tomoko Ikeda
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EAST 242 Japanese Writing Beginners 2 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Asian Language & Literature: Grammar, vocabulary, kanji, and introduction ofsome new expressions.
Offered by: East Asian Studies
- Prerequisite(s): EAST 240 or EAST 241 or equivalent or permission of the instructor
- Language of instruction: Japanese and English.
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Tomoko Ikeda
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EAST 320D1 Second Level Korean 4.5 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Asian Language & Literature: The aim of this course is to give students a fluent speaking ability in daily conversation, advanced grammar knowledge, improved reading and writing skills. Special emphasis is put on the efficient use of grammar, enrichment of vocabulary, and mastering useful expressions encountered in everyday life.
Offered by: East Asian Studies
- Prerequisite: EAST 220 or equivalent
- Students must register for both EAST 320D1 and EAST 320D2.
- No credit will be given for this course unless both EAST 320D1 and EAST 320D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Myung Hee Kim
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EAST 320D2 Second Level Korean 4.5 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Asian Language & Literature: See EAST 320D1 for course description.
Offered by: East Asian Studies
- Prerequisite: EAST 320D1
- No credit will be given for this course unless both EAST 320D1 and EAST 320D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Myung Hee Kim
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EAST 330D1 Second Level Chinese 4.5 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Asian Language & Literature: The same communicative approach as in EAST 230 is used to develop aural and oral skills on daily topics. In addition to textbooks, Chinese films on videotapes will be incorporated as teaching materials.
Offered by: East Asian Studies
- Prerequisite: EAST 230 or equivalent or permission of the instructor
- Students must register for both EAST 330D1 and EAST 330D2.
- No credit will be given for this course unless both EAST 330D1 and EAST 330D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Jennie H Chang, Joy C Lin
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EAST 330D2 Second Level Chinese 4.5 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Asian Language & Literature: See EAST 330D1 for course description.
Offered by: East Asian Studies
- Prerequisite: EAST 330D1
- No credit will be given for this course unless both EAST 330D1 and EAST 330D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Jennie H Chang
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EAST 340D1 Second Level Japanese 4.5 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Asian Language & Literature: Continuation of the study of oral and written Japanese.
Offered by: East Asian Studies
- Prerequisite: EAST 240 or equivalent or permission of instructor
- Students must register for both EAST 340D1 and EAST 340D2.
- No credit will be given for this course unless both EAST 340D1 and EAST 340D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Yasuko Senoo
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EAST 340D2 Second Level Japanese 4.5 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Asian Language & Literature: See EAST 340D1 for course description.
Offered by: East Asian Studies
- Prerequisite: EAST 340D1
- No credit will be given for this course unless both EAST 340D1 and EAST 340D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Yasuko Senoo
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EAST 341 Japanese Writing Intermed. 1 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Asian Language & Literature: Intermediate grammar, vocabulary and kanji,focusing on writing skills and reading comprehension.
Offered by: East Asian Studies
- Prerequisite(s): EAST 340 or equivalent or permission of the instructor
- Enrolment limitations: 15.
- Language of instruction: Japanese.
- This course will be offered twice a year (Fall and Winter).
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Tomoko Ikeda
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EAST 342 Japanese Writing Intermed. 2 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Asian Language & Literature: Intermediate grammar, vocabulary and kanji, focusing on writing skills and reading comprehension.
Offered by: East Asian Studies
- Prerequisite(s): Prerequisite(s): EAST 340 or EAST 341 or equivalent or permission of the instructor
- Language of Instruction: Japanese
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Tomoko Ikeda
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EAST 420 Third Level Korean 1 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Asian Language & Literature: grammar, enhancing written and oral comprehension and improving writing and speaking skills.
Offered by: East Asian Studies
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken or are taking EAST 420D1/D2.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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EAST 421 Third Level Korean 2 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Asian Language & Literature: Advanced grammar, enhancing written and oral comprehension and improving writing and speaking skills.
Offered by: East Asian Studies
- Prerequisite: EAST 420 or equivalent or permission of instructor.
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken or are taking EAST 420D1/D2.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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EAST 430D1 Third Level Chinese 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Asian Language & Literature: A communicative approach will be used to provide students with skills to communicate in various situations, express their ideas and feelings, and discuss various aspects of culture and life in China and in Canada. Teaching materials include Chinese movies on videotape and slides depicting Chinese life and culture.
Offered by: East Asian Studies
- Prerequisite: EAST 330 or equivalent or permission of instructor
- Students must register for both EAST 430D1 and EAST 430D2.
- No credit will be given for this course unless both EAST 430D1 and EAST 430D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Renzhong Wang
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EAST 430D2 Third Level Chinese 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Asian Language & Literature: See EAST 430D1 for course description.
Offered by: East Asian Studies
- Prerequisite: EAST 430D1
- No credit will be given for this course unless both EAST 430D1 and EAST 430D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Renzhong Wang
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EAST 440D1 Third Level Japanese 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Asian Language & Literature: More advanced study of the Japanese language. Emphasis will be placed on reading.
Offered by: East Asian Studies
- Prerequisite: EAST 340 or equivalent or permission of instructor
- Students must register for both EAST 440D1 and EAST 440D2.
- No credit will be given for this course unless both EAST 440D1 and EAST 440D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Jodie Beck
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EAST 440D2 Third Level Japanese 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Asian Language & Literature: See EAST 440D1 for course description.
Offered by: East Asian Studies
- Prerequisite: EAST 440D1
- No credit will be given for this course unless both EAST 440D1 and EAST 440D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Jodie Beck
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EAST 530D1 Fourth Level Chinese 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Asian Language & Literature: Development of skills required to conduct academic discussions in oral as well as in written forms. Teaching materials include original texts from Chinese newspapers, Chinese literature and videos.
Offered by: East Asian Studies
- Prerequisite (Undergraduate): EAST 430 or equivalent
- Students must register for both EAST 530D1 and EAST 530D2.
- No credit will be given for this course unless both EAST 530D1 and EAST 530D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
- EAST 530D1 and EAST 530D2 together are equivalent to EAST 530
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Joy C Lin
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EAST 530D2 Fourth Level Chinese 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Asian Language & Literature: See EAST 530D1 for course description.
Offered by: East Asian Studies
- Prerequisite: EAST 530D1
- No credit will be given for this course unless both EAST 530D1 and EAST 530D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
- EAST 530D1 and EAST 530D2 together are equivalent to EAST 530
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Jennie H Chang
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EAST 533 Classical Chinese 1 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Asian Language & Literature: An introduction to the grammar and syntax of classical Chinese. Readings are selected from well-known Confucian and Taoist classics, and philosophical and historical writings from premodern China.
Offered by: East Asian Studies
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Guojun Wang
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EAST 534 Classical Chinese 2 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Asian Language & Literature: Continuation of EAST 533 at a more advanced level.
Offered by: East Asian Studies
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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EAST 540D1 Fourth Level Japanese 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Asian Language & Literature: Advanced study of Japanese, with emphasis on reading Japanese newspapers. Classes will be conducted entirely in Japanese.
Offered by: East Asian Studies
- Prerequisite (Undergraduate): EAST 440 or equivalent or permission of instructor
- Students must register for both EAST 540D1 and EAST 540D2.
- No credit will be given for this course unless both EAST 540D1 and EAST 540D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Yasuko Senoo
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EAST 540D2 Fourth Level Japanese 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Asian Language & Literature: See EAST 540D1 for course description.
Offered by: East Asian Studies
- Prerequisite: EAST 540D1
- No credit will be given for this course unless both EAST 540D1 and EAST 540D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Yasuko Senoo
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EAST 544 Classical Japanese 2 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Asian Language & Literature: The grammar and syntax of classical Japanese. Readings in well-known writings of pre-modern Japan.
Offered by: East Asian Studies
- Prerequisite (Undergraduate): EAST 543 or permission of instructor
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
East Asian Literature, Culture and Society
24 credits of courses in East Asian Literature, Culture and Society.
East Asian Studies (EAST)
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EAST 303 Current Topics:Chin Studies 1 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Asian Language & Literature: Consideration of important issues in Chinese Studies. Content of the course will vary from year to year.
Offered by: East Asian Studies
- Fall
- Restriction: Departmental approval required
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Gal Gvili
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EAST 304 Current Topics:Chin Studies 2 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Asian Language & Literature: Consideration of important issues in Chinese Studies. Content of the course will vary from year to year.
Offered by: East Asian Studies
- Winter
- Restriction: Departmental approval required
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Rongdao Lai
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EAST 305 Curr Topics:Japanese St 1 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Asian Language & Literature: Consideration of important issues in Japanese studies. The content of the course will vary from year to year.
Offered by: East Asian Studies
- Fall
- Restriction: Departmental approval required
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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EAST 306 Curr Topics:Japanese St 2 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Asian Language & Literature: Consideration of important issues in Japanese studies. The content of the course will vary from year to year.
