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Your search for courses · during 2023-24 · tagged with ASST East Asia · returned 59 results
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ARTH 165 Japanese Art and Culture 6 credits
This course will survey art and architecture in Japan from its prehistoric beginnings until the early twentieth century, and explore the relationship between indigenous art forms and the foreign (Korean, Chinese, European) concepts, art forms and techniques that influenced Japanese culture, as well as the social political and religious contexts for artistic production.
- Spring 2020, Fall 2020, Winter 2024
- International Studies Literary/Artistic Analysis
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ARTH 165.00 Spring 2020
- Faculty:Kathleen Ryor 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- Grading:S/CR/NC
- T, THBoliou 161 1:15pm-3:00pm
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ARTH 165.00 Fall 2020
- Faculty:Kathleen Ryor 🏫 👤
- Size:30
- Grading:S/CR/NC
- M, WLocation To Be Announced TBA 2:30pm-3:40pm
- FLocation To Be Announced TBA 3:10pm-4:10pm
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ARTH 165.00 Winter 2024
- Faculty:Kathleen Ryor 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- Grading:S/CR/NC
- M, WBoliou 161 9:50am-11:00am
- FBoliou 161 9:40am-10:40am
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ARTH 166 Chinese Art and Culture 6 credits
This course will survey art and architecture in China from its prehistoric beginnings to the end of the nineteenth century. It will examine various types of visual art forms within their social, political and cultural contexts. Major themes that will also be explored include: the role of ritual in the production and use of art, the relationship between the court and secular elite and art, and theories about creativity and expression.
- Spring 2019, Spring 2021, Fall 2022
- International Studies Literary/Artistic Analysis
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ARTH 166.00 Spring 2019
- Faculty:Kathleen Ryor 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WBoliou 161 9:50am-11:00am
- FBoliou 161 9:40am-10:40am
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ARTH 166.00 Spring 2021
- Faculty:Kathleen Ryor 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLocation To Be Announced TBA 1:00pm-2:10pm
- FLocation To Be Announced TBA 1:50pm-2:50pm
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ARTH 166.00 Fall 2022
- Faculty:Kathleen Ryor 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WBoliou 161 11:10am-12:20pm
- FBoliou 161 12:00pm-1:00pm
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ARTH 209 Chinese Painting 6 credits
Since the tenth century in China, a tension emerges between art created as a means of self expression and works which were intended to display social status and political power and to convey conventional values. This course concentrates on the primary site of this tension, the art of painting. We will explore such issues as the influence of Confucian and Daoist philosophy on painting and calligraphy, the changing perception of nature and the natural in art, the politics of style, and the increasing dominance of poetry rather than narrative as a conceptual construct for painting.
- Winter 2017, Winter 2020, Winter 2022
- International Studies Literary/Artistic Analysis
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ARTH 209.00 Winter 2017
- Faculty:Kathleen Ryor 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THBoliou 161 10:10am-11:55am
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ARTH 209.00 Winter 2020
- Faculty:Kathleen Ryor 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WBoliou 161 12:30pm-1:40pm
- FBoliou 161 1:10pm-2:10pm
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ARTH 209.00 Winter 2022
- Faculty:Kathleen Ryor 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THBoliou 161 10:10am-11:55am
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ARTH 220 The Origins of Manga: Japanese Prints 6 credits
Pictures of the floating world, or ukiyoe, were an integral part of popular culture in Japan and functioned as illustrations, advertisements, and souvenirs. This course will examine the development of both style and subject matter in Japanese prints within the socio-economic context of the seventeenth through twentieth centuries. Emphasis will be placed on the prominent position of women and the nature of gendered activity in these prints.
- Winter 2019, Spring 2021, Winter 2023
- International Studies Literary/Artistic Analysis
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ARTH 220.00 Winter 2019
- Faculty:Kathleen Ryor 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THBoliou 161 10:10am-11:55am
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ARTH 220.00 Spring 2021
- Faculty:Kathleen Ryor 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WBoliou 104 10:00am-11:10am
- FBoliou 104 9:50am-10:50am
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ARTH 220.00 Winter 2023
- Faculty:Kathleen Ryor 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WBoliou 161 12:30pm-1:40pm
- FBoliou 161 1:10pm-2:10pm
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ARTH 266 Arts of the Japanese Tea Ceremony 6 credits
This course will examine the history and aesthetics of the tea ceremony in Japan (chanoyu). It will focus on the types of objects produced for use in the Japanese tea ceremony from the fifteenth century through the present. Themes to be explored include: the relationship of social status and politics to the development of chanoyu; the religious dimensions of the tea ceremony; gender roles of tea practitioners; nationalist appropriation of the tea ceremony and its relationship to the mingei movement in the twentieth century; and the international promotion of the Japanese tea ceremony post-WWII.
Extra time, requires concurrent registration in ARTS 236
- Fall 2018, Fall 2021, Fall 2023
- International Studies Literary/Artistic Analysis
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Requires concurrent registration in Studio Arts 236
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ARTH 266.00 Fall 2018
- Faculty:Kathleen Ryor 🏫 👤
- Size:10
- M, WBoliou 161 11:10am-12:20pm
- FBoliou 161 12:00pm-1:00pm
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ARTH 266.00 Fall 2021
- Faculty:Kathleen Ryor 🏫 👤
- Size:14
- M, WBoliou 161 11:10am-12:20pm
- FBoliou 161 12:00pm-1:00pm
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ARTH 266.00 Fall 2023
- Faculty:Kathleen Ryor 🏫 👤
- Size:12
- M, WBoliou 161 11:10am-12:20pm
- FBoliou 161 12:00pm-1:00pm
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ARTH 267 Gardens in China and Japan 6 credits
A garden is usually defined as a piece of land that is cultivated or manipulated in some way by man for one or more purposes. Gardens often take the form of an aestheticized space that miniaturizes the natural landscape. This course will explore the historical phenomenon of garden building in China and Japan with a special emphasis on how cultural and religious attitudes towards nature contribute to the development of gardens in urban and suburban environments. In addition to studying historical source material, students will be required to apply their knowledge by building both virtual and physical re-creations of gardens.
- Spring 2019, Spring 2024
- Arts Practice International Studies
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ARTH 267.00 Spring 2019
- Faculty:Kathleen Ryor 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- M, WBoliou 140 12:30pm-3:00pm
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ARTH 267.00 Spring 2024
- Faculty:Kathleen Ryor 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- T, THBoliou 161 1:15pm-3:00pm
- T, THBoliou 140 1:15pm-3:00pm
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Extra time
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ARTH 321 Arts of the Chinese Scholar’s Studio 6 credits
During the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries in China, unprecedented economic development and urbanization expanded the number of educated elite who used their wealth to both display their status and distinguish themselves as cultural leaders. As a result, this period experienced a boom in estate and garden building, art collecting and luxury consumption. This course will examine a wide range of objects from painting and calligraphy to furniture and ceramics within the context of domestic architecture of the late Ming dynasty. It will also examine the role of taste and social class in determining the style of art and architecture.
- Winter 2019, Winter 2022, Winter 2024
- International Studies Literary/Artistic Analysis
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ARTH 321.00 Winter 2019
- Faculty:Kathleen Ryor 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- T, THBoliou 140 1:15pm-3:00pm
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ARTH 321.00 Winter 2022
- Faculty:Kathleen Ryor 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- T, THBoliou 161 1:15pm-3:00pm
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ARTH 321.00 Winter 2024
- Faculty:Kathleen Ryor 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- M, WBoliou 161 12:30pm-1:40pm
- FBoliou 161 1:10pm-2:10pm
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ARTS 236 Ceramics: Vessels for Tea 6 credits
Students will learn techniques used by Japanese potters, and those from around the world, to make vessels associated with the production and consumption of tea. Both handbuilding and wheel throwing processes will be explored throughout the term. We will investigate how Japanese pottery traditions, especially the Mingei “arts of the people” movement of the 1920s, have influenced contemporary ceramics practice in the United States and how cultural appropriation impacts arts practice. Special attention will be paid to the use of local materials from Carleton’s Arboretum as well as wood firing and traditional raku processes.
