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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 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 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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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 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 161 From the Mughals to Mahatma Gandhi: An Introduction to Modern Indian History 6 credits
This is an introductory survey course; no prior knowledge of South Asian History required. The goal is to familiarize students with some of the key themes and debates in the historiography of modern India. Beginning with an overview of Mughal rule in India, the main focus of the course is the colonial period. The course ends with a discussion of 1947: the hour of independence as well as the creation of two new nation-states, India and Pakistan. Topics include Oriental Despotism, colonial rule, nationalism, communalism, gender, caste and race.
- Spring 2017, Spring 2018, Spring 2019, Fall 2019, Fall 2020, Spring 2022, Fall 2022
- Humanistic Inquiry International Studies
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HIST 161.00 Spring 2017
- Faculty:Amna Khalid 🏫 👤
- Size:30
- M, WLeighton 426 1:50pm-3:00pm
- FLeighton 426 2:20pm-3:20pm
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HIST 161.00 Spring 2018
- Faculty:Amna Khalid 🏫 👤
- Size:30
- M, WLeighton 426 1:50pm-3:00pm
- FLeighton 426 2:20pm-3:20pm
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HIST 161.00 Spring 2019
- Faculty:Amna Khalid 🏫 👤
- Size:30
- M, WLeighton 426 12:30pm-1:40pm
- FLeighton 426 1:10pm-2:10pm
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HIST 161.00 Fall 2019
- Faculty:Amna Khalid 🏫 👤
- Size:30
- M, WLeighton 426 12:30pm-1:40pm
- FLeighton 426 1:10pm-2:10pm
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HIST 161.00 Fall 2020
- Faculty:Brendan LaRocque 🏫 👤
- Size:30
- M, WWeitz Center 230 10:00am-11:10am
- FWeitz Center 230 9:50am-10:50am
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HIST 161.00 Spring 2022
- Faculty:Amna Khalid 🏫 👤
- Size:30
- M, WLeighton 426 9:50am-11:00am
- FLeighton 426 9:40am-10:40am
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HIST 161.00 Fall 2022
- Faculty:Amna Khalid 🏫 👤
- Size:30
- M, WLeighton 330 12:30pm-1:40pm
- FLeighton 330 1:10pm-2:10pm
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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 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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HIST 264 A History of India Through Food 6 credits
Indian cuisine is today famed worldwide and known for its complex diversity. This course will explore food as a gateway through which to understand a broader history of society, economy and politics in the Indian subcontinent. An analysis of the production, distribution, and consumption of food and spices, beginning in the ancient era and ending in contemporary times, will allow us to examine community formation, patterns of wealth distribution, and state-building strategies. We will look at topics including farming and the environment, medical and religious systems, culture, caste, and colonialism.
- Spring 2024
- Humanistic Inquiry International Studies
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HIST 264.00 Spring 2024
- Faculty:Brendan LaRocque 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLeighton 202 11:10am-12:20pm
- FLeighton 202 12:00pm-1:00pm
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HIST 265 Central Asia in the Modern Age 6 credits
Central Asia–the region encompassing the post-Soviet states of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan, and the Xinjiang region of the People’s Republic of China–is often considered one of the most exotic in the world, but it has experienced all the excesses of the modern age. After a basic introduction to the long-term history of the steppe, this course will concentrate on exploring the history of the region since its conquest by the Russian and Chinese empires. We will discuss the interaction of external and local forces as we explore transformations in the realms of politics, society, culture, and religion.
- Fall 2018, Fall 2020, Fall 2022
- Humanistic Inquiry International Studies
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HIST 265.00 Fall 2018
- Faculty:Adeeb Khalid 🏫 👤
- Size:30
- T, THLeighton 330 10:10am-11:55am
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HIST 265.00 Fall 2020
- Faculty:Adeeb Khalid 🏫 👤
- Size:27
- T, THLeighton 304 1:45pm-3:30pm
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HIST 265.00 Fall 2022
- Faculty:Adeeb Khalid 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THLeighton 305 1:15pm-3:00pm
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HIST 267 Muslims and Modernity 6 credits
Through readings in primary sources in translation, we will discuss the major intellectual and cultural movements that have influenced Muslim thinkers from the nineteenth century on. Topics include modernism, nationalism, socialism, and fundamentalism.
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HIST 267.00 Winter 2023
- Faculty:Adeeb Khalid 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THLeighton 202 10:10am-11:55am
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Through readings in primary sources in translation, we will discuss the major intellectual and cultural movements that have influenced Muslim thinkers from the nineteenth century on. Topics include modernism, nationalism, socialism, and fundamentalism.
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HIST 269 Religion, Race & Caste in Modern India 6 credits
This course will examine the history of religious beliefs, practices, and community, European imperialist and Orientalist ideologies, and the socio-political implications of anti-colonial nationalist movements in India. We will address questions including: How did the European powers justify their imperial undertaking through specific concepts of race, religion, science and technology? How did the imperial experience impact Christianity, Islam, and Hinduism, and caste, race, and gender in India? In the post-colonial period we will examine the powerful growth of low-caste and anti-caste social movements and political parties, as well as religious nationalist, pluralist, and secular mass-movements.