Offered by: East Asian Studies
- Winter
- Restriction: Departmental approval required
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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EAST 307 Topics:East Asian Lang & Lit 1 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Asian Language & Literature: Consideration of selected topics and aspects of East Asian literature and/or language.
Offered by: East Asian Studies
- Fall
- Prerequisite: EAST 211 or permission of instructor
- The topic of the course may vary from year to year.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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EAST 308 Topics:East Asian Lang & Lit 2 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Asian Language & Literature: Consideration of selected topics and aspects of East Asian literature and/or language.
Offered by: East Asian Studies
- Winter
- Prerequisite: EAST 211 or permission of instructor
- Restriction: Departmental approval required
- The topic of the course may vary from year to year.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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EAST 313 Current Topics:Korean St 1 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Asian Language & Literature: Consideration of important issues in Korean Studies. Content of the course will vary from year to year.
Offered by: East Asian Studies
- Fall
- Restriction: Departmental approval required.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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EAST 314 Current Topics:Korean St 2 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Asian Language & Literature: Consideration of important issues in Korean Studies. Content of the course will vary from year to year.
Offered by: East Asian Studies
- Winter
- Restriction: Departmental approval required
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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EAST 350 Gender&Sexuality in ChineseLit 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Asian Language & Literature: Gender and sexuality in modern and/or premodern Chinese literature with emphasis on representation of gender relations, notions of masculinity and femininity, morality and sexuality. Readings from fiction, drama, poetry, and/or other genres are approached from a variety of critical perspectives.
Offered by: East Asian Studies
- Prerequisite: EAST 211 or permission of instructor.
- Note: Readings in English translation.
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Guojun Wang
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EAST 351 Women Writers of China 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Asian Language & Literature: A study of fiction, drama, and poetry by women writers in imperial, modern, and/or contemporary China.
Offered by: East Asian Studies
- Core course for the Women's Studies program
- Prerequisite: EAST 211 or permission of instructor.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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EAST 352 Crit Approaches to Chinese Lit 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Asian Language & Literature: This course will examine traditional and/or modern genres of Chinese literature with a focus on different forms of Chinese and Western literary analysis.
Offered by: East Asian Studies
- Prerequisite: EAST 211.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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EAST 353 Approaches to Chinese Cinema 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Asian Language & Literature: Development of Chinese film in the 20th century, with an emphasis on both critical approaches to film as well as film history.
Offered by: East Asian Studies
- Prerequisite: EAST 211.
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Dylan Suher
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EAST 356 Modern & Contemp. Chinese Art 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Asian Language & Literature: Examination of modern Chinese art and visual culture from the 1920's to the present. Emphasis will be placed on the formation of the artistic avant-garde in the 20th century and its relation to socialist and post-socialist mass culture.
Offered by: East Asian Studies
- Restriction: Not open to students taking or who have taken ARTH 356.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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EAST 358 Later Chinese Art (960-1911) 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Asian Language & Literature: Survey of art and visual culture in later imperial China from Song to Qing dynasties. A broad range of media (e.g. painting, calligraphy, print, architecture) will be examined to explore the development of literati aesthetics and its intersections with the arts of the court, the temple, and the marketplace.
Offered by: East Asian Studies
- Prerequisites: One 200-level Art History or East Asian Studies course, or by permission of Instructor.
- Restriction: Not open to students taking or who have taken ARTH 355.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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EAST 361 Animation and New Media 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Asian Language & Literature: Animation and new media in East Asia, with an emphasis on postwar developments.
Offered by: East Asian Studies
- Restrictions: Not open to students who have taken EAST 214.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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EAST 362 Japanese Cinema 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Asian Language & Literature: This course will study the development of film in Japan during the 20th century with a particular focus on the analysis of film form, genres and history.
Offered by: East Asian Studies
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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EAST 363 Early and Medieval Japan 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Asian Language & Literature: This course examines cultural production in early and medieval Japan, focusing on calligraphy, painting, picture scrolls, gestures and their relation to textual production. Readings explore various classic texts, taboos against seeing and narrative modes of cognition.
Offered by: East Asian Studies
- Prerequisite: EAST 212 or permission of instructor
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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EAST 364 Mass Culture & Postwar Japan 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Asian Language & Literature: This course addresses a number of analytic approaches to mass culture in order to examine the culture industry of post-war Japan. Emphasis on narrative strategies in popular or consumer fiction and on the problems of marginalized writers.
Offered by: East Asian Studies
- Prerequisite: Any introductory course in literature or cultural studies, or permission of instructor
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Marianne Tarcov
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EAST 369 Gen & Sex in Asian Media 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Asian Language & Literature: In this course, we examine contesting notions of gender, sexuality, femininity, and masculinity in Asian cinema and media. We study how individual works negotiate the social discourses on gender and sexual representation, identities, and performance, and how we may borrow conceptual frameworks from queer theories and histories at large to discuss them.
Offered by: East Asian Studies
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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EAST 370 History of Sexuality in Japan 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Asian Language & Literature: Social and cultural history of sexuality in Japan. Possible topics include pre-modern sexuality and relations to court, religion and anthropology; pre-modern sex and gender relations; modern sexuality and gender identities; sexuality and the rise of science; relation to nationalism; feminism and queer movements.
Offered by: East Asian Studies
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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EAST 372 Topics in Television: Asia 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Asian Language & Literature: This course approaches television and televisuality historically, in regional, transnational, and global perspectives.
Offered by: East Asian Studies
- Prerequisite(s): A 200-level course in EAST or permission of instructor.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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EAST 375 Korean Media & Popular Culture 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Asian Language & Literature: This course approaches popular culture and mass media in postwar Korea from historical and theoretical perspectives, with a focus on the connections between activism, mass media, and commodity culture.
Offered by: East Asian Studies
- Prerequisite(s): EAST 213 or permission of the instructor.
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Kimberly Chung
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EAST 377 Topics: Transnat Asian Culture 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Asian Language & Literature: Investigation of cinema's border-crossing modes of cultural production, reception, and circulation, to uncover the ways that the study of culture enriches current theories and approaches to the transnational.
Offered by: East Asian Studies
- Prerequisite(s): A 200-level course in EAST or permission of instructor.
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Kimberly Chung
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EAST 385 Global Korea 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Asian Language & Literature: This course considers Korean culture and society in the modern period by examining changing attitudes about the relationship between the national and the global, across social institutions, political discourse, and popular media.
Offered by: East Asian Studies
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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EAST 388 Asian Migrations and Diasporas 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Asian Language & Literature: Introduction to the interdisciplinary study of Asian migrations and diasporas. Topics include colonialism and diaspora, transnationalism, globalization, citizenship, migration and the state, gender and migration, human trafficking, and forced migration.
Offered by: East Asian Studies
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Maria C Hwang
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EAST 389 Global Cinema and Media Asia 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Asian Language & Literature: Ascendancy of East Asian cinema and media as global culture; the aesthetic, technological, economic and political conditions of cinema as a transnational commodity; and the history of globalization and East Asia media platforms.
Offered by: East Asian Studies
- Prerequisite(s): A 200-level course in EAST or permission of instructor.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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EAST 390 The Chinese Family in History 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Asian Language & Literature: Exploration of the Chinese family in history both as an institution - in its religious, legal, economic, political aspects - and as a lived reality.
Offered by: East Asian Studies
- Prerequisite: EAST 211 or HIST 208 or HIST 218 or permission of the instructor.
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken or are taking HIST 344.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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EAST 453 Topics: Chinese Literature 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Asian Language & Literature: Advanced seminar in selected genres, themes and issues in Chinese literature.
Offered by: East Asian Studies
- Prerequisite: A 300-level course in any literature.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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EAST 454 Topics: Chinese Cinema 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Asian Language & Literature: Advanced seminar in selected themes and issues in Chinese film.
Offered by: East Asian Studies
- Prerequisites: EAST 353, a 300-level film studies course, or permission of the instructor.
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Xinyu Dong
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EAST 461 Inventing Mod Japanese Novel 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Asian Language & Literature: An examination of the modern Japanese novel as a form which both affirms and resists the form of the European novel. Readings explore the particular problems of the Japanese novel in the context of modernization, westernization, and colonialism.
Offered by: East Asian Studies
- Prerequisite: Any course in literature or cultural studies above the introductory level, or permission of instructor
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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EAST 462 Japan in Asia 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Asian Language & Literature: This course introduces theories of cultural interaction, interpellation, and intertexuality in order to reconsider Japanese modes of reception and selection of Chinese texts and technologies. Readings range from early Japanese to 20th century texts. Readings in translation.