Extra Time, requires concurrent registration in Art History 266
- Fall 2018, Fall 2021, Fall 2023
- Arts Practice Intercultural Domestic Studies
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Requires concurrent registration in Art History 266
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ARTS 236.00 Fall 2018
- Faculty:Kelly Connole 🏫 👤
- Size:11
- M, WBoliou 046 8:30am-11:00am
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ARTS 236.00 Fall 2021
- Faculty:Kelly Connole 🏫 👤
- Size:14
- M, WBoliou 046 8:30am-11:00am
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ARTS 236.00 Fall 2023
- Faculty:Kelly Connole 🏫 👤
- Size:12
- M, WBoliou 046 8:30am-11:00am
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ASLN 111 Writing Systems 6 credits
The structure and function of writing systems, with emphasis on a comparison of East Asian writing systems (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) to Western alphabetic systems. Topics covered include classification of writing systems, historical development, diffusion and borrowing of writing systems, and comparison with non-writing symbol systems.
- Winter 2017, Winter 2020, Fall 2021
- Social Inquiry
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ASLN 111.00 Winter 2017
- Faculty:Mark Hansell 🏫 👤
- Size:30
- M, WBoliou 161 12:30pm-1:40pm
- FBoliou 161 1:10pm-2:10pm
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ASLN 111.00 Winter 2020
- Faculty:Mark Hansell 🏫 👤
- Size:30
- M, WLanguage & Dining Center 104 12:30pm-1:40pm
- FLanguage & Dining Center 104 1:10pm-2:10pm
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ASST 100 The Cultural Life of Plants in China 6 credits
This seminar will examine the role of plants have played in China from ancient times through the end of the imperial era. It will investigate the uses of different types of plants (fruits, vegetables, flowers, grasses, etc.) in such areas as medicine, food, literature, art, and landscape management. We will seek to understand the ways in which plants function across and make connection between various aspects of human activities. In addition, the course will emphasize how plants have actively helped form Chinese cultural practices and systems of meaning throughout various historical periods.
Held for new first year students
- Fall 2019, Fall 2020, Fall 2021, Fall 2022, Fall 2023
- Argument and Inquiry Seminar International Studies Writing Requirement
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ASST 100.00 Fall 2019
- Faculty:Kathleen Ryor 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- M, WBoliou 161 1:50pm-3:00pm
- FBoliou 161 2:20pm-3:20pm
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ASST 100.00 Fall 2020
- Faculty:Kathleen Ryor 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- M, WBoliou 161 11:30am-12:40pm
- FBoliou 161 11:20am-12:20pm
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ASST 100.00 Fall 2021
- Faculty:Kathleen Ryor 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- M, WBoliou 161 1:50pm-3:00pm
- FBoliou 161 2:20pm-3:20pm
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ASST 100.00 Fall 2022
- Faculty:Kathleen Ryor 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- M, WBoliou 161 1:50pm-3:00pm
- FBoliou 161 2:20pm-3:20pm
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ASST 100.00 Fall 2023
- Faculty:Kathleen Ryor 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- M, WBoliou 161 1:50pm-3:00pm
- FBoliou 161 2:20pm-3:20pm
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ASST 284 Japanese Linguistics in Kyoto Seminar: History and Culture of Japan 6 credits
This course is an introduction to several aspects of Japanese society, taking advantage of the location of the Linguistics OCS seminar in Kyoto. It consists of readings and lectures about important events in historical and contemporary Japan, and will include visits to sites that illuminate those events in important ways. In addition to Kyoto and nearby places, there will be excursions to Tokyo and Hiroshima.
Participation in Carleton OCS Linguistics in Japan Program
- Spring 2018, Spring 2023
- Humanistic Inquiry International Studies
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Participation in OCP Kyoto Seminar
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CHIN 206 Chinese in Cultural Context 6 credits
This course advances students’ proficiency in oral and written Chinese, at the same time integrating elements of traditional Chinese civilization and modern Chinese society. Emphasis is on cultural understanding and appropriate language use.
- Spring 2017, Spring 2018, Spring 2019, Spring 2020, Spring 2021, Spring 2022, Spring 2023, Spring 2024
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Chinese 205 or equivalent
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CHIN 206.00 Spring 2017
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:25
- M, WLanguage & Dining Center 302 11:10am-12:20pm
- FLanguage & Dining Center 302 12:00pm-1:00pm
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CHIN 206.00 Spring 2018
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:25
- M, WLanguage & Dining Center 205 11:10am-12:20pm
- FLanguage & Dining Center 205 12:00pm-1:00pm
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CHIN 206.00 Spring 2019
- Faculty:Mark Hansell 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLanguage & Dining Center 242 11:10am-12:20pm
- FLanguage & Dining Center 242 12:00pm-1:00pm
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CHIN 206.00 Spring 2020
- Faculty:Shaohua Guo 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLanguage & Dining Center 302 11:10am-12:20pm
- FLanguage & Dining Center 302 12:00pm-1:00pm
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CHIN 206.00 Spring 2021
- Faculty:Shaohua Guo 🏫 👤
- Size:20
- M, WLocation To Be Announced TBA 11:30am-12:40pm
- FLocation To Be Announced TBA 11:10am-12:10pm
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CHIN 206.00 Spring 2022
- Faculty:Lin Deng 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLanguage & Dining Center 335 11:10am-12:20pm
- FLanguage & Dining Center 335 12:00pm-1:00pm
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CHIN 206.00 Spring 2023
- Faculty:Lin Deng 🏫 👤
- Size:20
- M, WLanguage & Dining Center 330 11:10am-12:20pm
- FLanguage & Dining Center 330 12:00pm-1:00pm
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CHIN 206.00 Spring 2024
- Faculty:Lin Deng 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLanguage & Dining Center 302 11:10am-12:20pm
- FLanguage & Dining Center 302 12:00pm-1:00pm
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CHIN 240 Chinese Cinema in Translation 6 credits
This course introduces to students the drastic transformation of Chinese society, culture, and politics over the past three decades through the camera lens. We will examine representative films from Mainland China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan. Particular attention will be paid to the entangled relationship between art, commerce, and politics, as well as the role digital technologies and international communities play in reshaping the contemporary cultural landscape in China. This class requires no prior knowledge of Chinese language, literature, or culture.
Extra Time required.
- Winter 2019, Spring 2022
- Literary/Artistic Analysis
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CHIN 240.00 Winter 2019
- Faculty:Shaohua Guo 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THLanguage & Dining Center 104 1:15pm-3:00pm
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CHIN 240.00 Spring 2022
- Faculty:Shaohua Guo 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLanguage & Dining Center 104 12:30pm-1:40pm
- FLanguage & Dining Center 104 1:10pm-2:10pm
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CHIN 245 Chinese Vision of the Past in Translation 6 credits
China—the modern nation—never escapes the influence of the past. But why do Chinese literature and movies like discussing and presenting the past? Do these works truly reflect the past? How is the past presented? What techniques impact the narration of the past and the audience’s perceptions? Through comparison of historic texts and fictional retellings of the same stories, students will gain a better understanding of representation of the past and develop critical reading, analysis, discussion, and writing skills. Sources include historical narratives and biographies, classical texts, poems, fiction, and film. No knowledge of Chinese language required.
In translation
- Spring 2018, Fall 2020, Spring 2024
- Literary/Artistic Analysis
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CHIN 245.00 Spring 2018
- Faculty:Lei Yang 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLanguage & Dining Center 330 12:30pm-1:40pm
- FLanguage & Dining Center 330 1:10pm-2:10pm
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CHIN 245.00 Fall 2020
- Faculty:Lei Yang 🏫 👤
- Size:30
- M, WLocation To Be Announced TBA 1:00pm-2:10pm
- FLocation To Be Announced TBA 1:50pm-2:50pm
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CHIN 245.00 Spring 2024
- Faculty:Lei Yang 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THLanguage & Dining Center 104 10:10am-11:55am
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CHIN 250 Chinese Popular Culture 6 credits
This course (taught in English) provides an overview of Chinese popular culture from 1949 to the contemporary era, including popular literature, film, posters, music, and blog entries. The course examines both old and new forms of popular culture in relation to social change, cultural spaces, new media technologies, the state, individual expressions, and gender politics. Throughout this course, special attention is paid to the alliance between popular literature and the booming entertainment industry, the making of celebrity culture, and the role digital media plays in shaping China’s cultural landscape. The course requires no prior knowledge of Chinese language, literature, or culture.