- Spring 2023
- Humanistic Inquiry International Studies
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HIST 269.00 Spring 2023
- Faculty:Brendan LaRocque 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLeighton 236 11:10am-12:20pm
- FLeighton 236 12:00pm-1:00pm
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HIST 270 Nuclear Nations: India and Pakistan as Rival Siblings 6 credits
At the stroke of midnight on August 15, 1947 India and Pakistan, two new nation states emerged from the shadow of British colonialism. This course focuses on the political trajectories of these two rival siblings and looks at the ways in which both states use the other to forge antagonistic and belligerent nations. While this is a survey course it is not a comprehensive overview of the history of the two countries. Instead it covers some of the more significant moments of rupture and violence in the political history of the two states. The first two-thirds of the course offers a top-down, macro overview of these events and processes whereas the last third examines the ways in which people experienced these developments. We use the lens of gender to see how the physical body, especially the body of the woman, is central to the process of nation building. We will consider how women’s bodies become sites of contestation and how they are disciplined and policed by the postcolonial state(s).
- Fall 2017, Fall 2018, Winter 2020, Winter 2022
- Humanistic Inquiry International Studies
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HIST 270.00 Fall 2017
- Faculty:Amna Khalid 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLeighton 426 9:50am-11:00am
- FLeighton 426 9:40am-10:40am
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HIST 270.00 Fall 2018
- Faculty:Amna Khalid 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLeighton 426 11:10am-12:20pm
- FLeighton 426 12:00pm-1:00pm
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HIST 270.00 Winter 2020
- Faculty:Amna Khalid 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLeighton 426 12:30pm-1:40pm
- FLeighton 426 1:10pm-2:10pm
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HIST 270.00 Winter 2022
- Faculty:Amna Khalid 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLeighton 202 12:30pm-1:40pm
- FLeighton 202 1:10pm-2:10pm
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HIST 360 Muslims and Modernity 6 credits
Through readings in primary sources in translation, we will discuss the major intellectual and cultural movements that have influenced Muslim thinkers from the nineteenth century on. Topics include modernism, nationalism, socialism, and fundamentalism.
Not open to first year students. First year students should register in HIST 267.
- Spring 2019, Winter 2021, Winter 2023
- Humanistic Inquiry International Studies Writing Requirement
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At least one prior course in the history of the Middle East or Central Asia or Islam
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HIST 360.00 Spring 2019
- Faculty:Adeeb Khalid 🏫 👤
- Size:20
- T, THLeighton 202 10:10am-11:55am
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HIST 360.00 Winter 2021
- Faculty:Adeeb Khalid 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- T, THLocation To Be Announced TBA 10:20am-12:05pm
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HIST 360.00 Winter 2023
- Faculty:Adeeb Khalid 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- T, THLeighton 202 10:10am-11:55am
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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 111 Introduction to the Qu’ran 6 credits
This course aims to introduce students to the Qur’an as the sacred text of Islam. It assumes no background in Islamic Studies nor does it introduce students to the religion of Islam. Rather it familiarizes students with one of the most widely read, dynamic, and influential texts in human history. Topics in the course include the history of the Qur’an and its codex, the Qur’an’s literary style and structure, its references to other religions, its commentarial tradition, and its roles and significance in Muslims’ devotional, social, and political lives.
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RELG 111.00 Fall 2022
- Faculty:Kambiz GhaneaBassiri 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLibrary 344 12:30pm-1:40pm
- FLibrary 344 1:10pm-2:10pm
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RELG 122 Introduction to Islam 6 credits
This course provides a general introduction to Islam, as a textual and lived tradition. Students will read from the Qur’an and the traditions of the Prophet Muhammad, engaging them both as historical resources and as dynamic and contested objects that have informed Muslim life in diverse ways throughout the centuries. Through following a thread from scripture, through the interpretive sciences (chiefly law and theology), and into an analysis of Muslim life in the contemporary world, students will explore answers Muslim thinkers have given to major questions of our shared existence, with both fidelity to the texts and flexibility to present demands. Though the focus of this course is not on Islam’s role in current events, through attaining a solid introduction to the tradition–its sociology, its history, and its modes of reasoning–students will attain the knowledge necessary to begin to engage those events with a critical and informed mind.