Offered by: East Asian Studies
- Prerequisite: Any East Asian Studies course above the introductory level, or permission of the instructor
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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EAST 464 Image, Text, Performance 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Asian Language & Literature: Drawing on theoretical approaches from a variety of cultural and media studies, including cinema, performance and performativity, and elsewhere, this course addresses cultural production in premodern and/or modern East Asia. Topics to be addressed range from calligraphy and writing, to theatre, and film.
Offered by: East Asian Studies
- Prerequisite: Any East Asian Studies course above the introductory level, or permission of the instructor
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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EAST 467 Topics: Japanese Cinema 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Asian Language & Literature: Topics in the study of Japanese cinema.
Offered by: East Asian Studies
- Prerequisites: EAST 362 or permission of the instructor.
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Marianne Tarcov
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EAST 468 Science and Technology: Asia 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Asian Language & Literature: History of science and technology in Asia with an emphasis on social and cultural impact and the legacy non-Western traditions.
Offered by: East Asian Studies
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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EAST 477 Media and Environment in Asia 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Asian Language & Literature: The course explores the intersection between media and "environment" in Asia and beyond; topics range from media ecology, cybernetics, environmental art and activism, urban planning, and the history of communications networks in Asia in the modern period.
Offered by: East Asian Studies
- Prerequisite(s): Any East Asian Studies course at the 200 level or above.
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Yuriko Furuhata
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EAST 478 Topics: Korean Film & Media 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Asian Language & Literature: Advanced seminar in the study of Korean film and media. Taught in English.
Offered by: East Asian Studies
- Prerequisite(s): EAST 213 or permission of instructor.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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EAST 491 Tutorial:East Asian Lang&Lit 1 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Asian Language & Literature: Advanced reading course in language or literature.
Offered by: East Asian Studies
- Fall
- Restriction: Departmental approval required
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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EAST 492 Tutorial:East Asian Lang&Lit 2 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Asian Language & Literature: Advanced reading course in language or literature.
Offered by: East Asian Studies
- Winter
- Restriction: Departmental approval required
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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EAST 493 Spec Topics:East Asian St 1 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Asian Language & Literature: Advanced reading course under supervision of instructor on certain aspects of East Asian Studies. Topics will vary from year to year.
Offered by: East Asian Studies
- Fall
- Prerequisite: Any EAST course at the 300-level or above or permission of instructor
- Restriction: Departmental approval required
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Kimberly Chung
- David C Porter
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EAST 494 Spec Topics:East Asian St 2 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Asian Language & Literature: Advanced reading course under supervision of instructor on certain aspects of East Asian Studies. Topics will vary from year to year.
Offered by: East Asian Studies
- Winter
- Prerequisite: Any EAST course at the 300-level or above or permission of instructor
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- David C Porter
- Jeehee Hong
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EAST 501 Adv Top in Japanese Studies 1 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Asian Language & Literature: Consideration of selected topics and aspects of Japanese culture and society.
Offered by: East Asian Studies
- Fall
- Prerequisite (Undergraduate): permission of instructor
- Restriction: Departmental approval required
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Marianne Tarcov
- Marianne Tarcov
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EAST 502 Adv Top in Japanese Studies 2 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Asian Language & Literature: Consideration of selected topics and aspects of Japanese culture and society.
Offered by: East Asian Studies
- Winter
- Prerequisite (Undergraduate): permission of instructor
- Restriction: Departmental approval required
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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EAST 503 Adv Top in Chinese Studies 1 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Asian Language & Literature: Consideration of selected topics and aspects of Chinese culture and society.
Offered by: East Asian Studies
- Fall
- Prerequisite (Undergraduate): permission of instructor
- Restriction: Departmental approval required
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Jeehee Hong
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EAST 504 Adv Top in Chinese Studies 2 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Asian Language & Literature: Consideration of selected topics and aspects of Chinese culture and society.
Offered by: East Asian Studies
- Winter
- Prerequisite (Undergraduate): permission of instructor
- Restriction: Departmental approval required
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Renzhong Wang
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EAST 505 Advanced Topics:Korean Studies 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Asian Language & Literature: Consideration of selected topics and aspects of Korean culture and society. Taught in English.
Offered by: East Asian Studies
- Prerequisite(s): Permission of instructor.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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EAST 515 Seminar: Beyond Orientalism 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Asian Language & Literature: Examines the cultural stakes and ethical implications of applying Western European models of understanding to East Asian societies. Provides background on interdisciplinary debates around "otherness", "cultural appropriation", and "postcolonialism", focusing on their history within East Asian Studies and their impact on that field's methodological assumptions, self-definition, and institutional practices.
Offered by: East Asian Studies
- Prerequisite (Undergraduate): any EAST course at the 300 level or above or permission of instructor
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Gal Gvili, Sandeep Banerjee
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EAST 525 Critical Area Studies in Asia 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Asian Language & Literature: The course introduces students to foundational concepts, key debates, recent research areas, theoretical methods, and critical approached in area studies.
Offered by: East Asian Studies
- Prerequisite(s): At least one EAST 400- or 500-level seminar course, or permission of the instructor.
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Maria C Hwang
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EAST 527 Culture and Capital in Asia 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Asian Language & Literature: This seminar introduces the major anthropological, psychological, and political economic theories of the relation between culture and capital that have affected social and political formations in East Asia. Language of Instruction: English.
Offered by: East Asian Studies
- Prerequisite(s): Any EAST 400-level course or above, or permission of the instructor.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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EAST 550 Class Chin PoetryThemes&Genres 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Asian Language & Literature: A study of major themes and genres of classical Chinese poetry from its beginnings to the Yuan dynasty (14th century), with emphasis on critical analysis of text and context. Readings of poems in the original.
Offered by: East Asian Studies
- Prerequisite (Undergraduate): EAST 533 or permission of the instructor
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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EAST 551 Technol of Self in Early China 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Asian Language & Literature: Readings on self-cultivation drawn from Confucian, Legalist, and Taoist philosophic texts of early China (5th-2nd centuries B.C.) in translation will be compared with historical and archaeological materials on the evolving construction of the "individual'' in Chinese social structure, military organization, political and ritual codes.
Offered by: East Asian Studies
- Prerequisite (Undergraduate): One advanced course in EAST or permission of the instructor
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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EAST 559 Adv Topics: Chinese Literature 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Asian Language & Literature: Consideration of selected topics and aspects of Chinese literature. The content of the course may vary from year to year, ranging from contemporary to modern to pre-modern literature.
Offered by: East Asian Studies
- Prerequisite (Undergraduate): one advanced course in EAST or permission of instructor
- Restriction: Departmental approval required
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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EAST 562 Japanese Lit Theory & Practice 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Asian Language & Literature: This course examines Japanese theories of literary production and practice with an emphasis on 20th century thought.
Offered by: East Asian Studies
- Prerequisite (Undergraduate): Any course in EAST above the 200 level and at least a year of an East Asian Language, or permission of instructor
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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EAST 564 Structures of Modernity: Asia 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Asian Language & Literature: This course explores relations between some of the principal sites which structure the experience of "modernity" in Asia (and elsewhere) - from bodies and cities, to the urban context in general. Along with general approaches (e.g. the idea of everyday life途 questions of time), specific topics may include speed, music, architecture, crime, etc.
Offered by: East Asian Studies
- Prerequisite (Undergraduate): Any East Asian Studies course above the introductory level, or permission of the instructor
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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EAST 569 Adv Topics:Japanese Literature 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Asian Language & Literature: Consideration of selected topics and aspects of Japanese literature. The content of the course may vary from year to year from contemporary to modern to pre-modern literature.
Offered by: East Asian Studies
- Prerequisite: one advanced course in EAST or permission of instructor
- Restriction: Departmental approval required
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
Anthropology (ANTH)
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ANTH 331 Prehistory of East Asia 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Anthropology: Comparative study of prehistoric hunting and gathering cultures in China, Japan, Korea, Mongolia and Eastern Siberia; origins and dispersal of food production; cultural processes leading to the rise of literate civilizations in certain regions of East Asia.
Offered by: Anthropology
- Fall
- Prerequisite: ANTH 201 or permission of instructor
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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ANTH 500 Chinese Diversity & Diaspora 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Anthropology: Explores ethnic diversity within mainland China, as well as the diversity of Chinese cultures of diaspora, living outside the mainland, often as minorities subject to other dominant cultures.
Offered by: Anthropology
- Winter
- Restrictions: Reserved for U3 Anthropology undergraduate students or graduate students, any other students by permission of instructor.
- Enrolment Limit: 25 students.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
Economics (ECON)
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ECON 335 The Japanese Economy 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Economics (Arts): The first part of the course covers the economic institutions in, changing structure of, and public policies employed by the Japanese economy. The second part probes the economic "logic" of the Japanese capitalist system, explores its relationship to the ideas of Joseph Schumpeter, and makes comparisons with the American economy.