In translation
- Spring 2017, Fall 2019, Winter 2023
- International Studies Literary/Artistic Analysis
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CHIN 250.00 Spring 2017
- Faculty:Shaohua Guo 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLibrary 344 12:30pm-1:40pm
- FLibrary 344 1:10pm-2:10pm
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CHIN 250.00 Fall 2019
- Faculty:Shaohua Guo 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THLibrary 305 1:15pm-3:00pm
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CHIN 250.00 Winter 2023
- Faculty:Shaohua Guo 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THLanguage & Dining Center 104 10:10am-11:55am
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CHIN 251 Heroes, Heroines, Exceptional Lives in Chinese Biographical Histories 6 credits
Through generic and historical analysis of the two-millennia long biographical tradition in Chinese historical writing, this project explores lives of heroes and heroines, including, but not limited to: dynastic founders, ministers, generals, poets, assassins, and exceptional women. In this introduction to premodern Chinese culture and literature, students will experience, in English translation, some of the most beautiful works of ancient Chinese literature from the second century BCE through the eighteenth century CE.
In translation
- Spring 2019, Winter 2022
- International Studies Literary/Artistic Analysis
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CHIN 252 The Chinese Language: A Linguistic and Cultural Survey 6 credits
This course offers a unique introduction to the Chinese language for anyone curious about its defining characteristics and how they shaped, impacted, or relate to certain social, political, and cultural practices and traditions in China, present and past. This course will prepare students with the knowledge to make informed judgment on common misconceptions or prejudices, by non-Chinese and Chinese speakers, concerning the Chinese language or its writing system. Students are expected to learn about some general linguistic concepts and notions in regard to structural features of human language and its relationship with mind, society, and culture through this course. No prior knowledge of Chinese or linguistics is required.
In translation
- Spring 2021, Fall 2022
- International Studies Literary/Artistic Analysis
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CHIN 252.00 Spring 2021
- Faculty:Lin Deng 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THLocation To Be Announced TBA 1:45pm-3:30pm
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In Translation
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CHIN 252.00 Fall 2022
- Faculty:Lin Deng 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THLanguage & Dining Center 345 1:15pm-3:00pm
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CHIN 258 Classical Chinese Thought: Wisdom and Advice from Ancient Masters 6 credits
Behind the skyscrapers and the modern technology of present-day China stand the ancient Chinese philosophers, whose influence penetrates every aspect of society. This course introduces the teachings of various foundational thinkers: Confucius, Mencius, Laozi, Sunzi, Zhuangzi, and Hanfeizi, who flourished from the fifth-second centuries B.C. Topics include kinship, friendship, self-improvement, freedom, the art of war, and the relationship between human beings and nature. Aiming to bring Chinese wisdom to the context of daily life, this course opens up new possibilities to better understand the self and the world. No knowledge of Chinese is required.
In translation
- Spring 2020, Spring 2023
- Humanistic Inquiry International Studies
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CHIN 348 Advanced Chinese: The Mass Media 6 credits
This course introduces to students major milestones in the development of Chinese cinema since 1980, with additional materials including popular television shows and online materials. Emphasis will be on culturally appropriate language use, and on discussion of the social issues that are implicitly and explicitly addressed on the Chinese-language media. The course aims to increase students’ fluency in all four aspects of Chinese language learning (listening, speaking, reading , writing) and to deepen students’ understanding of China as a transitional society.
- Spring 2019, Spring 2022
- Literary/Artistic Analysis
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Chinese 206 or equivalent
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CHIN 348.00 Spring 2019
- Faculty:Shaohua Guo 🏫 👤
- Size:20
- M, WLanguage & Dining Center 202 12:30pm-1:40pm
- FLanguage & Dining Center 202 1:10pm-2:10pm
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CHIN 348.00 Spring 2022
- Faculty:Shaohua Guo 🏫 👤
- Size:20
- M, WLanguage & Dining Center 202 9:50am-11:00am
- FLanguage & Dining Center 202 9:40am-10:40am
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CHIN 350 Reading Chinese Comics 6 credits
This course selects a range of popular comics as reading materials, including stories based on traditional novels and fantasies, science fiction, children’s literature, and non-fiction. Students will gain important cultural and historical knowledge about China, expand vocabulary on a variety of cultural and societal topics, and most importantly, develop proficiency in producing descriptions and third-person narratives both orally and in writing.
- Spring 2023
- International Studies Literary/Artistic Analysis
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Chinese 206
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CHIN 350.00 Spring 2023
- Faculty:Lin Deng 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLanguage & Dining Center 205 12:30pm-1:40pm
- FLanguage & Dining Center 205 1:10pm-2:10pm
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CHIN 355 Contemporary Chinese Short Stories 6 credits
This advanced Chinese language course focuses on contemporary short stories. The course is designed to help students enhance reading skills, expand students’ mastery of advanced vocabulary, and prepare students to analyze authentic materials. The historical, cultural, and literary forces that shape these cultural works also will be examined.
- Spring 2020, Fall 2022
- Literary/Artistic Analysis
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Chinese 206 or equivalent
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CHIN 355.00 Spring 2020
- Faculty:Shaohua Guo 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- Grading:S/CR/NC
- M, WLanguage & Dining Center 345 9:50am-11:00am
- FLanguage & Dining Center 345 9:40am-10:40am
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CHIN 355.00 Fall 2022
- Faculty:Shaohua Guo 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- Grading:S/CR/NC
- M, WWeitz Center 233 9:50am-11:00am
- FWeitz Center 233 9:40am-10:40am
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CHIN 360 Classical Chinese 6 credits
This course introduces to students the essentials of classical Chinese through a close reading of authentic materials. A wide range of genres, including prose, poems, idioms, and short stories, will be introduced to enrich students’ understanding of various writing conventions and styles. The historical, cultural, and literary forces that shape these cultural works also will be examined.
- Winter 2020, Winter 2023
- Literary/Artistic Analysis
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Chinese 206 or equivalent.
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CHIN 360.00 Winter 2020
- Faculty:Lei Yang 🏫 👤
- Size:20
- M, WLanguage & Dining Center 243 1:50pm-3:00pm
- FLanguage & Dining Center 243 2:20pm-3:20pm
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CHIN 360.00 Winter 2023
- Faculty:Lei Yang 🏫 👤
- Size:20
- M, WLanguage & Dining Center 205 1:50pm-3:00pm
- FLanguage & Dining Center 205 2:20pm-3:20pm
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CHIN 361 Advanced Chinese: Readings in Twentieth Century Literature 6 credits
Students will read, discuss, and write about major literary works from twentieth century China in order to both improve their language abilities and increase their understanding of the artistic and intellectual milieu in which the works were produced. Readings will include selections from modern and contemporary Chinese literature, including poetry, fiction, novels, and letters in the original Chinese.
- Winter 2018, Fall 2020, Winter 2024
- Literary/Artistic Analysis
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Chinese 206 or equivalent
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CHIN 361.00 Winter 2018
- Faculty:Lei Yang 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- M, WLanguage & Dining Center 345 11:10am-12:20pm
- FLanguage & Dining Center 345 12:00pm-1:00pm
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CHIN 361.00 Fall 2020
- Faculty:Lei Yang 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- M, WLocation To Be Announced TBA 11:30am-12:40pm
- FLocation To Be Announced TBA 11:20am-12:20pm
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CHIN 361.00 Winter 2024
- Faculty:Lei Yang 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- M, WLanguage & Dining Center 242 1:50pm-3:00pm
- FLanguage & Dining Center 242 2:20pm-3:20pm
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CHIN 362 Advanced Chinese: Traditional Culture in Modern Language 6 credits
This course explores Chinese traditional culture in advanced Mandarin Chinese. The long history and rich culture in premodern China have produced a precious legacy that has been widely inherited by contemporary China and significantly impacted the modern society. To better understand present-day China and the Chinese language, it is crucial for advanced learners to track the evolution back while acquiring higher-level vocabulary and structures. Lesson topics center on literature, language, writing, and so on. Many of our texts are from ancient Chinese stories (Mencius, Brotherhood, Language of Flowers, Dream of Red Mansions, etc.)
