Courses

East Asian Studies Courses offered at Smith
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Please check the Online Course catalogues (above) or
contact the Program Secretary for course scheduling.

Courses offered in Fall 2008 with days/times/faculty teaching in bold.

EAS 100, Introduction to Modern East Asia, Marnie Anderson, M W 1:10-2:30, Seelye 107.

EAS 215, Premodern Korean History: Public Lives and Private Stories, Jina Kim, T R, 10:30-11:50, Seelye 310.

EAS 217, Colloquium: Korean Popular Culture: Translating Tradition into Pop Culture, Jina Kim, T 1:00-4:00, Hatfield 202.

Courses offered in Spring 2009 

EAS 200 Colloquium: Topics in East Asian Studies, Korean Diaspora: Korea Inside & Outside, Jina Kim.

EAS 210 Colloquium: Culture and Diplomacy in Asia, Dennis Yasutomo

EAS 279  Colloquium:  The Art and Culture of Tibet, Marylin Rhie

EAS 350, Seminar: Modern Girls and Marxist Boys: Consumerism, Colonialism, and Gender in East Asia, Jina Kim

Approved Courses in the Humanities

ARH 101 Buddhist Art

ARH 222 The Art of China

ARH 224 The Art of Japan

EAL 231 The Culture of the Lyric in Traditional China

EAL 232 Modern Chinese Literature

EAL 236 Modernity: East and West

EAL 237 Chinese Poetry and the Other Arts

EAL 240 Japanese Language and Culture

EAL 241 Court Ladies, Wandering Monks, and Urban Rakes: Literature and Culture in Premodern Japan

EAL 243 Japanese Poetry in Cultural Context

EAL 245 Writing, Japan and Otherness

EAL 248 The Tale of Genji and The Pillow Book

EAL 261 Major Themes in Literature: East-West Perspectives (topic course)

EAL 360 Seminar: Topics in East Asian Languages and Literatures (topic course)

REL 110 Politics of Enlightenment

REL 266 Buddhism in America

REL 270 Japanese Buddhism

REL 271 Japanese Buddhism in the Contemporary World

REL 360 Seminar: Problems in Buddhist Thought

Approved Courses in the Social Sciences

ANT 200 Topics in Anthropology: Humans and Nature in China

ANT 251 Women and Modernity in East Asia

ANT 252 The City and the Countryside in China

ANT 342  Seminar: Topics in Anthropology

GOV 251 Foreign Policy of Japan

GOV 344 Seminar on Foreign Policy of the Chinese People's Republic

HST 211 The Emergence of China

HST 212 China in Transformation, A.D. 750-1900

HST 214 Aspects of Chinese History. Topic: The World of Thought in Early China

HST 217 World War Two  in East Asia

HST 218 Thought and Art in China

HST 220 Colloquium: Japan to 1600

HST 221 The Rise of Modern Japan

HST 222 Aspects of Japanese History: The Place of Protest in Early Modern and Modern Japan

HST 223 Women in Japanese History: From Ancient Times to the 19th Century