Offered by: Economics
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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ECON 411 Econ Development:A World Area 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Economics (Arts): An advanced course in the economic development of a pre-designated underdeveloped country or a group of countries.
Offered by: Economics
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
Geography (GEOG)
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GEOG 408 Geography of Development 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Geography: Examines the geographical dimensions of development policy, specifically the relationships between the process of development and human-induced environmental change. Focuses on environmental sustainability, struggles over resource control, population and poverty, and levels of governance (the role of the state, non-governmental organizations, and local communities).
Offered by: Geography
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Jon D Unruh
History (HIST)
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HIST 208 Intro to East Asian History 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:History: An introduction to the history of East Asian civilization from earliest times to 1600, with emphasis on China and Japan, including social, intellectual, and economic developments as well as political history.
Offered by: History and Classical Studies
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- David C Porter
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HIST 218 Modern East Asian History 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:History: An introduction to the history of China and Japan from the seventeenth century to the present, including modernization, nationalism, and the interaction of the two countries.
Offered by: History and Classical Studies
- Winter
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Lorenz M Luthi
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HIST 308 Formation of Chinese Tradition 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:History: An examination of the multiple sources of the Chinese imperial system from the period of the neolithic culture interaction sphere to the fall of the Han dynasty in 220 C.E. Special attention is paid to socio-economic developments as well as to the evolution of philosophy, ideology, and social practice. The sequel to this course is HIST 358.
Offered by: History and Classical Studies
- Prerequisite: HIST 208 recommended
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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HIST 338 Twentieth-Century China 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:History: Examines 20th Century China from the fall of the Qing, through Republican China, the emergence of communism, war with Japan, revolution and civil war, the Cultural Revolution, and later economic reforms.
Offered by: History and Classical Studies
- Prerequisite: HIST 218 recommended.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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HIST 358 China's Middle Empires 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:History: Developments of China's middle empires, ca. 600-1300 CE. Studies changing international relations, rapid commercialization, religious developments, the rise of the civil service examination system, and ensuing social change.
Offered by: History and Classical Studies
- Prerequisite: HIST 208 recommended.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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HIST 439 History of Women in China 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:History: This course examines the changing roles of women in traditional and modern China. Topics include political, social, and legal status, sexuality and medicine, religion and culture.
Offered by: History and Classical Studies
- Prerequisite: a previous course in Chinese history
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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HIST 441 Topics:Culture&Ritual in China 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:History: An examination of selected aspects of the cultural and intellectual life of China. Topics vary from year to year, but include the history of popular religion, Chinese science and medicine, the esoteric arts including divination practices, law, and the influence of ideas in the production of Chinese culture.
Offered by: History and Classical Studies
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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HIST 442 Asian Diasp: Chinese Overseas 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:History: The contexts and causes of Chinese emigration; historical patterns of migration; Overseas Chinese communities on five continents, with emphasis on Southeast Asia and North America; alienation and identity in Chinatown; relations between the Overseas Chinese and China.
Offered by: History and Classical Studies
- Prerequisite: One previous course in Chinese or Asian history or permission of instructor
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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HIST 443 Topics: Modern Japan 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:History: An intensive study of selected aspects related to the history of modern Japan.
Offered by: History and Classical Studies
- Prerequisite: HIST 218 or permission of the instructor.
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- David C Porter
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HIST 445 Late Imperial China 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:History: An introduction to the social and economic history of Late Imperial China, focusing on the Ming and early to mid Qing Dynasties (1368 - 1800), and current interpretations thereof. Was this a discrete period in Chinese history? If so, why.
Offered by: History and Classical Studies
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- David C Porter
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HIST 508 The Art of War in China 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:History: A study of the historical development of military theory and practice from earliest times to 1911 from a variety of perspectives, technological, scientific, social, and cultural.
Offered by: History and Classical Studies
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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HIST 568D1 Topics in Chinese History 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:History: A research seminar on aspects of Chinese history from early time to the present, with emphasis on social history.
Offered by: History and Classical Studies
- Students must register for both HIST 568D1 and HIST 568D2
- No credit will be given for this course unless both HIST 568D1 and HIST 568D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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HIST 568D2 Topics in Chinese History 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:History: See HIST 568D1 for course description.
Offered by: History and Classical Studies
- Prerequisite: HIST 568D1
- No credit will be given for this course unless both HIST 568D1 and HIST 568D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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HIST 578D1 Seminar in Japanese History 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:History: Particular attention will be paid to Japanese responses to the impact of Western culture from the sixteenth century, and to aspects of Japanese intellectual history.
Offered by: History and Classical Studies
- Students must register for both HIST 578D1 and HIST 578D2
- No credit will be given for this course unless both HIST 578D1 and HIST 578D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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HIST 578D2 Seminar in Japanese History 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:History: See HIST 578D1 for course description.
Offered by: History and Classical Studies
- Prerequisite: HIST 578D1
- No credit will be given for this course unless both HIST 578D1 and HIST 578D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
Management (ORGB)
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ORGB 380 Cross Cultural Management 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Organizational Behaviour: Addresses dilemmas and opportunities that managers experience in international, multicultural environments. Development of conceptual knowledge and behavioural skills (e.g. bridging skills, communication, tolerance of ambiguity, cognitive complexity) relevant to the interaction of different cultures in business and organizational settings, using several methods including research, case studies and experiential learning.
Offered by: Management
- Restriction: Open to U2, U3 students only
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Tatiana L Gauvin
- Matissa Hollister
Political Science (POLI)
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POLI 349 Foreign Policy: Asia 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: An overview of the foreign policies of two rising powers - China and India - in addition to Japan, covering the historical evolution, goals and determinants of their foreign policies, interactions with the rest of Asia and the world, and efforts at institutionalised cooperation in South and East Asia.
Offered by: Political Science
- Prerequisites: POLI 243 or 244, or permission of the instructor.
- Note: The field is International Politics.
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- T V Paul
Religious Studies (RELG)
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RELG 253 Religions of East Asia 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Religious Studies: This course introduces East Asia's major religions comparatively by addressing the continuous exchange of ideas and practices between traditions. Rather than adopting a mere chronological approach, Buddhism, Daoism, and Confucianism will be discussed thematically, taking in to account topics such as gender constructs, the secular and the sacred, material culture, and the apparent contrast between doctrine and practice.
Offered by: Religious Studies
- Winter
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Rongdao Lai
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RELG 264 Introductory Tibetan 1 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Religious Studies: An introduction to the language of Classical Tibetan, specifically Tibetan script and basic grammar.
Offered by: Religious Studies
- Fall
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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RELG 265 Introductory Tibetan 2 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Religious Studies: A continuation of the introduction to the language of Classical Tibetan, specifically Tibetan script and basic grammar.
Offered by: Religious Studies
- Winter
- Prerequisite: RELG 264
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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RELG 352 Japanese Relig: Hist & Thought 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Religious Studies: This course provides an in-depth introduction to the religious traditions of Japan from the emerging of the Japanese state to the role of religion in contemporary Japan. Kami worship, the Buddhist tradition, Yin Yang divination, Confucianism, and the modern construct of Shinto are addressed in an interdisciplinary approach, taking into account insights from the fields of History, Literature, and Art.
Offered by: Religious Studies
- Fall
- Prerequisite: RELG 253 or permission of instructor
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Mika毛l P Bauer
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RELG 354 Chinese Religions 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Religious Studies: Introduction to the diverse religiosities in the Chinese cultural sphere. Examination of the everyday practice of ancestor worship, longevity practices, morality, rituals, and the veneration of deities and spirits.
Offered by: Religious Studies
- Fall
- Prerequisite: RELG 253
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Rongdao Lai
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RELG 364 Intermediate Tibetan 1 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Religious Studies: Advanced Tibetan grammar, and translation of selected Tibetan texts.
Offered by: Religious Studies
- Fall
- Prerequisite: RELG 265 or permission of the instructor.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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RELG 365 Intermediate Tibetan 2 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Religious Studies: Continuation of advanced Tibetan grammar and translation of selected Tibetan texts.
Offered by: Religious Studies
- Winter
- Prerequisite: RELG 364 or permission of the instructor.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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RELG 442 Pure Land Buddhism 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Religious Studies: The concept of Buddha Countries and Pure Lands in Buddhism, the Western Pure Land of Amida (Jodokyo) and its basic scriptures, the Chinese Buddhist schools, the introduction to Japan and the foundation of the Pure Land school by Honen, the Pure Land School of Shinran and its development, and the other Pure Land related schools.
Offered by: Religious Studies
- Prerequisite: six credits in EAST/RELG or permission of instructor
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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RELG 451 Zen Buddhism: Poetry and Art 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Religious Studies: A general overview of Japanese Zen Buddhism through the reading of poetry, diaries, sculpture and architecture.