- Fall 2018, Fall 2021
- Literary/Artistic Analysis
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Chinese 206 or equivalent
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CHIN 362.00 Fall 2021
- Faculty:Lei Yang 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WBoliou 160 11:10am-12:20pm
- FBoliou 160 12:00pm-1:00pm
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CHIN 364 Chinese Classic Tales and Modern Adaptation 6 credits
This course introduces to students influential Chinese classic tales and their modern adaptation across media platforms. Students improve their listening and speaking skills through viewing and discussing visual materials. Students develop their reading and writing proficiencies through analyzing authentic texts, formulating their own arguments, and writing critical essays. The overarching goal of this course is to increase students’ fluency in all aspects of Chinese language learning and to deepen students’ understanding of the role that cultural tradition plays in shaping China’s present.
- Spring 2021, Fall 2023
- Literary/Artistic Analysis
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Chinese 206 or equivalent (students who have taken one 300-level course at Carleton are qualified to register)
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CHIN 364.00 Spring 2021
- Faculty:Shaohua Guo 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- M, WLocation To Be Announced TBA 10:00am-11:10am
- FLocation To Be Announced TBA 9:50am-10:50am
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CHIN 364.00 Fall 2023
- Faculty:Shaohua Guo 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- M, WLanguage & Dining Center 205 9:50am-11:00am
- FLanguage & Dining Center 205 9:40am-10:40am
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ECON 240 Microeconomics of Development 6 credits
This course explores household behavior in developing countries. We will cover areas including fertility decisions, health and mortality, investment in education, the intra-household allocation of resources, household structure, and the marriage market. We will also look at the characteristics of land, labor, and credit markets, particularly technology adoption; land tenure and tenancy arrangements; the role of agrarian institutions in the development process; and the impacts of alternative politics and strategies in developing countries. The course complements Economics 241.
- Fall 2017, Spring 2019, Fall 2019, Fall 2020, Winter 2022, Winter 2023, Fall 2023
- International Studies Quantitative Reasoning Encounter Social Inquiry
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Economics 111
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ECON 240.00 Fall 2017
- Faculty:Faress Bhuiyan 🏫 👤
- M, WWillis 211 9:50am-11:00am
- FWillis 211 9:40am-10:40am
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Held for students participating in Winter Break Bangladesh program
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ECON 240.00 Spring 2019
- Faculty:Faress Bhuiyan 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WWillis 203 11:10am-12:20pm
- FWillis 203 12:00pm-1:00pm
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ECON 240.00 Fall 2019
- Faculty:Faress Bhuiyan 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WWillis 211 1:50pm-3:00pm
- FWillis 211 2:20pm-3:20pm
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Participation in Winter Break OCS Program
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ECON 240.00 Fall 2020
- Faculty:Faress Bhuiyan 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLocation To Be Announced TBA 2:30pm-3:40pm
- FLocation To Be Announced TBA 3:10pm-4:10pm
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ECON 240.00 Winter 2022
- Faculty:Faress Bhuiyan 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WWillis 211 11:10am-12:20pm
- FWillis 211 12:00pm-1:00pm
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ECON 240.00 Winter 2023
- Faculty:Faress Bhuiyan 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WWillis 211 12:30pm-1:40pm
- FWillis 211 1:10pm-2:10pm
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ECON 240.00 Fall 2023
- Faculty:Faress Bhuiyan 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WWillis 211 12:30pm-1:40pm
- FWillis 211 1:10pm-2:10pm
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ECON 241 Growth and Development 6 credits
Why are some countries rich and others poor? What causes countries to grow? This course develops a general framework of economic growth and development to analyze these questions. We will document the empirical differences in growth and development across countries and study some of the theories developed to explain these differences. This course complements Economics 240.
- Spring 2018, Fall 2019, Spring 2023, Spring 2024
- Social Inquiry
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Economics 110
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ECON 241.00 Spring 2018
- Faculty:Ethan Struby 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WWillis 211 1:50pm-3:00pm
- FWillis 211 2:20pm-3:20pm
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ECON 241.00 Fall 2019
- Faculty:Ethan Struby 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WWillis 211 11:10am-12:20pm
- FWillis 211 12:00pm-1:00pm
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ECON 241.00 Spring 2023
- Faculty:Ethan Struby 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THWillis 203 10:10am-11:55am
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ECON 243 Market Development and Policy Reform in China 6 credits
In the course of a few decades, China has launched itself from a poor country to a rising world power, at the same time substantially improving living standards and dramatically transforming its production base. What steps did China take to bring about these changes? We will examine China’s domestic economic reforms and development, considering the goals and impacts of various policy measures, along with on-going challenges. Topics to be considered include population, labor, income inequality, land, food production, industry, foreign relations, credit and financial markets, and the environment. While China will be our central focus, students will have some opportunities to compare and contrast with other country experiences.
- Fall 2021
- International Studies Quantitative Reasoning Encounter Social Inquiry Writing Requirement
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Eonomics 110 and 111
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ECON 243.00 Fall 2021
- Faculty:Denise Hare 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WWeitz Center 231 11:10am-12:20pm
- FWeitz Center 231 12:00pm-1:00pm
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HIST 100 Confucius and His Critics 6 credits
An introduction to the study of historical biography. Instead of what we heard or think about Confucius, we will examine what his contemporaries, both his supporters and critics, thought he was. Students will scrutinize various sources gleaned from archaeology, heroic narratives, and court debates, as well as the Analects to write their own biography of Confucius based on a particular historical context that created a persistent constitutional agenda in early China. Students will justify why they would call such a finding, in hindsight, “Confucian” in its formative days. Themes can be drawn from aspects of ritual, bureaucracy, speech and writing
Held for new first year students
- Fall 2017, Fall 2018, Fall 2019, Fall 2021, Fall 2022, Fall 2023
- Argument and Inquiry Seminar International Studies Writing Requirement
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HIST 100.02 Fall 2017
- Faculty:Seungjoo Yoon 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- T, THLeighton 202 1:15pm-3:00pm
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HIST 100.04 Fall 2018
- Faculty:Seungjoo Yoon 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- T, THLeighton 202 1:15pm-3:00pm
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HIST 100.02 Fall 2019
- Faculty:Seungjoo Yoon 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- M, WLibrary 305 9:50am-11:00am
- FLibrary 305 9:40am-10:40am
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HIST 100.03 Fall 2021
- Faculty:Seungjoo Yoon 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- M, WLeighton 202 12:30pm-1:40pm
- FLeighton 202 1:10pm-2:10pm
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HIST 100.02 Fall 2022
- Faculty:Seungjoo Yoon 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- M, WLeighton 303 1:50pm-3:00pm
- FLeighton 303 2:20pm-3:20pm
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HIST 100.06 Fall 2023
- Faculty:Seungjoo Yoon 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- M, WLeighton 303 1:50pm-3:00pm
- FLeighton 303 2:20pm-3:20pm
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HIST 150 Politics of Art in Early Imperial China 6 credits
Poetry has been playing an important role in politics from early China down to the present. Members of the educated elite have used this form of artistic expression to create political allegories in times of war and diplomacy. Students will learn the multiple roles that poet-censors played in early imperial China, with thematic attention given to issues of self and ethnic/gendered identity, internal exile and nostalgia, and competing religious orientations that eventually fostered the rise of Neo-Confucianism. Students will write a short biography of a poet by sampling her/his poems and poetics (all in translation) from the common reading pool.
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HIST 150.00 Spring 2023
- Faculty:Seungjoo Yoon 🏫 👤
- Size:30
- M, WLeighton 202 11:10am-12:20pm
- FLeighton 202 12:00pm-1:00pm
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HIST 151 History of Modern Japan 6 credits
This course explores the modern transformation of Japanese society, politics, economy and culture from the Meiji Restoration of 1868 to the present. It is designed to provide students with an opportunity to explore basic issues and problems relating to modern Japanese history and international relations. Topics include the intellectual crisis of the late Tokugawa period, the Meiji Constitution, the development of an interior democracy, class and gender, the rise of Japanese fascism, the Pacific War, and postwar developments.