- Winter 2017, Winter 2018, Winter 2019, Winter 2020, Spring 2022, Fall 2023
- Humanistic Inquiry International Studies Writing Requirement
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RELG 122.00 Winter 2017
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:30
- M, WWeitz Center 230 9:50am-11:00am
- FWeitz Center 230 9:40am-10:40am
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RELG 122.00 Winter 2018
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:25
- M, WWeitz Center 233 9:50am-11:00am
- FWeitz Center 233 9:40am-10:40am
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RELG 122.00 Winter 2019
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:25
- M, WWeitz Center 233 9:50am-11:00am
- FWeitz Center 233 9:40am-10:40am
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RELG 122.00 Winter 2020
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:25
- M, WLeighton 304 12:30pm-1:40pm
- FLeighton 304 1:10pm-2:10pm
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RELG 122.00 Spring 2022
- Faculty:Kambiz GhaneaBassiri 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THLeighton 426 10:10am-11:55am
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RELG 122.00 Fall 2023
- Faculty:Kambiz GhaneaBassiri 🏫 👤
- Size:30
- M, WLeighton 402 9:50am-11:00am
- FLeighton 402 9:40am-10:40am
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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 237 Yoga: Religion, History, Practice 6 credits
This class will immerse students in the study of yoga from its first textual representations to its current practice around the world. Transnationally, yoga has been unyoked from religion. But the Sanskrit root yuj means to “add,” “join,” or “unite”—and in Indian philosophy and practice it was: a method of devotion; a way to “yoke” the body/mind; a means to unite with Ultimate Reality; a form of concentration and meditation. We will concentrate on texts dating back thousands of years, from Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras to the Bhagavad Gita—and popular texts of today. Come prepared to wear loose clothing.
- Spring 2017, Spring 2018, Spring 2022, Spring 2024
- Humanistic Inquiry Writing Requirement
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RELG 237.00 Spring 2017
- Faculty:Kristin Bloomer 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THWeitz Center 230 10:10am-11:55am
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RELG 237.00 Spring 2018
- Faculty:Kristin Bloomer 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THLeighton 236 1:15pm-3:00pm
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RELG 237.00 Spring 2022
- Faculty:Kristin Bloomer 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THCowling DANC 1:15pm-3:00pm
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RELG 237.00 Spring 2024
- Faculty:Kristin Bloomer 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THWeitz Center 136 1:15pm-3:00pm
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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 269 Food, Justice and Nonviolence: Hindu, Buddhist, and Jain Perspectives 6 credits
This course introduces students to the history of the South and East Asian religious ethic of nonviolence (ahiṃsā). We will discuss nonviolence and vegetarianism in Hindu, Buddhist, and Jain traditions, including critical perspectives from inside and outside of those traditions. The course will explore the philosophical and cultural aspects of nonviolence, with a focus on its relationship to karma, self-purification, animal welfare, and food practices. We conclude by examining modern deployments of the ethic in charged discourses concerning agriculture, nationalism, environmental destruction and conservation, and social justice.
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RELG 269.00 Fall 2022
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:25
- M, WHasenstab 109 11:10am-12:20pm
- FHasenstab 109 12:00pm-1:00pm
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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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RELG 282.00 Spring 2022
- Faculty:Asuka Sango 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- M, WLeighton 236 9:50am-11:00am
- FLeighton 236 9:40am-10:40am
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RELG 289 Global Religions in Minnesota 6 credits
Somali Muslims in Rice County? Hindus in Maple Grove? Hmong shamans in St. Paul hospitals? Sun Dances in Pipestone? In light of globalization, the religious landscape of Minnesota, like America more broadly, has become more visibly diverse. Lake Wobegon stereotypes aside, Minnesota has always been characterized by some diversity but the realities of immigration, dispossession, dislocation, economics, and technology have made religious diversity more pressing in its implications for every arena of civic and cultural life. This course bridges theoretical knowledge with engaged field research focused on how Midwestern contexts shape global religious communities and how these communities challenge and transform Minnesota.
- Spring 2019, Spring 2020, Spring 2021, Fall 2023
- Humanistic Inquiry Intercultural Domestic Studies Writing Requirement
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RELG 289.00 Spring 2019
- Faculty:Michael McNally 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THLeighton 303 1:15pm-3:00pm
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RELG 289.00 Spring 2020
- Faculty:Michael McNally 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THLeighton 304 1:15pm-3:00pm
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RELG 289.00 Spring 2021
- Faculty:Michael McNally 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THLocation To Be Announced TBA 1:45pm-3:30pm
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RELG 289.00 Fall 2023
- Faculty:Michael McNally 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THLeighton 303 1:15pm-3:00pm
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RELG 362 Spirit Possession 6 credits
This course considers spirit possession in relation to religion, gender, and agency. Through surveying a number of works on spirit possession–recent and past, theoretical and ethnographic–we will analyze representations of the female subject in particular and arguments about agency that attend these representations. This class will explicitly look at post-colonial accounts of spirit possession and compare them to Euro-American Christian conceptions of personhood. We will consider how these Euro-Christian conceptions might undergird secular-liberal constructions of agency, and contribute to feminist ideas about the proper female subject.
- Spring 2017, Spring 2020, Spring 2022
- Humanistic Inquiry International Studies Writing Requirement
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RELG 362.00 Spring 2017
- Faculty:Kristin Bloomer 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- T, THLeighton 303 3:10pm-4:55pm
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RELG 362.00 Spring 2020
- Faculty:Kristin Bloomer 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- M, WLeighton 301 9:50am-11:00am
- FLeighton 301 9:40am-10:40am
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RELG 362.00 Spring 2022
- Faculty:Kristin Bloomer 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- T, THLeighton 305 10:10am-11:55am