Offered by: Religious Studies
- Prerequisite: six credits in EAST/RELG or permission of instructor
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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RELG 464 Advanced Tibetan 1 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Religious Studies: Translation of specially selected Tibetan texts.
Offered by: Religious Studies
- Fall
- Prerequisite: RELG 365 or permission of instructor.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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RELG 465 Advanced Tibetan 2 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Religious Studies: Continuation of translation of specially selected Tibetan texts.
Offered by: Religious Studies
- Winter
- Prerequisite: RELG 464 or permission of the instructor.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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RELG 549 Japanese Buddhism: Hist Cont 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Religious Studies: This research-oriented seminar critically analyses key-questions from the field of pre-modern Japanese Buddhism. By engaging with recent research, students are expected to adopt an interdisciplinary approach and address questions and methodologies from both History and Buddhist Studies.
Offered by: Religious Studies
- Prerequisites: RELG 344, or RELG 451, or permission of the instructor.
- Note: Taught in alternate years.
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Mika毛l P Bauer
Honors EAS credit form
honours_east_asian_studies.docx
Joint Honours
Program Requirement:
The Joint Honours - East Asian Studies Component provides in-depth training in the humanistic studies of East Asia (including language, society, literature, history, media, religion, politics, and art). The program includes core survey of China, Japan, and Korea and progresses to upper-level lectures and seminars that allow students to tailor an individualized program of study. Half of the coursework will be done in East Asian Studies and the other half in another program within the Faculty of Arts.
Required Course (3 credits)
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EAST 495D1 Jt Hon Thesis:East Asian Stud 1.5 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Asian Language & Literature: Supervised reading and preparation of an Honours thesis under the direction of a member of staff.
Offered by: East Asian Studies
- Prerequisite: U3 Joint Honours status and permission of instructor
- Restriction: Departmental approval required
- Students must register for both EAST 495D1 and EAST 495D2.
- No credit will be given for this course unless both EAST 495D1 and EAST 495D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Guojun Wang
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EAST 495D2 Jt Hon Thesis:East Asian Stud 1.5 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Asian Language & Literature: See EAST 495D1 for course description.
Offered by: East Asian Studies
- Prerequisite: EAST 495D1
- No credit will be given for this course unless both EAST 495D1 and EAST 495D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Guojun Wang
Complementary Courses (33 credits)
Introduction to East Asian Culture
3-6 credits from:
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EAST 211 Intro:East Asian Culture:China 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Asian Language & Literature: This course provides a critical introduction to central themes in Chinese culture. The course will also examine the changing representations of the Chinese cultural tradition in the West. Readings will include original sources in translation from the fields of literature, philosophy, religion, and cultural history.
Offered by: East Asian Studies
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Gal Gvili
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EAST 212 Intro:East Asian Culture:Japan 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Asian Language & Literature: An introduction to Japan which presents various aspects of Japanese literature, culture, history, religions, philosophy and society.
Offered by: East Asian Studies
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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EAST 213 Intro:East Asian Culture:Korea 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Asian Language & Literature: This course provides a critical introduction to central themes in Korean culture, including Korean literature, religions, philosophy, and socio-economic formations.
Offered by: East Asian Studies
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Kimberly Chung
0-3 credits selected from:
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EAST 215 Introduction to East Asian Art 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Asian Language & Literature: Introductory survey of some of the major developments in the visual arts of Japan, China, and Korea. Emphasis will be placed on the diversity of artistic traditions in East Asia and the intersections among these traditions.
Offered by: East Asian Studies
- Restriction: Not open to students taking or who have taken ARTH 215.
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Davin Luce
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EAST 250 Intro to Asian Media Studies 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Asian Language & Literature: The course explores core methods and theoretical approaches to media in Asia and beyond: material culture, technicity, media infrastructures, intermediality, circulation, platforms, regionalism, and institutional history.
Offered by: East Asian Studies
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
East Asian Language
18 credits in an East Asian language above the introductory level selected from the following courses:
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EAST 320D1 Second Level Korean 4.5 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Asian Language & Literature: The aim of this course is to give students a fluent speaking ability in daily conversation, advanced grammar knowledge, improved reading and writing skills. Special emphasis is put on the efficient use of grammar, enrichment of vocabulary, and mastering useful expressions encountered in everyday life.
Offered by: East Asian Studies
- Prerequisite: EAST 220 or equivalent
- Students must register for both EAST 320D1 and EAST 320D2.
- No credit will be given for this course unless both EAST 320D1 and EAST 320D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Myung Hee Kim
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EAST 320D2 Second Level Korean 4.5 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Asian Language & Literature: See EAST 320D1 for course description.
Offered by: East Asian Studies
- Prerequisite: EAST 320D1
- No credit will be given for this course unless both EAST 320D1 and EAST 320D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Myung Hee Kim
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EAST 330D1 Second Level Chinese 4.5 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Asian Language & Literature: The same communicative approach as in EAST 230 is used to develop aural and oral skills on daily topics. In addition to textbooks, Chinese films on videotapes will be incorporated as teaching materials.
Offered by: East Asian Studies
- Prerequisite: EAST 230 or equivalent or permission of the instructor
- Students must register for both EAST 330D1 and EAST 330D2.
- No credit will be given for this course unless both EAST 330D1 and EAST 330D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Jennie H Chang, Joy C Lin
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EAST 330D2 Second Level Chinese 4.5 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Asian Language & Literature: See EAST 330D1 for course description.
Offered by: East Asian Studies
- Prerequisite: EAST 330D1
- No credit will be given for this course unless both EAST 330D1 and EAST 330D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Jennie H Chang
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EAST 340D1 Second Level Japanese 4.5 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Asian Language & Literature: Continuation of the study of oral and written Japanese.
Offered by: East Asian Studies
- Prerequisite: EAST 240 or equivalent or permission of instructor
- Students must register for both EAST 340D1 and EAST 340D2.
- No credit will be given for this course unless both EAST 340D1 and EAST 340D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Yasuko Senoo
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EAST 340D2 Second Level Japanese 4.5 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Asian Language & Literature: See EAST 340D1 for course description.
Offered by: East Asian Studies
- Prerequisite: EAST 340D1
- No credit will be given for this course unless both EAST 340D1 and EAST 340D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Yasuko Senoo
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EAST 341 Japanese Writing Intermed. 1 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Asian Language & Literature: Intermediate grammar, vocabulary and kanji,focusing on writing skills and reading comprehension.
Offered by: East Asian Studies
- Prerequisite(s): EAST 340 or equivalent or permission of the instructor
- Enrolment limitations: 15.
- Language of instruction: Japanese.
- This course will be offered twice a year (Fall and Winter).
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Tomoko Ikeda
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EAST 342 Japanese Writing Intermed. 2 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Asian Language & Literature: Intermediate grammar, vocabulary and kanji, focusing on writing skills and reading comprehension.
Offered by: East Asian Studies
- Prerequisite(s): Prerequisite(s): EAST 340 or EAST 341 or equivalent or permission of the instructor
- Language of Instruction: Japanese
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Tomoko Ikeda
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EAST 420 Third Level Korean 1 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Asian Language & Literature: grammar, enhancing written and oral comprehension and improving writing and speaking skills.
Offered by: East Asian Studies
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken or are taking EAST 420D1/D2.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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EAST 421 Third Level Korean 2 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Asian Language & Literature: Advanced grammar, enhancing written and oral comprehension and improving writing and speaking skills.
Offered by: East Asian Studies
- Prerequisite: EAST 420 or equivalent or permission of instructor.
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken or are taking EAST 420D1/D2.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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EAST 430D1 Third Level Chinese 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Asian Language & Literature: A communicative approach will be used to provide students with skills to communicate in various situations, express their ideas and feelings, and discuss various aspects of culture and life in China and in Canada. Teaching materials include Chinese movies on videotape and slides depicting Chinese life and culture.
Offered by: East Asian Studies
- Prerequisite: EAST 330 or equivalent or permission of instructor
- Students must register for both EAST 430D1 and EAST 430D2.
- No credit will be given for this course unless both EAST 430D1 and EAST 430D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Renzhong Wang
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EAST 430D2 Third Level Chinese 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Asian Language & Literature: See EAST 430D1 for course description.
Offered by: East Asian Studies
- Prerequisite: EAST 430D1
- No credit will be given for this course unless both EAST 430D1 and EAST 430D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Renzhong Wang
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EAST 440D1 Third Level Japanese 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Asian Language & Literature: More advanced study of the Japanese language. Emphasis will be placed on reading.
Offered by: East Asian Studies
- Prerequisite: EAST 340 or equivalent or permission of instructor
- Students must register for both EAST 440D1 and EAST 440D2.
- No credit will be given for this course unless both EAST 440D1 and EAST 440D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Jodie Beck
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EAST 440D2 Third Level Japanese 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Asian Language & Literature: See EAST 440D1 for course description.