- Spring 2017, Winter 2019, Winter 2023
- Humanistic Inquiry International Studies
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HIST 151.00 Spring 2017
- Faculty:Seungjoo Yoon 🏫 👤
- Size:30
- T, THLeighton 202 10:10am-11:55am
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HIST 151.00 Winter 2019
- Faculty:Seungjoo Yoon 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THLeighton 202 1:15pm-3:00pm
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HIST 151.00 Winter 2023
- Faculty:Seungjoo Yoon 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLeighton 402 1:50pm-3:00pm
- FLeighton 402 2:20pm-3:20pm
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HIST 152 History of Early China 6 credits
At what point can we talk about the formation of China as an organized political entity? What did it mean to be a Chinese at different points in time? This course is an introduction to the history of China from its beginnings to the end of the Han dynasty in 220. Students will examine the emergence of philosophical debates on human nature, historical consciousness of time and recording, and ritual theories in formation. Students will focus on the interplay between statecraft and religion, between ethnicity and identity, and between intellectual (e.g., Confucianism) and socio-cultural history (e.g., feminine and popular mentalities).
- Winter 2020, Winter 2024
- Humanistic Inquiry International Studies Writing Requirement
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HIST 152.00 Winter 2020
- Faculty:Seungjoo Yoon 🏫 👤
- Size:30
- M, WLeighton 301 1:50pm-3:00pm
- FLeighton 301 2:20pm-3:20pm
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HIST 152.00 Winter 2024
- Faculty:Seungjoo Yoon 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLeighton 301 11:10am-12:20pm
- FLeighton 301 12:00pm-1:00pm
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HIST 154 Social Movements in Postwar Japan 6 credits
This course tackles an evolving meaning of democracy and sovereignty in postwar Japan shaped by the transformative power of its social movements. We will place the anti-nuclear movement and anti-base struggles of the 1950s, the protest movements against revision of the U.S.-Japan Security Treaty of the 1960s, and environmentalist movements against the U.S. Cold War projects in Asia to see how they intersect with the worldwide “New Left” movements of the 1960s. Topics include student activism, labor unionism, Marxist movements, and gangsterism (yakuza). Students will engage with political art, photographs, manga, films, reportage, memoirs, autobiographies, interview records, novels, and detective stories.
- Winter 2021, Spring 2023
- Humanistic Inquiry International Studies Writing Requirement
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HIST 154.00 Winter 2021
- Faculty:Seungjoo Yoon 🏫 👤
- Size:30
- M, WLocation To Be Announced TBA 11:30am-12:40pm
- FLocation To Be Announced TBA 11:10am-12:10pm
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HIST 154.00 Spring 2023
- Faculty:Seungjoo Yoon 🏫 👤
- Size:30
- M, WLeighton 202 1:50pm-3:00pm
- FLeighton 202 2:20pm-3:20pm
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HIST 156 History of Modern Korea 6 credits
A comparative historical survey on the development of Korean society and culture from the nineteenth century to the present. Key themes include colonialism and war, economic growth, political transformation, socio-cultural changes, and historical memory. Issues involving divided Korea will be examined in the contexts of post-colonialism and Cold War. Students are also expected to develop skills to analyze key historical moments from relevant primary sources against broader historiographical contexts.
- Spring 2018, Spring 2020, Winter 2022
- Humanistic Inquiry International Studies
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HIST 156.00 Spring 2018
- Faculty:Seungjoo Yoon 🏫 👤
- Size:30
- M, WLeighton 301 9:50am-11:00am
- FLeighton 301 9:40am-10:40am
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HIST 156.00 Spring 2020
- Faculty:Seungjoo Yoon 🏫 👤
- Size:30
- M, WLeighton 202 1:50pm-3:00pm
- FLeighton 202 2:20pm-3:20pm
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HIST 156.00 Winter 2022
- Faculty:Seungjoo Yoon 🏫 👤
- Size:30
- M, WLeighton 301 9:50am-11:00am
- FLeighton 301 9:40am-10:40am
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HIST 157 Health and Medicine in Japan 6 credits
How do Shintoism view childbirth and death? How do Buddhism and biotechnology intersect in the making of Japan? How do Japanese perceptions about health and medicine evolve with settler colonialism? This course examines the meaning of body, health, and medicine in Japan’s recent past when biomedicine came to replace classical Chinese medicine and to gradually occupy a hegemonic position in its pharmaceutical regime. Reading materials are drawn from illustrations, travelogues, and poems, as well as medical journals and reports. Themes include body and modern self, family and reproductive justice, medical colonialism, hygienic modernity, narcotics and ethnopsychology, and national healthcare system.
- Fall 2021
- International Studies Writing Requirement
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HIST 157.00 Fall 2021
- Faculty:Seungjoo Yoon 🏫 👤
- Size:30
- M, WLeighton 330 9:50am-11:00am
- FLeighton 330 9:40am-10:40am
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HIST 159 Disaster, Disease, & Rumors in East Asia 6 credits
How are rumors generated and transmitted in a period of high anxiety like disaster? Do rumors and anxiety reciprocate? How do rumors enhance existing stereotypes and prejudices of people? Why do rumors arise in a society that suffers from inadequate information or the complete cutoff in communication? This course classifies the types and nature of rumors at the time of making modern East Asia. Thematically, it examines the interplay between wartime science, environmental conditions, and societal capacities in modern Japan, Korea, and China. Topics include rumor panics generated by epidemic, water pollution, atomic bomb, famine politics, industrial toxins, and lab leaks.
- Winter 2021, Fall 2023
- Humanistic Inquiry International Studies Writing Requirement
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HIST 159.00 Winter 2021
- Faculty:Seungjoo Yoon 🏫 👤
- Size:30
- M, WLocation To Be Announced TBA 2:30pm-3:40pm
- FLocation To Be Announced TBA 3:10pm-4:10pm
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HIST 159.00 Fall 2023
- Faculty:Seungjoo Yoon 🏫 👤
- Size:30
- M, WLeighton 202 11:10am-12:20pm
- FLeighton 202 12:00pm-1:00pm
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HIST 252 Social Movements in Modern China 6 credits
Working with evidence is what allows historians to encounter past societies and people. What kind of evidence we have and our approaches to interpreting it shape the questions we can ask and the interpretations we can offer. This course will provide interested students with hands-on experience in working with various kinds of evidence and learning about the process of writing histories with a focus on the origins and developments of the Chinese Cultural Revolution between 1966 and 1976. Themes will include practices and reflections on personality formation, knowledge and power, class and nation, legitimatization of violence, and operations of memory.
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HIST 252.00 Spring 2024
- Faculty:Seungjoo Yoon 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLeighton 301 1:50pm-3:00pm
- FLeighton 301 2:20pm-3:20pm
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HIST 253 Social Movements in Modern Korea 6 credits
This course examines rich traditions of social movements in Korea from its preindustrial times to the present. It will analyze how the movement organizers came to claim the space between households and the state by organizing themselves around various groupings (religious societies, labor unions, and SMOs). Thematically, it will scrutinize the intersections of multiple value orientations (e.g., feminist consciousness and fight for democracy and social justice) and unintended consequences (state violence and traumatic memory). Engaging with different sources (e.g., films, testimonies, memoirs, autobiographies, journals, and government reports), students will develop skills to frame key historical questions against broader historiographical contexts.
- Winter 2024
- International Studies Writing Requirement
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HIST 253.00 Winter 2024
- Faculty:Seungjoo Yoon 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLeighton 202 1:50pm-3:00pm
- FLeighton 202 2:20pm-3:20pm
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HIST 257 Ott Family Lectureship in Economics and History: Chinese Capitalism in Global Perspective 6 credits
Chosen as the inaugural course to launch Carleton’s new Ott Family Lectureship in History and Economics, this course includes the extended participation of three separate Ott Family Lecturers’ visits. Together, we will explore comparative dimensions of Chinese economic history from the sixteenth century to the present, examine classical and recent scholarship on Chinese economic development, global movement of capital and labor, origins of Chinese capitalism, “world-system” theories, agrarian “involution,” arguments about East Asia’s economic divergence from Europe, and market reforms with “Chinese characteristics.” Christopher Isett (University of Minnesota) will explain how economic historians apply history methods and approaches. Yingjia Tian (Wesleyan) will share his business history case study on 1950’s Shanghai electric companies. Brent Irvin ’94 (Tencent Corporation/China) will discuss the state of the business world in contemporary China. Each Ott Family Lecturer will also present a public talk for the class, campus, and wider community; public talk attendance is a required component of this course.
Extra time
- Spring 2019, Fall 2022
- Humanistic Inquiry International Studies Quantitative Reasoning Encounter Writing Requirement
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HIST 257.00 Spring 2019
- Faculty:Seungjoo Yoon 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THLeighton 304 1:15pm-3:00pm
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HIST 257.00 Fall 2022
- Faculty:Seungjoo Yoon 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLibrary 305 11:10am-12:20pm
- FLibrary 305 12:00pm-1:00pm
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HIST 258 Korean History in Films & Testimonies 6 credits
What are the limits and promises of putting history on screen, and vice versa? What would be a better way to convey the sentiments of a human being who must make a moral choice in a distinctive historical circumstance? This course explores the dynamic relationship between testimony-giving and filmmaking about the lived experience in Korea in the recent past. We will focus on the voices of ordinary people, especially those shaped by female and downtrodden citizens. Drawing examples from films, diaries, memoirs, autobiographies, eyewitnesses, and/or novels, students will analyze an enduring value orientation of a historical figure of their choice.
Extra time
- Winter 2023
- Humanistic Inquiry International Studies
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HIST 258.00 Winter 2023
- Faculty:Seungjoo Yoon 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLeighton 301 11:10am-12:20pm
- FLeighton 301 12:00pm-1:00pm
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JAPN 206 Japanese in Cultural Context 6 credits
This course advances students’ proficiency in the four skills, of speaking, listening, reading and writing in Japanese. The course also integrates elements of traditional Japanese civilization and modern Japanese society, emphasizing cultural understanding and situationally appropriate language use.
- Spring 2017, Spring 2018, Spring 2019, Spring 2020, Spring 2021, Spring 2022, Spring 2023, Spring 2024
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Japanese 205 or equivalent
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JAPN 206.00 Spring 2017
- Faculty:Mariko Kaga 🏫 👤
- Size:20
- M, WLanguage & Dining Center 205 11:10am-12:20pm
- FLanguage & Dining Center 205 12:00pm-1:00pm
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JAPN 206.00 Spring 2018
- Faculty:Miaki Habuka 🏫 👤
- Size:20
- M, WLanguage & Dining Center 244 11:10am-12:20pm
- FLanguage & Dining Center 244 12:00pm-1:00pm
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JAPN 206.00 Spring 2019
- Faculty:Miaki Habuka 🏫 👤
- Size:20
- M, WLanguage & Dining Center 244 11:10am-12:20pm
- FLanguage & Dining Center 244 12:00pm-1:00pm
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JAPN 206.00 Spring 2020
- Faculty:Miaki Habuka 🏫 👤
- Size:20
- M, WLanguage & Dining Center 205 11:10am-12:20pm
- FLanguage & Dining Center 205 12:00pm-1:00pm
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JAPN 206.00 Spring 2021
- Faculty:Miaki Habuka 🏫 👤
- Size:20
- M, WLocation To Be Announced TBA 11:30am-12:40pm
- FLocation To Be Announced TBA 11:10am-12:10pm
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JAPN 206.00 Spring 2022
- Faculty:Miaki Habuka 🏫 👤
- Size:20
- M, WLanguage & Dining Center 242 11:10am-12:20pm
- FLanguage & Dining Center 242 12:00pm-1:00pm
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JAPN 206.00 Spring 2023
- Faculty:Noboru Tomonari 🏫 👤
- Size:20
- M, WLanguage & Dining Center 202 11:10am-12:20pm
- FLanguage & Dining Center 202 12:00pm-1:00pm
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JAPN 206.00 Spring 2024
- Faculty:Miaki Habuka 🏫 👤
- Size:16
- M, WLanguage & Dining Center 243 11:10am-12:20pm
- FLanguage & Dining Center 243 12:00pm-1:00pm
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JAPN 231 Japanese Cinema in Translation 6 credits
This course examines the extraordinary achievement of Japanese cinema, from the classic films of Mizoguchi, Ozu, and Kurosawa to the pop cinema of Kitano and the phenomenon of anime. The films will be studied for their aesthetic, cultural, and auteur contexts. Particular attention will be paid to the relationship of the film to traditional arts, culture and society. This course is conducted in English and all the course materials are in English translation or in English subtitles.
- Fall 2017, Spring 2022
- Literary/Artistic Analysis
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JAPN 231.00 Fall 2017
- Faculty:Noboru Tomonari 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THLanguage & Dining Center 104 1:15pm-3:00pm
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JAPN 231.00 Spring 2022
- Faculty:Noboru Tomonari 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THLanguage & Dining Center 104 1:15pm-3:00pm
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JAPN 249 Introduction to Contemporary Japan and Literature 6 credits
This course provides an introduction to contemporary Japan through a variety of literary works dating from the early postwar period (1945) to the present. While becoming familiar with prize-winning Japanese writers, literary genres, and various artistic conventions, we will examine how writers reacted to, shaped, and critiqued historical events and social situations in which these literary texts are written. Topics for discussion include: war memory, postwar economic success, loss of national identity, shifting concepts of families, gender roles, and lifestyles, minorities, alienation, and disaster. Through readings, lectures, and discussions, you will become familiar with major cultural and historical movements that comprise the complexity of contemporary Japan, and develop the critical skills necessary to analyze literary texts. All readings are in English, and no background knowledge of Japan is required.
In translation
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JAPN 254 World of Japanese Manga in Translation 6 credits
This course will examine manga (Japanese comic books that first appeared in post-World War II Japan). Manga are avidly read in Japan as a main component of Japanese popular culture. They have a huge influence on other media such as films and anime. The genre has greatly expanded its readership outside of Japan during the last decade. We will read a variety of manga aimed at different gender and age groups, in English translation. The texts will be interpreted as a means of understanding the world-views of the Japanese, and how Japanese society has evolved in recent decades.
In Translation
- Winter 2023
- International Studies Literary/Artistic Analysis
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JAPN 254.00 Winter 2023
- Faculty:Noboru Tomonari 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THLanguage & Dining Center 104 1:15pm-3:00pm
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JAPN 344 Japan Trends: Lifestyle, Society, and Culture 6 credits
In this advanced Japanese language course, we will explore a wide range of concepts, social media buzzwords, and cultural phenomena that constitute the fabric of everyday life in Japan today. From “geeks” and “idols” dominating the cultural scene to the “working poor” and “hikikomori,” who represent the precarity Japan faces in the contexts of economic, political and psychological crisis, the course delves into the aspects of key phenomena surrounding contemporary Japanese society. You will develop skills to read, analyze, summarize, and critique various texts written in Japanese, including newspaper articles, scholarly essays, literary texts, and films, while becoming familiar with historical contexts in which these keywords emerged and are used.
- Fall 2022
- International Studies Literary/Artistic Analysis
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Japanese 206 or equivalent
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JAPN 344.00 Fall 2022
- Faculty:Chie Tokuyama 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLanguage & Dining Center 205 1:50pm-3:00pm
- FLanguage & Dining Center 205 2:20pm-3:20pm
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JAPN 345 Advanced Reading in Modern Japanese Literature: The Short Story 6 credits
Introduction to modern Japanese short fiction in the original, with exposure to a variety of styles. Some practice in critical analysis and literary translation.
- Spring 2018, Spring 2020, Winter 2023
- Literary/Artistic Analysis
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Japanese 206 or the equivalent.
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JAPN 345.00 Spring 2018
- Faculty:Noboru Tomonari 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- M, WLanguage & Dining Center 202 11:10am-12:20pm
- FLanguage & Dining Center 202 12:00pm-1:00pm
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JAPN 345.00 Spring 2020
- Faculty:Noboru Tomonari 🏫 👤
- Size:20
- M, WLanguage & Dining Center 205 1:50pm-3:00pm
- FLanguage & Dining Center 205 2:20pm-3:20pm
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JAPN 345.00 Winter 2023
- Faculty:Noboru Tomonari 🏫 👤
- Size:20
- M, WLanguage & Dining Center 202 1:50pm-3:00pm
- FLanguage & Dining Center 202 2:20pm-3:20pm
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MUSC 182 Chinese Musical Instruments 1 credits
Beginning through advanced study on traditional Chinese instruments, pipa (Chinese lute), erhu (Chinese violin), guzheng (Chinese zither), zhongruan (Chinese moon guitar), hulusi, bawu and dizi (Chinese bamboo flutes).