Offered by: East Asian Studies
- Prerequisite: EAST 440D1
- No credit will be given for this course unless both EAST 440D1 and EAST 440D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Jodie Beck
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EAST 530D1 Fourth Level Chinese 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Asian Language & Literature: Development of skills required to conduct academic discussions in oral as well as in written forms. Teaching materials include original texts from Chinese newspapers, Chinese literature and videos.
Offered by: East Asian Studies
- Prerequisite (Undergraduate): EAST 430 or equivalent
- Students must register for both EAST 530D1 and EAST 530D2.
- No credit will be given for this course unless both EAST 530D1 and EAST 530D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
- EAST 530D1 and EAST 530D2 together are equivalent to EAST 530
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Joy C Lin
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EAST 530D2 Fourth Level Chinese 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Asian Language & Literature: See EAST 530D1 for course description.
Offered by: East Asian Studies
- Prerequisite: EAST 530D1
- No credit will be given for this course unless both EAST 530D1 and EAST 530D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
- EAST 530D1 and EAST 530D2 together are equivalent to EAST 530
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Jennie H Chang
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EAST 533 Classical Chinese 1 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Asian Language & Literature: An introduction to the grammar and syntax of classical Chinese. Readings are selected from well-known Confucian and Taoist classics, and philosophical and historical writings from premodern China.
Offered by: East Asian Studies
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Guojun Wang
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EAST 534 Classical Chinese 2 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Asian Language & Literature: Continuation of EAST 533 at a more advanced level.
Offered by: East Asian Studies
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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EAST 540D1 Fourth Level Japanese 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Asian Language & Literature: Advanced study of Japanese, with emphasis on reading Japanese newspapers. Classes will be conducted entirely in Japanese.
Offered by: East Asian Studies
- Prerequisite (Undergraduate): EAST 440 or equivalent or permission of instructor
- Students must register for both EAST 540D1 and EAST 540D2.
- No credit will be given for this course unless both EAST 540D1 and EAST 540D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Yasuko Senoo
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EAST 540D2 Fourth Level Japanese 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Asian Language & Literature: See EAST 540D1 for course description.
Offered by: East Asian Studies
- Prerequisite: EAST 540D1
- No credit will be given for this course unless both EAST 540D1 and EAST 540D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Yasuko Senoo
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EAST 544 Classical Japanese 2 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Asian Language & Literature: The grammar and syntax of classical Japanese. Readings in well-known writings of pre-modern Japan.
Offered by: East Asian Studies
- Prerequisite (Undergraduate): EAST 543 or permission of instructor
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
East Asian Studies (EAST)
9 credits chosen from the following East Asian Studies courses, at least 3 credits must be at the 400-level or above.
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EAST 303 Current Topics:Chin Studies 1 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Asian Language & Literature: Consideration of important issues in Chinese Studies. Content of the course will vary from year to year.
Offered by: East Asian Studies
- Fall
- Restriction: Departmental approval required
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Gal Gvili
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EAST 304 Current Topics:Chin Studies 2 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Asian Language & Literature: Consideration of important issues in Chinese Studies. Content of the course will vary from year to year.
Offered by: East Asian Studies
- Winter
- Restriction: Departmental approval required
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Rongdao Lai
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EAST 305 Curr Topics:Japanese St 1 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Asian Language & Literature: Consideration of important issues in Japanese studies. The content of the course will vary from year to year.
Offered by: East Asian Studies
- Fall
- Restriction: Departmental approval required
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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EAST 306 Curr Topics:Japanese St 2 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Asian Language & Literature: Consideration of important issues in Japanese studies. The content of the course will vary from year to year.
Offered by: East Asian Studies
- Winter
- Restriction: Departmental approval required
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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EAST 307 Topics:East Asian Lang & Lit 1 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Asian Language & Literature: Consideration of selected topics and aspects of East Asian literature and/or language.
Offered by: East Asian Studies
- Fall
- Prerequisite: EAST 211 or permission of instructor
- The topic of the course may vary from year to year.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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EAST 308 Topics:East Asian Lang & Lit 2 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Asian Language & Literature: Consideration of selected topics and aspects of East Asian literature and/or language.
Offered by: East Asian Studies
- Winter
- Prerequisite: EAST 211 or permission of instructor
- Restriction: Departmental approval required
- The topic of the course may vary from year to year.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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EAST 313 Current Topics:Korean St 1 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Asian Language & Literature: Consideration of important issues in Korean Studies. Content of the course will vary from year to year.
Offered by: East Asian Studies
- Fall
- Restriction: Departmental approval required.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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EAST 314 Current Topics:Korean St 2 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Asian Language & Literature: Consideration of important issues in Korean Studies. Content of the course will vary from year to year.
Offered by: East Asian Studies
- Winter
- Restriction: Departmental approval required
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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EAST 350 Gender&Sexuality in ChineseLit 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Asian Language & Literature: Gender and sexuality in modern and/or premodern Chinese literature with emphasis on representation of gender relations, notions of masculinity and femininity, morality and sexuality. Readings from fiction, drama, poetry, and/or other genres are approached from a variety of critical perspectives.
Offered by: East Asian Studies
- Prerequisite: EAST 211 or permission of instructor.
- Note: Readings in English translation.
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Guojun Wang
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EAST 351 Women Writers of China 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Asian Language & Literature: A study of fiction, drama, and poetry by women writers in imperial, modern, and/or contemporary China.
Offered by: East Asian Studies
- Core course for the Women's Studies program
- Prerequisite: EAST 211 or permission of instructor.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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EAST 352 Crit Approaches to Chinese Lit 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Asian Language & Literature: This course will examine traditional and/or modern genres of Chinese literature with a focus on different forms of Chinese and Western literary analysis.
Offered by: East Asian Studies
- Prerequisite: EAST 211.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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EAST 353 Approaches to Chinese Cinema 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Asian Language & Literature: Development of Chinese film in the 20th century, with an emphasis on both critical approaches to film as well as film history.
Offered by: East Asian Studies
- Prerequisite: EAST 211.
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Dylan Suher
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EAST 356 Modern & Contemp. Chinese Art 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Asian Language & Literature: Examination of modern Chinese art and visual culture from the 1920's to the present. Emphasis will be placed on the formation of the artistic avant-garde in the 20th century and its relation to socialist and post-socialist mass culture.
Offered by: East Asian Studies
- Restriction: Not open to students taking or who have taken ARTH 356.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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EAST 358 Later Chinese Art (960-1911) 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Asian Language & Literature: Survey of art and visual culture in later imperial China from Song to Qing dynasties. A broad range of media (e.g. painting, calligraphy, print, architecture) will be examined to explore the development of literati aesthetics and its intersections with the arts of the court, the temple, and the marketplace.
Offered by: East Asian Studies
- Prerequisites: One 200-level Art History or East Asian Studies course, or by permission of Instructor.
- Restriction: Not open to students taking or who have taken ARTH 355.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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EAST 361 Animation and New Media 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Asian Language & Literature: Animation and new media in East Asia, with an emphasis on postwar developments.
Offered by: East Asian Studies
- Restrictions: Not open to students who have taken EAST 214.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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EAST 362 Japanese Cinema 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Asian Language & Literature: This course will study the development of film in Japan during the 20th century with a particular focus on the analysis of film form, genres and history.
Offered by: East Asian Studies
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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EAST 363 Early and Medieval Japan 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Asian Language & Literature: This course examines cultural production in early and medieval Japan, focusing on calligraphy, painting, picture scrolls, gestures and their relation to textual production. Readings explore various classic texts, taboos against seeing and narrative modes of cognition.
Offered by: East Asian Studies
- Prerequisite: EAST 212 or permission of instructor
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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EAST 364 Mass Culture & Postwar Japan 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Asian Language & Literature: This course addresses a number of analytic approaches to mass culture in order to examine the culture industry of post-war Japan. Emphasis on narrative strategies in popular or consumer fiction and on the problems of marginalized writers.
Offered by: East Asian Studies
- Prerequisite: Any introductory course in literature or cultural studies, or permission of instructor
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Marianne Tarcov
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EAST 369 Gen & Sex in Asian Media 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Asian Language & Literature: In this course, we examine contesting notions of gender, sexuality, femininity, and masculinity in Asian cinema and media. We study how individual works negotiate the social discourses on gender and sexual representation, identities, and performance, and how we may borrow conceptual frameworks from queer theories and histories at large to discuss them.
Offered by: East Asian Studies
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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EAST 370 History of Sexuality in Japan 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Asian Language & Literature: Social and cultural history of sexuality in Japan. Possible topics include pre-modern sexuality and relations to court, religion and anthropology; pre-modern sex and gender relations; modern sexuality and gender identities; sexuality and the rise of science; relation to nationalism; feminism and queer movements.