2023-24 $376 fee
- Winter 2017, Spring 2017, Fall 2017, Winter 2018, Spring 2018, Fall 2018, Winter 2019, Spring 2019, Fall 2019, Winter 2020, Spring 2020, Fall 2020, Winter 2021, Spring 2021, Fall 2021, Spring 2022, Fall 2022, Winter 2023, Spring 2023, Fall 2023, Winter 2024, Spring 2024
- Arts Practice
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MUSC 182J Chinese Musical Instruments (Juried) 1 credits
Beginning through advanced study on traditional Chinese instruments, pipa (Chinese lute), erhu (Chinese violin), guzheng (Chinese zither), zhongruan (Chinese moon guitar), hulusi, bawu and dizi (Chinese bamboo flutes).
2023-24 $376 fee
- Winter 2017, Spring 2017, Fall 2017, Winter 2018, Spring 2018, Fall 2018, Winter 2019, Spring 2019, Fall 2019, Winter 2020, Spring 2020, Fall 2020, Winter 2021, Spring 2021, Fall 2021, Spring 2022, Fall 2022, Winter 2023, Spring 2023, Fall 2023, Winter 2024, Spring 2024
- Arts Practice
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MUSC 213 J-Pop: Listening to Music in Modern Japan 6 credits
Japanese popular music encompasses a wide variety of genres, from World War II propaganda tunes to anime soundtracks. But how does this music relate to the history of modern Japan? What is “modern” (or post-modern) about this specific music? This class will examine the creation and consumption of Japanese popular music from around 1945 to present, focusing on how popular music worked in the cultural and political milieu. Through the study of Japanese folk, jazz, rock, hip-hop, bubble gum pop, and film music, students will engage with broader historical trajectories in society. We will discuss music as it relates to issues of race, gender, and pop culture in Japan and around the world.
- Winter 2023
- International Studies Writing Requirement
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MUSC 213.00 Winter 2023
- Faculty:Brooke Okazaki 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WWeitz Center 230 11:10am-12:20pm
- FWeitz Center 230 12:00pm-1:00pm
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MUSC 282 Chinese Musical Instruments 2 credits
Beginning through advanced study on traditional Chinese instruments, pipa (Chinese lute), erhu (Chinese violin), guzheng (Chinese zither), zhongruan (Chinese moon guitar), hulusi, bawu and dizi (Chinese bamboo flutes).
2023-24 $752 fee. Instructor permission
- Winter 2017, Spring 2017, Fall 2017, Winter 2018, Spring 2018, Fall 2018, Winter 2019, Spring 2019, Fall 2019, Winter 2020, Spring 2020, Fall 2020, Winter 2021, Spring 2021, Fall 2021, Spring 2022, Fall 2022, Winter 2023, Spring 2023, Fall 2023, Winter 2024, Spring 2024
- Arts Practice
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Instructor Permission
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MUSC 282J Chinese Musical Instruments (Juried) 2 credits
Beginning through advanced study on traditional Chinese instruments, pipa (Chinese lute), erhu (Chinese violin), guzheng (Chinese zither), zhongruan (Chinese moon guitar), hulusi, bawu and dizi (Chinese bamboo flutes).
2023-24 $752 fee. Instructor permission
- Winter 2017, Spring 2017, Fall 2017, Winter 2018, Spring 2018, Fall 2018, Winter 2019, Spring 2019, Fall 2019, Winter 2020, Spring 2020, Fall 2020, Winter 2021, Spring 2021, Fall 2021, Spring 2022, Fall 2022, Winter 2023, Spring 2023, Fall 2023, Winter 2024, Spring 2024
- Arts Practice
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Instructor Permission
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POSC 170 International Relations and World Politics 6 credits
What are the foundational theories and practices of international relations and world politics? This course addresses topics of a geopolitical, commercial and ideological character as they relate to global systems including: great power politics, polycentricity, and international organizations. It also explores the dynamic intersection of world politics with war, terrorism, nuclear weapons, national security, human security, human rights, and the globalization of economic and social development.
- Winter 2017, Spring 2017, Winter 2018, Spring 2018, Fall 2018, Winter 2019, Spring 2019, Fall 2019, Winter 2020, Spring 2020, Fall 2020, Winter 2021, Spring 2021, Fall 2021, Winter 2022, Spring 2022, Fall 2022, Winter 2023, Spring 2023, Fall 2023, Winter 2024, Spring 2024
- International Studies Social Inquiry Writing Requirement
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POSC 170.00 Winter 2017
- Faculty:Tun Myint 🏫 👤
- Size:30
- M, WWeitz Center 235 9:50am-11:00am
- FWeitz Center 235 9:40am-10:40am
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POSC 170.00 Spring 2017
- Faculty:Greg Marfleet 🏫 👤
- Size:30
- M, WWillis 204 12:30pm-1:40pm
- FWillis 204 1:10pm-2:10pm
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POSC 170.00 Winter 2018
- Faculty:Tun Myint 🏫 👤
- Size:30
- M, WWillis 211 9:50am-11:00am
- FWillis 211 9:40am-10:40am
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POSC 170.01 Spring 2018
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:30
- M, WWeitz Center 230 9:50am-11:00am
- FWeitz Center 230 9:40am-10:40am
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Sophomore Priority
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POSC 170.02 Spring 2018
- Faculty:Tun Myint 🏫 👤
- Size:30
- T, THWillis 211 1:15pm-3:00pm
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POSC 170.00 Fall 2018
- Faculty:Alexander Von Hagen-Jamar 🏫 👤
- Size:30
- M, WWillis 204 11:10am-12:20pm
- FWillis 204 12:00pm-1:00pm
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POSC 170.00 Winter 2019
- Faculty:Alexander Von Hagen-Jamar 🏫 👤
- Size:30
- M, WWillis 204 8:30am-9:40am
- FWillis 204 8:30am-9:30am
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POSC 170.00 Spring 2019
- Faculty:Greg Marfleet 🏫 👤
- Size:35
- T, THWeitz Center 233 8:15am-10:00am
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POSC 170.00 Fall 2019
- Faculty:Summer Forester 🏫 👤
- Size:30
- M, WWillis 204 9:50am-11:00am
- FWillis 204 9:40am-10:40am
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POSC 170.00 Winter 2020
- Faculty:Summer Forester 🏫 👤
- Size:30
- M, WWeitz Center 132 9:50am-11:00am
- FWeitz Center 132 9:40am-10:40am
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POSC 170.00 Spring 2020
- Faculty:Tun Myint 🏫 👤
- Size:35
- M, WLeighton 402 9:50am-11:00am
- FLeighton 402 9:40am-10:40am
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POSC 170.00 Fall 2020
- Faculty:Summer Forester 🏫 👤
- Size:30
- M, WLocation To Be Announced TBA 1:00pm-2:10pm
- FLocation To Be Announced TBA 1:50pm-2:50pm
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POSC 170.00 Winter 2021
- Faculty:Tun Myint 🏫 👤
- Size:30
- M, WWeitz Center 236 11:30am-12:40pm
- FWeitz Center 236 11:10am-12:10pm
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POSC 170.00 Spring 2021
- Faculty:Summer Forester 🏫 👤
- Size:30
- M, WLocation To Be Announced TBA 11:30am-12:40pm
- FLocation To Be Announced TBA 11:10am-12:10pm
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POSC 170.00 Fall 2021
- Faculty:Summer Forester 🏫 👤
- Size:30
- M, WWillis 204 12:30pm-1:40pm
- FWillis 204 1:10pm-2:10pm
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POSC 170.00 Winter 2022
- Faculty:Tun Myint 🏫 👤
- Size:30
- T, THWeitz Center 235 10:10am-11:55am
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POSC 170.00 Spring 2022
- Faculty:Summer Forester 🏫 👤
- Size:30
- M, WWeitz Center 233 11:10am-12:20pm
- FWeitz Center 233 12:00pm-1:00pm
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POSC 170.00 Fall 2022
- Faculty:Tun Myint 🏫 👤
- Size:30
- M, WWeitz Center 133 11:10am-12:20pm
- FWeitz Center 133 12:00pm-1:00pm
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POSC 170.00 Spring 2023
- Faculty:Greg Marfleet 🏫 👤
- Size:30
- T, THWeitz Center 230 10:10am-11:55am
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Extra time: Departmental Simulation Evening May 19th and Daytime May 20th
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POSC 170.00 Fall 2023
- Faculty:Summer Forester 🏫 👤
- Size:30
- M, WWillis 204 9:50am-11:00am
- FWillis 204 9:40am-10:40am
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POSC 170.00 Winter 2024
- Faculty:Tun Myint 🏫 👤
- Size:30
- T, THHasenstab 002 10:10am-11:55am
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POSC 170.00 Spring 2024
- Faculty:Summer Forester 🏫 👤
- Size:30
- M, WAnderson Hall 121 12:30pm-1:40pm
- FAnderson Hall 121 1:10pm-2:10pm
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POSC 241 Ethnic Conflict 6 credits
Ethnic conflict is a persistent and troubling challenge for those interested in preserving international peace and stability. By one account, ethnic violence has claimed more than ten million lives since 1945, and in the 1990s, ethnic conflicts comprised nearly half of all ongoing conflicts around the world. In this course, we will attempt to understand the conditions that contribute to ethnic tensions, identify the triggers that lead to escalation, and evaluate alternative ideas for managing and solving such disputes. The course will draw on a number of cases, including Rwanda, Bosnia, and Northern Ireland.