Offered by: East Asian Studies
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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EAST 372 Topics in Television: Asia 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Asian Language & Literature: This course approaches television and televisuality historically, in regional, transnational, and global perspectives.
Offered by: East Asian Studies
- Prerequisite(s): A 200-level course in EAST or permission of instructor.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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EAST 375 Korean Media & Popular Culture 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Asian Language & Literature: This course approaches popular culture and mass media in postwar Korea from historical and theoretical perspectives, with a focus on the connections between activism, mass media, and commodity culture.
Offered by: East Asian Studies
- Prerequisite(s): EAST 213 or permission of the instructor.
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Kimberly Chung
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EAST 377 Topics: Transnat Asian Culture 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Asian Language & Literature: Investigation of cinema's border-crossing modes of cultural production, reception, and circulation, to uncover the ways that the study of culture enriches current theories and approaches to the transnational.
Offered by: East Asian Studies
- Prerequisite(s): A 200-level course in EAST or permission of instructor.
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Kimberly Chung
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EAST 385 Global Korea 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Asian Language & Literature: This course considers Korean culture and society in the modern period by examining changing attitudes about the relationship between the national and the global, across social institutions, political discourse, and popular media.
Offered by: East Asian Studies
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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EAST 388 Asian Migrations and Diasporas 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Asian Language & Literature: Introduction to the interdisciplinary study of Asian migrations and diasporas. Topics include colonialism and diaspora, transnationalism, globalization, citizenship, migration and the state, gender and migration, human trafficking, and forced migration.
Offered by: East Asian Studies
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Maria C Hwang
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EAST 389 Global Cinema and Media Asia 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Asian Language & Literature: Ascendancy of East Asian cinema and media as global culture; the aesthetic, technological, economic and political conditions of cinema as a transnational commodity; and the history of globalization and East Asia media platforms.
Offered by: East Asian Studies
- Prerequisite(s): A 200-level course in EAST or permission of instructor.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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EAST 390 The Chinese Family in History 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Asian Language & Literature: Exploration of the Chinese family in history both as an institution - in its religious, legal, economic, political aspects - and as a lived reality.
Offered by: East Asian Studies
- Prerequisite: EAST 211 or HIST 208 or HIST 218 or permission of the instructor.
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken or are taking HIST 344.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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EAST 453 Topics: Chinese Literature 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Asian Language & Literature: Advanced seminar in selected genres, themes and issues in Chinese literature.
Offered by: East Asian Studies
- Prerequisite: A 300-level course in any literature.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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EAST 454 Topics: Chinese Cinema 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Asian Language & Literature: Advanced seminar in selected themes and issues in Chinese film.
Offered by: East Asian Studies
- Prerequisites: EAST 353, a 300-level film studies course, or permission of the instructor.
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Xinyu Dong
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EAST 461 Inventing Mod Japanese Novel 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Asian Language & Literature: An examination of the modern Japanese novel as a form which both affirms and resists the form of the European novel. Readings explore the particular problems of the Japanese novel in the context of modernization, westernization, and colonialism.
Offered by: East Asian Studies
- Prerequisite: Any course in literature or cultural studies above the introductory level, or permission of instructor
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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EAST 462 Japan in Asia 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Asian Language & Literature: This course introduces theories of cultural interaction, interpellation, and intertexuality in order to reconsider Japanese modes of reception and selection of Chinese texts and technologies. Readings range from early Japanese to 20th century texts. Readings in translation.
Offered by: East Asian Studies
- Prerequisite: Any East Asian Studies course above the introductory level, or permission of the instructor
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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EAST 464 Image, Text, Performance 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Asian Language & Literature: Drawing on theoretical approaches from a variety of cultural and media studies, including cinema, performance and performativity, and elsewhere, this course addresses cultural production in premodern and/or modern East Asia. Topics to be addressed range from calligraphy and writing, to theatre, and film.
Offered by: East Asian Studies
- Prerequisite: Any East Asian Studies course above the introductory level, or permission of the instructor
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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EAST 467 Topics: Japanese Cinema 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Asian Language & Literature: Topics in the study of Japanese cinema.
Offered by: East Asian Studies
- Prerequisites: EAST 362 or permission of the instructor.
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Marianne Tarcov
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EAST 468 Science and Technology: Asia 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Asian Language & Literature: History of science and technology in Asia with an emphasis on social and cultural impact and the legacy non-Western traditions.
Offered by: East Asian Studies
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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EAST 477 Media and Environment in Asia 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Asian Language & Literature: The course explores the intersection between media and "environment" in Asia and beyond; topics range from media ecology, cybernetics, environmental art and activism, urban planning, and the history of communications networks in Asia in the modern period.
Offered by: East Asian Studies
- Prerequisite(s): Any East Asian Studies course at the 200 level or above.
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Yuriko Furuhata
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EAST 478 Topics: Korean Film & Media 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Asian Language & Literature: Advanced seminar in the study of Korean film and media. Taught in English.
Offered by: East Asian Studies
- Prerequisite(s): EAST 213 or permission of instructor.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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EAST 491 Tutorial:East Asian Lang&Lit 1 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Asian Language & Literature: Advanced reading course in language or literature.
Offered by: East Asian Studies
- Fall
- Restriction: Departmental approval required
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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EAST 492 Tutorial:East Asian Lang&Lit 2 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Asian Language & Literature: Advanced reading course in language or literature.
Offered by: East Asian Studies
- Winter
- Restriction: Departmental approval required
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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EAST 493 Spec Topics:East Asian St 1 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Asian Language & Literature: Advanced reading course under supervision of instructor on certain aspects of East Asian Studies. Topics will vary from year to year.
Offered by: East Asian Studies
- Fall
- Prerequisite: Any EAST course at the 300-level or above or permission of instructor
- Restriction: Departmental approval required
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Kimberly Chung
- David C Porter
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EAST 494 Spec Topics:East Asian St 2 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Asian Language & Literature: Advanced reading course under supervision of instructor on certain aspects of East Asian Studies. Topics will vary from year to year.
Offered by: East Asian Studies
- Winter
- Prerequisite: Any EAST course at the 300-level or above or permission of instructor
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- David C Porter
- Jeehee Hong
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EAST 501 Adv Top in Japanese Studies 1 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Asian Language & Literature: Consideration of selected topics and aspects of Japanese culture and society.
Offered by: East Asian Studies
- Fall
- Prerequisite (Undergraduate): permission of instructor
- Restriction: Departmental approval required
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Marianne Tarcov
- Marianne Tarcov
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EAST 502 Adv Top in Japanese Studies 2 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Asian Language & Literature: Consideration of selected topics and aspects of Japanese culture and society.
Offered by: East Asian Studies
- Winter
- Prerequisite (Undergraduate): permission of instructor
- Restriction: Departmental approval required
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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EAST 503 Adv Top in Chinese Studies 1 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Asian Language & Literature: Consideration of selected topics and aspects of Chinese culture and society.
Offered by: East Asian Studies
- Fall
- Prerequisite (Undergraduate): permission of instructor
- Restriction: Departmental approval required
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Jeehee Hong
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EAST 504 Adv Top in Chinese Studies 2 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Asian Language & Literature: Consideration of selected topics and aspects of Chinese culture and society.
Offered by: East Asian Studies
- Winter
- Prerequisite (Undergraduate): permission of instructor
- Restriction: Departmental approval required
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Renzhong Wang
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EAST 505 Advanced Topics:Korean Studies 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Asian Language & Literature: Consideration of selected topics and aspects of Korean culture and society. Taught in English.
Offered by: East Asian Studies
- Prerequisite(s): Permission of instructor.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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EAST 515 Seminar: Beyond Orientalism 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Asian Language & Literature: Examines the cultural stakes and ethical implications of applying Western European models of understanding to East Asian societies. Provides background on interdisciplinary debates around "otherness", "cultural appropriation", and "postcolonialism", focusing on their history within East Asian Studies and their impact on that field's methodological assumptions, self-definition, and institutional practices.
Offered by: East Asian Studies
- Prerequisite (Undergraduate): any EAST course at the 300 level or above or permission of instructor
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Gal Gvili, Sandeep Banerjee
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EAST 525 Critical Area Studies in Asia 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Asian Language & Literature: The course introduces students to foundational concepts, key debates, recent research areas, theoretical methods, and critical approached in area studies.
Offered by: East Asian Studies
- Prerequisite(s): At least one EAST 400- or 500-level seminar course, or permission of the instructor.
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Maria C Hwang
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EAST 527 Culture and Capital in Asia 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Asian Language & Literature: This seminar introduces the major anthropological, psychological, and political economic theories of the relation between culture and capital that have affected social and political formations in East Asia. Language of Instruction: English.