- Winter 2018, Winter 2020, Winter 2024
- International Studies Social Inquiry
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POSC 241.00 Winter 2018
- Faculty:Dev Gupta 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THWillis 204 10:10am-11:55am
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POSC 241.00 Winter 2020
- Faculty:Dev Gupta 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THWillis 211 1:15pm-3:00pm
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POSC 264 Politics of Contemporary China 6 credits
This course examines the political, social and economic transformation of China over the past thirty years. Students will explore the transformation of the countryside from a primarily agricultural society into the factory of the world. Particular emphasis will be placed on economic development and how this has changed state-society relations at the grassroots. The class will explore these changes among farmers, the working class and the emerging middle class. Students will also explore how the Chinese Communist Party has survived and even thrived while many other Communist regimes have fallen and assess the relationship between economic development and democratization.
- Fall 2018, Fall 2019, Spring 2021, Fall 2021, Fall 2022, Fall 2023
- International Studies Social Inquiry
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POSC 264.00 Fall 2018
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:25
- M, WWillis 211 9:50am-11:00am
- FWillis 211 9:40am-10:40am
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POSC 264.00 Fall 2019
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:25
- M, WWillis 203 9:50am-11:00am
- FWillis 203 9:40am-10:40am
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POSC 264.00 Spring 2021
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:25
- M, WLocation To Be Announced TBA 1:00pm-2:10pm
- FLocation To Be Announced TBA 1:50pm-2:50pm
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POSC 264.00 Fall 2021
- Faculty:Huan Gao 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLeighton 402 12:30pm-1:40pm
- FLeighton 402 1:10pm-2:10pm
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POSC 264.00 Fall 2022
- Faculty:Huan Gao 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WHasenstab 105 12:30pm-1:40pm
- FHasenstab 105 1:10pm-2:10pm
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POSC 264.00 Fall 2023
- Faculty:Huan Gao 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLibrary 344 9:50am-11:00am
- FLibrary 344 9:40am-10:40am
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RELG 100 Buddhism, Science, Society 6 credits
This course will examine Buddhism’s engagement with the modern world in global and local contexts from Asia to North America. How do Buddhists draw on the resources of their tradition to change the social structures of gender, class, and race without invalidating that tradition? How do Buddhist teachings provide tools to combat and reinforce racism and violence while empowering and oppressing individuals? Do the Buddhist and scientific views of the mind agree or disagree? Can the effects of meditation be scientifically explained? In exploring these questions, students will be introduced to the multiplicity of Buddhisms.
Held for new first year students
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RELG 100.02 Fall 2022
- Faculty:Asuka Sango 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- M, WLeighton 304 1:50pm-3:00pm
- FLeighton 304 2:20pm-3:20pm
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RELG 152 Religions in Japanese Culture 6 credits
An introduction to the major religious traditions of Japan, from earliest times to the present. Combining thematic and historical approaches, this course will scrutinize both defining characteristics of, and interactions among, various religious traditions, including worship of the kami (local deities), Buddhism, shamanistic practices, Christianity, and new religious movements. We also will discuss issues crucial in the study of religion, such as the relation between religion and violence, gender, modernity, nationalism and war.
- Winter 2018, Spring 2021, Fall 2022, Spring 2024
- Humanistic Inquiry International Studies Writing Requirement
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RELG 152.00 Winter 2018
- Faculty:Asuka Sango 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THLeighton 304 1:15pm-3:00pm
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RELG 152.00 Spring 2021
- Faculty:Asuka Sango 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THLanguage & Dining Center 244 1:45pm-3:30pm
- T, THLanguage & Dining Center 335 1:45pm-3:30pm
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RELG 152.00 Fall 2022
- Faculty:Asuka Sango 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLeighton 426 9:50am-11:00am
- FLeighton 426 9:40am-10:40am
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RELG 152.00 Spring 2024
- Faculty:Asuka Sango 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLeighton 426 1:50pm-3:00pm
- FLeighton 426 2:20pm-3:20pm
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RELG 153 Introduction to Buddhism 6 credits
This course offers a survey of Buddhism from its inception in India some 2500 years ago to the present. We first address fundamental Buddhist ideas and practices, then their elaboration in the Mahayana and tantric movements, which emerged in the first millennium CE in India. We also consider the diffusion of Buddhism throughout Asia and to the West. Attention will be given to both continuity and diversity within Buddhism–to its commonalities and transformations in specific historical and cultural settings. We also will address philosophical, social, political, and ethical problems that are debated among Buddhists and scholars of Buddhism today.
- Spring 2017, Fall 2018, Spring 2020, Fall 2021, Winter 2023, Spring 2024
- Humanistic Inquiry International Studies Writing Requirement
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RELG 153.00 Spring 2017
- Faculty:Asuka Sango 🏫 👤
- Size:30
- M, WLeighton 402 1:50pm-3:00pm
- FLeighton 402 2:20pm-3:20pm
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RELG 153.00 Spring 2020
- Faculty:Asuka Sango 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THLeighton 305 1:15pm-3:00pm
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RELG 153.00 Fall 2021
- Faculty:Asuka Sango 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THLeighton 236 1:15pm-3:00pm
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RELG 153.00 Winter 2023
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:25
- M, WLeighton 330 12:30pm-1:40pm
- FLeighton 330 1:10pm-2:10pm
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RELG 153.00 Spring 2024
- Faculty:Asuka Sango 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLeighton 236 9:50am-11:00am
- FLeighton 236 9:40am-10:40am
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RELG 257 Asian Religions and Ecology 6 credits
How “eco-friendly” are Asian religious traditions? What does “eco-friendly” even mean? This course begins with an overview of the major religious traditions of South, Southeast, Central, and East Asia. From this foundation, we turn to modern and contemporary ecological thinkers, movements, and policies and discuss their indebtedness to, and divergence from, various religious heritages. We will also explore how modernity, capitalism, industrialization, climate collapse, and Western environmental movements have influenced eco-advocacy in contemporary Asia.
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RELG 257.00 Winter 2023
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:25
- M, WLeighton 304 9:50am-11:00am
- FLeighton 304 9:40am-10:40am
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RELG 282 Samurai: Ethics of Death and Loyalty 6 credits
This course explores the history of samurai since the emergence of warrior class in medieval times, to the modern developments of samurai ethics as the icon of Japanese national identity. Focusing on its connection with Japanese religion and culture, we will investigate the origins of the purported samurai ideals of loyalty, honor, self-sacrifice, and death. In addition to regular class sessions, there will be a weekly kyudo (Japanese archery) practice on Wednesday evening (7-9 pm), which will enable students to study samurai history in context through gaining first-hand experience in the ritualized practice of kyudo.
Extra Time
- Fall 2019, Spring 2022
- Humanistic Inquiry International Studies Writing Requirement
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RELG 282.00 Fall 2019
- Faculty:Asuka Sango 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- M, WLeighton 426 9:50am-11:00am
- FLeighton 426 9:40am-10:40am
- WLocation To Be Announced TBA 7:00pm-9:00pm
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Extra time
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RELG 282.00 Spring 2022
- Faculty:Asuka Sango 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- M, WLeighton 236 9:50am-11:00am
- FLeighton 236 9:40am-10:40am