Offered by: East Asian Studies
- Prerequisite(s): Any EAST 400-level course or above, or permission of the instructor.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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EAST 550 Class Chin PoetryThemes&Genres 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Asian Language & Literature: A study of major themes and genres of classical Chinese poetry from its beginnings to the Yuan dynasty (14th century), with emphasis on critical analysis of text and context. Readings of poems in the original.
Offered by: East Asian Studies
- Prerequisite (Undergraduate): EAST 533 or permission of the instructor
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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EAST 551 Technol of Self in Early China 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Asian Language & Literature: Readings on self-cultivation drawn from Confucian, Legalist, and Taoist philosophic texts of early China (5th-2nd centuries B.C.) in translation will be compared with historical and archaeological materials on the evolving construction of the "individual'' in Chinese social structure, military organization, political and ritual codes.
Offered by: East Asian Studies
- Prerequisite (Undergraduate): One advanced course in EAST or permission of the instructor
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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EAST 559 Adv Topics: Chinese Literature 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Asian Language & Literature: Consideration of selected topics and aspects of Chinese literature. The content of the course may vary from year to year, ranging from contemporary to modern to pre-modern literature.
Offered by: East Asian Studies
- Prerequisite (Undergraduate): one advanced course in EAST or permission of instructor
- Restriction: Departmental approval required
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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EAST 562 Japanese Lit Theory & Practice 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Asian Language & Literature: This course examines Japanese theories of literary production and practice with an emphasis on 20th century thought.
Offered by: East Asian Studies
- Prerequisite (Undergraduate): Any course in EAST above the 200 level and at least a year of an East Asian Language, or permission of instructor
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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EAST 564 Structures of Modernity: Asia 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Asian Language & Literature: This course explores relations between some of the principal sites which structure the experience of "modernity" in Asia (and elsewhere) - from bodies and cities, to the urban context in general. Along with general approaches (e.g. the idea of everyday life途 questions of time), specific topics may include speed, music, architecture, crime, etc.
Offered by: East Asian Studies
- Prerequisite (Undergraduate): Any East Asian Studies course above the introductory level, or permission of the instructor
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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EAST 569 Adv Topics:Japanese Literature 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Asian Language & Literature: Consideration of selected topics and aspects of Japanese literature. The content of the course may vary from year to year from contemporary to modern to pre-modern literature.
Offered by: East Asian Studies
- Prerequisite: one advanced course in EAST or permission of instructor
- Restriction: Departmental approval required
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
Joint Honours EAS credit form
joint_honours_component_east_asian_studies.docx
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faq_honours_eas.doc.pdf
Major Undergraduate Program Director
Marianne Tarcov
680 Sherbrooke St. W. Room听
Phone: 514-398-5882
Email:听marianne.tarcov [at] mcgill.ca
Office hours: By appointment
Minor Program Advisors
Mrs. Myung Hee Kim
Office Hours: Tuesdays 10:00 - 11:00 or by appointment
680 Sherbrooke St. W. Room 255
Phone: 514-398-5872
Email: myung.kim [at] mcgill.ca
Ms. Yasuko Senoo
Office Hours:听
680 Sherbrooke St. W. Room
Phone:听514-398-6755
Email: yasuko.senoo [at] mcgill.ca
EAST Languages REGISTRATION policies
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JAPANESE language registration policy:
A听placement test prior to registration is not required.听 A placement test will be administered on the first day of class in the language course the student has registered in.听 If you miss the placement test, you may not be able to remain in the course.听
Students with听little or no prior knowledge can register for EAST 240. If you have taken a Japanese course at 平特五不中, you can register for the next level. Based on the results of the placement test, instructors might recommend a change in level. We do not guarantee, however, that places will be available in the suggested course/level.
If you need consultation, you can send e-mail to one of the instructors. (Please note that they may not be available during the summer.)
All students with or without any background in Japanese MUST complete and submit the听 EAS Regulations for Registration Form听and Japanese Placement Questionnaire and submit to the Instructor on the first day of class in the Fall.听Students who fail to do so may not be able to remain in the course.
For the FALL 2023 semester: A placement test is not required prior to registration. Your course instructor will contact you about the first class and placement test before the first day of class.
For the WINTER 2024 semester: Japanese placement test (EAST 242 & EAST 342):
east242_342_japanese_placement_test_winter2024_eas.pdf
For summer Japanese language courses: If you have studied Japanese before, including self-study, and/or you use Japanese at home, you must contact听tomoko.ikeda [at] mcgill.ca (Ms. Tomoko Ikeda)听or听yasuko.senoo [at] mcgill.ca (Ms. Yasuko Senoo)听before registering for the summer course.
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CHINESE language听registration policy:
Students with no prior or little knowledge of Chinese听should register in EAST 230. A placement test is not required prior to registration.听These students must fill out the EAS Waiver Form听and submit it to the instructor during the first day听of class. Students who fail to do so will听not be able to remain in the course.
All students with or without any background in Chinese Language must complete the EAS Regulations for Registration Form听and return it to the instructor on the first day of class in the Fall semester.
Students who have registered in EAST 330, EAST 430, EAST 530, EAST 491 or EAST 535 must take a placement test or have an interview听if they have not taken the next lower level course at 平特五不中. Placement tests will be given on the first day of class.听 Placement interviews, if necessary, will be administered by appointment during the first week of class. 听If students miss the placement test or interview,听they will not be able to remain in the course.听 Based on the results of the placement test, instructors might recommend a change in level. We do not guarantee, however, that places will be available in the suggested course/level.
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KOREAN language registration policy:
Students with no prior or little knowledge of Korean should register in EAST 220. No placement test or interview are required prior to registration. All students should complete the EAS Waiver Form听and hand it to the instructor during the first week of class. Students who fail to do so may not be able to remain in the course.
Students who successfully completed EAST 220 with a grade of "C" or better and wish to register in EAST 320, should do so without placement test.
All students registered in EAST 320, with or without any background in Korean Language, must complete the korean_language_regulations_2020_final.pdf, and return it to the Instructor on the first day of class. Students who fail to do so may not be able to remain in the course.
Students with background in Korean:
If you have studied Korean before, including self-study, and/or you use Korean at home, you can register in the course which seems appropriate to your level, but you must contact the instructor with a description of your level of Korean by email: myunghee.kim [at] mcgill.ca. Depending on the description, the instructor may suggest a change of the course you registered in or will schedule an interview with you to assess your level.
All students must complete the korean_language_regulations_2020_final.pdf and return it to the Instructor on the first day of class. Students who fail to do so may not be able to remain in the course.
Korean Language Summer courses:
If you have studied Korean before, including self-study, and/or you use Korean at home, you must contact myunghee.kim [at] mcgill.ca (Ms. Myunghee Kim) before registering for the summer course.
Study Away:
Please follow the procedures outlined on the听OASIS (Arts Advising) website.听
Once your study away activity has been approved by your Department Advisor/Academic Unit, a travel registry form (only for international activity) will be created on Minerva.
Students planning to register at a university outside of Qu茅bec, must see a Department Advisor PRIOR to leaving for their study away. Retroactive credit will not be approved upon return from studies. Provide your advisor with detailed course descriptions, course syllabi, including methods of evaluation and reading lists.
Reread Policy
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Reassessments and Rereads: Faculty of Arts
Please consult the Faculty of Arts Office of Advising and Student Information Services for the Policy concerning Reassessment of Course Work and Rereads of Final Exams.
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Reread Policy: Department of East Asian Studies
Rereads for graduate courses are governed by policies of the Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research.
Rereads for undergraduate courses (including 500-level courses) are governed by policies of the Faculty of Arts. In addition, the following departmental policy concerning only undergraduate rereads is to be followed:
- Students desiring their work to be re-evaluated shall first have a meeting concerning their assignment with the instructor.
- If this discussion does not satisfy the student's desire for a reread, the student may contact the Undergraduate Program Director (UPD). The student will submit a form (downloadable below), signing the form to indicate that the meeting in item 1. above has occurred, and attaching the assignment with the corrections and marks intact.
- The Undergraduate Program Director (UPD) will send this form to the instructor for counter-signature. In the event that the instructor claims that the meeting described in item 1. has not occurred, the Undergraduate Program Director (UPD) will bring the two parties together, and the process will not proceed until student and instructor have engaged in dialogue and tried to reach an agreement. After this discussion has taken place, if the student wishes, the process will move forward.
- The reread will take place according to Faculty of Arts policies. Please note: New Faculty policy requires that a request for a reread must occur within 10 working days of the date of the return of course work. Students must use diligence in obtaining corrected work.
- When the reread is complete, and the second reader has submitted a report, the Undergraduate Program Director (UPD) will inform both the student and the instructor of the result. The new grade may be higher, lower or remain unchanged, and will be final.
- In the case where the course instructor is also the UPD, the request for a reassessment should be submitted to the department Chair. The Chair will carry out the reassessment process as described above in the place of the UPD.
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